Dr Kate Cushing @drkatecushing.bsky.social Doctor, scientist, mum, cat slave.
Public Governor Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Trust
Long Covid & CCH.
Love Northumberland/Newcastle, owls/wildlife/books/art/music/politics/EU
Wrote Little Orange Book 4 parents of babies & small kids.
Green Party member
Jane McLoughlin @jbmcloughlin.bsky.social Writer of Gothic suspense, psychological thrillers, and other crime. The Perfect Couple, Lume/Joffe out March, 24.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Alison Carr @alisoncarr.bsky.social Writer • Doppelganger, watch now on BBC iPlayer • Finalist, The Women's Prize for Playwriting • Tuesday, Caterpillar, and The Last Quiz Night On Earth published by Nick Hern Books • Iris published by Concord Theatricals
🔗 https://linktr.ee/Alison_Carr
CR Westbrook @cazzawrites.bsky.social ‘Bloody author’. Get your copy of dark comedy psycho-thriller romcom Troublemaker at: https://shorturl.at/2eCrv.
Ben @hostproductions.bsky.social TheHostProductions on YouTube 🎬
Master of Space Law, Listener of audio dramas & collector of things. Love a good book. 📚
Lin Makron @linmakron.bsky.social Danish woman, mom, and wife with opinions about the world. Zero tolerance for MAGA. I say “FUCK TRUMP” a lot. Emotional support Dane (ESD) to sane Americans.
Memecastle United FC @memecastleunited.bsky.social Dealing with the highs and lows of supporting Newcastle United, one meme at a time
Joe Butler @writelikeashark.bsky.social Weird/Curio/Sci-Fi/Horror writer, novelist, & creator of the Haunted Hotel Project. Founder/editor/cover artist for @TLDRpress. Imperfect Creatures published by Diachroneity Books, OUT NOW! (He/Him)
www.writelikeashark.com
Alys Cummings @alyseliza.bsky.social Makes documentaries 🎥 loves crosswords 🖊️ reads novels 📚 writes ✍️ New Writing North Emerging Creative Associate ⬆️
Debut novel Murder Most Cryptic out
October 2026 Penguin Michael Joseph 🇬🇧🐧🇬🇧
February 2027 Minotaur 🇺🇸🐂🇺🇸
Lives North East 🌊🌅
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social Writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Currently missing the ocean. 🇨🇦
SHIFTINGS & OTHER COORDINATES OF DISORDER (Pinhole Poetry, 2024).
LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA (Bull City Press, forthcoming 2026)
jenwithwords.opencorners.ca
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Margaret Cahill @margaretcahillbsky.bsky.social Nature, gigs, books, art & theatre lover.
Short story writer: Irish Book Awards 2024/Irish Independent/The Honest Ulsterman/Idle Ink/Milk House/Bending Genres/Blood+Honey/Epoque Press/The Milk House/Turn&Work/Crannóg
https://linktr.ee/margaretcahill_
Adrian Harvey @ade-harvey.bsky.social Writer, public policy bod, urbanist. Iceland obsessive. Author of The Whirligig, Being Someone, The Cursing Stone and Time's Tide.
www.adrian-harvey.uk
@5reekiewriters.bsky.social @5reekiewriters.bsky.social 
Lesley Kelly @lkauthor.bsky.social Author of the Health of Strangers pandemic crime series
Solveigpals @solveigpals.bsky.social Author of 7 best-selling crime novels and one memoir
Sarah Glover @sarahglover.bsky.social Stepmum and (adoptive) mum. Grandparent, teacher and lover of German Shepherds and books.
Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social Write your way to a more positive outlook on life! Guided writing activities to foster personal growth, increased mindfulness, and emotional wellbeing. Online anywhere, and in-person in North East England. writingforwellbeing.co.uk
Matt Coot @mattcoot.bsky.social Writer, performer, occasional mental health activist. Longlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award 2024.
Based in Cornwall.
linktr.ee/MattCoot
Wendy @wendyreadsbooks1.bsky.social Books books and more books
I’m over on instagram as @wendyreadsbooks
And X as @wendyreadsbook1
Grafton Carter 🏳️🌈📖 @graftoncarter.bsky.social Grafton Carter is an author of authentic, sexy, and gloriously queer storytelling, crafting heartfelt, captivating MM (male/male) romance novels that explore themes of love, identity, and self-discovery.
