Francesca Peacock
Arts journalist and author (Pure Wit, biog of Margaret Cavendish, 2023)
@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social
Writer and professor of medieval literature. I'm a columnist at the TLS, sometimes co-host a podcast with Mary Wellesley at the LRB, and am one of the editors of @creativecritical.bsky.social. irinadumitrescu.com
@mcculloughp.bsky.social
UK prof. of English. Mostly post about things I like, make, or grow. 🌱🪡🏳️🌈 Major academic projects: biography of Lancelot Andrewes (OUP); Gen. Ed., the Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne.
@corinaro.bsky.social
Obsessive reader. Whitstable dweller. Publicity person at Penguin Press. Views my own (she/her)
@chloeashby.bsky.social
Author of FAMILY FRIENDS (coming 2026), SECOND SELF (2023) and WET PAINT (2022). Words in the Times, Guardian, Spectator, TLS et al. COLOURS OF ART (2022).
@elizabethstjohn.bsky.social
Story writer. Memory curator. #EarlyModern women's history. Lucy Hutchinson got me started. #17thC #HistoricalFiction. Once ventured into the #15thC looking for the missing princes. www.elizabethjstjohn.com https://www.thelydiardarchives.org.uk
@leonardcrohn.bsky.social
former bookstore guy in sf & ny, current marketing guy for deep vellum / dalkey archive. available in the hudson valley and online. I’d strike the sun if it insulted me.
@brianrobmoore.bsky.social
Literary translator from the Italian: Michele Mari (Verdigris and You, Bleeding Childhood), Lalla Romano (A Silence Shared and In Farthest Seas), Walter Siti.
@lizfremantle.bsky.social
I wrote a book, QUEENS GAMBIT, they made a film, FIREBRAND DISOBEDIENT on Artemisia Gentileschi SINNERS pre-order for July Rep: Alice Lutyens at Curtis Brown Londoner, dogs, films, Spurs, women, HWA 🏳️🌈 LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/lizfremantle
@deborahswift.bsky.social
Northerner. Author of #HistoricalFiction - formerly known as @swiftstory on that other place - 21 books, keep changing historical eras, currently residing scarily in the 1940's - LAST TRAIN TO FREEDOM out in 2025
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018 Website: brokensleepbooks.com
@sumayakassim.bsky.social
writer of fiction and essays, prose editor at Middleground Magazine, the museum will not be decolonised! Hauntology, horror and heritage... she/her
@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
@renardpress.bsky.social
🍃 An award-winning climate-positive indie publisher of classic & contemporary fiction, non-fiction, poetry & theatre. Also home to Hay Press. renardpress.com
@deixispress.bsky.social
Independent publisher, award-winning books. EIC: Angel Belsey. Hello Booksky! https://deixis.press https://linktr.ee/deixispress
@jamesgwriter.bsky.social
WRITER. The Wooden Hill (short stories) The Lightning (novel), coming 2026! Work Broadcast BBC Radio 4 Nom 4 x Pushcart Prize S-list Best in Rural Writing L-list Irish SS of the Year Husband. Dad. Tay drinker. N Ireland. https://ko-fi.com/jamesgwriter
@forumbooks.bsky.social
Three lovely, friendly, award-winning independent bookshops in Corbridge, Whitley Bay + Alnwick https://www.forumbooksshop.com Events: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks
@brihughespoet.bsky.social
Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; edits Osmosis Press, How(ever) How2 Digital Archive, Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway! https://linktr.ee/brihughespoet
@alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social
Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
@wayneconnolly.bsky.social
Still the luckiest person in the world. Living in NE England. Body failing, spirit soaring, walking with Gusto in Pontburn Wood. Plymouth Argyle supporter. Monument Maker. MD ANT!
@jntod.bsky.social
Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
@ironaye.bsky.social
@ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
Mostly bookish. NBCC Board Member/VP Membership and Tech. Books newsletter: Reading Indie on Substack. Co-host of One Bright Book podcast. #KateBriggs24 #AContinuation25 she/her You'll find me on my ebike.
@michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social
I write about kings and prophets. In but not from Vancouver, BC
@salomekjones.bsky.social
Freedom is an inalienable right. No one is free until we are all free. She/her Slava Ukraini!
@seamas.bsky.social
Author, very professional. Buy my extremely good book at www.mammybook.com
@samirashackle.bsky.social
Freelance journalist (mostly for the Guardian Long Read) and author of Karachi Vice. I am also on Substack @samirashackle. Currently on maternity leave!
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
Galley Beggar Press is an independent publisher from Norwich. Citizens of the world. And foreign.
@jonathanhealey.bsky.social
Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/) Works at Oxford University. Next book, The Blood in Winter, out 2025. ‘This isn’t the Eighties, Pat!’
@hagenilda.bsky.social
cultural historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | welsh | precarious | palaeographer | ocd | neurodivergent | dogs | karaoke | food | ucu nec | ucu commons | cofounder MadCovid | she/her agent: Fabienne @kiagency.bsky.social www.ki-agency.co.uk
@jodimca.bsky.social
Romance author, romance scholar. Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature & Culture at Deakin (Naarm/Melbourne). My newest rom-com, An Academic Affair, will be out June (Aus/NZ), Sep (UK), Nov (US).
@thorntonsbooks.bsky.social
We were an AHRC-funded project (Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025), based at the University of Edinburgh. Our main output was a digital edition of the books of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk