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@theactualemma.bsky.social
Writer. Winner 2019 Benedict Kiely competition | longlisted 2021 Galley Beggars Press | shortlisted 2023 Maírtín Crawford Award | work featured in The Irish Times, The Stinging Fly, and more | Rep'd by Sophie Scard at United Agents: https://t.ly/ef_3A
@richardlittler.bsky.social
Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system. https://www.richardlittler.com
@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.
@alisonstockham.bsky.social
Writer. Coffee drinker. Cat person. Author of The Cuckoo Sister, The Silent Friend, The New Girl and The Man She Married @BoldwoodBooks. Rep by Marianne Gunn O' Connor
@shannonsavvas.bsky.social
Winner: WTR Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for fiction 2023; Fish SS Prize 21/22, Cuirt NWP 2019, Flash500 (2019), Reflex FF (2018). Pushcart nominated 2020. Kiwi in exile. Heart all over the place.
@theguyliner.bsky.social
Author, journalist, and Guardian Blind Date superfan. A body like Arnold with a Denzel face. (he/him) theguyliner.com theguyliner.substack.com
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018 Website: brokensleepbooks.com
@mariankeyes.bsky.social
Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
@rileyrockford.bsky.social
• #CommonPeople anthology • Essays: n+1, Boulevard • Short fic: Aesthetica • Top Ten: AWP Novel Prize • Runner Up: Boulevard Nonfic Prize for Emerging Writers • Shortlists: Aesthetica CW Prize 2025, SFWP 2023 Lit Awards • #LondonWritersAwards • She/her
@amygaffney.bsky.social
It’s me! 🧡🧡🧡 Feminist. Poet. Writer~SL Irish Book Awards Short Story 2019~SL Dalkey Creates 2020~SL Penguin Christmas Love Story 2021~Dooligan~Feminist ~Avon Books 2023 & 2024
@alexpheby.bsky.social
Writer: GRACE/PLAYTHINGS/LUCIA/MORDEW/MALARKOI/WATERBLACK Galley Beggar Press and Tor Forthcoming: THE PICNIC/NOONE/LUMA Agent: David Godwin david@davidgodwinassociates.co.uk
@sarahclemwrites.bsky.social
Writer. Memoir, essays, fiction London Writers & Creative Future Awards. Listed Bridport & Wasafari New Writing. Goldsmiths CW MA student.
@kovesi.bsky.social
Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures. Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
@estellarua.bsky.social
Entirely fictional Shortlisted for Brighton Book Festival Emerging Authors Award 2023 IG: @estella_rua_writer
@pperry.bsky.social
Author, Agony Aunt, Artist, Psychotherapist philippaperry.substack.com
@openculture.bsky.social
A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts. Find us at: https://www.openculture.com/
@londonlitlab.bsky.social
Find your story at the city's friendliest creative writing workshops, where writers teach writers. @lilydunn.bsky.social and Zoe Gilbert - and also find us here: https://londonlitlab.substack.com/ and here londonlitlab.co.uk
@philippaeast.bsky.social
Novelist. #LittleWhiteLies💛 #SafeAndSound❤️ #IllNeverTell💗 #AGuiltySecret🧡 pubbed by HQ/HarperCollins. Lives in Lincolnshire, has a cat. Clinical Psychologist by day.
@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.
@rebeccasmithauthor.bsky.social
Writer, journalist. Rural: The Lives of the Working-Class Countryside out now. Published by William Collins Beckcsmith.com
@gladlib.bsky.social
A unique residential library; a place to read, write and rest. Book a stay through our website and discover our beautiful Reading Rooms and boutique bedrooms! www.gladstoneslibrary.org
@niamhmaccabe.bsky.social
Writer, artist, fair to middling spinster. Magpie apologist. Good at everything. Spouting nonsense from my roost in northwestern Ireland. http://niamhmaccabe.com/
@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
THE BENEFACTORS (novel) coming JUNE 25, Sceptre. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
@hpersaud.bsky.social
Writer, wild swimmer, cyclist. ❤️ all things outdoors. Trying to live the one life fully whilst making a difference.
@kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social
Writer and academic. New book Pathfinding March 2025. Author of Wanderers. Editor of Way Makers + Nan Shepherd’s letters. Walker, reader. Writing courses at kerriandrews.co.uk Order Pathfinding here https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/9781783968428-s
@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com
@johnmitchinson.bsky.social
Writer, publisher, co-host of Backlisted, publisher of Boundless.
@margaretatwood.bsky.social
Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
@shelleyharris.bsky.social
Writer (JUBILEE and VIGILANTE, W&N), Creative Writing lecturer at the University of Reading. Dogs, food and various forms of anguish.
@writershq.bsky.social
Stop fucking about and start writing. Online courses | workshops | writing retreats | community | tea | biscuits | swearing | gold stars ⭐️
@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
@smartrachael.bsky.social
Tarot teller Giver of skeletal leaves Likes blood oranges, neologisms, men wearing waders.
@gayleanderson.bsky.social
Writer, broadcaster and podcast producer. Lover of words, wit, women and rum. Always first to the bar...
@crappyliving.bsky.social
In the country but not Country Living Comedy, history, folklore, edgeland weirdness 👍🏻 Runs Dialect for rural writers with partner in crime @jlmmorton https://www.dialect.org.uk/ Admin for Stroud Association of Mythical Entities ✨ Universal Basic Income 💥
@stellduffy.bsky.social
Pākehā Londoner; Dr (not the medical kind), existential psychotherapist, supervisor, doctoral research in postmenopause; writer of 17 novels/70+ stories/15 plays, yoga for writing workshops; 2 x breast cancer; knee, hip, & some brain mended with metal
@naomifrisby.bsky.social
Writer, event chair, co-host of Late To It. linktr.ee/NaomiFrisby
@evakinder.bsky.social
Writer of LIVES LIKE MINE & IN BLOOM East London Essex Girl Asset to the Collective Rep'd Abi Fellows DHH Literary Agency Simon & Schuster UK
@joyia.bsky.social
Creative things I do love | film/tv & theatre | writing, art & yoga | 🏳️🌈 | #LondonWritersAwards 2021 for Narrative Non-Fiction | insta: joy_._80
@tobylitt.bsky.social
Writer. Activist. Diarist. Head of Creative Writing at Southampton University. https://tobylitt.wordpress.com/shop/
@bernp.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, Reviewer, published in over one hundred journals magazines, including Wild Court, The York Literary Review, Aesthetica Magazine . Husband, father, hankering after peace in a protected planet www.abookatberntime.uk
@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.
@davidhheadley.bsky.social
M.D. DHH Literary Agency, Goldsboro Books & Capital Crime. Literary agent, award-winning bookseller & festival founder.
@abirfellows.bsky.social
Literary Agent DHH Literary Agency 📚 Shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year 2023 📚 Trustee at New Writing South 📚 (she/her) No query DMs pls.