@farehamboy.bsky.social @farehamboy.bsky.social
Daily Stage Play Festival Contests @stageplaycontests.bsky.social Submit to these contests via Submittable. Full feedback on every submissions. Winners get their play performed by professional actors and made into a promotional video.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-stage-play-contest-deadlines/
Daily Screenplay Festival contests @dailyscreenplays.bsky.social Daily Screenplay Contest Deadlines
All of these top screenplay contests offer full feedback on each submitted works.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-screenplay-contest-deadlines/
Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social Prof. of British History and Culture at @universite-caen.bsky.social
Victorianist. Newspapers & magazines. Labour and the illustrated press.
Principal Investigator (PI) of @punchspocketbook.bsky.social.
She/her
Sukayna Powell @sukaynapowell.bsky.social Writer, editor, ideas-wrangler. Mushrooms, apocalypticisms, culture. She/her
https://www.sukaynapowell.com
Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social Lecturer in English: C19 US & Oz Lit, racial transformation, white supremacy, the speculative.
Melbourne. she/her
‘Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction’ out in pbk now!
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-liminal-whiteness-in-early-us-fiction.html
Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social Coffee enthusiast. Gothic & eco-horror, Biocultural archaeology (mummies), Nuclear & Cold War culture. Audio stuff. Probably knitting.
Header: a S central FL swamp. trees, reflections in water, mist
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
Pernille Strande-Sørensen @spstrande.bsky.social 18C & 19C Scots ballads. Macpherson, Burns, Scott, & Child. R. Browning. Text theory, Folklore, Book History. Semiotics. Lib.Soc. Feminist. There’s a photo of me somewhere in my posts. MS.
Also on Mastodon:@spstrande.mastodon.online
Emily Cuming @emilycuming.bsky.social Associate Professor in Literature and Cultural History; author of Maritime Relations (CUP, 2025) and Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing (CUP, 2016)
https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/11398-emily-cuming
@hirsty-leeds.bsky.social @hirsty-leeds.bsky.social UK, Oop North, LUFC, History esp 19th C, Science, Politics, iT, bit of a lefty. Loving these starter packs 👍
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social Historian/art historian (12C & 18C esp), lover of Old Roses, literature, art, music, pigeons & other cute creatures! Trans-inclusive egalitarian #FBPE #UKEUFriend #Aspie
GilchristHeritage at the Other Place. Posts in personal capacity.
She/They
Lucy Lawrence @lucyklawrence.bsky.social AHRC PhD student at Newcastle University | Late-Victorian print culture, the environmental humanities, periodical studies, aestheticism/decadence, Celtic studies, & the history of science | she/her
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Author Melvin L. Edwards @aumelvinedwards.bsky.social An adventurous storyteller inspired by a love of family, the outdoors, and new experiences, the author brings history, adventure, resilience, and family together in "Eldene Ana McGrady: Tragedy, Adventure, and a New Beginning."
Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social Literary detective & long 18th-centuryist. Honorary Research Associate at the University of Liverpool.
Currently working on early modern whales
She/her
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/corrina-readioff#tabbed-content
https://18thcparatext.wordpress
Eleanor Fitzsimons @eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social Writer/Researcher. KeatsShelley Essay Prize, Rubery Book Award. Author Wilde's Women. Life & Loves of E. Nesbit, Selected Articles from The Woman’s World. Here for books, art, nature, laughter & tranquility.
Rosemond Cates @rosemondcates.bsky.social PhD candidate @ut-dallas. 19c Anglophone Lit. Posts my own/reposts not endorsements
Under 5 Minute Film Festival @under5minutefest.bsky.social Submit your short film that's 5 minutes or less and get it showcased at the FEEDBACK Short Film Festivals in Los Angeles and Toronto. A monthly film festival event!
http://under5minutefilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/Under5minFilmFestival
Gillian Walters @gillianwalters.bsky.social Midlands4Cities AHRC funded PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham specialising in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Victorian Tales @victorian-tales.eurosky.social Victorianist working on popular culture in the nineteenth century, with a particular interest in multimodality, intertextuality, reuse, and co-creation. My main account is on Mastodon: https://hcommons.social/@victorian_tales
Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Sexuality and Visual Culture, Loughborough University; 19th-20thC literature (esp. poetry), genders/sexualities (esp. queer femininities), portraiture, photography, fashion & celebrity. She/her.
