Damian Barr
Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel (Sept 2025). I’m also curating a show about them for Charleston.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
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@kaymarquis.bsky.social
Theatre, books & writing. Bits of culture & history that I find interesting 📸 Personal opinions on this & that. SAST. Theatre 118 www.kaymarquis.com
@victoriaredfern.bsky.social
Current location: St. Leonards-on-Sea, England 'You're one of us now.' - Doug Anthony All-Stars. Made in Scotland from girders. Any pronouns. Gender is a spectrum. https://toriaredfern.wordpress.com (photo: me & Foz Foster @ the 100 Club by Isabelle Adam)
@lizziedearden.bsky.social
Contributing reporter to the New York Times in London, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed' Website: https://www.lizziedearden.com/
@mariekeyn.bsky.social
#1 NYT bestselling author of novels, comics, and graphic novels | nonbinary | 🌈📚 | 🏳️🌈 | ♿ Out now: SPLINTER & ASH | Up next: AFTER WE BURNED 📖: mariekenijkamp.com
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
@david-farrier.bsky.social
Writer. Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils (2020). Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet out May 2025. https://buythebook.online/natures-genius Professor of Literature and the Environment, University of Edinburgh
@heatherpaterson.co.uk
Head of Partnerships and Development @lgbtconsortium.bsky.social | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine #LGBWithTheT Proud Queer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
@nedhartley.com
Writer! Comics include Bananaman for the Beano, Department K for Judge Dredd Megazine & lots more. Books for Penguin Random House, Rebellion, Bonnier, Buster, Sweet Cherry & more. Pic by Wayne Thompson. Love you xx Website: www.nedhartley.com
@alexjjtaylor.bsky.social
Journalist, filmmaker, tortoise-owner. Director of Michael Rosen Doc Featured in the Birmingham Dispatch, the Mill, the Fence Magazine Worked with The Sunday Times
@fionabrownlee.bsky.social
Publishing consultant. PR & International Rights. Currently working with Canongate. Little,Brown. Hodder. Greystone. Muswell Press. Birlinn. Polygon. Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival. Swim judge. BSL beginner.
@lindeneditions.bsky.social
An independent publisher of translated literary fiction and narrative non-fiction in the UK.
@jonathaneyers.bsky.social
Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing. Author of various adult and kids' fiction and non-fiction. New adult series, "Newt Beresford", being published by Sapere in 2025/26.
@dansheehan.bsky.social
Former very online guy now writing about the death of the internet in real time. I've written books (I AM NOT A WOLF), games (Magic: The Gathering, Who's A Good Boy), and jokes (The Onion, my beautiful posts) Contact: www.reallyveryhuman.com/contact
@danielsohege.bsky.social
Director of human rights consultancy Stand For All. Specialist in refugee and migrants' law, rights policy, comms and advocacy. NOT A LAWYER. Also talking about being autistic and LGBTQIA+ rights. (They/them). Purely my views, no-one else would want them.
@aucfn.bsky.social
The Centre for the Novel is a research centre dedicated to the study of the novel in all its forms, based at the University of Aberdeen. Visit our homepage here: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/llmvc/research/novel/
@rmayemsinger.bsky.social
Mrs. Doubtfire and some other stuff. Screenwriter, creator, complainer. Politics obsessor. imdb.me/randimayemsinger
@billyrough.bsky.social
Art Historian/Lecturer at University of St Andrews. 19th & 20th century British Art, Music Hall, and Theatre. Occasional folkie / concertina player. Instagram: roughs_drafts
@thedogwalker.bsky.social
Best Selling Author & CEO Yorkshire’s Multi Award-Winning Business. Care Experienced & Child Abuse Survivor. Married to a Man 👬🏻. Book Available to Buy 👇🏼 http://www.scratchingshedpublishing.com/products-page/autobiography/richie-who-cares/
@mrjasonrose.bsky.social
Dad, husband, cat butler. Work in public affairs. Former political head of media. Allotmenteer. Cyclist.
@evanurquhart.bsky.social
The personal account of Evan Urquhart of Assigned Media (assignedmedia.org), your trans news source. I'd still rather be playing pinball.
@sla.org.uk
We advocate for school libraries, promote quality reading & learning opportunities for all children in all schools. We support Librarians, Literacy Leads and all those responsible for information management. Become a member here. https://bit.ly/3BzonAm
@tobebooks.bsky.social
Rebel booksellers, UK based social enterprise founded to sell children’s books so our profits can fund children’s libraries. #changebookdeserts #activists 🫶🏾🏳️🌈📚 p.s seeking investment https://tobebookfair.org/
@walterscottprize.bsky.social
We're the world's foremost literary prize for historical fiction & run the Young Walter Scott Prize.
@elsabebrits.bsky.social
Science and medical journalist|Freelance.🇿🇦 Researcher, consultant at The Story of Emily Museum in Cornwall | Biographer of Emily Hobhouse. https://thestoryofemily.com/stories-of-emily
@bandherbooks.bsky.social
Library Journal Reviewer of the Year '22 and [redacted] public library's resident Romance Novel Expert✨. Fainting couch? I'm on it. She/her. campsite.bio/b.andherbooks
@lawrentian.bsky.social
PhD & Assoc Lecturer @ University of Reading | Modernism, 19th-20th C liberalism, Woolf, Forster, social class | Manuscripts, publishing, archives & special collections | Part-time Admin Asst @ Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing @ University of Reading
@surrenderdotty.bsky.social
Nugget. Craft obsessive. Kilt fancier. Milliner. Reader. Fragrance nerd. 2 x cancer survivor. Traveller. Harbour City Bears committee member. | In a vertically discordant relationship with @tomtheotter. IG: surrenderdotty | Sydney, Oz.
@dmhardcc.bsky.social
Dmhardc on the other apps. Interested in everything. Gen X, lefty, exhausted. 🇯🇲🇬🇧
@nicolawriting.bsky.social
Nature. Writer. Reader. Rural. Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB. Award Winning On Gallows Down. Wild Service. Climate Fic Prize Judge. North Wessex Downs. https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
@penthompsoncbe.bsky.social
“Differently occupied”civil partner; mother; Penma;Artslover ; Leadership Mentor; SHU Gov; Barnardo’s Trustee #fairness #hope #kindness #openness #respect
@jamescrossland.bsky.social
Professor of History. Author of "Rogue Agent" and "The Rise of Devils". #History #spies, #terrorism, extremism, propaganda, weird people and things that are not real Substack - https://jamescrossland.substack.com/
@hughsmithsonwright.bsky.social
A flibbertigibbet, a Will O' The Wisp, a clown. OFFICIALLY The Gayest Man On Bluesky™️ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@rossiterbooks.bsky.social
Independent booksellers Ross on Wye, Monmouth, Leominster, Cheltenham, Malvern, Hereford https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/rossiterbooks https://linktr.ee/rossiterbooks
@katemuir.bsky.social
Writer and filmmaker. Menopause campaigner. New book How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis (June 2025)
@tracyking.bsky.social
Writer, animation producer, scicomms consultant. Currently writing about medical malpractice. Books: Learning To Think (Penguin) The Cost of Trust (Harper Collins) Tim Minchin's Storm (Orion)
@alicemydaughter.bsky.social
Recovering psychiatrist, writer, would be campaigner. Trans ally. She/ her. Author ‘HER NAME IS ALICE’ on the life and death of my transgender child. Mudlark Books Harper Collins. Getting up off the sofa and out the door a bit more these days.
@stephenkelman.bsky.social
Author of the novels Pigeon English (Booker Prize shortlist, AQA GCSE set text) and Man on Fire. New stuff on the way.
@scarletrix.bsky.social
...sometimes you wake up. sometimes the fall kills you. and sometimes when you fall you fly... www.crimebookgirl.com
@andrewmueller.bsky.social
Contributing Editor at Monocle, host of Monocle Radio's The Foreign Desk and The Daily. Author of four scandalously under-rated books.
@rainesford.bsky.social
Writer, reporter, author. Work in Progress columnist for Teen Vogue. Supporter of youth journalism. Kentuckian. rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com or Signal rstauff.20 www.rainesfordstauffer.com
@scriblit.bsky.social
Comedy writer & Author. Repped by JFL. Horrible Histories! Loadsa R4 stuff! And more! Buy the Darkwood Trilogy or Rooks Trilogy or Cursed Under London! 🐝 with the 🫖. Avatar by Tealin!
@wabbits.bsky.social
PFP: 2 housebunnies snuggling. She/her. Librarian, currently in disguise as an assistant registrar. Hooman staff to 2 housebunnies. Fan of DragRace, Strictly, GBBO & living in Scotland. 🏴 Estou aprendendo português! 🇵🇹🇧🇷 #AdoptDontShop | #BWithTheT | #BLM
@simonguy.bsky.social
Wandering. Wondering. Freelancing. Often acquiring and editing SFFH for Angry Robot Books. Live in Edinburgh. Views my own and independent of my employers. Photos my own unless otherwise etc.
@angus.bsky.social
CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
@philippaeast.bsky.social
Novelist. #LittleWhiteLies💛 #SafeAndSound❤️ #IllNeverTell💗 #AGuiltySecret🧡 pubbed by HQ/HarperCollins. Lives in Lincolnshire, has a cat. Clinical Psychologist by day.
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.