Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social Big things from small books - single short story chapbooks, available on subscription.
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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social Professor at Royal Holloway, London, with focus on performing arts, creative industries, skills development, access, & climate care. 🇨🇦 in UK for a long time now. Tikkun olam 🍉. She/her. Posting in personal capacity only.
Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social Reading. Cycling. Education.
https://substack.com/@dan1997690?r=4hxm6&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
Canon Ian Gomersall @iangomersall.bsky.social Priest living in Bishop Auckland. Catholic anglican. Interests include, walking, the North East, books, golden age crime, churchcrawling, local and church history, genealogy.
Whamageddon ❄️ @whamageddon.bsky.social This is #Whamageddon. If you hear Last Christmas between 1st-24th December, you’ve been #Whammed, and it’s off to #Whamhalla for you.
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Chris Errington @chriserrington1.bsky.social Plymouth Argyle reporter for Plymouth Live and The Herald. All views my own.
David Keenan @reversediorama.bsky.social Author
Side @sidegallery.bsky.social Est. in 1977: Side is dedicated to lens-based documentary. We are home to the UNESCO-listed AmberSide collection, showcasing film and documentary photography on working-class life from the North East and beyond.
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jerry simcock @jerrysimcock.bsky.social Painting , writing, gardening, nature loving, wilding, zen. East Lothian, Scotland. #MDANT
Novel, Giselle and Mr Memphis available from www.vagabondvoices.co.uk
www.jerrysimcock.com for art, writing etc
Richard Harrison @rharrisonred.bsky.social Mostly the Lakes, running & walking; but most importantly Dog Dad to Little Joe 12.6.11-29.8.25 🌈 & now Little Archie. Nothing to do with the day job. He/him. ♾️
Ian Johnson @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social Trying (trying, very trying) writer/Dad/runner. Words in @trashcatlit.bsky.social @apricotpress.bsky.social @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social @freeflashfiction.bsky.social etc. 2026 Best of the Net nominee.
Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk Northern speculative fiction micropress • Northumberland, UK • Human made • Our first anthology: carnyxpress.co.uk/products/oaths-and-offerings
Joanna Piechowska @ashapiechowska.bsky.social Linguist, reader, educator and a beginning writer. Lover of non-fiction and translated fiction. University of Nottingham graduate - BA Hons Modern Languages & PGCE.
New Nottingham Journal @nottinghamjournal.bsky.social An annual print literary journal featuring short fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction from around the world.
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Elizabeth Rose Dunne @erdunne.bsky.social Writing and scrabbling around early 19th-century 🇨🇦 + 🇮🇪. Interested in churches, kitchen gardens, language, rebellions. N'hésitez pas à dire bonjour.
Ian Hagues @ianhagues.bsky.social Books and creativity. You matter.
Gemma Elliott @drgemmaelliott.bsky.social Writing, gardening, and creeping in your recycling bins. She/her.
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now.' 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)
Suzanne Hardy @suzannehardy.bsky.social Senior Consultant, Jisc. She/her.
Needle crafts, soup making. Cat cohabiter. Shifting stuff.
Vicky @vickeryt.bsky.social Plymouth Argyle eieieio 💚 love sport mainly football and rugby
Wifey, mum and nana. Downderry Greens Block 6
Deej Sullivan @deejsullivan.bsky.social A big old leaf-through Larry. A grade-A bookmark monger. I'm a book guy. A real deal book guy.
David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social NatTeaching Fellow, digital, art, psychogeography, heutagogy, megalithic, walking, music, history
David Aitken @davidaitken.bsky.social Wordsmith, lost deep in the word mines, collecting acceptable adverbs and credible similes. Keen to surface and present my findings to an astonished world.
BabelColour @babelcolour.bsky.social I'm Stuart Humphryes (known online as BabelColour). I clean, repair, enhance and transform early colour photography.
Jim Toal @jtstories.bsky.social Fiction in The Stinging Fly and elsewhere. Seeking representation. Story collection ready to go. Novel in progress. Lifelong Newcastle United fan.
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
Sean McNulty @thispersona.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Pox.
Irish Novel Fair Finalist. Maker of weird and untrustworthy fictions.
https://linktr.ee/Sean_McNulty
Richie @richie67.bsky.social Don’t expect any pearls of wisdom.
Martin Metcalfe @martinmetcalfe.bsky.social Musician in Scotland, BaNDs I've wRittEn, WoRKed & PLaYed WiTh - The Skids, The Rezillos, The Armory Show, Goodbye Mr Mackenzie, The Filthy Tongues, The Countess Of Fife, Angelfish. I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.
The Crack Magazine @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social THE CRACK is a music, art and culture listings magazine/website that resides in the North-East of England
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
Pauline Moss @minimossp.bsky.social Peaceful person and lover of all things Ambridge #TheArchers
Writing, nature, photography. Passionate about local government. Mum to two beautiful boys. All views my own.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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@soasagefingers.bsky.social @soasagefingers.bsky.social Postie. Left wing, old punk, dodgy knees, eyes & everything else. Heaton Stan FC, St Pauli & cricket fan. Lover of overpriced real ales.