Ahad Taqizadeh @ahadtaqizadeh.bsky.social Victorianist, Victorian Novel📚, Bodies, Gothic Fiction 🧟♂️🧟♀️ Researching the Gothic body in late Victorian fiction
Orsolya Albert @orsolyalbert12.bsky.social PhD student in English Literature at KU Leuven 🇬🇧📚🇧🇪
Dr. Céleste Callen @celestecallen.bsky.social 'Metaphysical Dickens: Temporality, Memory, Subjectivity' forthcoming with Manchester University Press. Editor of the Dickens Society blog 🖋️
John Morton @drjmorton.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English Lit and Deputy Head of Humanities and Social Sciences at Uni of Greenwich. All views my own
staubodergloria.bsky.social @staubodergloria.bsky.social Staub oder Gloria: Wie altern Bücher? Einige geraten in Vergessenheit, andere nennen wir Klassiker - berechtigt?
Business History Conference @businesshistoryc.bsky.social The BHC is a scholarly organization devoted to encouraging all aspects of research, writing, and teaching about business history || https://thebhc.org/ news at https://theexchangebhc.substack.com/p/the-bhc-newsletter
Aparna Prakashbabu Uma @aparnaup.bsky.social PhD researcher in English @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Studying humour in late-Victorian fiction: detective, realist, and humorous novels, 1875–1900. Close reading plus computational methods.
Rosario Arias @rosarioariasuma.bsky.social Professor of English Literature, University of Málaga; President of Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, and President of VINS Society💜📚🪴🎼👻
Liz Hedgecock @lizhedgecock.bsky.social I write mysteries (historical and modern) and edit books. I also drink a lot of tea. Cheshire, UK. She/her. Books at http://author.to/LizH (Amazon author page). Website: http://lizhedgecock.wordpress.com. Painting at http://lizdoesart.wordpress.com
Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social 19C British literature; seriality; transmedia; popular culture; fictionality.
Assoc. Prof of English. Author of Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century, Palgrave 2022. Views are my own, not my employer's.
Dr Jennifer Jones @jenniferewc.bsky.social Substack Writer (see pinned post), Author, Writing Coach, and Kitten Herder. As the card on my desk says, I'll be post-feminist in post-patriarchy. She/Her.
https://substack.com/@jjonesewc
Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family (Routledge, July 2024). Winner of the VPFA First Book Prize. https://www.routledge.com/James-Malcolm-Rymer-Penny-Fiction-and-the-Family/Nesvet/p/book/9781032431598?_ga=1674154651.1719792000
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social Studying the Victorian connection between women and birds is great fun, but I’d love a job. Network & Development Officer for VPFA and Co-Reviews Editor for VPFJ. All views my own.
Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature. Interests - women writers walking in rural spaces. Currently co-editing The Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine - co-organiser @placeperiodical.bsky.social
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social
Ronja Charlotte @ronja-charlotte.bsky.social English PhD Candidate 🎓 (Neo-)Victorian Studies 🧚🏻♂️ Children’s Literature 📚 Ecocriticism 🌱 Animal Studies 🦊 Energy Humanities ✨
MaiaKowska @maiakowska.bsky.social Histoire(s) littéraire(s) en non-mixité
INSTA : @maiakowska
·.★·.·´¯`·.·★ αмoυr, poéѕιe eт révolυтιoɴ ★·.·´¯`·.·★.·
40yo - 🏳️⚧️ (ELLE/SHE)
IRL 📚 libraire d'occasion depuis juin 2025 📚
Jan Angermeier @jnam.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher for @litattention.bsky.social, Uni Stuttgart | former B2B Tech PR consultant | probably reading a Joseph Conrad novel right now | Stuttgart/Karlsruhe
🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇺
Dr Georgia Toumara @georgiatoumara.bsky.social Early career researcher • PhD in English lit @UofGlasgow • Byronic legacy• C19th- early 20th travel literature • Gothic seascapes and blue humanities 🌊 • Classical reception and mythology 🏛️
Colleen McDonell @cmcdonell.bsky.social Ph.D. English and Book History & Northrop Frye Fellow @utoronto.ca
writing instructor & part-time educational developer
Victorian Gothic & domestic labour & periodicals & writing studies
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Hes Bradley @hesbradley.bsky.social lecturer in english and creative writing at @uniofbuckingham.bsky.social
writer, community gardener,
into vampires and the moon atm
they/them
Ouidaite @ouidaite.bsky.social iykyk
Dr Lauren Cullen @laurenicullen.bsky.social writes about 19th/20th literature and culture, animals, and the environment.
