Claire Dean
Writer & maker of zines & artist books. Also a conservator, mostly to be found repairing old manuscripts, maps & plans in an archive.
Lancashire, UK
@seremiru.bsky.social
Design for posthuman coastal futures @ Lancaster University (ImaginationLancaster). All terrain knitting. Mamma. ITA/ENG. She/her.
@jaivirdi.com
Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Delaware. Deaf & forever a radical Learn more: jaivirdi.com
@jensouthern.bsky.social
Artist and researcher working with technology and ecology. Director of Centre for Mobilities Research (Cemore), and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Lancaster University.
@jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social
Artist/Researcher: people and place, biodiversity, neurodivergence and wellbeing #NeuroqueerEcologies #QueerRiver Associate: GroundWork Gallery Member: Climate Museum UK & PaC Artists https://www.jamesaldridge-artist.co.uk/ www.queerriver.com
@outsiderart.bsky.social
Reduce Reuse Recycle ♻️ UPCYCLING! Temple. Shrine. Assemblage. Raw Creation! Outsider art. Art Brut. Folk Art. Visionary Art
@mudandculture.bsky.social
🎨Community artist and organiser. 🌱Permaculture educator and practitioner. 🌍 Exploring place, imagination, and ways to feel like we belong again. #regenerative #permaculture #imagination @smallthingscp.bsky.social www.lizpostlethwaite.co.uk
@jtomanek.bsky.social
Painter, artist, narrative oil and acrylic work celebrating women’s strength and wisdom. In remission from breast cancer 2024. https://www.jeanietomanek.com/ https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/jeanie-tomanek
@mattcolbeck.bsky.social
Research: reps of Disorders of Consciousness/brain injury/BI & homelessness. Author: "The Language & Imagery of Coma & Brain Injury", Bloomsbury. Founding member: Head Injury & Homelessness Research Group (HIHRG). Bassist with @lost-teeth.bsky.social
@commonmugwort.bsky.social
Literary translator, actor, early modern drama enthusiast. Luddite geek. Greek. Truth, justice, and the comics. Mostly in Athens. (@amaenad from Twitter but more chill) All photos licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 More on: https://pixelfed.social/CommonMugwort
@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!
@araukie.bsky.social
The membership body for recordkeeping professionals in the UK & Ireland. Posts are by Deborah Mason, Head of Communications for ARA. You can reach her on [email protected] (quicker than a DM). Find our more about ARA here www.archives.org.uk
@jolloyds.bsky.social
Writer The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies UK Something Wonderful US BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa O Henry Shortlisted Edge Hill She/her Ally
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, & articles Mondays, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024. linktr.ee/strangehorizons
@ajashworth.bsky.social
Short story writer. Maybe the Birds (Gold SF/Goldsmiths Press, 2025). Somewhere Else, Or Even Here (Salt). Dr.
@clemicollett.bsky.social
Writer and researcher. BRAID UK fellow Cambridge University researching the impact of GenAI on the novel. PhD at Oxford University on AI and gender.
@tulliecarlisle.bsky.social
All the way open! Museum & Café Tullie open 7 days a week. Current exhibition - Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs.
@bristolshortstory.bsky.social
Annual short story prize housed at the University of Bristol https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk Open for entries until 31 January 2025 with judges Jan Carson, Peace Adzo Medie, and Kate Johnson
@comicartfestival.bsky.social
A comic art festival by the lakes 🌊 📍Bowness-on-Windermere, UK | 26–28 Sept 2025 Celebrating comics as art, storytelling & activism 🎟️ comicartfestival.com #LICAF2025
@marcprill.bsky.social
@earlymodlancs.bsky.social
educator passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) HE prof NW England Anywhere near Books and Music #SurfaceStudies #Soil_Imaginaries Green Party Member Adores Snails 🐌 My personal views - not my employer's Reposts &c not endorsements
@smallpublishers.bsky.social
Celebrating books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers online and through the annual gathering, Fri 24 & Sat 25 October 2025. linktr.ee/small_publishers_fair
@goldsmithspress.bsky.social
Our publishing cuts across disciplinary boundaries and blurs the distinctions between theory, practice, fiction and non-fiction
@caldwell10.bsky.social
Poet, writer, editor, lecturer, RLF Advisory Fellow. Latest book - Neither Here Nor There - SurVision. 5 poetry collections and interests in nature, moss, birds, prose poetry and education annecaldwell.net
@carrieetter.bsky.social
Poet and novelist, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at U of Bristol | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
@museumpierrette.bsky.social
Conservator managing Museum, Archive & Aquarium 🐟 collections at Bolton Museum. Sharing my Cat, Books 📚(often Queer fantasy 🏳️🌈), Museums, Suede 🎶, beautiful & interesting science. I read a lot. Deaf 🧏♀️ with Endometriosis 🩷💜💙 She/Her 🇪🇺
@archive.org
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
@joshlukedavis.com
Science writer, editor and author @ the Natural History Museum, London | Queer animals, birds and embroidery | he/him | ✏️🏛🦦 | joshlukedavis.com
@artcrimeprof.bsky.social
Art crime prof at CUNY. Follow for how-to tips on art forgery. Also: repatriation; monuments; classics; museum shenanigans. She/her; queer. www.artcrimeprof.com
@postalpathsguy.bsky.social
Author of books on UK footpaths. My book, Postal Paths, is due out April 2025 detailing the route used by rural postmen and women in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Follow me if you love walking footpaths. https://linktr.ee/postalpaths
@mclees-fiona.bsky.social
Paper conservator in Wales. Manuscripts, drawings, artists’ materials, studios, sideline interests in holy wells, roodscreens, and all manner of heritage at the end of long country lanes. Colour-related Instagram posts @chromatic_dispatches
@kevinboniface.bsky.social
Artist/Writer/Postman appearing from behind a rhododendron and cursing loudly #MDANT Website: https://kevinboniface.co.uk Sports and Social: https://tinyurl.com/2xmnxh38 Round About Town: https://tinyurl.com/24bwnh2b
@adrianslatcher.bsky.social
Manchester-based writer. Short story collection "Loners" out now from Confingo publishing. More details www.adrianslatcher.com or subscribe https://adrianslatcher.substack.com/
@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).
@saraband-books.bsky.social
Award-winning independent publisher of distinctive, unforgettable fiction and outstanding non-fiction. Visit our website https://saraband.net/
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
Publisher of Caribbean and Black British books. Proudly decolonising bookshelves since 1985.
@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
@uniformbooks.bsky.social
Imprint for visual and literary arts, cultural geography and history, music and bibliographic studies. Edited and published by Colin Sackett. colinsackett.co.uk / uniformbooks.co.uk
@stephenfothergill.bsky.social
Baby Boomer, born in a pub beside the River Don at Attercliffe. Lover of blancmange, dark-brown tea, and penguins! Increasingly apolitical.
@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.
@mini3grey.bsky.social
Help! I haven't time for this! My shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MiniGreyShop
@mollieray.bsky.social
Artist, Author, Comics. Lancashire, UK. giant - @faberbooks.bsky.social - out now! https://linktr.ee/mollieray
@righttoroam.bsky.social
Campaigning to unlock access to nature in England & Wales. Yes, we trespass. Mostly we just like birds. get in touch: [email protected] find out more: righttoroam.org.uk
@corbelstonepress.bsky.social
Small press of Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton. Words, art & music about landscape and the other-than-human world. corbelstonepress.com
@caughtbytheriver.bsky.social
Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007 Regular posts at caughtbytheriver.net 🐟 Irregular printed matter, record releases & events via rivertones.bandcamp.com and our Friday newsletter
@nsousanis.bsky.social
Comics as thinking. Eisner winner. Unflattening from HarvardUP (http://bit.ly/1vENIO7). Former Detroiter/NYer/YYC/now assoc prof SFSU-Comics Studies! https://spinweaveandcut.com/ Tags #comics #Unflattening #Nostos
@debbieyare.bsky.social
Artist-mud lover. Morecambe Bay, uk. My art practice is an embodied dialogue with an intertidal estuary. Interests in #photography #drawing #video #writing #walking #ecology https://debbieyare.com
@disabilityarts.bsky.social
Sharing Disability Arts and Culture with the world since 2004. Follow for our latest news, reviews, events and blogs.
@francesryan.bsky.social
Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? and Crippled. E: [email protected]
@simongroth.com
Curious writer. ‘Heartwarmingly blunt.’ New book ‘Ephemeral City’ is available now. Stories and ephemera published in a box that can be read in any order you like.