Those who find themselves ridiculous.
Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social Writer. All My Precious Madness published by Galley Beggar 2024; Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist, Authors Club Prize Shortlist, James Tait Black Prize shortlist. How Do People Stay the Same published 2026, Galley Beggar.
https://www.creativewritingtuition.com/
thi wurd @thiwurd.bsky.social Glasgow based indie-publisher. Dedicated to quality writing, books, art, music & live events. 4 new ‘Day Schools’ Aug-Oct 2026
Chris Brooks @brooksie1961.bsky.social MD ANT🏅Notts County , The Fall , Punk , Post Punk & Indie , Partridge , Porridge , Gerry Anderson , Cask Ales
FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop @forumbooks.bsky.social Three lovely, friendly, award-winning independent bookshops in Corbridge, Whitley Bay + Alnwick
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Events: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks
Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social Writer, pharmacist.
Drama and drugs.
Rory Drake @r0rydrake.bsky.social Plymouth Argyle fan stranded in Sunderland, previously stranded in the Midlands. Groundhopper. 92/92. #Pafc
Gill Davies @gilldavies.bsky.social Independent audio and video producer | network music producer | thi wurd | spottedbylocals | Glasgow
Liam Bell @liambellwrites.bsky.social Writer and Senior Lecturer at Stirling Uni. Most recent novels, Man at Sea and The Sleepless. More at liammurraybell.com
Plymouth Argyle FC @pafc.co.uk The official Bluesky account of Plymouth Argyle 💚
Argyle Life @argylelife1886.bsky.social FCA Finalists! 🤩 Your fan-led source of Plymouth Argyle analysis, news and opinionated content since 2015. Home of the Green & White Podcast #pafc | linktr.ee/argylelife
John Robinson (@thranjax) @thranjax.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Technologies / Writer for OutsideLeft.com music / film / tv review/ At fifteenpeople.com a blog about the musician Momus and Writer of Famous For Fifteen People / Writer of Folktronics. 
Lewis H @lewishodgson.bsky.social Books, Music, Writing
Hull.
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bren2k @bren2kk.bsky.social Woke lefty. Music, vinyl, gaming, books, politics & other stuff that tickles my fancy. Proud to be an #MDANT - yes, I have heard it
Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social July 2026: What Lies Ahead and Other Essays, Black Herald Press: https://www.blackheraldpress.com/what-lies-ahead
Own Sweet Time, CB editions (2022)
Sovetica, CB editions (2021)
Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Editions (2012)
https://carolineclark.carrd.co/
Bobby Gant @bobbygant.bsky.social Conservation and Development Officer, Scarborough Bird Network.
Also.. Writer.. sometimes. A Decade of Drinking With Ghosts out with @razurcutsmag. Buy it here: https://razurcuts.com/shop/a-decade-of-drinking-with-ghosts-bobby-gant
#MDANT
Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social EIC + founder - New Nottingham Journal
Words in Radio Times, Under the Radar, Nottingham Post
𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social Woods. Words. Birds. Birch. Beech. Bach.
Reviewer of translated fiction for
@irishtimes.bsky.social
Co-curator of the poetry festival Circling The Square.
@circlingpoetry.bsky.social
Gentleman of the West @gentleman-of-west.bsky.social Dedicated mostly to works of Scottish writer Agnes Owens®
celebrating Centenary Year 2026 (updates to follow) Posts by John Crosbie (Her Son)
Diarrch \ Bernard @diarrch6.bsky.social Likes whisky, films, books, wine, traveling…basically everything everyone else likes, and also is still a waste of an existence.
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social Two-bit writer, doc film-maker. From Manchester, now based in Copenhagen.
Novelette: The Cripple Club (Alien Buddha Press; Feb 25).
Words in London Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune, Litro, New Pop Lit, Punk Noir.
Razur Cuts @razurcutsmag.bsky.social street-lit mags+RC books - poems/art/interviews/music/reviews/pics http://razurcuts.com MDANT ✊❤️X
Karen Macpherson #MDANT @karenmac10.bsky.social Mum of Award Winner & #MDANT @alexmac06.bsky.social who has severe cerebral palsy & constantly makes us proud #MoodyTeenager #Superhero #BeMoreAlex 🦸🏻♂️
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Caroline Collett Writer @collettwriter.bsky.social tyke, punk, writer, reader, watcher
www.carolinecollettwriter.com
https://www.instagram.com/caroline_r_collett/
John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social Political sketch-writer for the Guardian. Author. Latest book out now 'Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10'.
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com Designer, writer, and photographer.
crop.photography
Bill Mather @billmather.bsky.social Born in the same hospital as the singer of Joy Division • Went to the same school as the singer of the "Why Don't You?" Theme song • Signed on at the same dole office as the singer of The Smiths • Former singer of the fourth best band in Stretford • MDANT🎖️
Maria Wolonski @momuspda.bsky.social I'm PDA to Momus.
imomus.com
www.patreon.com/MomusArtist
momus3.bandcamp.com
Pete Keeley MD ANT @petekeeley1.bsky.social Avid reader, music obsessive, NCFC supporting socialist.. Honoured to be an MD ANT. Mainly post about books, music and beer.