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UBC
📍Vancouver / London / Oxford
Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social Writes about writing, especially for PhDs and researchers: poetry, music, food. Blogs at Research Degree Insider
Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social Classics and English Lit PhD student funded by the AHRC, Kings College London. Interested in Victorian classical and medieval reception + literary representation of horses
I shoot on pretentious retro cameras…
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social Fifth Business
BookTube channel: @#royreadsanything
Adam Golub @adamgolub.bsky.social American Studies professor at Cal State Fullerton. Popular culture, true crime, monsters, music, creative work, the history of childhood. Writing a cultural history of the doppelgänger. Also a dad and a runner. https://www.everydayfictions.com/bio
Emma Butler-Marr @19thcenturyem.bsky.social PhD researcher studying nineteenth-century (literary) seaside resorts ⛱️ | @bars.bsky.social PGR rep 2026-28 | 2025 BARS Visiting Fellow at Chawton House | chronically ill 💛 (she/her)
Daniel Jenkin-Smith @dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher - author of 'The Rise of Office Literature' (Bloomsbury, 2025) - co-host of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
Il faut, comme disait Balzac, offrir une surface commerciale.
@laurenottaviani.bsky.social @laurenottaviani.bsky.social
G. W. M. Reynolds Society @gwmreynoldssociety.bsky.social The international G.W.M. Reynolds Society exists to promote the enjoyment and study of the work of G.W.M. Reynolds.
Visit our Website: gwmreynoldssociety.com
Kathryn Laing @kslaing.bsky.social Co-founder and curator of the Irish Women’s Writing Network
History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social Professional scientist. I like reading books about history. Editor of the Bluesky edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
http://historybooksreview.co.uk/
https://beautyscientist.github.io/GSDIANOZAS/
David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social 'His office hours are poorly attended, because he teaches it right the first time.'
Victoria Addis @victoriaaddis.bsky.social English teacher & AHRC-funded PhD student (commencing Oct '26) researching representations of female genius in Victorian and modernist literature
https://substack.com/@victoriaaddisreads
EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social Research Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies at Edge Hill University
• Co-Directors:
@catherinequirk.bsky.social, @DrBeard79.bsky.social @DigiVictorian.bsky.social
Founding Co-Director: @VictorianMasc.bsky.social
• https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/
Finn @finnwriter.bsky.social ink slinger—word scribbler—poet—(bipolar disorder | anxiety | fibromyalgia ) inking my way out of a hole i dug || they/ them, queer. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Regina Bartel @rba-schreibt.bsky.social Biologin, Wissenschaftsjournalistin, Autorin - lebt auf dem Land mit diversen Rasenmähern, Obstbäumen und reichlich Gemüse.
The Answer-Man (Thaddeus Howze) @ebonstorm.bsky.social SFWA 🔸 Author 🔸 Essayist 🔸 Analyst 🔸 TTRPG 🔸 Comics Scholar 🔸 Editor
Neurodivergent 🔸 Veteran 🔸 Husband 🔸 Father 🔸 Breaker of Seals
Biography – https://thowze.carrd.co
GoFundMe – https://gofund.me/d053ee11d
@ulricabreitenau.bsky.social @ulricabreitenau.bsky.social
Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social Theological Monsters (University of Wales Press), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
@suchichoudhury.bsky.social @suchichoudhury.bsky.social
B. Rae “Rusty” Grosz @braegrosz.com She/They. Pittsburgh-born writer, researcher, and aspiring bog body. Host of the #MorbidMarch and #13MorbidMondays events at @morbidimagining.bsky.social. Greyromantic. Anti-AI.
You can support my work via https://ko-fi.com/braegrosz.
Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social Writer. Literary & cultural historian.
Senior Lecturer @ L’boro Uni.
Expertise: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters, queer genders + sexualities, health humanities.
