Glen James Brown
Writer. New novel 💚 MOTHER NAKED 💚 out now! Also IRONOPOLIS (shortlisted for the Orwell Prize & Portico Prize & Winner Prix Millepages).
@bronteschiltz.bsky.social
Writer & journalist. PhD on Britain’s Televisual Gothic 👻 Big on The Divine Comedy and fun
@incendiarybooks.bsky.social
Independent. Manchester/Salford. Debut release, To Rise in the Dark (2024) Second release, Hunter (2025)
@northernmailman.bsky.social
“He speaks in your voice, Salfordian, and there’s a pie in his hand bought half-price from the Co-op.” Novels To Rise in the Dark and Hunter available now on Amazon or DM for details.
@bethrdb.bsky.social
books, writing + slow life by the sea🌀 MA creative writing @ mmu 🕯️blackpool, uk
@joanne-sefton.bsky.social
Author (If They Knew and The Guilty Friend (Avon)). Host of Telling Tales at Chorley Theatre. Writing. Vizslas. Chips. New teen book: https://amzn.to/4eZw7tk
@bookcornershop.bsky.social
Owner of an indie bookshop in Saltburn-by-the-Sea. Author of novel 'The Moon and Stars'. Loves books, writing, musical theatre, dogs, mythology and folk tales. www.jennawarrenwrites.com
@mcrlitfest.bsky.social
Save the dates for our 20th Festival! #MLF25 runs 10-26 October 2025. www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
@sighing-sadly.bsky.social
These things happen. Short stories from a tiny girl. I might not be active here, for a while, because of upcoming events.
@bullaunpress.bsky.social
New independent publisher. Ireland's first press dedicated to literature in translation. #artscouncilsupported
@shortestwitch.bsky.social
Nuisance, writer, publisher - poetry & spec fic - kymdeyn.com - thebraag.co - Everywhere @shortestwitch - she/they with CFS/ME. In books and in bogs.
@carlkears.bsky.social
@jaynejoso.bsky.social
Novelist 💙 Artist 💙 Novels, short stories, plays, poems The New York Times, Yorkshire Times, TLS, ICON Arts Council England, DAIWA, & SASAKAWA FOUNDATION Awards HAY FESTIVAL
@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
@thegreatbartoni.bsky.social
Teeth Of The Sea, records, books, crisps, football etc. #YNWA
@richardmorrey.bsky.social
Software development professional. Music, books, politics, nature, football, cricket. Oh go on then, cats. Anything but software development, basically.
@whatcathyreadnext.bsky.social
Gardener 🌱 | Avid reader | Historical fiction fan | Admirer of John Buchan | Book blogger always ready for the next chapter... 💙📚 https://whatcathyreadnext.co.uk/
@katiejlumsden.bsky.social
Booktuber (Books and Things). Historical fiction author. Freelance editor. Reader. Part-time Victorian. ✍️The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall 📚Hosts #victober #janeaustenjuly She/her
@anne-t-melo.bsky.social
Edinburgh-based translator (NL/DE -> EN) and museum volunteer
@michaelcaines.bsky.social
@bristolshortstory.bsky.social
Annual short story prize housed at the University of Bristol and coordinated by Dr Carrie Etter (carrieetter.bsky.social). https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk Open for entries until 31 January 2025 with judges Jan Carson, Peace Adzo Medie, and Kate Johnson
@racheldawsonwrites.bsky.social
Welsh arty dyke. Wrote 'Neon Roses'. Comms @ Common/Wealth Theatre. Trustee @ Seren Books. Mentor @ Literature Wales. Writer & teacher (&Mam!) other places too. Email hello@racheldawson.cymru.
@emilymidorikawa.bsky.social
Author of Out of the Shadows. Coauthor of A Secret Sisterhood. English-Japanese woman in Washington DC.
@louisepowell.bsky.social
Middlesbrough author, playwright & poet. Sid Chaplin Northern Writers' Award Winner 2023. #CommonPeople Anthology & BBC New Creative. Represented by Elise Middleton (YMU Literary). PhD in English. Image Credit: Colin Davison.
