Aki Schilz
Director at @thelitconsultancy, founder #BookJobTransparency & @foundationswift. All things creativity, inclusive culture, literature, leadership and wellbeing.
@hamzajahanzeb.bsky.social
🪅: Personal account 📍: Kew, England 🇬🇧🇵🇰☪️🏳️🌈 🎭 : Writer #WestEnd #Broadway 📖 : Authenticity (née Sensitivity) Reader 🏆 : UK CWA Judge 🔗 : hamzajahanzeb.co.uk ✍️ : hamzajahanzeb.substack.com
@mklitfest.bsky.social
A fabulous festival of books, writers, words and ideas! In-person, online and in the community year round, and also on X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, YouTube and Spotify.
@finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social
Autistic Working class 🏳️🌈 Writer, Artist, Editor, SEN TA & Tombstone Tourist 🪦 #AutumnMoonbeam #MegaMerle - out now! #ukteenchat #SCBWI #WriteMentor #Room204 One half of Word Witches editorial ✍️
@samatlounge.bsky.social
Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy.
@gitaralleigh.bsky.social
Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doctor. Kids: The Destiny of Minou Moonshine 🐘 The Voyage of Sam Singh 🦜 @zephyrbooks.bsky.social Poetry: Siren 🧜🏽♀️ @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social A Terrible Thing 🧝🏽♀️ (Bad Betty Press) https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
@ameranwar.com
Author of crime thrillers. Avid reader. Huge movie and TV fan. Buy books faster than I can read them. My house is one big TBR pile. London, UK.
@jenbowden12.bsky.social
Journalist | Writer repped by @liverpoollit @brendo_ed | Editor | Northern Voices podcast | Dr of Northern stories | #TeamHorn | Pityakker linktr.ee/jenbowden12
@kitdewaal.com
Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Henry Allen. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
@jennyknight.bsky.social
Author | Writer | Editor *WILD MOON RISING* - 06/25 @akan_books @HarperCollins Kit de Waal's #CommonPeople Ed & Dev Ed @JerichoWriters Assoc Artist @WritersCentre Twitter/X @knightjennyk Ig @jennyaknight
@sharonduggal.bsky.social
Writer: sharonduggal.com - 'All the hard-eyed clarity of William Trevor & as much literary heart as Rohinton Mistry' Rep'd by Broo Doherty - dhhliteraryagency.com
@hannahlitagent.bsky.social
Founder and Literary Agent at www.HS-LA.com @HSLANews.bsky.social #WeNeedDiverseBooks. Story lover. Vintage typewriter obsessed. Feminist. She/Her/Ms https://linktr.ee/hannah_litagent
@moyetteg.bsky.social
Writer. Winner HachetteUK Debut Author Bursary 2023. Rep'd by Hannah Schofield at LBA Books. Comms @BlackGirlWriters. Steering Committee @saloneurope, and helping to organise @genevawriters Conference 2025. Londoner in🇨🇭📚📚
@lui-land.bsky.social
Kids MG author. Debut MG: Land of the Last Wildcat out May 1, 2025. MG with Storymix (as Scarlett Li): The Lucky House Detective Agency out June 5, 2025. Pre- orders & other bits here: linktr.ee/lui_sit
@whyiwrite.bsky.social
Author of Remembered and Curdle Creek, former editor at John Murray, Academic at Cambridge Uni, event host and podcaster. I also write kidlit, short scripts, nonfiction essays, poems
@megaphonewriters.bsky.social
We're here to provide affordable, accessible, transformative development opportunities to people of colour who want to write for children or teenagers. www.megaphonewrite.com for more about our mentoring. Arts Council National Lottery funded.
@hughespeg.bsky.social
Chief Executive at @writerscentre.bsky.social. Feat. books, whimsy, radio, outdoors, running, walking, looking. NIrish via Scotland in Norwich
@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.
