Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎

@kovesi.bsky.social

Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures. Editor, John Clare Society Journal. Londoner loving Glasgow.

@ashapiechowska.bsky.social

Linguist, PGCert educator, beginning writer, ‪@uniofnottingham.bsky.social‬ graduate, immigrant. Born in Poland, local to Nottingham, UK. Speaker of English, Polish, French & Russian. Learning German.

@timothycbaker.bsky.social

Lectures on Scottish and contemporary literature, writes about animals, tries to be hopeful. He/they. Currently trying to open a cinema in Aberdeen.

@kowalikgeorge.bsky.social

Writer & researcher. Author of 'Hybrid Novels: Post-postmodernism, Sincerity, and Race at the Turn of the 21st Century' (Routledge, forthcoming). Academic Development Tutor at GCU London.

@sarahdavywrites.bsky.social

Writer, Mentor, Facilitator. Wrangler of authors for book festivals. Usually writing short stories & scripts or watching telly. Winner Finchale Prize #NorthernWritersAwards 2023 https://linktr.ee/sarahdavywrites

@katedoyle.bsky.social

American writer in Amsterdam // “I Meant It Once" from Algonquin Books (US) and Corsair (UK) in 2023 // www.katedoylewriter.com

@s-carden.bsky.social

Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for poetry, 2024. Lecturer at UHI Shetland. Anthropologish. Teaches on MA Art and Social Practice etc. From (the real) Newcastle, County Down. https://www.siuncarden.com

@kazbarwrites.bsky.social

Award-winning writer & author of 'Cold Toast' (Dahlia Books) out May '25 Wigleaf Top 50 & Winner of Bath Flash Fiction Award, The Forge Flash Nonfiction prize, Manchester Writing School's 'QuietManDave' prize Website: kamwords.com

@gillistories.bsky.social

Debut novelist seeking rep/folklore/magic/historical/Wales/shortlisted VSPritchett Prize 2024 I s/l BSSA 2022 I London Library Emerging Writer 2021 I🏆 Mslexia SS winner 2020 I🏆MIR Folk Festival 2019 I Litro, MIR, Gramarye,

@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

@aimeegodfrey.bsky.social

Poet & Reviewer // Poems in The Stinging Fly, Banshee, ROPES, The Honest Ulsterman Washing Windows IV & Others /Review in Poetry Ireland Review 143

@gphibbett.bsky.social

black poet / essayist / mfa dropout phd @ tcd english High Jump as Icarus Story (Banshee Press, 2024) https://bansheepress.org/shop/p/high-jump-as-icarus-story-by-gustav-parker-hibbett

@laurenodonovanw.bsky.social

Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award | Fool for Poetry Chapbook Comp | Cúirt New Writing Prize | Southword Poetry Prize | Howl New Irish Writing & Lime Square Poets | Arts Council Supported

@liamjhogan.bsky.social

Award winning #Shortstory #Writer #SciFi 📚: A Short History of the Future, Northodox Press #Fantasy 📚: Happy Ending Not Guaranteed, Arachne Press Oxford Physics, Codexian. Everything, Ever ✍️: http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk

@drdominicdean.bsky.social

Researcher, teacher and author (most recently of Killing Children in British Fiction from SUNY Press, 2024). I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Ishiguro, migration, and intergenerational conflict. Based in Sussex. Own views.

@alhub.bsky.social

Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. I write experimental fiction, and research the relationship between literature, politics, and place.

@gsliii.bsky.social

Writer of no great renown, teacher & librarian. Six books. EIC: Southernmost Books. Nancy Dew Taylor Poetry Prize; finalist Terry J. Cox Poetry Award. P&W listing: https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/steve_lambert

@saracrowley.bsky.social

Writer. Reader. Human. Managing editor at The Forge Literary Magazine. Winner of the Excellence in Prison Libraries Award.

@tcboudreau.bsky.social

All We Knew Were Our Hearts (novel, ELJ Editions), Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever (stories, Stanchion Books), & Stepdad on the Dance Floor (stories, Unsolicited Press) coming in '26. Editor at The Loveliest Review. timothyboudreau.com. He/him

@alemckenzie.bsky.social

Writer | reader | painter #Jamaica 🇯🇲- #France The #Caribbean #Translation Project www.aleciamckenzie.com

@sarahesmith23.bsky.social

Houston Chronicle senior storyteller. Probably reading. [email protected]

@janiceleagra.bsky.social

Write|Art|Edit, she/her; unapologetic swearer & lover of naughty humor; hopeful cynic Once longlisted for Bridport Prize FF comp EIC: Janus Literary Visual Ed: Splonk Art portfolio: janiceleagra.myportfolio.com ally:🌈🩵🤍🩷 KINDNESS & INTEGRITY ALWAYS

@paulwrites7.bsky.social

Twin Cities disabled writer. Debut FRIENDLY FIRE: A FRACTURED MEMOIR (HarperCollins 2024). Also in Roxane Gay's The Audacity, Newsweek, SmokeLong, Wigleaf, San Francisco Chronicle. Read my stories and essays at https://paul-rousseau.com

@fuzzynick.bsky.social

Library manager. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-reviewed short stories collection 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' (Ad Hoc Fiction), available now from me or from your local Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Negative-Nick-Black/dp/1915247128/

@tenpennydreams.bsky.social

Northern writer. Author of The Disappeared. Stories in The London Reader, Reflex Press, Palm-Sized Press. Finalist: Mslexia Short Story Comp/Dinesh Allirajah Prize. Arts marketer. Writer in residence Durham Writes & Crossing the Tees. amylordauthor.com

@patrickkincaid.bsky.social

Doctor of Shakespeare, Master of Writing. Author of THE CONTINUITY GIRL. Novelist, editor, teacher. No AI.

