SJ Bradley
Maps of Imaginary Towns available NOW in all bookshops! Also: Uneasy Listening podcast. PGcert Teaching Creative Writing, Cambridge (First Story bursary), K Blundell Trust Award. Short story writer, novelist, audio playwright.
linktr.ee/bradleybooks
@judithnangala.bsky.social
Poet & visual artist on unceded Yuin Walbunga Country in Australia. Afterlife portraits of animals & birds. Alternative darkroom with drawing & painting. Grainger Gallery and Anima Mundi. Poetry collections with Puncher & Wattmann. Member of FNAWN & Oculi.
@selkie-sarah.bsky.social
swimmer, writer, teacher, artist, former bookseller Cofounder: @the3rdthing.press Substack: The Scrap Heap (https://open.substack.com/pub/scrapheap) Writing & Creativity Coach: www.sarahtavis.com
@uolunison.bsky.social
The official BlueSky page for UNISON at the University of Leeds. Promoted by UNISON, 130 Euston Road, NW1 2AY.
@katharinesut.bsky.social
Director of Aspire, Betterforus campaign - all for blue sky thinking - posts on labour markets, procurement, equality, poverty, inequality and regeneration www.aspirecommunityworks.com www.betterforus.org.uk
@tuc.org.uk
Breaking news, campaigns and advice from unions and the labour movement. https://tuc.org.uk
@chrisemery.me
WELCOME! AKA Chris Hamilton-Emery, I’m a poet and publisher at @saltpublishing.com. I was born in Manchester, UK, and have published four collections of poetry – a new book, ‘Wonder’, is forthcoming from Salt 🥳. Website: www.chrisemery.me
@transgenderreport.com
🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 News, articles and resources on trans, gender and LGBTQ+ issues curated by Jack Molay. Blogging over at https://www.crossdreamers.com/ Web version of news stream here: https://transgenderreport.com/ Link≠endorsement.
@rowanthewriter.bsky.social
Writer + Book Reviewer lutruwita / Tasmania https://linktr.ee/rowmac
@lanceschaubert.bsky.social
Author of the novel BELL HAMMERS. Songwriter for All Who Wander + H.A.L.T.S. Filmmaker. Chaotic good lemur from Little Egypt + NYC lifer. Rearer of free range trees: Ents and huorns. SFWA full; POSSE poster http://lanceschaubert.org/about-lancelot
@ryanwrites.bsky.social
Writes CNF & short fiction www.ryantpozzi.com Rep: The Anderson Literary Agency https://andersonliteraryagency.com Debut: The Mess That Made Them Appears in Across the Margin, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Villain Era, Northern New England Review, and elsewhere
@dreenawriting.co.uk
Author. Insomniac. Tofu-eating wokerati. Pub’d here & there. 🇯🇪Winner: Flash500. Placed/ listed: Bridport, Marlowe & Christie, BFFA, SPR, etc. I also write as Jane Harvey, and make it a matter of principle to fall over at least once a month.
@jslaff.bsky.social
Playwright of LIES, GRAND UNION and WHO'S YEHOODI?, O'Neill semifinalist (TWICE!), 2019 Writer's Digest Grand Prize winner, Arsenal supporter, resister when it matters, man about town. Ex-X, but ain't we all?
@katewise.bsky.social
possible poet. Lucky enough to be published by @rialtopoetry.bsky.social @theemmapress.bsky.social @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @finishedpoetry etc
@dipikam.bsky.social
Writing a novel. MA Creative Writing grad. Stories pub. by Comma, Arachne, Tasavvur, Fox & Windmill, Fly on the Wall. She/her. Manchester, UK. https://linktr.ee/dipikam
@richardstrachan.bsky.social
Writer, debut novel 'The Unrecovered' from Raven Books Feb 2025. Stories in The Dark, New Writing Scotland, Weird Horror and many more. https://linktr.ee/richstrach Rep'd: @samedenborough.bsky.social
@michaelcaines.bsky.social
@backlisted.bsky.social
John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson.bsky.social and Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social giving new life to old books every fortnight. Bookshop.org Indie Champion 2023. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
@linnheharrison.bsky.social
📚🪐 Writer - The Incredible Machines of Thinkery. 🏆 Winner - Bridport Prize 2024 Short Story, ‘Blue’ Highly Commended. ♿️ - FND. Lives in Cumbria. Plays uke. ✌️ Buy my books and other predictable linkages: https://linktr.ee/linnheharrison
@afterdinnerconversation.com
Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers. Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
@mcrlitfest.bsky.social
Save the dates for our 20th Festival! #MLF25 runs 10-26 October 2025. www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
@vickymeadows16.bsky.social
Writer, book lover. Not in my name. This cruelty is not who we say we are. Please, no blind DMs. I would love to connect with other authors, but I get spam from bots and book marketers constantly.