Gordon @weealpha.bsky.social Family, dog, music, The Well you decide the order
MDANT💥🏅
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Stevie Mitchell of INKY CONDITIONS @inkyconditions.bsky.social Little illustrator and artist from Leeds. Living happy in Derbyshire. Well done, everyone. #MDANT
Andrew Fenwick @fenwick.me ✍️ Dazed & Confused / The Guardian / Metro / The Quietus / Football Weekends / Vice / The Prague Post / Radio Free Europe
🎓 University of Oxford, Artificial Intelligence nerd
🇬🇧🇨🇿 Newcastle upon Tyne x Praha
Steven Stewart: MD Alternative National Treasure @gallopingpongwi.bsky.social Too much music, not enough ears. May nothing but happiness come through your door ❤️
Toby @tobasmuss.bsky.social International feline superstar and MD of Tobasmuss Ink, publishers of quality fiction such as 'End of a Century' by Paul Carnahan
Lucy @ceefaxisbetter.bsky.social Extreme moderate.
Rob Edmunds @robedmunds.bsky.social I'm a writer of three novels, the most recent about the conflict in Burma during World War II. My previous two novels are both about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa, set during the Second Punic War. 🏴
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https://linktr.ee/robedmunds
Vicky Grut @vickygrut.bsky.social Writer. Short story collection 'Live Show, Drink Included' shortlisted for 2019 Edge Hill Awards. Pushcart nominated, 2023. Work in Masters Review XIII in 2025 and Best British Short Stories 2026. www.vickygrut.com
Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social I read books, write books (Mothers, A Lonely Man) and write about books (Observer, LRB, Guardian etc)
Gary Mitchell @garymitch.bsky.social Sweary strategy consultant. Angry at those who call themselves leaders but are just self serving bell ends. Cycles a bit to calm down. It sometimes works.
Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social Writer of The Lodger, Me and Mickie James, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. Lambda Award Finalist. Leicestershire Short Story Prize winner. Saltburn - Feb 2025.
Indie Press supporter.
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Danny Harrison @dannyaharrison.bsky.social Dad /
Cat Dad x3 /
Meat free /
Celtic F.C. /
DJ in deep freeze /
Collector of records /
Proud public servant /
R̶e̶t̶i̶r̶e̶d̶ band manager /
Memorial Device✊#MDANT🎖️
JL Bogenschneider @bourgnetstogner.bsky.social Shy retirer. Short fiction. Content repeater
Recent work in Helter Skelter, Ragaire, The Stinging Fly and The Pig's Back
Shortlisted for some stuff. Blacklisted for others
Jim Gibson @jimmmmmbo.bsky.social Author of The Bygones (Tangerine Press)
Best British Short Stories 2023 (SALT)
Nightjar Press, The Quietus, 3am Magazine
Co-founder of Hand Job Zine and Hi Vis Press
Rural working class literature
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https://jimgibsonauthor.com/home
TM Upchurch @tmupchurch.bsky.social Lives on a big, wet rock by the sea.
Mother, scientist, writer.
https://www.instagram.com/traceyupchurch (nature, book reviews, life)
https://tmupchurchwriting.wordpress.com/ (reads and writes)
David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social Lower value human capital
colin clark @profcolinclark.bsky.social associate dean (r&i)+ prof of sociology & social policy @ UWS. interested in mobility, borders, identity, roma rights. fond of vinyl, cassettes, coffee, cats, swimming, autumn. glasgow.📍
Naomi Kruger @naomikruger.bsky.social Freelance Writer and Creative Facilitator. Debut novel MAY published by Seren, shortlisted for Galley Beggar Prize 2023, Eccles Centre Fellow 2021. Short stories, historical fiction, cats.
She/her
naomikruger.com
Chris Daly @chrisdaly.bsky.social Embarking on a wellness journey. May post writing.
Alex Woodcock @beakheads.bsky.social Writer, artist, and former cathedral stonemason. King of Dust published by Little Toller Books out now.
MD ANT.
www.alexwoodcock.co.uk
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Paul Handley @paulhandley1973.bsky.social Chief bookworm at (currently hibernating) Bearded Badger Publishing… loves me a little music too! Talks like a yam yam, exiled in Derbyshire!
MD ANT 🏅
Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social Sculpture, bronzes, medical art, Morbid Anatomy European Attaché, #MDANT
Eleanorcrook.net
Sasha/Cielo Hemon @sashahemon.bsky.social Writer
Screenwriter
Music Producer and DJ (as Cielo Hemon)
Professor
Dipleša
Sarajevo
Princeton
Andy Hibberd WJAZ @andyhib101.bsky.social MDANT but much duller than you remember from T*itt*r. Ex-record shop owner still banging on about music, pubs, books and West Ham ⚒️
It's all nonsense of course. Cheers 🍻
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social Writer.
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com 
Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social Reader. English professor. Follow books, film, foreign affairs/history, baseball (Bucs),and soccer (Everton). Partial to hounds.