@polisloizou.bsky.social
Writer, performer, storyteller, both bi and curious • A GOOD YEAR (Fairlight Moderns) 📚 • East Med to East Mids 🇨🇾🇬🇧 (he/him) http://linktr.ee/polisloizou
@gmankow.bsky.social
Author & Senior Lecturer. ‘I Know How To Live': The Life of Kristen Pfaff' ⬇️. ‘This biography places Kristen back in the deserved centre of the narrative’- John Robb| Agent- The Hamilton Agency www.iknowhowtolive.substack.com
@carcionejay.bsky.social
Fiction: The London Magazine, The Forge, Lunate, Epoque Press, elsewhere Best of the Net 2024 finalist Deputy Production Editor: Irish Examiner Cork via New York
@kieranstories.bsky.social
North West | Stories in The London Magazine, Free Flash Fiction and elsewhere https://kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/
@adamsleslie.bsky.social
Author of Nero Fiction Prize winner Lost in the Garden Will distract you in order to eat more biscuits Writes novels - represented by Eli Keren @ United Agents Writes screenplays - represented by Christina Pickworth @ Imagine Talent
@danhowarth20.bsky.social
Author. Screenwriter. Editor. Northerner. Author of Last Night of Freedom, Territory, & Dark Missives. Writer of Newstone - feature film coming 2025. www.danhowarthwriter.com https://linktr.ee/danhowarth
@northernfiction.bsky.social
We are a radical publishing collective of over 30 independent publishers that showcases creativity and diversity. Head to our website to browse publishers and find your new favourite book: http://northernfictionalliance.com/
@luketurner.bsky.social
Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
@stuhennigan.bsky.social
Writer, poet, editor, musician. Ghost Signs (Bluemoose 2022) Keshed (Ortac, Feb 2026) Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, pub. tbc) #MDANT https://stuhennigan.substack.com/ https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/4207/stu-hennigan
@lwbooks.bsky.social
Reader, writer, editor, indie publisher. Working-class. Serialising my latest novel for free every Wednesday in 2025. Find me on my website https://www.louisewaltersbooks.co.uk/
@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"
@bongosherbert.bsky.social
Writer, Blogger, PhD Researcher & Environmentalist. Published in The Guardian, Mechanics Institute Review online & narrator of films for Channel 4 #writer
@deadchronicler.bsky.social
Writer. Sid Chaplin Award winner at the Northern Writers' Awards 2024. County Durham. Rep: Peters Fraser + Dunlop.
@maryearnshaw.bsky.social
Writer. Worrier. Tree whisperer. Lives on England's northwest coast. Has spent a lot of time in Zambia and Eswatini with her live-in archaeologist. Can cook for dozens over an open fire if bribed with wine. But would rather write poetry.
@drpennybradshaw.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria. ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. Programme Leader for ‘MA Literature, Romanticism, and the Lake District’ at Ambleside.
@tenpennydreams.bsky.social
Northern writer. Author of The Disappeared. Stories in The London Reader, Reflex Press, Palm-Sized Press. Finalist: Mslexia Short Story Comp/Dinesh Allirajah Prize. Arts marketer. Writer in residence Durham Writes & Crossing the Tees. amylordauthor.com
@kimmoorepoet.bsky.social
Poet and non-fiction writer. Latest poetry collection "All The Men I Never Married" won the 2022 Forward Prize. Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Substack: https://shorturl.at/Ea3sI
@sriyav.bsky.social
Senior Publicity Manager @michaeljbooks.bsky.social, dog enthusiast, modern girl • no it's not spelled like the country • views my own • she/her
@benedictsangster.bsky.social
Writer, Norwich, UK. Lover of all animals benedictsangster.com
@ortacpress.bsky.social
Independent publisher of non-fiction and novels #MDANT ortacpress.com/shop
@jessicawinck.bsky.social
English professor in Bangor, Maine. Reader, writer, teacher. Save the clocktower!
@seanbirnie.bsky.social
Writer: I Would Haunt You if I Could. Stories in Fictionable, Cōnfingō, Best British Short Stories, Interzone, Black Static, The Dark, ergot. seanbirnie.com undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would-haunt-you-if-i-could linktr.ee/seanbirnie
@scatterbones.bsky.social
28. he/they 🏳️⚧️ health librarian 🐀 occasional poet ✨ new professionals rep @ CILIP NW 📚 newsletter & writing: linktr.ee/scatterbones greater manchester/newcastle 🖤🤍
@bourgnetstogner.bsky.social
Shy retirer. Short fiction. Content repeater Recent work in Helter Skelter, Ragaire, The Stinging Fly and The Pig's Back Shortlisted for some stuff. Blacklisted for others
@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
@joannanadin.bsky.social
Professor of writing books, Sunday Times bestseller, Essex Girl. Autistic. Never knowingly underdressed. She/her. Here for ALL the witches. And the pigeons. https://joannanadin.com/ https://instagram.com/jonadin
@bexbookaholic.bsky.social
Book-obsessed, theatre-loving feminist with a liberal outlook on life. Mental health champion. Award winning book blogger. https://bookaholicbex.wordpress.com/
@anitasethi.bsky.social
🌾writer ✍🏽walker👣 talker🎤 Judge, Orwell Prize 2025 Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for #Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje. FRGS. Mancunian 🐝 anitasethi.com
@illustratedlauren.bsky.social
🌷 Librarian, reader, nuisance 📌 Oxford 🫧 Mostly weird, literary & translated fiction 💌 [email protected] 🔗 illustratedlibrarian.carrd.co
@lotusbooks.bsky.social
Writer and Book Blogger, love to read crime, historical and literary fiction. Member of Squad POD Collective. Review requests to [email protected] Visit website www.lotuswritingtherapy.com
@valmcdermid.bsky.social
Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
@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.
@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
@groomb.bsky.social
Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' (2024) and bestselling 'Northerners: A History' (2022).
@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
@rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social
writer. SMALL FIRES out now (Pushkin Press) winner 2024 Nach Waxman Prize MEAL TIME in progress (Jonathan Cape) edits part time @ vittles and writes dinner document substack Coastal Essex www.rebeccamayjohnson.com
@joanpassey.bsky.social
BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | English Lecturer | UCU Rep | Haunted Shores Network | Victorian environments, coasts & seascapes 🌊 | Queer ecologies 🍄 | Gothic 👻 | she/they 🏳️🌈 linktr.ee/JoanPassey
@bookbellereads.bsky.social
Award-winning Publicity Director at Bonnier Books UK • YouTube Content Creator • Writer ✍🏼 📚
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
Independent bookshop in Halifax's The Piece Hall. bookcornerhalifax.com 01422 414443 Link to our events: https://bookcornerhalifax.com/events/
@isnotanotter.bsky.social
From the North, dwelling in the South. Senior Marketing Exec in publishing. All views my own. she/her
@emilygmoran.bsky.social
Head of Marketing @dialoguepublishing.bsky.social 📚• book reader, dog lover, cake baker • @the-bookseller.bsky.social rising star 2022 🌟• views my own • she/her 🎠 CR 📖 The Safekeep
@sarahjanemcr.bsky.social
Avid reader. Festival lover. Coffee drinker. Wanderer. Passionate about storytelling, the arts, people and our planet. @Mcrlitfest.bsky.social Co-Director 📚
@porticolibrary.bsky.social
The Portico Library is Manchester’s original 19th-century home of literature and learning. Uncovering, imagining, and sharing new histories together.
@stingingfly.bsky.social
Magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Winter 2024-25 Issue #51 available now https://stingingfly.org/product/winter-2024-25/
@drdavidcooper.bsky.social
Literary geographer writing about writing about place. Co-Director of the Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.