@ihussainwriter.bsky.social
Debut adult novel “Northern Boy” came out June 2024 (ABBA, Bollywood, cobbles) - rep Robert Caskie | working on debut children’s MG novel - rep Lucy Irvine @pfd | child of the 70s/80s
@louiestowell.bsky.social
Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
@thegoodagencyuk.bsky.social
TGLA is a social enterprise literary agency focused on representing writers of colour, disability, working class, LGBTQ+. www.thegoodliteraryagency.org
@rashmiwriting.bsky.social
Neurodivergent (AuDHD). Learner. Dreamer. Award-winning children's author. Musings on books, writing, creativity and ND life. Agent: Lydia Silver
@darrenchetty.bsky.social
Welsh Indian South African Dutch Londoner. PhD in Philosophy of Education. Antiracist Dialogic Pedagogy. Children's Books. Teaching & Writing. Rep: Rachel Mann, CAA
@nadinematheson.com
Bestselling Author👩🏾💻 | Host of ‘The Conversation’ Podcast 🎙️| All Views My Own 💬 www.nadinematheson.com Podcast: apple.co/3RSKsxK Spotify spoti.fi/3DVDB0G https://linktr.ee/Nadine_Matheson 📚 THE KILL LIST( An Inspector Henley Thriller - Book 3) Out
@seemamcardle.bsky.social
#WorkingClass #PunGeordie represented by Kerry-Ann Bentley Historian in The John Blanke Project: https://www.johnblanke.com/seema-mcardle.html #ShowRacismTheRedCard Ambassador/Educator Ex-Primary Teacher (17yrs)
@dnlgorman.bsky.social
art x human rights. Director of English PEN (@englishpen.bsky.social). Posts are my personal opinions
@liambatespoet.bsky.social
NWCDTP-funded PhD student @MMU/ Northern Writers’ Award for Poetry winner / Human Townsperson (Broken Sleep Books) out now www.liambatespoet.com
@annamazz.bsky.social
Writer. Very small. Books normal size. THE CLOCKWORK GIRL, BOOK OF SECRETS etc. Writes thrillers as Anna Sharpe. Also a criminal justice lawyer and a dark history geek.
@lissiejaquette.bsky.social
Executive Director at Words Without Borders | Arabic translator, most recently of Adania Shibli's MINOR DETAIL, and of works by Rania Mamoun, Basma Abdel Aziz, Dima Wannous & more
@jondepeyer.bsky.social
Editorial Director, Non-fiction @HarperNorthUK 📌 The false azure in the windowpane Not changing the world, one platform at a time. Purely personal, except when it isn’t.
@harrogatefestivals.bsky.social
We bring the very best in music, literature, crime writing, salon, spectacle and education to Harrogate
@turnarounduk.bsky.social
Book distributors for US & UK indie publishers including fiction, art, graphic novels, and everything in-between! Impudently independent since 1984 & employee-owned since 2022. 📚 https://linktr.ee/turnaround_books?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAab4W9C8mGvdr0Z
@bookbrunch.bsky.social
Your daily serving of news and views, promising unrivalled publishing perspective and knowledge. BookBrunch is the essential tool for the book industry. https://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/
@deadinkbooks.bsky.social
Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool https://linktr.ee/deadinkbooks
@jule9.bsky.social
Publisher Oneworld w/ brilliant prize-winning fiction, inc Marlon James, Paul Beatty, Tayari Jones, Paul Lynch, Tess Gunty, Chelsea Bieker, Caoilinn Hughes etc. OBE.
@markantonyowen.com
𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁: @subruria.com. 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿: @iambapoet.com / @afterpoetry.com. 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿: Occasional online open mics.
@speaking-volumes.bsky.social
A live literature organisation getting underrepresented voices heard, reaching diverse audiences and finding exciting ways to present writers. https://linktr.ee/speakingvolumes?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=b591d9c3-0f16-46cd-a964-600542abf00d
@flostadt.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Bristol Uni, researching British South Asian history, film, literature and Indian popular cinema; world lit and postcolonial studies | trustee Wasafiri magazine | love all things theatre 🎭 |black cat magnet 🐈⬛
@bookishwellbeing.bsky.social
📙Lit.fiction, poetry & non-fic 📗Mental health & wellbeing 📕Dog mum, nature lover, gin drinker 📘Book reader, reviewer, stagrammer & tuber
@fiammettarocco.bsky.social
Runs the International Booker Prize. Demon reader of books from other lands. What unites us is stronger than what divides us
@dymphnaflynn.bsky.social
Development producer Pier Productions. Ex BBC Radio 4 producer. Former Costa Prize judge. Love to read in Brighton, London and the South of France
@chrispower.bsky.social
I read books, write books (Mothers, A Lonely Man) and write about books (LRB, Guardian, NY Times etc). Booker judge 2025
@poetclare.bsky.social
Novelist. Poet. Reader. 🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, etc. ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS coming 2025. Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
@gemseltz.bsky.social
Writes fiction (latest book: Ways of Living from Influx Press) | makes creative projects | runs Write & Shine morning writing events | she/her Gemmaseltzer.com Artwork by Rose Wong for Write & Shine
@writerscentre.bsky.social
The National Centre for Writing is a place of discovery, exchange, ideas and learning for writers, translators, readers and everyone who loves words.