@michaelediaz.bsky.social
Fiction author, absurd & literary, psychotherapist, mental health expert. Work here: https://michaelediaz.com/ (Michael Pearson/ Michael E. Diaz) #writingcommunity #horrorwriterschat #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #booksky📚💙
@kieranstories.bsky.social
North West | Stories in The London Magazine, Free Flash Fiction and elsewhere https://kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/
@jenniferbeworr.bsky.social
American & British reader/writer living in🇨🇭with a stash of builders tea and a stack of old New Yorker mags. Smith College alum ♾️.
@jenbowden12.bsky.social
Journalist | Writer repped by @liverpoollit @brendo_ed | Editor | Northern Voices podcast | Dr of Northern stories | #TeamHorn | Pityakker linktr.ee/jenbowden12
@karislousirak.bsky.social
PhD Researcher, amateur photographer, freelance researcher, writer, and ethnographic researcher. Public art, reading, birds, wildlife, the coast, Lego, SciFi TV, folklore (Peg Power 💚), doodler.📍NE Eng, UK. https://linktr.ee/karislousirak
@cdelull.bsky.social
🌈🔗 Pre order Cacoethes - a bisexual sugar baby novel: https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/cacoethes-paperback 📽️I'm like if an old man was a girl. She/her. 🎭Novelist & screenwriter, good at funny with a side of sad. 📍Manchester(ish)
@dlgladwin.bsky.social
My novella Coldwell is out in Summer 25 via Road Song. Stories at: Wensum Literary Magazine https://wensumlit.co.uk/issue-4-autumn-2023/ Further exploring: Echtrai http://anmorstudio.uk
@markcorrinmusic.bsky.social
Manchester based producer, musician and DJ recently featured on BBC6 Music Freak Zone and more! #markcorrin #electronica #ambient #musicsky #manchester #microtonal https://open.spotify.com/artist/7CDg1594UOvJgxZnE1XlM9?si=sXfX0GUhTVynMdqv6DPrOQ
@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
@rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
Writer, March Violet, secret medievalist, FRSL✨ Not cynical; just been taking notes. Novels:The Fates(Quercus) Palace of Curiosities, Vixen, Night Brother(Borough) Poems:Nine Arches March Violets: @marchvioletsband.bsky.social http://www.rosiegarland.com
@shelleyr-j.bsky.social
Writer of short fiction and dramatic monologue, connoisseur of cake, coveter of cats, lecturer of creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University. https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/shelley-roche-jacques
@katieam.bsky.social
Historical novelist, book lover & freelance writer/editor with ME/CFS. Currently writing about a 1930s spirit medium. 📚 CBC breakthrough mentee 2024 📚 MMA mentee 2022 https://linktr.ee/katieandersonmorrison
@doorisajarmag.bsky.social
Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey. Always open for submissions (guidelines on our website) https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
@tabithapotts.bsky.social
✍️ Writer, host on Story Radio Podcast 🎙️, social media addict. Pro-EU 🇪🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 and anti-broligarchy. 📖 👻 Gothic horror novel out in 2026 with @rowanprosepub. 🚫 DMs and 🤖 blocked 🔗 https://linktr.ee/tabithapotts
@drjamesbailey.bsky.social
Writer who lives in Manchester. Rep’d by Creative Artists Agency. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, is out in April 2026 🐈⬛ Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
@shelleyday.bsky.social
Author. Geordie lass. Lives Paris/Edinburgh. Currently writing memoir/short stories. Also makes art books as agnès grey and gives them away.
@najpullen.bsky.social
Author of The Black Hunger, a queer gothic historical horror novel, out now on Orbit Books. Sometime historian, campfire guitarist, wreck diver pining for the Great Lake They Call Gitchee Gummee. Gay Yukoner. (He/Him)
@jamestopham.bsky.social
Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner. https://james-topham.com
@bongosherbert.bsky.social
Writer, Blogger, PhD Researcher & Environmentalist. Published in The Guardian, Mechanics Institute Review online & narrator of films for Channel 4 #writer
@zenabarrie.bsky.social
Co-Director of Camden Fringe Works at Cōnfingō Publishing Writes things, reads things, goes to watch things
@flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
Manc independent publisher with a conscience. M.D. Isabelle Kenyon 2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year! Sustainable, political and accessible www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk