MariaD @drmariad.bsky.social Health Policy Academic
Proud Irish European.
Anti Fascist
Still a feminist
Mother/Grandmother/Friend
Get Brexit Undone.
I stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦
Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),’Tiger Girl’ shortlisted Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica’ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
Tracy Fells @theliterarypig.bsky.social WRITER. 2017 WINNER Commonwealth Prize Can & Eur. Author novella-in-flash Hairy On The Inside (Ad Hoc Fiction) S/L '22 Rubery Book Award. Short Story collection out now from Fly On The Wall Press. Buy now: rb.gy/esxcc. www.tracyfells.com
SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters. Follow also @heyflashvillage.bsky.social
Christopher Allen @christopherallen.bsky.social Publisher and EIC of SmokeLong Quarterly. 2023 Flash Fiction Judge Bridport Prize. #BestSmallFictions #FlashFictionAmerica. Nomad. Very much a back-office guy. He/him
Gaynor Kane @gaynorkanepoet.bsky.social Generally creative (she/her) likes writing, reading, art and photography.
Published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press.
Soozerama @soozerama.bsky.social Susie Wild | Poet/Writer | Books include: Windfalls, Better Houses, The Art of Contraception | Wales, UK
https://linktr.ee/Soozerama- A Alison Chandler @alisonwriter.bsky.social Writer and supporter of writers at writingroom.org.uk
Sarah McPherson @summermoth.bsky.social HE manager by day. Writer, crafter, LARPer, runner. Procrastinator extraordinaire. Lover of the fantastic. Definitely not a grown up. She/her.
Find me here: https://linktr.ee/summer_moth
Paul Tucker @paultucker.bsky.social Fiction.
Brixton Review of Books; The London Magazine; La Piccioletta Barca; Action, Spectacle
Cúirt Festival Prize runner-up
Writers & Artists Prize shortlisted
Desperate Literature Prize longlisted
MA Prose Fiction at UEA.
🎸 in Thee Alcoholics
Adrienne Loftus Parkins @theasianword.bsky.social Trustee, Moore Prize for #HumanRights Writing ( @mooreprize.bsky.social )
Formerly Asia House Festival of Asian Lit, M-Fest, Bangkok Edge
World literature, festivals & awards.
Canadian British European
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
Donovan Dennis @donovanpdennis.com Glaciologist, geochemist, writer 🏳️🌈🔥. Fan of cold hard facts gathered via equitable means. 🏔️ enthusiast. Formerly @gfz.bsky.social, now @pik-potsdam.bsky.social. Hier privat 😘.
📍Berlin
Hector @hectormacinnes.bsky.social Sound Art, Research and Socially Engaged Practice - PhD Student at CRiSAP - I'm from the Isle of Skye.
He/him
www.hectormacinnes.com
hec.macinnes@gmail.con
Anne O'Brien @whereisthesea.bsky.social Wasafiri 2021 Life Writing and Bath Short Story Award winner. Hennessy New Irish Writer. Stories in RA pindrop A Short Affair, The London Magazine, The Irish Times, Crannóg...
Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social Yet another writer: THE GHOST WHO BLED (2017), THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY (2018), THE REPUBLIC OF BREATH, THE SPOILS & other stories, SWEENEY'S PROGRESS (forthcoming). Environmentalist. Lives in Sheffield. https://substack.com/@gregorynorminton
June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social Writing Place Writing Planet, UCD / iCRAG 2026 | Lamplight Fellowship 2025 | Literature Bursary Award 2025 | Moth Short Story Prize 2024 | 'Somebody' expo MoLi 2020-2021 | Room Little Darker 2018/17 | https://www.airbnb.ie/h/pinkhousedublin
Jacqui Pack @jpcerthum.bsky.social Usually engaged in prose, poetry or procrastination.
https://jacquipack.jimdofree.com/
Sarah Hegarty @sarahhegarty.bsky.social ‘Magpie and Other Stories’ shortlisted for the 2025 International Rubery Book Award. ‘A powerful, unsettling collection from a writer of huge talent’ - Liz Jensen, author of ‘Your Wild and Precious Life’- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social Writer, cat lady, wrote a novel about medieval mystics, forthcoming novel about John Ruskin. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social NEA Poetry| CantoMundo |Fulbright | Calif Arts Council | Author of 4 poetry books. Work in Paris Review, Witness, APR, Laurel Review and Nimrod. #Portuguese #poetrycommunity #Binders #Yaddo https://www.millicentborgesaccardi.com/
Alison Woodhouse @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social Writer | Teacher | funded PhD @SWWDTP | @bathspa | Team @BathShortStory | The House on the Corner, AdHoc Fiction, 2020 | Family Frames, V Press, 2021 www.alisonwoodhouse.com
Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social Stop fucking about and start writing.
Online courses | workshops | writing retreats | community | tea | biscuits | swearing | gold stars ⭐️
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social Writer, reader, traveller. Author of 'Taylor & Burton in Africa'. 