Authentic, Sexy, and Gloriously Queer!
Jacqueline Phillips @qualityofmercy.bsky.social Actor, social justice, earth lover, eternal optimist or highly delusional.
Rep: Esta Charkham Associates
Creative Associate: Seven Stories, National Centre for Children’s Books, Newcastle.
Fiona Forsyth @fionawriter.bsky.social Historical fiction author and Rome geek, SoA, CWA, HWA
https://substack.com/@fionaforsyth1
Anne Cater @annerandomthings.bsky.social Reader, Book Reviewer, Book Buyer, Virtual Book Tour Organiser.
Food, Boots, Theatre, Holidays
The Bloke, Greece, After Eights, Cheese, Octopus https://randomthingsthroughmyletterbox.blogspot.com/
Gill @gill99.bsky.social Curious & interested person.
Becks Macey @becksmacey.bsky.social Bit of a gaming, koast radio presenting, book loving, crime writing geek
Ann Haigh @annhaigh.bsky.social 
Reading For Leisure @debbiehartuk.bsky.social Retired maths teacher, reader, book blogger, midget gem lover
Reading For Leisure blog: https://readingforleisure.blogspot.com
Author Interviews @authorinterviews.bsky.social Questions and answers from world-builders, character-designers and story-makers.
Run by author Michael S. Jackson (@mikestepjack.bsky.social)
https://www.authorinterviews.co.uk
thequietgeordie @thequietgeordie.bsky.social Autistic. Book lover. Cat Mum. Comper. Though not necessarily in that order!
Jo Scott Heritage @joscottheritage.bsky.social By day, heritage consultant based in the North of England. By night, writer of novels & short stories, seeking representation. Shortlisted Yeovil Literary Prize 2024. www.joscott-heritage.co.uk joscottwrites.uk She/her
@coral22.bsky.social @coral22.bsky.social 
Nicholas Angus 💛💚 @nicholasdangus.bsky.social Working at a special school in West Yorkshire.
Cats, books, Norwich City, Hampshire CCC, Oakland Raiders & Keighley Cougars. And LOTS of music.
Currently reading "Cold Breath" by Quentin Bates.
Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk Solicitor. Done housing law since 2006. The Guardian says top 5 for squalor. Legal Aid Housing Lawyer of 2018. Co-author of Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018. ‘Not an academic authority’ - Judge Carr. https://nearlylegal.co.uk
Eduwyn @eduwyn.bsky.social #Literature, #philosophy, rippling thoughts and questions flow abundantly here.
Drink from the fountain of #inspiration and let your mind sparkle with creativity. Prosit.
Jill Johnson @writerjilljohnson.bsky.social 🥀Crime Writer🥀Creator of Toxic Botanical Mayhem🥀DEVIL’S BREATH+HELL’S BELLS+BELLA DONNA+BLOOD ROOT🥀
@bonnierbooksuk.bsky.social 🇬🇧@sourcebooks.bsky.social 🇺🇸
BBC Between the Covers book club pick
Insta: jilljohnsonwrites
Info: http://jilljohnsonwrites.com
Lee Matthew Goldberg @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social Author of 16 📚 including ANCESTOR, MENTOR and the GREAT GIMMELMANS.
Lit Rep: Josh Getzler @ HG Literary
Screenwriter and publisher of Fringe Press.
Native New Yorker. LeeMatthewGoldberg.com
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
crimebookgirl @crimebookgirl.bsky.social Crime fiction aficionado. Blogger (www.crimebookgirl.com), event chair, Theakstons & McIlvanney Prize academy member, Ngaio Marsh Awards & CWA Daggers judge - it's #AllCrimeAllTheTime!
Sandra K @sandrakohls.bsky.social Writer, crime fiction/fantasy junkie, vintage rock chick & gamer, slow runner and book fiend. UofG MLitt grad.
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026). https://geni.us/TMtMT | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
@northlad5.bsky.social @northlad5.bsky.social 
Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author of the Zigic & Ferreira series. Grand Prix des Lectrices winner. Cambridge. Agent - Nicola Barr at Rye Literary
Oskar Jensen @oskarjensen.bsky.social Novelist, Historian, BBC New Generation Thinker, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow | Song, streets, balladry, Jacobins, Whodunnits | Helle in Venice out 18.2.27 | he/him
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social Immigrant. Winner of the inaugural Nature Chronicles Prize (2022). She/her. In Northern California on unceded Coast Miwok land. 
Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social 📚Don’t Make Me Laugh out now.
Shortlisted for CWIP Prize 2025 & Chortle Awards 2026.
juliaraeside.com
🗞️ 📻 iPaper, Times, Guardian, BBC radio.
Presents @boxdelightspod.bsky.social
Agent: @charlotteatyeo.bsky.social
Marta Chowańska @martachowanska.bsky.social bookpa.ge/mchowanska
Indie author from Poland ✍️
Thrillers, mysteries, crime, comedy.
I lead CrazyWriters Community which is awesome!!! 😎 If you want to join our group on discord, DM me :)
Donna @donnairl.bsky.social I'm afraid of all feet, cameras, the Incredible Hulk, sharks, fish, the sea, cows, coriander, cinammon & nutmeg. Internationally tolerated. No DMs.
Tom Happens @tomhappens.bsky.social Some things you can’t cover up with lip stick and powder
Brian Devlin @briandevlin.bsky.social Author, Campaigner, Civil Rights, Ethics, Collapsed Catholic.
Frank Burns @frankburns.bsky.social Very old. Retired. Wrote a book called The Two Caterines about events in the American civil war (even tho' I'm Irish). 
Bronagh McAteer @handwrittengirl.bsky.social Copywriter by trade
Book blogger/Aspiring Author
If there’s words, then count me in! 📚📖🖊️
Find me and my book news at handwrittengirl.com
Current 📖 ‘Our London Lives’ by Christine Dwyer Hickey
Tara Flynn @taraflynnirl.bsky.social Irish actor, writer, talker. She/ her
Emma on RTÉ’s Fair City
Now You’re Asking with Marian Keyes and Tara Flynn on BBC Sounds
Might be here, but mostly not
Angie and the Westies 🏴 @angieandwesties.bsky.social Happily retired and living in the Scottish Borders. I love art, nature, gardening, flower arranging, trying out new recipes, and spending time with my husband and our Westies (Henry and Lily).
Sharon Payne @shazzlep.bsky.social Ex-X lurker. Left views - interested in how politics can work for the many. Book lover, cat lover. Must stop shouting at the radio!
Liz @redliz.bsky.social Man United fanatic since 1971,lover of music especially live, gardener extraordinaire, cat worshipper, disabled, chronically and incurably sick, the blackest sense of humour, politics very left and green.
Helen Brown @nelbroon.bsky.social 
Jennie Wilkinson @northernsoul54.bsky.social Senior Biomedical Scientist in Virology.
Ballroom dancer.
Birds, plants, nature, the sea. 
Slavchick @slavchick.bsky.social Neither Slav nor a chick but this will do for here.
Jonathan Woods @jonathanwwoods.bsky.social Operations manager, @c20society.bsky.social
Editor
Here for theatre, books, art and food
London
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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social Scriptwritist
Hodders129 @hodders129.bsky.social Secondary English Teacher. Subject Lead. Reader. Yorkshire. Mum. Lefty. Learner. LGBTQ+.
Russel D McLean/R.D. McLean @russeldmclean.bsky.social Novelist, screenwriter, freelance dev editor. Crime/thriller/sff/horror. General miscreant. Dad of cats. Scottish. Latest Book: THE FRIDAY GIRL (as R.D. McLean) Rep: Allan Guthrie at the North Lit agency
https://www.russeldmcleanbooks.com
LizBick.bsky.social @lizbick.bsky.social Children's writer. Currently querying MG. Avid reader. SL Cheshire Novel Prize Kids 2024 LL 2022 New Writing North Children's award. GEA graduate. WriteMentor Hub member. #YNWA
Caroline K @carolinek1.bsky.social Owned by 3 dogs. Loves food travel reading and life.
I was born and live in the beautiful county of Dorset.
@carolmc15.bsky.social @carolmc15.bsky.social Glasgow, Scotland 🏴
N16oya @n16oya.bsky.social 
@queenluddite.bsky.social @queenluddite.bsky.social 
Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social I know my library card number off by heart. She/her
Colette @lettie65.bsky.social Former child protection solicitor, now Chair of an adoption panel. Loving life in Manchester, Valencia & Strabane. Continuing to travel around Europe despite the Brexiters’ best endeavours 🤦🏻♀️🇮🇪🇪🇸
DMs will not be responded to 🚫
Books&CoffeeAddict @lefttwitter.bsky.social Requirements include books, good coffee and red wine, travel and cats. 💚
Vanda Symon @vandasymon.bsky.social Kiwi crime writer, CWA Dagger finalist, Barry Award nominee, science gal, and dangerous woman with a sword. The Traitors New Zealand
Brendan @bmccabe.bsky.social Returning from hiatus, probably posting about films and podcasts. Dual Irish/US citizen currently based near Dublin.
Mel @lifesjustablink.bsky.social Music 🎶 Books 📚 Nature 🍂 Dogs 🐾 Cancer survivor 🎗️
Deborah @deborann.bsky.social A bit of music, a bit of food, a bit of TV. Just here for the chat.
@kcyogascot.bsky.social @kcyogascot.bsky.social Massage Therapist, Artist, Yogi and Student Teacher.
Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social Librarian, crafter, nan, partner. Likes: dolmens, Bach, Shakespeare, pasta, theatre. Dislikes: current mental health system. Former @intervalthinks
Lyn Brown @lyncbrown.bsky.social Baroness Brown of Silvertown of West Ham in the London Borough of Newham.
Former MP for the fabulous constituency of West Ham.
Lover of dogs, libraries, the arts and avid reader, particularly of crime fiction.
@kayvee8.bsky.social @kayvee8.bsky.social 
Christine Michael @christinemichael.bsky.social Writing novel #3, editor of the Wellesbourne and Walton News, hapless gardener, AVFC, @booksineverycorner on Insta. Hello!
Sophie Bane @sophiebane.bsky.social Usually to be found in a book, wishing I was in a book or attempting to write a book. Proud Brummie. She/ her.
Lauren Turner @laurenrt.bsky.social Proud aunt of a Taskmaster contestant. Allegedly training for the London marathon.
Miriam Berkman @midgeisplaying.bsky.social I am a voracious reader of fiction, memoirs, some history, art, nature. I am trying to redirect my life away from social justice action and institutions and just to being kind to the people in my life and spending more time with friends.
Agent of obscure enterprises @vlkvlkvlk.bsky.social Generally to be found under the cat.
Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
Michelle DH🇨🇦💙💛 @justmemdh.bsky.social Proudly Canadian.Love the NY Mets for better or worse.Springsteen fan. Crazy cat lady, avid reader. Am always wishing I was in Ireland. Long Covid lives here. Dreaming of a kinder world.🇨🇦
@gillyphil.bsky.social @gillyphil.bsky.social Proud Culchie
Alistair Wilson (Big Al Wilson) @alistairwilson.bsky.social #FBPE 🕷️
Rosemary Richings @rosemaryrichings.bsky.social Writer, editor, speaker #Neurodiversity. Author (2 #Dyspraxia books): “Stumbling Through Space & Time: Living Life With Dyspraxia” & “Studying with Dyspraxia”. #Neurodivergent & living without a #Thyroid. https://linktr.ee/rosemary_richings
Kristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social Poet, Wife, Mom, LongCovid/MECFS. Looking to connect and learning to advocate. EIC, Poetry @epistemiclit.Bsky.social, @nimblewitlit.bsky.social. Micropoetry chapbook Lift the Mask available widely. www.kristinhoulihan.com
Amanda Llwyd @amandallwyd.bsky.social Bookblogger - The Butler Did It #CrimeFiction #ThrillerBooks #Horror #TranslatedFiction 🖤🕵️♀️
Full reviews on Instagram -
www.instagram.com/amandallwyd
Hazel Pinner @hazelmpinner.bsky.social Passionate about #EqualityForAll #HumanRights 🏴 Primary Teacher in #Orkney. She/her. Free Palestine! Antifa. All views my own
"A good teacher...so far"
Rachel Amphlett @rachelamphlett.bsky.social USA Today bestselling crime fiction writer. Traveller, podcast host, accidental private detective.
Australia & UK.
Find out more at www.rachelamphlett.com