@elizabethbaines.bsky.social
Writer of short stories, novels, plays. http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk Astral Travel, a novel, published by Salt Books https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/astral-travel-9781784632199
@liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social
✍️Writer from Leeds with bylines in Irish Times, LA Review of Books, TLS and many others. 🎧Curating the best writers on the Rippling Pages Linktr.ee/ripplingpagespod 👨🏻⚕️Elsewhere, health researcher https://tinyurl.com/Lbhealthbluesky
@forestmcm.bsky.social
Writer and photographer based in Atlanta. Debut novel coming soon. Short fiction available at https://forestmcmullin.substack.com/ Photography at http://www.forest-mcmullin.com/
@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
Irishman in Yorkshire. Historian of language, education, mobility at the University of Leeds. Co-editor of the Historical Journal, occasional BBC radio presenter. Dad!
@curmudgeonly-si.bsky.social
Drawing stuff, and grumbling. https://sidestreetsthatyouslipdown.blogspot.com
@templeinacity.bsky.social
New lit mag for flash fiction, poetry, art and letters. Don’t think religion, more like a great seed storehouse to restart the world.
@leedslitfest.bsky.social
14th - 22nd June 2025. Returning for its seventh year, the city’s award-winning festival of words aims to bring together, and help develop, the city’s literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond! #LLF25
@harikunzru.bsky.social
Writer. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men +3. No kings | No slop | Never again for anyone
@robreed.bsky.social
Poet, Doctor Who fan, educator. Was ‘@Priglit’ in the Twitter place https://linktr.ee/RobReedWriter
@clairedean.bsky.social
Writer & maker of zines & artist books. Day job as a conservator, mostly to be found repairing old manuscripts, maps & plans in an archive. Lancashire, UK
@gailaldwin.bsky.social
Novelist, poet, scriptwriter. Psychological suspense mystery The Secret Life of Carolyn Russell available now from Bloodhound Books. https://geni.us/SecretCarolynRussell https://gailaldwin.com
@benansell.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. Why Politics Fails. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host of What’s Wrong With Democracy? and BBC Radio 4’s Rethink
@bigbookend.bsky.social
Writers, books, small publishers, readers - that's what we are about! Here to engage with and platform writers, books and all things lit. Leeds Lit Fest founder partner. Champions Leeds, Yorkshire and the North.
@nickquantrill.bsky.social
Writer of crime novels and does Hull Noir. Will also contain football and moaning. #MDANT "Cast No Shadow" out now via Black Spring Press.
@gwenekirby.bsky.social
author of SHIT CASSANDRA SAW // stories in One Story, Guernica, Tin House, Smokelong, and elsewhere // corgis, baking, knitting, swearing // she/her gwenekirby.com
@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
Poet, apparently. Forward Prize, BOTN and Pushcart nom. Occasional horseman, remote rural Spain. Words in blackbough, iambapoet, eatthestorms, Modron, Madrid Review, Bad Lilies, Dark Mountain project and more. https://linktr.ee/jamesmcconachiepoet
@ryanshirlow.bsky.social
Norn Irish 🇮🇪 writer for Fortean Times and PhD student - studying folk music 🪕and folklore 🧚 Also ❤️old 🚙 cars & homebrew 🍺 Dad to 2 wee girls Music on Woodford Halse and Fenny Compton https://ryanshirlow.bandcamp.com/
@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. 📚💙
@kirstensom.bsky.social
PhD researcher at University of Glasgow. Researching storytelling in geographical and environmental education, teaching critical and academic literacies. #EducationForSustainability / #LearningDevelopment / #WideningParticipation