Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm
Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025
North Wessex.
https://nicolachester.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
Beaver Trust @beavertrust.org We are a registered charity working to restore beavers to regenerate our landscapes.
Richard Jefferies Award @rjaward.bsky.social The Richard Jefferies Award celebrates the best nominated new nature writing book published each year that is judged by a panel from the Richard Jefferies Society and the White Horse Bookshop in Marlborough. https://richardjefferiessociety.org/award/
Rachel Shaw @rachellshaw.bsky.social Comms for Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, writer, illustrator, explorer of the nearby wild with a slightly obsessive interest in pangolins
Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social Writer, naturalist, medievalist, teacher. Trustee of Curlew Action. The Cuckoo’s Lea, Bloomsbury, paperback out now. At work on a new book about winter: Hibernal. Marshes. Winter. Whisky.
https://linktr.ee/cuckooslea
www.birdsandplace.co.uk
James Higgins @urbanhedges.co.uk Modern Gardener with https://www.carenotcapital.org
Transforming #Urban Green Spaces for #Community & #Nature. Love planting #wildlife friendly designs and #UrbanHedges
www.urbanhedges.co.uk
Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social Swindon based independent bookshop, visit us online or in person! bertsbooks.co.uk - or 54 Godwin Court, Swindon, SN1 4BB
Email us on bert@bertsbooks.co.uk
Seb Elwood @sebelwood.bsky.social Species Survival Manager at Dorset Wildlife Trust // Bird Ringer // Rewilder // Powered by plants // Views my own 🍄 he/him
James Mason @jamesmasonphoto.bsky.social Frustrated photographer from Lincolnshire.
Capturing memories and documenting moments in time. Using various Fujifilm cameras or my 35mm Canon. If I’m not photographing I’m down on the allotment or gardening!
FOLDE Dorset @foldedorset.bsky.social 🌿 Books, art & traditional craft for nature lovers & outdoor wanderers
🌍 Certified B Corp
🏅 Independent Bookshop of the Year for SW England
🏆 Wainwright judges ‘23 & ‘24
📍 Gold Hill, Shaftesbury
International Animal Rescue @intanimalrescue.bsky.social Our vision is a world where humans and animals coexist in sustainable ecosystems.
Follow for project news from Indonesia 🦧 Armenia 🐾 Costa Rica 🐒 & India 🐻
https://www.internationalanimalrescue.org/
Kernow Conservation CIC @kernowconservation.bsky.social Working with other conservation organisations, local businesses and landowners to benefit the communities and wildlife of Cornwall.
Sophie Pavelle @sophiepavs.bsky.social 🌎science communicator
📖award-winning author of ‘forget me not’ (Bloomsbury, 2022)
🎙️host of For What It’s Earth podcast
✍🏼might be writing…
https://www.sophiepavelle.com
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
BSBI Scotland @bsbiscotland.bsky.social I am Matt Harding, the Scotland Officer at @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Studying, appreciating & conserving wild flowers across Scotland, and supporting the Scottish botanical community.
https://bsbi.org/scotland
Garden Organic @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social 🍃 Inspiring you & your community to grow #organically
🔬 Advancing #organic growing research
🌱 Home to the #HeritageSeedLibrary
https://linktr.ee/gardenorganic
Saving Wildcats @saveourwildcats.bsky.social Wildcat conservation and recovery in Scotland 🐾
Working with communities to bring the Highland tiger back from the brink of extinction 🧡
Scottish Wildlife Trust @scotwildlife.bsky.social Protecting wildlife and restoring ecosystems across Scotland's land and seas.
https://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/
#WordsOfTheWild
The Wildlife Trusts @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social Sharing nature stuff, stories & news from The Wildlife Trusts - our goal is nature's recovery on land and at sea. Posts by The Wildlife Trusts comms team.
RSPB Scotland @rspbscotland.bsky.social Protecting and restoring habitats, saving species and helping end the nature and climate emergency in Scotland.
Soil Association @thesoilassociation.bsky.social Soil Association is the charity that digs deeper to transform the way we eat, farm and care for our natural world
Community guidelines 👉http://soilassociation.co/3EmLtsK
Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social Award-winning not-for-profit org fighting for nature conservation in the UK via legal challenges, public campaigns & focused research.
Led by CEO @bobelliot.bsky.social & Directors @chrisgpackham.bsky.social & @ruthtingay.bsky.social
wildjustice.org.
Craig Bennett @craigbennett3.bsky.social CEO of The Wildlife Trusts, UK.
Advisory Commissioner, 2030 Clean Power Commission. Senior Associate, CISL. Associate Fellow, Homerton College, Cambridge. Judge, The Wainwright Prize.
Formerly CEO Friends of the Earth
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social Rewilding pioneers, working with nature for a sustainable future.
https://knepp.co.uk/
Get our latest news: https://knepp.co.uk/newsletter-signup/
Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social Award-winning project and magazine taking action for nature, climate, people.
littlegreenspace.org.uk
https://buymeacoffee.com/lgspace
CuriousCalendars @curiouscalendars.bsky.social A 3-woman team celebrating seasonal change in Britain, through it's customs, it's curiosities and its cultural landscape.
Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social Norfolk-based consultant ecologist (semi-retired, in order to spend more time looking at plants). Hobbies/Interests: looking at plants. I cook things (mainly plants). #BSBI VC28 Jt Recorder. Greenish. Woke. Lefty.
Need help with a plant? Try #WildFlowerID
Sean Cooch @waxcapscooch.bsky.social Grassland Ecologist in England trying hard to save nature in an official capacity, annoying some in the process. Fungi, insects, plants fanboy, indie music, Green and sometimes, loud lefty, union geyser, politics, football, cycling & tofu. 🍄🍄🟫
Jane E. Hall @clothofnature.bsky.social Artist–author creating nature-rooted art and wild tales from her Dorset studio.
Exploring creativity as a healing practice while tending land, story and well-being.
clothofnature.com
Becky Lomax @beckyjlomax.bsky.social Priorities: Well-being of all humans and natural world
Moon Travel Guides author: USA National Parks; Yellowstone & Grand Teton; Glacier National Park; US & Canada Rocky Mts Road Trip
www.beckylomax.com
Sam Pyrah @timeonfeet.bsky.social Journalist and author, runner and walker, writing about movement, mind and place. Cairngorms, Scotland. The Guardian | BBC Countryfile | Runner's World. Formerly @SamMurphyRuns Website: www.sampyrah.com Substack: https://timeonfeet.substack.com/
Patrick Kinsella @paddykinsella.bsky.social Writer, on the lookout for hidden trails, adventure tales & good ales. Gutter-based stargazer. Drum basher. Taekwondo try hard. Fan of books, bands, bikes, boats, boards, beaches, beers. Anti-fascist always. Antisocial when hungry. Political southpaw.⚒️🥋
Olly Beckett @aplantogo.bsky.social Travel writer (bylines inc. Fodor's, Travel + Leisure, Time Out, National Geographic, Cruise and Travel), member of British Guild of Travel Writers. Editor of Mountains Magazine. Specialising in:
Mountain tourism | Responsible travel | Cruise | Hiking
Mary Novakovich @marynovakovich.bsky.social Travel writer, journalist, author of award-winning My Family and Other Enemies: Life and Travels in Croatia's Hinterland. Words in Guardian, Times, Telegraph, Independent, i, CNN Travel, etc.
Agent: https://cullandco.com/
https://linktr.ee/marynovakovich
Anna Richards @annahrichards.bsky.social Travel writer based in Lyon, France. Author of Paddling France for Bradt Guides, Travel Media Awards' Guide of the Year 2024. By-lines for the BBC, National Geographic, The Telegraph & many more.
annahrichards(at)gmail(dot)com
Mike @codingmarine.com 🇺🇸 US Marine Veteran
📓 My Portfolio: https://www.codingmarine.com/
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📱 My Apps:
1. Dont Forget The Spoon (Hiking/Backpacking): https://dontforgetthespoon.com/
2. Travel Bingo: https://www.vaygobingo.com
Michelle P @snowangelmrsp.bsky.social Craft, book lover, nature photography, wildlife & music. Cat lady! Cancer survivor, hydrotherapy keeps me sane! Happily married. Mum to Bertie cat. Live in my beloved Scotland in the Highlands & I love snow!
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SnowangelMakes
Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social Hiking/travel writer ◦ Inner Hebrides, Loch Lomond & the Trossachs, Iceland ◦ living in Port Ellen, Islay.
