Claire Wade @clairerwade.bsky.social Author of THE CHOICE. Winner of the Good Housekeeping First Novel Competition.
Founder of Authors with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses (ADCI). Winner of the RNA Inclusion Award.
♿️💜 She/her
https://linktr.ee/clairerwade
Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social Author, illustrator, comics creator
THE FACTS OF LIFE (Myriad) Kidlit Books x3
Words and pictures
https://linktr.ee/paulajknight
https://www.redbubble.com/people/PaulaJKnight
https://ko-fi.com/bedscapepaula
Bedridden #MEcfs ♿ TAC/ Migraine
Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Psychologist
MOVING MOUNTAINS
PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni.
Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com
Rep'd by @portyliterary.bsky.social
Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller.
FRSL
hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs
she/her
rep @PortyLiterary
Books incl:
Recovering Dorothy
Some Of Us Just Fall
The Company of Owls
Emergency Dream
Swimming The Seasons
https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
Nydia Hetherington @nydiawriter.bsky.social Novelist. Sycorax out 27/02/25 pre-order now published by Quercus | A Girl Made of Air published by Quercus | Bowie fan | Chronic illness: RA | Cat friend. 
Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Guardian Country Diarist. Author of LAND BENEATH THE WAVES (one of BBC Wildlife Best Books of 2025): https://shorturl.at/PFJPF
MA, PGCE, FBNA, Patron #JohnClare Countryside, Trustee of British Naturalists' Assoc. Rep: Joanna Swainson
Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social PhD. Novelist (Hild, Spear, Menewood). All things Early Medieval. Here: Cats, crips, queers. Books, beauty, beers. MS ♿️🧪📚
MUTING THOSE WHO DON’T ALT-TEXT
nicolagriffith.com
Banner ID: B&W image—pint of Guinness flanked by 2 books flanked by 2 tabby cat
Anna Wood @annakwood.bsky.social Physicist, education researcher, gardener, bird watcher/photographer, chronic illness/ME
Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Clarke Award, BSFA, Kavya & Saltire Awards finalist | THE SALT ORACLE out now https://geni.us/saltorac | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her 🏴
http://linktr.ee/raine_clouds
Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social That freelance Audible-bestselling, British Fantasy Awards-losing SFF author with Very Tall Hair. Guitarist, singer, occasional DJ. (d)eaf, queer. He/him.
All queries to @losbennett.bsky.social at Liverpool Literary Agency
www.mikebrooks.co.uk
Kate Kenzie @kakenzie101.bsky.social Author of A Blend of Magic, blogger, dreamer and book addict. Usually found wearing snuggly socks drinking tea.
Creator of the Enchanted Emporium's witches 🎃📚🧙🫖👻
https://linktr.ee/katekenzie
Miriam Landor @orkml.bsky.social Writer, psychologist, likes to loaf around in Orkney seas
J L Hall (she/her/they) @jlhallwriter.bsky.social Writer, fashion academic. Features, fiction, non-fiction, poetry. Words at: BBC, The Author, The Bookseller, The Mechanics Institute Review, Prototype, 24 Stories, etc.
Anna Biggs @writebiggs.bsky.social Reader, writer, sleeper agent
Loves history, folklore & growing things
ME + expansion packs
ADCI network ♿️ | she/her
LL Lucy Cavendish Prize ‘24,
won: Greene Door ‘25, Curtis Brown Breakthrough ’24, Jericho Writers Mentorship ‘24, Novelry Octopus ‘23
Keith Kahn-Harris @keithkahnharris.bsky.social Author. Sociologist. Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Jewish Policy Research and Senior Lecturer at Leo Baeck College but here in a personal capacity. Interested in metal, Jews and much else. https://linktr.ee/keithkahnharris
Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com Author (THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy; THE WOLF AND HIS KING) and medievalist specialising in the Ulster Cycle. #1 fan of Láeg mac Ríangabra.
🏳️🌈 they/them | siad/iad
📍Cambridge, UK
♿
https://finnlongman.com
Sally Doherty @sallywrites.bsky.social MG author: Toby and the Silver Blood Witches, Max and Monty with Collins Primary
Winner of the Book Bloggers' Novel of the Year Award 2022
Owned by three-legged rescue dog
ME/CFS
https://linktr.ee/SallyDoherty
Dr Helen Boden @helenboden.bsky.social Poet & Independent Literature Professional. A Landscape To Figure In (Red Squirrel Press). Best Scottish Poems 2022. ND. She / they. helenbodenliteraryarts.com
Chris Bridges @chrisbridgeswriter.bsky.social Chronicaly ill crime writer.
Debut novel: Sick to Death shortlisted for the McDermid Debut Award.
