Gillian Mellor
Writer and Consumer of Poetry. Donald Bagger. Transient Earth Inhabitant. Hello!
@flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
Manc independent publisher with a conscience. M.D. Isabelle Kenyon 2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year! Sustainable, political and accessible www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk
@medhawrites.bsky.social
Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust) / Ed-at-large, Pen and Anvil Press, MA / ‘Afterbody’ out soon through Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh / Posting fragments from antiquity to today.
@marymackeyauthor.bsky.social
Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter. https://marymackey.com/
@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.
@jolenemcilwain.bsky.social
Writer ✏️| SIDLE CREEK (Melville House) NPR & Library Journal Best Books of 2023📕 | Outside Kid 🌿| Motocross Fan 🏁 | HipCamp | Gardener 🪴| Scuba Mom 🤿 | www.jolenemcilwain.com
@natashacarthew.bsky.social
Country Writer/Class Disruptor | Publisher @HodderBooks | All enquiries Juliet Pickering @BlakeFriedmann 🔗 https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/natasha-carthew-3/undercurrent/9781399706513/
@bronterre1.bsky.social
# Chartism #C19th Radicalism #Cooperation #TradesUnions, #WorkingClassLiterature with forays into #Cricket #Punk & #Reggae & a reviving interest in Torquay United FC #COYY "In things essential, unity; in things doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity."
@emeccwarwick.bsky.social
The Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre In the Warwick History Department, for the encouragement, study, and exchange of ideas and research. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc
@profjohngardner.bsky.social
Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Doctoral School at ARU. Working on www.engineeringromanticism.com a Leverhulme Trust Research Project.
@englishassociation.bsky.social
Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
@jennyharper.bsky.social
SWW DTP (AHRC) funded English Literature PhD student researching Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, the working classes, Walt Whitman, British ethical socialists, non-anthropocentric relationships with nature, ecoscocialism, modernism.
@perurealfonso.bsky.social
Al lasso, fuerça: https://ephe.academia.edu/Jes%C3%BAsdePradoPlumed In the Other Place: @perurealfonso
@workingclasshistory.com
History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
@workingclassicists.bsky.social
www.workingclassicists.com 🏺A hub of resources, support & solidarity ⚡️Representing the working class in classics 🏛️ Run by @miri.bsky.social & @misterconnor1.bsky.social ✍️ Platforming working class academics ❤️ Woke AF email us: info@workingclassicists.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
@katherinelucyg.bsky.social
Teaches publishing at York St John University. Researches class and place in contemporary British literature. Ex-editor and festival organiser.
@northernmailman.bsky.social
“He speaks in your voice, Salfordian, and there’s a pie in his hand bought half-price from the Co-op.” Novels To Rise in the Dark and Hunter available now on Amazon or DM for details.
@drewgum.bsky.social
Writer of The Lodger, Me and Mickie James, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. Lambda Award Finalist. Leicestershire Short Story Prize winner. Saltburn - Feb 2025. Indie Press supporter. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 MD ANT 📍Enderby,UK https://linktr.ee/drewgum
@cdelull.bsky.social
🌈🔗 Pre order Cacoethes - a bisexual sugar baby novel: https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/cacoethes-paperback 📽️I'm like if an old man was a girl. She/her. 🎭Novelist & screenwriter, good at funny with a side of sad. 📍Manchester(ish)
@pbennett.bsky.social
Writer. Novel — Liberties, available now: https://www.rymour.co.uk/liberties.html & the usual places. Extracts in New Writing Scotland 40 and other publications. linktr.ee/peter_bennett
@joeharkness.bsky.social
Father | SEND teacher | Mediocre Author | Naturalist | Avid Reader of Ghost Stories | Massive Football Fan | Unlikely Punk
@nickmacwrites.bsky.social
Reader, writer, runner. Tea, trees, and cats. Co-editor Thin Skin magazine. My debut novel Slings and Arrows was published on the 28th March 2024. 📚💙
@geoffcox.bsky.social
Working class author (memoir, NNF and folk-horror), better kept outdoors (whatever the weather) and well watered. Ageing runner with a passion for words, wild places and archeology. "Traceless" 2020 Currently querying memoir "A Skin Too Thin"
@wildtwin.bsky.social
Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer. Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books) Wild Twin was published by Little Toller on 18th Sept
@drrachelbroady.bsky.social
Working class academic. Research focus: epistemic injustice, anti-poverty activism & representations of poverty in journalism. NUJ activist. Admired Danny Dyer long before it became fashionable. Views are my cat's.
@richiejones.bsky.social
Writer, reader. Scouse-Irish. Recent fiction and non-fiction in The London Magazine, HOWL New Irish Writing. Runner-up in the Desperate Literature Prize 2024 and shortlisted for The London Magazine Short Story Prize and the Bridport Prize.
@deadchronicler.bsky.social
Writer. Sid Chaplin Award winner at the Northern Writers' Awards 2024. County Durham. Rep: Peters Fraser + Dunlop.