Books in this link ⬇️
linktr.ee/katiefeatherstone
Richard Franks | Travel Writer @richardfranks.co.uk Award-winning travel writer and journalist specialising in Scotland, Birmingham, adventure travel and music. Words for BBC, Nat Geo, Telegraph, Independent, Rough Guides & others. Takes photos too.
hello@richardfranks.co.uk
www.richardfranks.co.uk
Jon Sparks @jonsparksauthor.bsky.social After more than 30 years, and 60 books, as an outdoor writer and photographer, I’m now fully focused on fiction with the Shattered Moon series. AI-free (and I mean free).
Alastair Humphreys @alastairhumphreys.bsky.social Living adventurously, writing books.
www.alastairhumphreys.com
Ari Schneider @arischneider.bsky.social Senior Writer, Mountain Gazette
Vermont raised, Colorado based
Also in Wash Post, NYT, The Guardian, etc.
Mostly investigative and narrative journalism about environmental issues, tech, criminal justice, sports.
Rebecca Smith @rebeccasmithauthor.bsky.social Writer, journalist.
Rural: The Lives of the Working-Class Countryside out now. Published by William Collins
Beckcsmith.com
John Manning @johnmanningpct.bsky.social Outdoor writer and editor, long distance walker (kinda), father, Beach Boys nut and Whovian (kinda).
The Detour Effect @thedetoureffect.bsky.social Hiking the world 🥾 Living nomadically 🛻 Blogging about it 📝
Saunterer/Sainte-Terrer/Sans Terre.
Recent Detours: Greenland, Kyrgyzstan, Romania
TheDetourEffect.com || thedetoureffect.com/linktree
Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social Irish ornithologist & wildlife sound recordist.
http://www.irishwildlifesounds.com/
Using bird sound as a tool to spread love for Irish nature.
Albums:
-Wild Silence
-Hope
Book: Nature Boy (Irish biography of the year 2024)
Doc: Birdsong
Mark Horrell @markhorrell.bsky.social Indie author & mountaineering writer | Bit of a mountain history geek | Baldest digital comms professional to climb Everest (probably) | Occasionally frivolous
Sarah Farley @thewriterswalk.com Ey up 👋 I’m a #writer and #walker from Yorkshire, living in That London.
I write a Substack where I share stories, interviews and writing prompts that explore the places where walking and writing meet. Fancy joining in?
https://thewriterswalk.com
Dan Richards @danzep.bsky.social Writer & Broadcaster – Edinburgh
📚 Holloway • The Beechwood Airship Interviews • Climbing Days • Outpost • Overnight // 📻 Only After Dark / The Bare Necessities – BBC R4
👉 https://www.danrichards.uk/ 👈
Kirsten Henton @kirstenjh.bsky.social Edinburger • Weather2Travel editor & travel writer • Words in The Sunday Times, BBC, JRNY, Scotland Mag etc • History, nature, watersports, lover of the great outdoors 🌍
Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com Scottish outdoor travel writer 🌲
✏️: The Guardian, BBC etc.
Phoebe 'Wander Woman' Smith @phoebesmith.bsky.social Adventurer; #WanderWoman Podcast host; Travel writer/presenter/photographer; author Wayfarer et al; @calm storyteller; co-founder #WeTwo Foundation
Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, #ThePathlessLand (forthcoming), Indonesian history; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo.
Dara McAnulty @naturalistdara.bsky.social 20 ~ autistic ~ award winning author of ‘Diary of a Young Naturalist’ and the ‘Wild Child’ series ~ Nature Nerd and biology student ~ University of Cambridge. He/him
📍Co Down / Cambridge
https://daramcanulty.com/
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Ash Routen @ashrouten.com Adventure journalist and editor of 'At the Edge of the Map', covering expeditions and adventure globally. By-lines include ExWeb, Nat Geo, Sidetracked, and Outside. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and The Explorers Club.
ashrouten.com
Marek Bidwell @marekbidwell.bsky.social Book: #SkyeLine Backpacking the Original Skye Trail
Nature | Wild camping | Northumberland | Cumbria | Scotland
Read about my outdoor adventures on Substack at https://substack.com/search/marekbidwell
Freelance Environmental Consultant. IEMA Fellow
@gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social
Dr JC Niala @jcniala.bsky.social Creating where art and research meet. @blooloop.bsky.social top 50 int’l museum influencer.