Agent: Hannah Schofield at LBA
1950s, Elizabeth Taylor and poodle obsessive, vegan.
Former nurse, living with MS
Links: https://tr.ee/1vaOIH2gP2
Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social Historical novelist, book lover & freelance writer/editor with ME/CFS. Currently writing about a 1930s spirit medium.
📚 CBC breakthrough mentee 2024
📚 MMA mentee 2022
https://linktr.ee/katieandersonmorrison
Germaine Hypher - Crafting A Path Through Illness @germainehypher.bsky.social 🧵🧶✍🏻🎨📷🌱🐈⬛📚
Author of Crafting A Path Through Illness - exploring creativity while chronically ill. Available worldwide (the book, not me 😆).
Disabled by M.E & fibromyalgia since childhood. Enabled by humour & creativity.
www.germainehypher.weebly.com
Katy Summers @katysummersauthor.bsky.social She/they | Over caffeinated cat butler and autistic author my RomCom debut novel “Love, Rebooted” & the follow up “The Code of Love” out now on Audible. | Repped by Emily Glenister at DHH Literary | RNA NWS 2024 I 2025 Joan Hessayon Award Winner
Evelyn Scott @evelynscott.bsky.social Author and Disability & Women’s Health Advocate (Rep’d by Orli at DHA @davidhighambooks)
A Bloody Scandal - ‘an explosive investigation into gynaecological neglect’ - to be published by 4th Estate/HarperCollins in August 2026
♿️ 🏳️🌈
Kerry Buchanan @dabblingincrime.bsky.social Writer, sailor, general weirdo. 
Victoria Bennett @beewyld.bsky.social Disabled writer, carer & apothecary gardener. 🧙🏼♀️Founder/Host Wild Women Writers’ Salons 🏆Shortlist World of Books Sustainable Story Awards 2025📚PreOrder THE APOTHECARY BY THE SEA (2026) Debut memoir ALL MY WILD MOTHERS (2023- Nautilus Award Winner) 🦭Orkney- E Erin Coppin @erincoppin.bsky.social Artist, sometime writer.
www.erincoppin.co.uk
Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com Freelance journalist and editor in London, hello! Only Connect Jilly and servant to v entitled animals. My books are on ADHD and infertility, but I’m 99% fuelled by The Archers and horse riding. www.katbrownwrites.com
Julia Lund @julialund.bsky.social Author MG & Women's Fiction. Northern through and through.
rep'd Hannah Sheppard http://hs-la.com #amwriting
#ADCI #pwME #ambulatory #wheelchairuser
Poppy Alexander @poppyalexanderbook.bsky.social I am a British novelist, writing "heartwarming, uplifting" women's fiction/romance, mainly for Avon, Harper Collins, US
I live with husband, grown-up children, dogs and chronic illness in a cottage with roses around the door.
https://poppy-alexander.
nasrin parvaz @nasrin-2.bsky.social Iranian activist, writer, artist
@freefromTorture
TEDx talk, Guardian ...
"One Woman’s Struggle in Iran: A Prison Memoir"
Novel, "The Secret Letters From X to A"
http://nasrinparvaz.org
Sarah Jane Butler @sarahjanebutler.bsky.social Reclaiming rivers for all of us. Next book, River Time, due soon. River campaigner, story gatherer, wanderer and swimmer My novel, Starling, published by @Fairlightbooks she/her; pwME https://linktr.ee/sarahjanebutler
Ruby Speechley Author @rubyspeechley.bsky.social Author of ten psychological thrillers. VANISHED is out now! Linktr.ee/rubyspeechley Newsletter: https://bit.ly/RubySpeechleyNews Follow me on Amazon: amzn.to/4fOjgOx 📚Boldwood Books📚
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
Caroline Gill @carolinegillpoetry.bsky.social 'Driftwood by Starlight' (The Seventh Quarry Press, 2021) is my first full poetry collection. Website: https://www.carolinegillpoetry.com/
Cathy Cole (Dumigan) @cathycole.bsky.social #AS/#BreastCancer survivor/Prize-winning #shortstory writer, #novelist, and - surprising even herself - a Pushcart Nominated #poet. Represented by @katiefulf.bsky.social Bell Lomax Moreton
Website: https://cathycoleauthor.com/
Geoff King @geoffo.bsky.social Omniscribe, wood carver, tree whisperer, quiet revolutionary. Scottish Highlands.