Editor-in-Chief, Brontë Studies
https://linktr.ee/drclaireocall
Mark Celeste @markceleste.bsky.social assistant professor of English
blue humanities + oceanic lit | British novels in the long 19C | climate fiction | network theory | inclusive pedagogy
https://sites.google.com/view/markceleste
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
The Dickens Society @dickenssociety.bsky.social Bluesky page for the international Dickens Society www.dickenssociety.org
Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social Gothic scholar & writer | 19th C | Romanticism | Dracula | Fin de Siècle | Adaptation | Anti-racism | Equity | Access | active bystander of UK HE | one of Sara Ahmed’s little ghosts 🖤
Historical Fictions Research Network @historicalfic.bsky.social Discussing all aspects of the construction of the historical narrative
https://historicalfictionsresearch.org/
Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social Swimming in Glasgow 1850-1950 PhD http://stir.ac.uk/people/1844166 Archives, heritage, history, books, Mongolia, China, movies. She/her http://lucyjanes.blog
Steven @steven-burgess.bsky.social 👨🎓 PhD Candidate: Social Class and the Environment in the Novels of William De Morgan (University of Leeds) | Ecocriticism, Socioecological Model, New Materialism | 💼 Community Organising Manager in HE
stevenburgess0.wordpress.com
Jane Skelding @skelding.bsky.social PhD candidate focussing on language of marginalised histories in the 1921 census @LAHP_DTP CDA project @findmypast @IES_london
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social Writer. Latest Book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale UP, 2024). Teach 19thc Lit & Culture at Uni of St Andrews. Writing for a greener world.
Hannah Armour @hannaharmour.bsky.social she/her // Doctoral Researcher for @litattention.bsky.social at Uni Stuttgart focusing on attention in the 19th C tale. Views are my own.
JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org 🪬🧿 Freemason | Traveller | Historian | Novel Author | Filmmaker & Photographer
www.youtube.com/c/journeydude
www.weescotland.com
www.sendmeonadventure.com
🇸🇰 living in 🏴
🕊️ Love you all!, Photos taken by me - NO AI!
I follow people who love art & nature
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Daily Submittable Deadlines @submittabledaily.bsky.social Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/projects
Dr Laura Smith @laurasmith29.bsky.social Interested in Late Antiquity, asceticism, gender and sexuality.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Free post creator app: www.post-script.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Provenance Integrity Institute @provenanceii.bsky.social 🏛 Provenance Integrity Institute Limited (NGO)
💻 Global Scholars DAO Discord → https://discord.gg/ctstmGQWKv
🔗 PII LinkedIn → https://linkedin.com/company/provenanceintegrityinstitute
©️ All rights reserved. | Est. 2025
paola 🌱 @dontlikestarwars.bsky.social she/her
Stefanie John @stjohn1819.bsky.social Research Associate in English Literature @unipotsdam.bsky.social
Principal Investigator DFG Project 'Decorative Materialities'
• the fin de siècle • literature and material culture • textiles • decorative arts • environmental humanities
Lucy Andrew @lucyvandrew.bsky.social Crime writer and crime fiction scholar. Jane Austen enthusiast. Rep’d by Euan Thorneycroft at A M Heath. Debut novel #AVeryVexingMurder published in 2026 by Corvus (Atlantic Books) and William Morrow (HarperCollins). Website: https://www.lucyandrew.com/
Haohao Zhang (they/he) @karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social 🔭 Early modernist | Victorian microscopy, glass slides & Blaschka models | material text, transatlantic circulation & repair | analogy as afterlife- H @helena1860.bsky.social @helena1860.bsky.social
Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social Library of Anglo-American Culture & History #FIDAAC
Resources for British, Irish, Australian, New Zealand, American & Canadian Studies
https://libaac.de/
https://libaac.de/legal-notice/
Macabre Danse @macabredanse.bsky.social A research project looking at ways in which dance and the Gothic intersect, beginning with ballet.
Run by Kaja Franck, Karen Graham and Kate Harvey
Website: https://gothicballet.wordpress.com/about-danse-macabre/
Eleanor @eleanor-19thc.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Portsmouth researching women botanists in the long nineteenth century
ALQ @frockandroll.bsky.social WV English professor and professional dilettante
Health Humanities Research Group @healthhumslboro.bsky.social Health Humanities is an interdisciplinary research group in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. Posts by @hannahpalmer.bsky.social
Mercedes Sheldon @mercedessheldon.bsky.social 19th Century Studies Scholar. Literature Lover. Enthusiastic Educator. Persnickety Parent. {she/her}