Beth Barker
books, writing + slow life by the sea🌀
MA creative writing @ mmu
🕯️blackpool, uk
@grantabooks.bsky.social
Independent literary publishers. Discover our books here: http://granta.com/books/.
@walterscottprize.bsky.social
We're the world's foremost literary prize for historical fiction & run the Young Walter Scott Prize.
@afshandl.bsky.social
writer of TV, plays & poetry - WGGB rep for Manchester - co-chair of board at Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester - represented by MMB Creative - funny (my mum says so) - - all views & typos my own - 🍉 she/they
@bethunderdown.bsky.social
Novelist with Penguin Viking, creative writing teacher with the University of Manchester and Faber Academy. Hiking, gardening, crochet, coeliac disease: old-person stuff.
@davidhartley.bsky.social
Writer of weird tales | FAUNA, with Fly on the Wall | INCORCISMS, with Arachne Press | Writer-in-residence for Prima Vista in Tartu, Estonia | Manchester, UK
@richardvhirst.bsky.social
Another writer you've never heard of / books with Confingo and Dead Ink / runs Levenshulme Old Library https://richardvhirst.co.uk/
@glenjamesbrown.bsky.social
Writer. New novel 💚 MOTHER NAKED 💚 out now! Also IRONOPOLIS (shortlisted for the Orwell Prize & Portico Prize & Winner Prix Millepages).
@talkscaredpod.bsky.social
A podcast of conversations with the biggest names in horror writing. Find out where your favourite scary stories came from. https://pod.link/1530064310 You can reach me at talkingscaredpod@gmail.com
@juliaguthrie.bsky.social
UK Folk horror/paranormal/fantasy writer, artist, gamer. @skyrimgirrl on Instagram https://juliaguthrieauthor.wixsite.com/julia-guthrie-author https://www.facebook.com/juliaguthrieauthor
@connorhutchinson.bsky.social
Mancunian ~ Publicity Manager at Picador 📚~ rep’d by Philippa Sitters, PSA 🖋️~ Dead Lucky publishing with Corsair Books, July 2025 🎰
@yararf.bsky.social
Diana fan, scorpio, & very serious leftie novelist. stubborn archivist (2019) & there are more things (2022)🌙 🌎 doing a phd on novels + abolition at Leeds she/they https://linktr.ee/yrodriguesfowler
@writerlee.bsky.social
Liverpool based writer. Words in anthologies by Comma Press and Confingo Publishing. Currently working on my first crime novel.
@jonathancoe.bsky.social
Writer. New novel is THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE. Previous titles include WHAT A CARVE UP!, THE ROTTERS' CLUB, MIDDLE ENGLAND, MR WILDER AND ME ... https://linktr.ee/coelinks
@sarahblackburn.bsky.social
I love reading books especially crime / mystery / thrillers and looking after my failed foster / adopted rescue Staffie Domino. xx
@adellestripe.bsky.social
Human Swiss Army Knife. Professional Earwig. Author of Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, Ten Thousand Apologies and Base Notes: The Scents of a Life. https://bio.site/adellestripe
@benjaminmyers76.bsky.social
Writer of novels inc. RARE SINGLES, CUDDY, THE OFFING, THE GALLOWS POLE (BBC/Shane Meadows), THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE etc. New book out October 2025.
@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.
@benjg76.bsky.social
English secondary subject lead for excellent MAT in East Anglia. Originally from London. Book obsessive. Education geek. Hibernian FC. Arsenal FC. Music. Cricket. Literature. All views are my own.
@ensfr.bsky.social
We aim to provide a forum and resources for European-based researchers into the practice, criticism and transmission of short fiction in its diversity of forms and to facilitate collaboration in both critical and practice-led research.
@kiralcurtis.bsky.social
Theatre maker and researcher focused on ecological creativity and arts participation for a more imaginative future. PhD student.
@pressfuturist.bsky.social
Lecturer in Publishing at the University of Stirling. Researcher of smartphone storytelling. Authors of seven books for Amber on Paris, London, Scotland, cemeteries (twice), chess, & dragons. Erstwhile doer of other things. Baritone. Often mediocre. He/Him
@jamestopham.bsky.social
Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner. https://james-topham.com
@manchesterreview.bsky.social
The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing. https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
@drdaveobrien.bsky.social
Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Manchester and host of New Books in Critical Theory. Currently on secondment to DCMS, also at Creative PEC and the Whats On Project too
@ailsacox.bsky.social
Writer and critic, Emerita Professor of Short Fiction at Edge Hill University UK. Short stories, Precipitation, https://www.confingopublishing.uk/ https://www.routledge.com/Writing-Short-Stories-A-Routledge-Writers-Guide/Cox/p/book/9781032582481.
@nicholasroyle.bsky.social
Writer. Latest: Shadow Lines (Salt). Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
@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
@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
@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
@katherinelucyg.bsky.social
Teaches publishing at York St John University. Researches class and place in contemporary British literature. Ex-editor and festival organiser.
@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.
@drjamesbailey.bsky.social
Writer who lives in Manchester. Rep’d by Creative Artists Agency. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, is out in April 2026 🐈⬛ Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
@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)
@kitdewaal.bsky.social
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
@johnnymains.co.uk
The UK's foremost horror anthologist. “Johnny Mains is the Herbert van Thal of our age” – The Independent AuDHD. Got the morbs.
@bloomsburyraven.bsky.social
Raven Books, an imprint of BloomsburyBooks, is the home of the best & the brightest in new writing for all who love their books with a touch of the dark side.
@jenniferjaswhite.bsky.social
writing about class & gender & culture / words in Tribune, FT, New Statesman, Vittles, etc / teaching and researching at UoM ❤️🔥🌹 www.jenniferjasminewhite.com
@ggaffa.bsky.social
Writer, Arts Council manager, musician. Concrete Fields (Salt 2023) Out Of The Dark (Confingo 2021) graphic novel Rivers (Top Shelf 2021) www.davidgaffney.org
@readabilitea.bsky.social
Bookseller with perpetually wonky glasses 📚 also into knitting and visible mending (she/her) English/Nederlands/Deutsch
@anncleeves.bsky.social
Reader, crime-writer and advocate for libraries and the Reading for Wellbeing project. Creator of Vera Stanhope, Shetland and Matthew Venn, among others.
@gavrushka.bsky.social
Writing, and will soon be querying. Ace (demi) and here for writing, friendship, and chuckles only.
@andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social
Literary editor - Leftlion Magazine Words in Under the Radar, Comma Press, Nottingham Post Writer-in-residence with Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature '24 Tall, dark and haggard.
@breakthroughbook.bsky.social
An innovative indie publisher that’s all about putting our creatives and readers first, with lovingly made, high quality books… and a fair deal!
@robgomm.bsky.social
@mcrlitfest.bsky.social
Save the dates for our 20th Festival! #MLF25 runs 10-26 October 2025. www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk