By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Svenja Reiner @svenjareiner.bsky.social kuratiert Literaturfestivals und -veranstaltungen, schreibt und forscht über Literaturpolitik, Kulturwissenschaften, Pop & Fans
sie/ihr
www.svenjareiner.de
Gone Like a Goldfish @gonelikeagoldfish.bsky.social This is an account to promote my anonymously-published book, Gone Like a Goldfish, about suicide, addiction, mental illness, and child loss. I'm told that it's transgressive literature. Free on Kindle Unlimited.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8L8GB2X
Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social Prof. in French, U.of Surrey, UK. Views own.
Transnational anarchism & print culture (19thC); Anglo-French exile & migration; women & feminism. Posts in 🇫🇷&🇬🇧.
"Un premier exil libertaire" (Libertalia, 2024); “Femmes de révolution” (Seuil, 2025)
Alexis Lévrier @alexislevrier.bsky.social Historien de la presse et des médias, MCF Université de Reims, Crimel/Gripic
Raphaël Ominis ✍️🖤📚 @raphaelominis.bsky.social ✍️ Auteur de Dark Fantasy à notes de SF 🌌🔮
⏳ J’écris des mondes où le temps déraille,
🌓 les personnages sont gris, queer 🏳️🌈, neuroA 🧠
… et rarement indemnes. 🩸
📚 Mes livres & autres réseaux ↓
raphaelominis.carrd.co
erik ruotsalainen @maxviscosity.bsky.social doctoral researcher in dept. of media studies, university of turku
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social Professor&Chair, Gender&Sexuality Studies, University@Buffalo. Awards: Lora Romero (ASA'13); Best Book in Food Studies (ASFS'13); Choice (2022); Alan Bray (MLA&ASA'26); Hon. Mention, Rene Wellek (ACLS '26); James Beard essay award ('23), NHC Scholar 26-27.
Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social Ed #Supersex for @utexaspress.bsky.social. Ed Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. Words @comicsxf.com @sequentialscholars.bsky.social + lots more. Host of @GoshGollyWow.bsky.social. Kurt Wagner's (unofficial) PR Manager. she/her
Kevin Jones @stairwaytokevin13.bsky.social Privacy/tech lawyer by day, film noir aficionado by night. CIPP/US, CIPP/E & AIGP. Living the beach life between Wilmington, NC & Racine, WI.
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1SGFN
Julius-Cezar MacQuarie 🦋 @jcmacquarie.bsky.social 🌙 New platform, same passion for all things #nocturnal 🌃 🌉 #work 👷🏽♀️🕵🏼♀️🚖
NIGHTWORK_FOOTPRINT 🦋 https://linktr.ee/nightworkfootprint @nightworkfootprint.bsky.social 5 cities, 1 project to investigate #nightwork. NIGHTWORK_FOOTPRINT (as in the carbon footprint) measures nightworkers’ contribution to nightshift cities. A Research Ireland Pathway Programme | 2025-29.
P.I. @jcmacquarie.bsky.social | jcmacarie@ucc.ie
Vincent Doyle @vdoyle.bsky.social 
Tyler the ✨𝓕𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓼𝓲𝓪𝓷✨ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @tyleralbertario.bsky.social LGBTQ+ historian | host "This Side of the Rainbow" podcast | 33 | bi (as in, attracted to more than one gender) | he/him | #BlackLivesMatter- T The Independent @theindependent.bsky.social The world's most free-thinking newspaper.
Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social Author & queer historian. MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND is available for preorders now! Previously: The Women’s House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) linktr.ee/HughRyan
Michael Waters @michaelwaters.bsky.social writer, THE OTHER OLYMPIANS (out now!)
Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social Video editor. Nebraskan/East Anglian, so possibly inclined towards flat lands. Once talked about cinema on the radio, but now mainly take photos with prisms and pinholes and polaroids. Being kept for my decorative seed head.
A stones throw from Cambridge.
Nicole Blades @nicoleblades.bsky.social 📚WOULD I LIE TO YOU? (APRIL 21, 2026)
•Come to Find Out on @substack
•Journo, @wsj @runnersworldmag, etc.