@michaeljarvie.bsky.social
Samizdat novelist , short story writer, screenwriter, poet, editor.Translator of Georg Trakl and Gerhart Hauptmann. Working Class. Marxist. Atheist. Coming soon Transformer: Writing the Black Country by Zero Books. Author Website: can’t afford one.
@iviesofinkribbons.bsky.social
Writer. Fiction in Literally Stories, Five on the Fifth, In Another Time, etc. Typewriters, writing communities, cats, photography, and hiking Member of AWP, NHWP, Pen Parentis https://forgottennewengland.com/portfolio/published-short-fiction/
@markburrow.bsky.social
Writer of Coo, a novella, published by Alien Buddha. Short stories in Frazzled Lit. Punk Noir. Underbelly. Urban Pigs. Roi Fainéant. Flight of the Dragonfly. AEOS Magazine. The Selkie. Pushcart & BotN noms. Brighton, UK https://linktr.ee/markburrow
@writerkellyr.bsky.social
Writer of fiction, raiser of funds. Lover of dogs, books, gigs and travel. Live in Newcastle. Latest writing: Winner - Flash500 2024 Shortlist - Flash500 Novel Opening 2024 3rd place - Fiction Factory SS 2024 Finalist - Scottish Arts Club FF 2023.
@rickardsisters.bsky.social
Sisters who make graphic novels together including Eisner nominated The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and No Surrender with SelfMadeHero 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally ✊ This Slavery to be published September 2025
@nonwayne.bsky.social
Literary critic in a library. Scholarly publishing, egoism, manifestos, and modernism. My book, The Ego Made Manifest, is available from Bloomsbury. Views my own and mostly on the other one. https://x.com/NonwayneWayne?t=8_wAuQkxi3mzXY2lgoWUbQ&s=09
@claregs.bsky.social
Impact at the RCA ∣ Policy consultant ∣ Researches Victorian literature, social history, freethought periodicals ∣ Book: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet ∣ she/her https://clarestainthorp.wordpress.com/
@mattwaldram.bsky.social
Writer, idiot, has bad knees. Believes in carbs, monsters, and scrumping. He/him.
@dfr10.bsky.social
Young, gifted and black...I used to be one of these things. Architect and Writer...I am currently both of these things. Website: davidfross.co.uk
@jcarreirawriter.bsky.social
Author, playwright, musician, arts feature writer, world citizen, asker of questions, human being! Co-founder of QuirkHouse Theatre and Foreword Festival of fringe literature, UK. 📚 www.jackiecarreira.co.uk www.forewordfestival.uk
@lessikwriter.bsky.social
Berlin-based Novelist, Zen practitioner, figure skater, 🌈 Member of Berlin Queer Writers Circle Alanlessik.com
@sharnajackson.com
Writer of books and games mostly about art, mystery and murder for you and the kids in your life. Lives on a ship in Rotterdam. Used to work in museums and galleries for ages. Miss it. Addicted to Reddit and Beat Saber. https://www.sharnajackson.com
@adamcsharp.bsky.social
1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/) 2. Obsessed with lists 3. COMMON PEOPLE 4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS 5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
@aetwigg.bsky.social
SPOILT CREATURES (2024) @tinderpress • Observer 10 Best New Novelists • 🏳️🌈 • Rep'd by 📚 @ce_seymour 🎥 @emilyhaywardw
@rebeccasmithauthor.bsky.social
Writer, journalist. Rural: The Lives of the Working-Class Countryside out now. Published by William Collins Beckcsmith.com
@dbfreelance.co.uk
Senior editor (print) Cycling Weekly Freelance work dbfreelance.co.uk Fitness, sight loss, personal essays, podcasts 📍Lewes, UK | 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/deebeefree
@eveainsworth.bsky.social
Award winning working class author. Writes children’s books and adult romance/suspense. Safeguarding Lead. Part time Lady Stardust. Somebody I Used To Love - 2024 Pieces of Us - 2025 Loves football, fudge and fascinating fascinations.
@saderotica.bsky.social
literary catgirl | author of Deliver Me, Gag Reflex, Nudes, & Animals Eat Each Other | phd candidate at university of glasgow | editor @thecreativeindependent.com 🌀 “i’m the bigger dog only for now.” —peter christopher 🐇linktr.ee/ellenash
@aowensarchive.bsky.social
Opening 2025, a new public resource dedicated to the Scottish writer Agnes Owens. This archive is housed within agrayarchive.bsky.social
@graemearmstrong.bsky.social
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐌. Times bestseller. ✦𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓✦ 𝟎𝟒/𝟐𝟔 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐰! Granta Best Young British Novelists. PhD at University of Strathclyde https://linktr.ee/graeme_armstrong_booksnthat
@lendavis.bsky.social
First gen professor of disability studies, poverty and working class studies, novel criticism and theory. Currently Emeritus Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
@pariahpress.bsky.social
A British contemporary art press. Publisher of critical dialogues, innovative lit & photography. Slow, often archival 🌎 Distribution: ‘artbooks’ — Antenne literature — Central Prestwich/Bow | Est.2014 #AnthonyBurgess #MelissaLeeHoughton #LindenArchives