‘The New Eden’ out with Gaia Books @hachetteuk.bsky.social 12 March 2026
https://linktr.ee/TheNewEden_JC?utm_source=linktree_profile_share
www.jcniala.com
Ajay Tegala @ajaytegala.bsky.social Wildlife TV presenter, conservationist, naturalist, voice-over artist, filmmaker, author of 'Unique Life of a Ranger' and 'Wetland Diaries'
Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social 🌎 Former MP for Brighton Pavilion, former Leader @greenparty.org.uk Professor of Practice, University of Sussex. Author of 'Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story'. Writing & campaigning on climate & nature 🌎 linktr.ee/carolinelucasbrighton
Fiona Sampson @fionasampson.bsky.social Writer, poet, Romanticist, critic, librettist, literary translation. Agent: mail@wylieagency.co.uk
David Lindo aka The Urban Birder @theurbanbirder.bsky.social I’m David Lindo - broadcaster, writer, speaker & bird tour guide.
Keep looking UP
BillBowBaggins @billbowbaggins.bsky.social Hi I'm Nate. I write a weekly newsletter where I inexpertly discuss birds and try to be funny. Subscribe to win my undying love. Handy link provided below 👇
billbowbaggins.substack.com
Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social Journal entries from 1768-1793 of the pioneering C18th English naturalist, posted on the day of the year they were written. Currently posting 1777.
Built by @adriantoll.bsky.social
See gilbertwhite.org for more info.
Also see @johnclare.bsky.social
John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social Entries from the journal that C19th English poet John Clare kept from Sep 1824 - Sep 1825, posted on the day of the year they were written.
Built by @adriantoll.bsky.social
See johnclaretweets.org for more info.
Also see @gilbertwhite.bsky.social
James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social New book The Place of Tides (Allen Lane) now in all good bookshops
Dominic Couzens @dominiccouzens.bsky.social Professional and award-winning nature writer, columnist for RSPB magazine, Bird watching and Water Life. Many books: most recent "RSPB Birding Year" (Bloomsbury), "An Insect a Day" (Batsford). Also lots of travel writing, e.g. Sri Lanka, Costa Rica.
Stephen Moss @stephenmossauthor.bsky.social Naturalist, author, broadcaster, academic. TEN BIRDS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (Faber) shortlisted for 2023 Wainwright Prize & published in ten countries.
Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social Novelist & long-lapsed organic geochemist
Books: ACCIDENTALS, CARBON DREAMS, ECHOES OF LIFE
https://susanmgaines.com #Bremen #SantaCruz
#birds #climate #geoscience #SciComm #LitSci #booksky
Austrian Galicia #envhist
Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social #Behavioural #ecologist; Prof; UCL; weakness for #wasps. Actually, it’s not a weakness.. #Wasplove. Author Endless Forms: Why we should love wasps. http://tinyurl.com/UKwasps #Evolution #Naturewriting #Scicomm #sociality #Genomics
Charles Foster @tweedpipe.bsky.social Author: trying to work out what we're doing here. Latest books: 'The Edges of the World' (Jan 2026), 'Pets and their People', 'Cry of the Wild', 'Being a Human', 'The Screaming Sky', 'Being a Beast' & 'A Little Brown Sea'. www.charlesfoster.co.uk
Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social Scientist, specializing in bumblebees. Author of various books about insects. Trying to save the planet one bee at a time.
Nikki Marmery @nikkimarmery.bsky.social Author LILITH 🐍🍎🌴 ON WILDER SEAS 🌊⚓️🌅 Historical Fiction | Mythology | Ancient Women | Agent: DKW Literary Agency
www.nikkimarmery.com
Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social Author: The Ghost Lake
Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk
Editor: Spelt Magazine
https://linktr.ee/wendypratt
Meg Bertera-Berwick @megberteraberwick.bsky.social Writing about land & memory. PhD in post-colonial stuff. Shortlisted for the Nan Shepherd Prize 2023. Glasgow. Free 🇵🇸
On insta: @meg.berteraberwick
Newsletter: https://podbypod.substack.com/
Represented by @portyliterary.bsky.social
Kiera Chapman @kierachapman.bsky.social Nature writer, research fellow University of Oxford, Co-I Planning for Nature kierachapman.com / www.planningfornature.org
Kate Blincoe @kateblincoe.bsky.social Writer and author. Nature, sustainability, ethical economics, literature, horses. Guardian Country Diarist. Resurgence & Ecologist contributor. Curae Fiction prize winner. Debut novel RESOLVE out October 2027.
Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social Author / Env Historian / TURNING, TWO TREES MAKE A FOREST, DOG HEARTED, DISPERSALS, A GARDEN CALLED HOME / Queries to David Godwin Associates please
she/her
Horatio Clare @horatioclare.bsky.social Award-winning author, broadcaster, journalist. Next book: WE CAME BY SEA: the true story of the small boat crisis. Latest: THE RECOVERY GUIDE TO MENTAL HEALTH, is a Times Self-help Book of the Year. Presents Is Psychiatry Working? on BBC Sounds
Lewis Winks @lewis-winks.bsky.social Researcher, writer and campaigner with Right to Roam; social and cultural geography; environmental social science; campaigning to defend the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. Devon based.
ROB COWEN @robcowen.bsky.social Author of THE NORTH ROAD (2025) // COMMON GROUND (2015) // THE HEEDING (2021) // and others...
Writer // journalist // poet
Ed Douglas @calmandfearless.bsky.social Writer. Loves the spikier bits of the planet. Bath addict. Contributor to Guardian Country Diary. Represented by David Godwin Associates.
Matt Gaw @mattgaw.bsky.social Writer. Books: In All Weathers, The Pull of the River, Under the Stars (all with @eandtbooks). Posting #writingeveryday
Jim O'Donnell @jimodonnell2.bsky.social Walker. Writer. Reader. Storyteller. Photographer. Author NOTES FOR THE AURORA SOCIETY and THE FOUNTAIN from
@torreyhouse, speculative fiction, archaeology, history. Слава Україні!
www.aroundtheworldineightyyears.com
Shafik Meghji @shafikmeghji.bsky.social Journalist, travel writer, author
📖 Small Earthquakes (BGTW Travel Narrative Book of the Year 2025), Crossed Off the Map
✍🏽 BBC Travel, National Geographic Traveller, Wanderlust, Geographical
🌎 Latin America / Ex-porteño
https://linktr.ee/ShafikMeghji
David G Haskell @dghaskell.bsky.social Writer, biologist
🌻How Flowers Made our World, now in bookstores!
Sounds Wild and Broken
13 Ways to Smell a Tree
The Songs of Trees
The Forest Unseen
Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social writer, journalist & broadcaster 📝
Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje.
Mancunian 🐝
anitasethi.com
Dan Eatherley @daneatherley.bsky.social Independent research consultant.
Wildlife TV (BBC, Nat Geo, etc).
Writer of such nature/history books as Bushmaster (Skyhorse) and Invasive Aliens (HarperCollins). Next up, Wild Hope (Pelagic), exploring positive conservation stories.
Exeter, UK
Trileigh Tucker @trileightucker.bsky.social Writing about meaning in nature, integrating science, spirit, mythology. Birder, artist, musician, PhD geologist. Tetrachromat wannabe. Pubs, art, and bio at NaturalPresenceArts.com.
Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social Writer of books & features. WANDERLAND (Bloomsbury) shortlisted for Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year& Wainwright Prize.
Royal Literary Fund Advisory Fellow/ @DHHLiterary
www.jinireddy.co.uk
Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
Jack Kunkle @jackkunkle.bsky.social How will climate & nature breakdown affect culture? How will culture affect climate & nature breakdown?
Membership at Aldersgate Group
N.A. Chapman 🍄 @nachapmanwrites.bsky.social 🌱 Speculative eco-fiction writer • 🦉 Feral poet • 🤝 Community organizer • 🏳️🌈 Neuroqueer & Disabled • ⛰️ Appalachia (Shawanwaki/Shawnee and Massawomeck land) • they/them
https://lnk.bio/nachapman
Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social Conservationist, campaigner, author, columnist, blogger, grandpa
Laura Parker @lauraparker.bsky.social Countryside writer, sheep keeper, drystone wall lover. Features for Country Life mag on the fun and the fascinating. Lives in Cotswolds, from Scottish Borders. Late of ChipLitFest, which is now sadly an ex-LitFest.