Alice Fowler @alicefwrites.bsky.social Award-winning writer of short stories & longer fiction. Debut short story collection, The Truth Has Arms and Legs, published 2023 by @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
www.alicefowlerauthor.com www.linktr.ee/alicefowlerauthor 
MrBarrington @mrbarrington.bsky.social Stockholm-based, London-born book/language nerd 🤓
Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social Run out the boat, my broken comrades. Books & essays on memory and place, especially about Ireland, Germany, Poland. Walter Benjamin Ultra, has friends everywhere. I live in Berlin.
Editor of @elsewherejournal.bsky.social
https://www.marcelkrueger.eu/
Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social #Thriller Volta / Poetry (KFS & Hem & BSB) / @streetcakemag editor / loves travel. Views my own.
Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social PhD Chelsea College of Arts. Work in: Partisan Hotel, gorse journal, Mercurius Magazine, Sublunary Editions, 3AM Magazine, Essence Press, Vanguard Readings. Chapbooks with Gordian Projects & Nightjar Press, book with Rossi Contemporary
Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social John McGahern Literature Award | DLR Emerging Writer In Residence 2024 | Poetry Ireland Introductions | Cúirt New Writing Fiction Award | Art Council Literature Bursary Award |
sonyagildea dot com
Marissa Hoffmann @marissahoffmann.bsky.social …., and is a writer/editor of fiction & technical non-fiction. Prizes & bio at http://www.marissahoffmann.com/ incl. 2024 Bridport short story shortlist. Working on a short story collection. Currently enrolled in a course of study at The Stinging Fly.
New Writing South @newwritingsouth.bsky.social New Writing South is dedicated to inspiring, nurturing and connecting all kinds of creative writers in southeast England.
Nikesh Shukla @nikeshshukla.bsky.social Author. Wrote a Spider-Man comic. He wears a mask just to cover the raw flesh. A rather ugly brother with flows that’s gorgeous.
Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social 'Maybe America isn't ready for a superstar in a wheelchair.' - Ian MacKaye
New book! Out with Harvill in 2026. THERE IS NO MEANT TO BE.
Debut novel THE COWARD w. @canongate.co.uk
jarredmcginnis.com
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
Tania Hershman 🏳️🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social Queer writer of odd things. 10th book, "It's Time", a hybrid chronomemoir, out now. Permissioner, founder of Unbox Your Words. She/they 🏳️🌈 www.taniahershman.com; https://taniahershman.substack.com/; https://www.instagram.com/tania_hershman_writes
Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social THIS PARADISE: Short stories // Boiler House Press // http://tinyurl.com/RCTParadise // Shortlisted Edge Hill Prize; Longlisted Orwell Prize //
Full of state and woe
Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
Giant Rat of Sumatra @giantratsumatra.bsky.social That again.- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social writer
Dooneen - out now from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
Ben Pester @benpester.bsky.social Novel The Expansion Project (2025). Story collections Sail Away Land (2026) Am I in the Right Place(2021). Other work in Granta, London Magazine, Hotel etc
Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Writer. Latest: Paris Fantastique from @confingopublishing.bsky.social and Finders, Keepers from @saltpublishing.com
Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
Jude Higgins @judehiggins.bsky.social Flash Fiction writer — runs Bath Flash Fiction Award, directs short fiction press, Ad Hoc Fiction, & Flash Fiction Festivals U.K.
Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social Fictive Dream, the online #litmag dedicated to the #shortstory including #translations. Please send your submissions to fictivedream@gmail.com. Website https://fictivedream.com/
Sam Jordison @samjordison.bsky.social Mad as hell. Not going to take it any more. Journalist. Galley Beggar. 3AM Magazine Anti-Royal Correspondent.
Across The Pond podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/
Galley Beggar: www.galleybeggar.co.uk
@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social Galley Beggar Press is an independent publisher from Norwich. Citizens of the world. And foreign.
Sharon Telfer @sharontelfer.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Keeps things short.
Here (mostly) to share #FlashFiction, #ShortStories, writing community.
My flash fiction collection, The Map Waits, is published by Reflex Press: https://www.reflex.press/product/the-map-waits/
Emily Devane @devaneemily.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor, bookseller. Collector of oddities.
Words in various places, including Smokelong, Lost Balloon, Ellipsis, Best Microfiction & Ambit.
Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social Short story collection, Mammals, I Think We Are Called (@saltpublishing.bsky.social), Edge Hill Short Story Prize '23 Longlist, Word Factory Apprentice '19, Best British Short Stories '17 https://giselleleeb.com/
Farhana Khalique @hanakhalique.bsky.social Writer, VO Artist, Teacher, & PhD candidate from London, UK
Subs Editor @ SmokeLong Quarterly
Words in Flash Fusion, Best Small Fictions, 100 Voices, Spread the Word, Arachne Press, Word Factory, & more
W: www.farhanakhalique.com
Tw & IG: @HanaKhalique