•Newbie tennis player. Friendly word snob
Dr Hannah Dalgleish @hannahsuzanne.bsky.social 📝 science/academic policy engager/facilitator
🌌 rewilding the night
🤝 knowledge mobiliser
🌟 former astrophysicist
🌐 hannahsdalgleish.com
Sophronia Borgia, maybe. @sophronia.bsky.social Lover of reading and books, art, liberal politics, learning about history, and classic films. Surrounded by fans of sports and heavy metal and spoiled cats. Hoping to finish my house remodeling in the next decade or two.
Wine Mom Wrote a Mystery @winemommystery.bsky.social I wrote a cozy mystery at 50.
THE DEVIL WIND MURDERS
Link below⬇️
BOOK LINK: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-devil-wind-murders-a-vi-sandoval-mystery/id1804920377
#crime #crimenovel #humor
#California
Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social Geographer at Simon Fraser University. Policy mobilities; urban politics; harm reduction; social movements. Managing editor, EPC: Politics & Space (journals.sagepub.com/home/epc). Host, 'Minor Revisions' podcast (http://bit.ly/3suN9ur). Views my own.
Sam Bruzzese @sbruzzese.org Proud grandfather, techie, course lecturer. Helping prepare the ‘next’ generation of school leaders. @EduMcGill & @ubishops #edpt204 #edem606 #edem635 #edem673 #gse570 "Ancora imparo"
Nikhaela Wicks @kaylawicks247.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Kent. New book 'Policing Race and Nightlife' out April 26.
Interested in 'race', racism, policing, nightlife.
emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social 📝 Writer, editor and researcher interested in photography and the cultural life of technology — past, present, and future.
📸 Author of 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘳: 𝘈 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘴 (Duke, 2026).
🗄️ https://linktr.ee/emilydoucet
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Paige Roberts @paige-roberts.bsky.social Public historian:
Archives & Special Collections at Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass., USA) https://phillipsacademyarchives.net/
Swimming, hiking | Seacoast NH (she/Dr.)
Interested in #EnvHist
Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS) @esprit-jeps.bsky.social Publishing on the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present; the flagship journal of ESPRit, published bi-annually by Ghent University.
Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social Founded 104 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚
Oxford, England
oxbibsoc.wordpress.com
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london
Rep'd RCW Literary Agency
THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024)
co-ed INSCRIPTION: The Journal of Material Text
adamsmyth.substack.com
Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social Teacher and researcher of literature and material texts 1550-1830, Oxford.
Author of *Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature* (Penn, 2025) https://shorturl.at/5D7VY
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/georgina-wilson
Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social https://hotbrownpress.etsy.com & hotbrownpress.com
Literacy Propagandist - Letterpress - Book & Media History - Manuscript Studies - Early American Lit - Native Am & Indigenous Studies
Editor, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
Mattie @mattiet650.bsky.social Director of a California rare books/spec coll library. Archivist. Keeper of the gems I am.
Jon Topham @jontopham.bsky.social Professor of History of Science, University of Leeds. History of print, science and religion, life and earth sciences, Britain 1790-1840. Award-winning new book: "Reading the Book of Nature" bit.ly/Book-of-Nature
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/143/
Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing (CBCP) @UniofReading @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social CBCP fosters cross-disciplinary research in all things publishing, printing & books. Group account.
Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives, College of Humanities & Arts; Prof, 19c Lit & Digital Humanities. Co-ed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities.* Author of *Forget Me Not* <triproftri.wordpress.com>
Laura Helton @lehelton.bsky.social Historian. Archivist. Teacher of public humanities. Author of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia University Press, 2024).
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered-and-fugi
Hannah Fox @hannah-sakura.bsky.social PhD researcher interested in world literature, literary representations of print cultures, and censorship.
Coffee lover, plant collector, bibliomaniac.
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social Lecturer in Publishing UCL Dept of Information Studies | Publishing Studies, Book History, DH | SHARP | E-books and ‘Real Books’: Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness (CUP 2025). Is it digital and arguably a book? You had me at ‘arguably’.
Janelle Jenstad @janellejenstad.bsky.social Early Modernist at UVic. Editor. Book historian. Text encoder. Director of LEMDO and MoEML. Fan of Garry Oak meadows, motorcycles, and XML.
Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social Working on a book about how magazines organize info. C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, WPA, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. First book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
Amy Blair @amyblair.bsky.social Studying Reception and Periodicals and C19/C20 Book History; Edith Whartonian. Co-editor of the journal Reception (PSUP) with @ikax@bsky.social; Author, Tasting and Testing Books (UMass Press)
Anastasia Armendariz @anastasiaa2z.bsky.social special collections librarian. seasonal baker. captain of the pismo beach disaster relief. she/her.
Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social Librarian & Author of DARK ARCHIVES: A LIBRARIAN’S INVESTIGATION INTO THE SCIENCE & HISTORY OF BOOKS BOUND IN HUMAN SKIN Picador / FSG, literary rep Neon
Abigail Moreshead @amoreshead.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and AI. PhD in Texts & Technology (2023), specializing in book studies. Really into books and aesthetics/books as aesthetics.
Dr Xinyi Wen @drxinyiwen.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
🖋️ Writing a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1584
warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/xinyi-wen
She/her
Cover image aislingjelinski.com
Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @medrenliza.bsky.social U of Toronto Associate Prof. | early modern lit-sci-phil | women writers, esp. Margaret Cavendish | editing, esp. M. Cavendish | (premodern) asexuality and aromanticism | She/her. Views my own.
Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - @CREW EA 4399)
Book history, Art World, Digital Humanities. Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & artists.
She/her/Dr
Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social Edited and published by Colin Sackett.
colinsackett.co.uk / uniformbooks.co.uk
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social Academic studying 20-21 C. World Lit and Book/Media History.
New project: The World Republic of Data.
Books: Making World Literature (UMass Press) and Selling Books With Algorithms (Cambridge UP)
Opinions Mine
Emily Wing Rohrbach @emilyrohrbach.bsky.social 🍃Associate Professor of English, Durham University
📋 Director, MA in English Literary Studies
📚Author of Codex Poetics (2026) & Modernity's Mist (2016)
💕#adoptdontshop 🐕🦺💕
Amanda Lastoria @amandalastoria.bsky.social North America's 1st PhD in Publishing
Sessional at Simon Fraser University
Sessional at Emily Carr University of Art + Design
EA at SHARP
Children's and YA Book Reviewer at Quill & Quire
Former Editor of Lewis Carroll Review
Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
close reading forever
helped make this: https://www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-books-lgbtq-books-and-censorship-in-1980s-britain-a-catalogue
STCV. The Bibliography of the Hand Press Book in Flanders @stcvbe.bsky.social STCV is an OA database collecting bibliographical descriptions of early modern books printed in Flanders (Belgium)｜Service of Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken vzw｜Posts by Heleen Wyffels & team
Lisa Maruca @lmaruca.bsky.social C18 English professor, student of old and new media, SHARPist, tree hugger, dog lover, mom, cook, eater, hiker, reader. Not in that order.
dr.ddrs @dr-ddrs.bsky.social Teacher. Researcher. Alive.
Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Poet, Mother, Southerner
📜Archives, Material Media Studies, American Poetry, Artists’ Books
🎓MA, MLS, MAE, MFA, ABD PhD (C&IS)
👩🏼🏫Teach: Typography, Games, Poetry, Gender Studies
🌐 https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
🤐Posts don’t reflect my institutions
Cecile de Morree @morree.bsky.social Medievalist, Feminist, Book Historian, Singer | Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature @RU (https://www.ru.nl/en/people/morree-c-de) | currently working on popular song and sexual consent (c.1500-1550)
John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular Synths. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.
Journal of Electronic Publishing @jepub.bsky.social A peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal on contemporary scholarly publishing issues and practices. Co-edited by Alyssa Arbuckle and Janneke Adema, supported by @michiganpublishing.bsky.social
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/
KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social We take care of KU Leuven Libraries' heritage collections housed in the University Library: rare books, lecture notes and other manuscripts, graphics... We also have a reference collection of more than 65.000 titles on book history.
Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Publishing at University of Derby | Editor of SHARP News | Editorial theory & practice, book history, educational publishing | Proud mum | Lover of semicolons | Views my own.
Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone
Dr Susan Greenberg @sgediting.bsky.social Former journalist and editor turned academic, teaching/research about publishing & writing. Now back in professional practice c/o https://oddfish.uk & @oddfish-editorial.bsky.social. Cares about words & what they mean. http://bit.ly/2Jjx4gZ 
Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS
John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe. DE, EN, FR & IT; working on CZ (permanently) & NL. Posting in a personal capacity on history, literature, arts, &c.
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.
SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org).
Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social Book historian & research librarian at the Swedish National Heritage Board (@raa-se.bsky.social) & UiT The Arctic University of Norway. History of reading, Provenance, Cartography & Library history. @sharpweb.org aficionado.
Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social Professing literature in Philadelphia. MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Fiction (April ‘26).
laurabmcgrath.substack.com
Kate Long @gingeykate.bsky.social Libraries. Archives. Fun finds. Little bit of ranting. Research Services Archivist. Western Mass. she/her.
sarah salter @shsalter.bsky.social Writing & teaching histories of sexuality, racialization, and editorship. w/ editorshipstudies.org, as editor of American Periodicals. [all opinions = my own]
Dr. Nicole Infanta Keller @nicolekeller.bsky.social part-time lecturer | wannabe memoirist | scuba enthusiast | 18c lit, book history, and history of astronomy nerd | she/her
Eyk Akansu @e-akansu.bsky.social Leipzig
📖 Mutmaßungen über Schönwetterwolken. Gedichte
www.akansu.de
🎷https://brazzbanditen.info/
🎓 Graduiertenkolleg "Literatur und Öffentlichkeit in differenten Gegenwartskulturen" @grk2806.bsky.social
Samantha Rayner @profbookshops.bsky.social Vice Dean Wellbeing, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UCL; Professor of Publishing and Book Cultures; co-chair of the Bookselling Research Network and the Penguin Books Researchers Network; General Editor, CUP Elements series in Publishing and Book Cultures
Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social Senior lecturer and DECRA fellow in literature at the Australian National University. Audiobooks, writers festivals, digital technology. Books! Books? Books. https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/weber-m
Tamara Bhalla @tamara2727.bsky.social Studying contemporary book clubs and book bans | South Asian American studies | Assoc. Prof and Chair of American Studies @ UMBC
Dr Shafquat Towheed @shaftowheed.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English and Director of Research, School of Arts & Humanities at The Open University. Director of OpenARC, current Vice President of SHARP. I'm interested in the history and future of books and reading.
Meghan Constantinou @mrconstan.bsky.social Rare book & special collections librarian & curator, Simmons PhD student, BSA Executive Committee, private collecting and book arts, graphic arts, collector of women's bookplates, proud mom of a cool kid. 
Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social ❤️ editing texts 🎤 💃 Montréalaise in Nijmegen, Nederland
Dissertation doula • accompagnante au dépôt de thèse • hulp bij het afronden van je proefschrift
Book history • histoire du livre • boekgeschiedenis 
Danielle Fuller (she/they) @profdfuller.bsky.social Researches readers and reading cultures online and IRL. Book Studies, book history and YA studies. Serious about popular books and media. Slightly obsessed with YA TV shows. Professor at University of Alberta on Treaty 6/Metis Nation region 4.
Roland Allen has a protagonist for Chapter XVII @zibaldoni.bsky.social 山人. Publisher by day, author by night. The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper is out there, and I'm currently writing a book about books. Here for: writers, books, historians, bicycles, notebooks, human intelligence.
SHARP @sharpweb.org 📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars
🪢 Facilitating bookish community
sharpweb.org
Andrew Michael Gorin @andrewgorin.bsky.social writer, assistant professor of poetics, media, public sphere andrewmichaelgorin.info, organismforpoeticresearch.org
Cultural Critique @culturalcritique.bsky.social Cultural Critique is a journal for creative and provocative scholarship in the theoretical humanities and humanistic social sciences.
https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/cultural-critique
BulletTrainsUSA.com @handle.invalid We are passenger Rail enthusiasts! We want all major US cities connected with High-Speed Rail and all US cities with over 100,000 people to have more local commuter Rail! BulletTrainsUSA.com!
HighspeedOttawa @highspeedottawa.bsky.social Change Agent. Trains. Community building. Wrexham FC. Did I mention Highspeed Trains. OO for those in the know. Indochine.
youtube.com/@europeantraveler-c3d
Simply Railway @simplyrailways.bsky.social I create train trip reports on YouTube every week! Here to show the great side of train travel and advocate as much as possible for more trains… for the greater good 🚆🌍🌱
https://linktr.ee/simply_railway
RAIL Magazine @railmag.bsky.social The most extensive coverage of North American passenger rail 
PaulLev @paullev.bsky.social author 20bks: media/politics, scifi novels; prof Fordham U; podcaster;singer-songwriter; I had sign that said a neat desk is sign of a sick mind, but I lost it
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com