Balancing the Books
✨Coming soon!✨ A podcast to help writers balance the books … along with everything else in life. Hosted by @caileansteed.bsky.social
@jsavrankelly.bsky.social
Debut novel ENDPAPERS (Algonquin 2023), writer, cat person, #AuthorsAgainstBookBans, #5amWritersClub, production editor at Cornell University Press, she/they | jennifersavrankelly.com
@daviddemchuk.com
Fine writing for foul minds. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. #NSFW. https://linktr.ee/ddemchuk
@bariscaylimessina.com
Assoc Professor / Editor-in-Chief, International Social Science Journal (Wiley)/Editor of Temple Studies in Criminalization, History & Society Book Series (Temple Univ Press) A gay man 🏳️🌈 Trans ally www.bariscaylimessina.com #Sociology #History #Criminology
@laylamccay.bsky.social
By day: NHS Confederation’s Director of Policy. By night: Author. Posts here on NHS / health policy plus a little book chat / random musings. For lots more book/author content, also join me on Instagram. Posting in personal capacity.
@ugovalpad.bsky.social
Él/he/him Mexico 🇲🇽 🏳️🏳️🌈 Esp🇪🇸Eng🇬🇧Deu 🇩🇪 🏙️CDMXCity-Tulum🌴 Comms consultant & new author/autor ✅Books, Films, Photography, Cities 🚫porn, hate, discusiones, politica Mi 📓 https://shorturl.at/P4wUz Instagram.com/ugovalpad
@cairdiul.bsky.social
Former terror of the high seas, now a cannibal king. 🇮🇪🇺🇲🏳️🌈 author (You Ruin It When You Talk) in London, very publishable pleasant lady Sarahsnewideas.com
@rpmirabella.bsky.social
Writer, reader, office potato. I'm queer. Author of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest. Lambda Award Finalist. NY Times Editors' Choice. Real human. No, really. richardmirabellawriter.com
@pantibliss.bsky.social
Performer, writer, speechifier, pub landlady, gender discombobulist National Fucking Treasure Ireland
@eliasjahshan.bsky.social
Editor, THIS ARAB IS QUEER (Saqi Books; 2022) | Your fave Palestinian Baba in London | 🇱🇧&🇵🇸; born/raised on Dharug, Gadigal & Gamaraigal lands (aka Sydney) | He/him | الياس جهشان https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/this-arab-is-queer/
@kwhitlock.bsky.social
Writer. Activist. Co-author "Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States"
@davidbtn2.bsky.social
Welsh, Brightonian, London librarian (and writer). The G & Q in LGBTQ+ (he/him).
@danielfountain.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer & Director of Postgrad Research in Art History at University of Exeter | Writer, Researcher, Artist and Curator | Queer art and visual culture | He/They🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ www.danielfountain.com https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/37109-daniel-fountain
@jalwrites.bsky.social
Author 🏳️🌈 2024 LGBTQ+ Free Reads winner OUT IN GREENWOOD - out now through SRL Publishing. Represented by Intersaga Literary Agency.
@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
@natashacarthew.bsky.social
AUTHOR/ACTIVIST | Publisher @HodderBooks | Agent @BlakeFriedmannLiteraryAgency 🔗 https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/natasha-carthew-3/undercurrent/9781399706513/
@allanradcliffe.bsky.social
Writer & critic 🏳️🌈 He/Him. Novel The Old Haunts shortlisted for McKitterick Prize & Shortlisted for Saltire First Book Award 2024 allanradcliffe.co.uk
@ugdamian.bsky.social
Author: In Gorgeous Display (Fordham Uni. Press, Sept ‘23) | Lambda Fellow ‘23| Alumnus, Tinhouse SW | Work: @poetrymagazine & others ugochukwudamian.com
@jenbitespeople.bsky.social
In Edinburgh. Director, playwright, librettist, acting coach & dramaturg. Possible revenant. Prone to biting. Site: www.jenmcgregor.com.
@eidyngray.scot
🏳️🌈 author and activist in 🏴 Software engineer, TTRPG GM, and author of dark fantasy books (he/they) 💜💗💙 https://linktr.ee/tgraywrites
@gusgowland.bsky.social
Writer/Composer/Doctor (musical not medical) he/him 🏳️🌈 gusgowland.com
@carriem.co.uk
Writer, singer, parent, greyhound mum and guitar wrangler from Glasgow. Likely ADHD. She/her. Small Town Joy and Carrie Kills A Man are at http://404Ink.com and good bookshops. https://linktr.ee/carrieplaysguita
@donnans.bsky.social
Writer, activist, drag artist & performer. Non binary gender bender. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Belfast, Ireland 💛
@lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
Reader. Bilingual (Spanish/English) author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈 He/él I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
@mikeparker.bsky.social
Writer in the damp Welsh hills. Books include All the Wide Border, Map Addict, On the Red Hill, The Wild Rover, Neighbours from Hell? "No-one maps the secrets of the UK quite like Mike Parker" - Ayesha Hazarika, Times Radio
@masonhawthorne.bsky.social
Alleged writer; horror, gothic, weird. Queer. Aussie. Tumblr: https://masonhawthorne.tumblr.com My novelette Earworm: https://books2read.com/u/3kOvKn
@nmjcoveney.bsky.social
Gay Ancient 🌈💀 | Husband | Author EVERYTHING NOT SAVED | Trans incl 💖🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈❤️ books, tech, 🎮| All opinions own & RSkts others'| Occasional life model | He/Him/His https://linktr.ee/nickcoveney
@nomad-sw18.bsky.social
Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Climate change l Contrib ed @nnffr.bsky.social SL Bridport, Bath, Oxford & WestWord Prizes. BSF BMF & Pushcart noms. Published stories: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12OLycEkDPIHts-GvyZpoSmdbYLBzyTYTfSjfGQmsECs/edit?u
@sachacoward.bsky.social
LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention. http://www.unbound.com/books/queer-as-folklore/
@jackshoulder.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Co-writer and Co-Curator of @museumbums: https://museumbums.com/book/museum-bums/ Queer history, comics and lots of running.