Seeking lit agent for crossover fantasy and literary novella
www.geoffkingwriter.co.uk
https://www.patreon.com/GeoffKingWriter
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/geoffkingwriter
Raine Geoghegan @rainegeoghegan.bsky.social International Poet, Playwright, Curator & Editor of KIN, an anthology celebrating Romany, Traveller & Nomadic Communities with Salmon Poetry Press, Founder of Writing as Sanctuary’. #Breast Cancer Survivor/ Chronic Illness/ Disability
Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social Writer, curator, mentor, coach, artist. Q IS FOR GARDEN out July 2026. Imprint co-director of MAI Press, Punctum. Repped @portyliterary. Queer gardener. I do queer feminist film/art things and fight for disability justice.
Juliet@Blood Lines @blood-lines.bsky.social Author, blogger, writer, poet 🏴. Living with Leukaemia (AML). See my outdoor learn/play work @creativestar.bsky.social Latest book, Blood Lines: Living and dying with cancer - a lyrical journey now pub. by @crownhousepub.bsky.social
Ayesha Chouglay @ayeshachouglay.bsky.social • writer, facilitator, curator, artist, deaf •
🌷 former writer for Nature Calling 🌷
current Creative Fellow for Plantlife 🌱 | FRSA | Probably writing poems!
Dan McIntyre, Author @danmcintyreauthor.bsky.social Wheelchair-wielding writer with wonderful words.
www.journeysinwordsandonwheels.blog
Helen Jones - THE DOMINO MAN coming 14 Jan '27 @helenjauthor.bsky.social Welsh crime fiction author
Rep'd by Judith Murray @greeneandheaton
Headshot (c) Moments by Katie Mitchell Photography
https://linktr.ee/helenjauthor
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Lori @loriinreallife.bsky.social Wife, Mom, and retired therapist/ OD consultant. Passionate about human rights and democracy. Living with Sjögren’s disease and Dysautonomia. No DMs
#autoimmune #disability #kindness #Guardians #Buckeyes #Browns #ohio
Outsider Art @outsiderart.bsky.social Reduce Reuse Recycle ♻️ UPCYCLING! Temple. Shrine. Assemblage. Raw Creation! Outsider art. Art Brut. Folk Art. Visionary Art
Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. 💙
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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social Poet and translator in a very bad time for Lyrik
Lover of lurchers and other thieving dogs
The Strongbox, Carcanet, 2024
Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks
https://inkfishmag.com
Fox and Star Books @foxandstarbooks.bsky.social We publish poetry and fiction chapbooks by UK debut authors with an emphasis on global majority writers. Founder/editor: @carrieetter.bsky.social; co-editor: Kaycee Hill Website: https://foxandstarbooks.org
David Morley @profdavidmorley.bsky.social Professor at Warwick Uni, Poet at Carcanet, Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift, PBS Choice for FURY, Forward Prize finalist, Writer of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Fellow Royal Society of Literature,Thought Fox.
Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Poems in Iowa Review, Poetry London, TLS, The New Republic... | Academic | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
Kaja Brown (she/they) @kajaamybrown.bsky.social Freelance Writer ● Editor ● Activist
Reviews Editor for Poetry Wales. Bylines in Atmos, Refinery29, Diva Magazine, Shado Mag, Queer AF, The Welsh Agenda + more. Kajabrown.com
Based in Wales 🏴
Views are my own ✨️
Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social Welsh writer, poet, editor, ecological thinker & founder of Modron Magazine: @modronmagazine.bsky.social
https://www.serenbooks.com/book/100-poems-to-save-the-earth/
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/zo%C3%AB-brigley-kristian-evans-otherwor
Kexin Huang @khuangwrites.bsky.social prize-winning poet in 2 languages (writing in 3) | in
@poetrysociety.bsky.social @mptmagazine.bsky.social @magmapoetry.bsky.social @poetrywales.bsky.social
| Author: Unlock (2023) @Veer_Books | @uclalumni.bsky.social
Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social Poet on unnecessary themes.
Significant Wow out now with Seren Books.
Poetry Wales @poetrywales.bsky.social The Welsh home of international poetry
Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse
Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social Poet.
Portrait in Mustard - Seren Books.
PhD candidate: Barbara Hepworth,
Creative Writing & Art History - MMU.
Agent: Laetitia Rutherford at WatsonLittle.
Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social Poet & performer. Battery Rocks (Seren 2024). 'dance as if' out with Verve Sept 25. Winner of Keats-Shelley Prize, Arthur Welton Award & Saboteur Award. Swimmer & walker. Loves dance & art. Vegan. PhD - Goldsmiths. Also on insta.
www.katrinanaomi.co.uk
Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher.
www.bloodaxebooks.com
Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social Wales’ leading independent English-language publisher 📚 Winner Small Press of the Year Wales 2025 🏴
Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social Biannual online eco-poetry magazine. Edited by Kristian Evans and Zoe Brigley, with Taz Rahman, Sian Melangell Dafydd, and Glyn Edwards. http://ModronMagazine.com
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