@giantratsumatra.bsky.social

That again.

@englishsettlement.bsky.social

Bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, often coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Proudly a Memorial Device ANT

@jenbowden12.bsky.social

Journalist | Writer repped by @liverpoollit @brendo_ed | Editor | Northern Voices podcast | Dr of Northern stories | #TeamHorn | Pityakker linktr.ee/jenbowden12

@valeriavescina.bsky.social

Author, 'That Summer in Puglia' (2018). Creative-writing tutor, runs writing retreats in the Alps. Founder member @womenwritersnet. Lit Dir, Hampstead Arts Fest. Querying #HistFic novel inspired by true events in 16th-century Italy. Women's history nerd.

@morriscollins.bsky.social

2024 O. Henry Prize. Author of Horse Latitudes (Dzanc Books). New novel: The Tavern at the End of History (Dzanc Books, 2026). Bon vivant, abed by nine. Boston.

@jimodonnell2.bsky.social

Walker. Writer. Reader. Storyteller. Photographer. Author NOTES FOR THE AURORA SOCIETY and THE FOUNTAIN from @torreyhouse, speculative fiction, archaeology, history. Слава Україні! www.aroundtheworldineightyyears.com

@liambatespoet.bsky.social

NWCDTP-funded PhD student @MMU/ Northern Writers’ Award for Poetry winner / Human Townsperson (Broken Sleep Books) out now www.liambatespoet.com

@helentookey.bsky.social

Poet. Writer. Based in Liverpool, UK. Published by Carcanet Press and Liverpool University Press.

@smallgoodpodcast.bsky.social

"A Small, Good Thing" is a podcast about short fiction, in which I get to discuss the short story form with academics, writers, publishers, and anyone who shares a passion for short stories. Instagram: @smallgoodpodcast [email protected]

@notquitewrite.com

🏆 Home of the #NotQuiteWritePrize for #FlashFiction | Quarterly 500-word comp. AU$4k in prizes + publication. Open to writers worldwide. 🎙️ Podcast hosted by Ed and Amanda | Conversations about media, culture and the art of writing | notquitewrite.com

@tonysreadinglist.bsky.social

Championing the wonders of translated fiction, one review at a time. Slightly older and more haggard than the photos suggest. Bitter at most things, really.

@mikekally.bsky.social

Love nature, learning about ecology. Based in Ireland. All pictures except reposts or otherwise credited are my own, and my phone's not great so don't expect too much 😉

@akscotland.bsky.social

Co-host of the @NotQuiteWrite Podcast and judge of the Not Quite Write Prize for #FlashFiction. Writes in the tiny spaces in between.

@joelhans.bsky.social

Author of THE BEDTIME EMPTYING OF OUR WORLD (late 2025, Moon City Press + Short Fiction Award) Forever writing fairy tales and fabulism. Dad-ing. Materializing @astrolabe.ooo. https://joelhans.com

@angelwriter.bsky.social

Author (Joy Ross Davis), photographer, animal lover, owner of a historic home. I worked as a travel agent and lived for a year in Ireland. Multi-award winning author of Southern paranormal fiction. No DMs. Amazon.com @writingcommunity.bsky.social

@wjdavies.bsky.social

Writer, critic. Essays, fiction and reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, Exacting Clam, Review 31, Poetry Birmingham. Author of Beckett and the Second World War (Bloomsbury) https://linktr.ee/wjdavies

@flewoutof.bsky.social

Poet! https://www.annajackson.nz/ she/her When I translate Catullus writing as Sappho, as Ariadne, as Attis, as Procne, am I bird or birdsong? The journey, or the backwards glance?

@kerryfiction.bsky.social

Fiction writer and editor. 3 collections of published short fiction; short and flash fiction in 70+ literary journals; nominee for Pushcart and Best Small Fictions of the Net.

@sudhab.bsky.social

Writer: Nose Ornaments, Runner-up Bath NIF '24; Things I Can't Tell Amma (Ad Hoc, UK, '21). Pubs: Fictive Dream, Doric Lit, CRAFT,SmokeLong, Fractured Best Microfic, Best Small Fic, Wigleaf Top 50. BathFlash HC/Shortlisted; Series Editor: Wigleaf Top 50

@annalisacrawford.bsky.social

Author. Loves chocolate, Wonder Woman, and Doctor Who. Dislikes heights, sweet potato, and running. Wishing Shelf Book Awards silver winner, Rubery Book Award finalist, and Costa Short Story Award 3rd placer. https://linktr.ee/Annalisa_Crawford

@starwuerdemann.bsky.social

Writer. Practicing my Buddhist name: Manjō (bountiful kindness). Bread Loaf '23. Pronounced WORD-a-man.

@siobhandowling.bsky.social

Dubliner, Ex-Berliner, Editor at Internationale Politik Quarterly @ipq.bsky.social. Doing an MPhil in literary translation at TCD. @tclctdublin.bsky.social she/her

@davidestringel.bsky.social

Latinx author+BoN/Pushcart nom 🖊 The Opiate, Cowboy Jamboree, Cephalopress, Drunk Monkeys, Punk Noir Press, Dreich, Streetcake Magazine, Literary Heist, Anxiety Press. EIC @theargylelitmag.bsky.social & @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social www.davidestringel.com

@elcurwen.bsky.social

Poet, broadcaster, journalist, ex-BBC presenter, sailor, sea-swimmer.