@globalhealing.bsky.social
Zimbabwean writer, anthropologist, global health physician at Harvard Med and UZ. Views my own. (He/they). Book: Empire of Madness (Crown, Feb 2026) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725148/empire-of-madness-by-khameer-kidia/
@eliaseells.bsky.social
Kentucky-based author, writer of the fantastic and delectable. Host of Bar Cart Bookshelf. COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES (Fall '24). Freelance publicist. He/him 🏳️🌈 Professional Inquiries: [email protected] https://linktr.ee/eliaseells
@joabaldwin.com
Author of the Noss Saga (LGBTQ+ epic fantasy series). Layout Artist & Director of Cinematography at Disney (Zootopia, Encanto, Frozen, Moana, etc). Photographer, animator, designer, he/him 🏳️🌈 Married to @dahlumii.bsky.social www.joaquinbaldwin.com
@louisstaples.bsky.social
Journalist: The Guardian, New York Times, NYMag, BBC, Vogue, GQ, Rolling Stone. Rep'd by United Agents 📚 ✉️: [email protected]
@taniahershman.bsky.social
Queer writer of odd things: stories/poems/hybrids. New hybrid CNF book coming 2025. Permissioner, founder of Unbox Your Words. She/they 🏳️🌈 www.taniahershman.com; https://taniahershman.substack.com/; https://www.instagram.com/tania_hershman_writes
@classicalalan.bsky.social
Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore. Order my book 'Walking the Antonine Wall' here: http://rb.gy/y8eyyi
@viveknityananda.bsky.social
I research behaviour. Writing. Illustration. Improv. Scicomm. Views my own. (He/Him) 🏳️🌈 website: www.viveknityananda.com
@comefromawaykevint.bsky.social
Real Kevin T in Come From Away musical, founder Pay it Forward 9/11 charity, author “Channel of Peace: Stranded in Gander on 9/11” 🏳️🌈🪓 PayitForward911.org ChannelofPeaceBook.com & lead Comms https://bsky.app/profile/atscommunity.bsky.social
@amandaearl.bsky.social
she/her: sharing Ottawa -area literary, spoken word, storytelling & nonfiction events daily ish. Out now!: Beast Body Epic, Autumn 2023. https://linktr.ee/amandaearl. NO DMS. No "Only Fans"!
@redfernjon.bsky.social
Nonbinary author to Proud Pink Sky and The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights. Ambitopia evangelist. Written for Guernica, Strange Horizons, Reckoning, PinkNews, and Nature Futures. They/them. Website: redjon.com
@vavapoetry.bsky.social
Day job☀️ ASN classroom assistant Creative practice✍🏾 Poet [Scots + English] Drag alter ego🕺🏾👑 Uncle Tony [email protected]
@sinblache.bsky.social
Disinterested in fate. Naturally spooky. World's Okayest Writer. #LandBack One half of a dynamic duo. PROPHET with Helen Macdonald. Buy now, please & thank you. There's no 'n' in my last name. They/Them https://sinblache.carrd.co/ https://linktr.ee/sinbla
@lolakeeley.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter, professional lesbian. Edinburgh based, for my sins. Kitty mama to four fluffy idiots. #LFC fan and theatre nerd
@shanestrachan.bsky.social
Writer and Lecturer in Aberdeen, Scotland. Books include DWAMS (Tapsalteerie) and Refashioning Bill Gibb (Bloomsbury Academic, Jan 2026) 📚 Former Scots Scriever at the National Library of Scotland.
@jdizzlestewart.bsky.social
New Work Producer at Live Theatre, Newcastle. Trustee for FFLAG. Originally from the Scottish Borders. He/Him. 🏳️🌈🏴 Writer | BAFTA Rocliffe Finalist Ed.Uni ‘20 | MFA, NYU, ‘17 | He/Him | Views my own. linkr.bio/n4xmk
@charleslambert.bsky.social
Novelist. European. Husband to Giuseppe. Fond of short trousers and brightly coloured socks (visual proof provided). Most recent novel? Birthright. Repped by Isobel Dixon @ Blake Friedmann.
@paulmorganbentley.bsky.social
Head of Investigations at The Times in London and author. Occasional undercover reporter. 2X winner of the Cudlipp Award for investigative reporting. Dad (with husband, Robin) to two very jumpy boys (one poodle, one human) 🏳️🌈
@patrickstrudwick.bsky.social
Journalist. Special Correspondent at The i Paper. Podcast and documentary producer (‘Spacey Unmasked’, ‘White Smoke: America’s Chemsex Killer’ and more). Occasional host/presenter. Very much still in the closet. [email protected]
@jameswmorland.bsky.social
Researcher & writer of many things including 18th-century poetry, grief, medicine & solitude 🏴🏳️🌈 Currently writing about shared connective solitude in queerness & illness. Human to a very cute corgi. https://linktr.ee/jameswmorland