Ellah Wakatama OBE, (Hon) FRSL
She/Her/Va.
Reader. Editor. VaChihera. Vegan.
Editor-at-Large: Canongate; Chair Caine prize for African Writing
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@georginagodwin.bsky.social
(Hon) FRSL. Broadcaster/event chair Books/geo-politics 🎙️📚🐶📻 https://monocle.com/radio/shows/meet-the-writers/
@nytimes.com
In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
@nswriting.bsky.social
Writer/feeder/eater. East Jerusalemite 🍉🏳️🌈. Buy my book so that my publishers don't get sad: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/namesake-reflections-on-a-warrior-woman-n-s-nuseibeh/7592027?ean=9781838852634
@sileedslitprize.bsky.social
SI Leeds Literary Prize is a biennial national award for unpublished fiction by UK based Black and Asian women writers. 2024 winner: Maeve Clarke. Returning 2026. https://www.sileedsliteraryprize.com/
@mcnallyeditions.com
A publishing line devoted to elevating unduly overlooked books and authors, from McNally Jackson Books. mcnallyeditions.com
@monosyllabicism.bsky.social
Furious curious. Associate Publisher: McNallyEditions.com. Book editor and publishing consultant: nathanrostron.com
@kathleenjamie.bsky.social
Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.
@margaretatwood.bsky.social
Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
@serpents-tail.bsky.social
Lighting up our readers' minds and opening spaces for them to think differently. Bringing you brilliant, award-winning new and classic fiction and non-fiction.
@atlanticbooks.bsky.social
Independent British publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction. Also the home of imprints Corvus Books, Allen & Unwin UK, and Grove Press UK. https://atlantic-books.co.uk/
@headofzeus.bsky.social
London based independent publishing house. Dedicated to new authors, great storytelling & fabulous ideas 📚
@matthaig.bsky.social
#1 NYT bestselling author of The Midnight Library etc. Dad. Husband. Neurodiverse. Bit of a mess but trying to make it an interesting mess.
@sevenstories.bsky.social
Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice children’s books, and other works of the radical imagination ✨ sevenstories.com
@tramppress.bsky.social
Independent book publisher. Latest: Your Own Dark Shadow by Jack Fennell www.tramppress.com Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Newsletter eepurl.com/bjjdND
@dauntbookspub.bsky.social
a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*)
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Award winning indy publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal. Based in West Dorset www.littletoller.co.uk Instagram / @littletollerbooks
@versobooks.bsky.social
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
@saraband-books.bsky.social
Award-winning independent publisher of distinctive, unforgettable fiction and outstanding non-fiction. Visit our website https://saraband.net/
@carcanet.bsky.social
Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social. 🔗 https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
@goldsf.bsky.social
GoldSF is a new Goldsmiths Press imprint publishing intersectional feminist science fiction, looking to the future & imagining new ways of being in the world.
@orendabooks.bsky.social
Indie publisher of bold, unforgettable international fiction, half in translation. Shortlisted IPG Best Newcomer 2015/16. CWA Crime & Mystery Publisher of the Year 2020. Nibbies Finalist Small Press of the Year. Visit us at www.orendabooks.co.uk.
@indiesalliance.bsky.social
Atlantic•BedfordSq•Canongate•Daunt•DFB•Duckworth•Europa• Faber•Fitzcarraldo•Granta•LP•Murdoch•Oneworld•Profile• Pushkin•SchoolOfLife•Scribe•Swift
@lighthousebks.bsky.social
Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space. Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
Galley Beggar Press is an independent publisher from Norwich. Citizens of the world. And foreign.
@ipne.bsky.social
Publishing nonprofit where the cool indies hang and collaborate to "make better books and sell more of them." IPNE.org. Please add to relevant lists. 🙏🏻📖
@cbcreative.bsky.social
Start your story with expert teaching from acclaimed authors, leading literary agents and top publishers. Writing courses online and in London. Home of #WriteCBC. https://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/
@oneworldbooks.bsky.social
📖Independent Publishers founded in 1986 💌Literary fiction and non-fiction from around the world 🌊YA @rocktheboatnews
@unboundsocials.bsky.social
London-based book publisher 📚 An imprint of Boundless Publishing Group - home to @neemtreepress.bsky.social and @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social Visit us at https://www.boundlesspublishinggroup.com/
@profilebooks.bsky.social
Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
@pushkinpress.com
Publishes the world's best stories – to be read and read again. Follow the all new @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social 🎈 Newsletter, IG & more: http://linktr.ee/pushkinpress
@londonlitlab.bsky.social
Find your story at the city's friendliest creative writing workshops, where writers teach writers. @lilydunn.bsky.social and Zoe Gilbert - and also find us here: https://londonlitlab.substack.com/ and here londonlitlab.co.uk
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
We make books! An independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes. ✨📚
@ericawgnr.bsky.social
Writer, reader, journalist, cook, friend, lover. Editor-at-Large, Boundless. Contributing Writer for the New Statesman, Consulting Lit Ed for Harper's Bazaar. You can find me in the old place with the same handle. Podcaster for Boundless, Chanel, Vocal.
@radiomukhers.bsky.social
Author. Scottish, Bengali, generally confused. “The Godfather of Anglo-Asian Crime Writing” (Daily Express) Rep’d by @stubbleagent From Glasgow. BlueSky is not a concept we’re familiar with. More here: abirmukherjee.com
@laurenbeukes.com
Novelist, TV writer, comics writer and recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV) Zoo City and multiverse-lost-mother-thriller, BRIDGE - out now
@annaframe.bsky.social
Communications Director, @canongate.co.uk. Currently working with Miranda July, Omar El Akkad, Rowe Irvin, Damian Barr, Lily King, John Niven & many other talented folk. Live in Edinburgh, though more often on trains.
@brixtonbookgroup.com
Home of London’s biggest pub based book group, running since 2005. Find us at BrixtonBookGroup.com current book is pinned to our profile.
@portybookfest.bsky.social
Portobello Book Festival is a volunteer run festival, taking place over the first weekend of October.
@storyvillebooks.bsky.social
Storyville Books is located in Pontypridd, South Wales, and are the town's only independent bookshop selling new books.
@midascampaigns.bsky.social
Midas is an award-winning communications agency working at the heart of publishing, arts and culture, based in both the UK & US. https://linktr.ee/midascampaigns