David Kendall
Big Issue #changemaker, Co-director of Penned Up https://pennedup.org.uk/ - a literary festival curated with people in prison for people in prison.
@isabellamcrae.bsky.social
Senior reporter at the Big Issue | Get in touch with me at [email protected]
@bigissue.com
The UK’s number one street paper and social enterprise. 📰 Follow us for news, culture, and to support our mission to dismantle poverty in the UK.
@shonaminson.bsky.social
Women's Justice Board member BBC New Generation Thinker Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford Family law/ criminal law intersections. Children's rights. Procedural Justice Creative public engagement. Once upon a time I was a barrister
@geesetheatre.bsky.social
Theatre company working in criminal justice and social welfare settings.
@jessicaturtle.bsky.social
Director, Museum of Homelessness Content most likely about homelessness, trauma, recovery, living on a boat in London, running a museum, cats etc
@doctoroxford.com
Palliative care doctor 🩺 Author (The Story of a Heart, Breathtaking, Dear Life etc) 📚 Co-founder Hospice Ukraine 🇺🇦 Rep: Clare Alexander at Aitken Alexander 📝 www.doctoroxford.com
@shazknit.bsky.social
Labour Camden Councillor | Beneficiary of free school meals | Trade Union Rep | European | Literary knitter. 🇺🇦🇪🇺
@jeantrounstine.com
!!Short Stories-MOTHERLOVE, March 21, 2024. Prof. & Prison Activist, Author/editor 7 books including SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS (St. Martins), BOY WITH A KNIFE, (IGpublishing). Writer for Truthout, BINJreports, BostonMag --- - https://jeantrounstine.com
@bshelburne.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, teacher, podcaster. Mama, wife, pal to assorted humans. Most brave except with roaches.
@peteralanross.bsky.social
New book, Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland, will be published by Headline on September 11, 2025.
@ameranwar.com
Author of crime thrillers. Avid reader. Huge movie and TV fan. Buy books faster than I can read them. My house is one big TBR pile. London, UK.
@weepingbank.bsky.social
Tales after dark - researched & read by The Librarian (Est.2009) www.weepingbank.com FB & Instagram: @weepingbanklibrary
@nicholasroyle.bsky.social
Writer. Latest: Shadow Lines (Salt). Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
@foreigncorr1.bsky.social
Journalist, photographer, broadcaster, painter. Contributing Foreign Editor @heraldscotland @ScotNational Contributor @BBCScotland @BBCWorld - www.davidpratt.co.uk - views own
@faithspear.bsky.social
Lead author, The Criminal Justice Blog; prison-reform advocate; criminal-justice system commentator; criminologist thecriminaljusticeblog.com
@andreanhj.bsky.social
playful creative explorer | exhibition maker | PhD researcher #BehindTheClosedCellDoor #kindness #prisons #museums #coproduction #GoodTrouble she/her
@fruishfruish.bsky.social
Producer/ Writer working in prisons for 20+ years Kiss My ASBO http://lepusbooks.co.uk/kiss-my-asbo THE SENTENCE @ The British Library. (Via Resonance FM) 1 sentence 46,000 1 syllable words https://m.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-sentence-7-may-2018/
@janefraserwriter.bsky.social
Writer in Gower, Wales. Short story collections 'The South Westerlies' & 'Connective Tissue' published by Salt. Novel 'Advent' published by Honno & winner of Paul Torday Memorial Prize. Rep'd by Gaia Banks, Sheil Land Associates. www.janefraserwriter.com
@henriquecarvalho.bsky.social
Critical criminal and criminalisation, punishment and justice, legal, social, political and cultural theory.
@ana-chamberlen.bsky.social
Working @ Dept. of Sociology at Warwick University. Researching prisons; punishment; gender & criminal justice; arts & aesthetic injustice. Current project: www.captivearts.co.uk (AHRC). Profile: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/chamberlen/
@jonbcollins.bsky.social
Chief Executive of Prisoners’ Education Trust and criminal justice nerd.
@benjarman.uk
Criminologist and prison researcher. Scholar of punishment, fascinated by human extremes. Husband of better half, Quaker, lover of silence, servant of unquiet spaniel and toddler. https://benjarman.uk for more on my work.
@drhannahgraham.bsky.social
Criminologist and academic | Associate Director @thesccjr.bsky.social | Commissioner, Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission | Scottish politics #ScotPol | Personal account/views. 📍 Scotland 🏴
@andyaitchison.bsky.social
Freelance documentary #photographer, working since 1991. Covering most subjects, Climate solutions, Unions, Campaigns, Social & Criminal Justice, specialise in photographing in UK prisons. Visit my website: www.andyaitchison.uk for more.
@justicefocus.org
Criminology Lecturer- Uni of Bath. Researching the Coloniality of Justice. Teaching decoloniality, critical approach to Human Rights, “race” & racism, global crimes of the powerful. Host of Justice Focus Podcast
@sathnam.bsky.social
Writer @thetimes. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. Join me on my Empireworld tour in 2025. Pre-order my book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador in 2026. www.sathnam.com
@sarahhilary.bsky.social
'Downright dangerous' (Mick Herron). Crime writer. SHARP GLASS out now. ND. She/her.
@nmcooks.bsky.social
🇧🇷🇬🇧🇳🇿 Head of Food Education @foodbehindbars 👩🏽🍳 all things prison reform, cooking, rugby & animals. views my own.
@peterjukes.bsky.social
Dramatist wrenched out of fiction 10 years ago by the fierce urgency of fact (& Murdoch crimes). Co founder @Byline.com and @BylineTimes.bsky.social - myself here
@sarahhutchings.bsky.social
Writer and housesitter. From Brighton, but currently living in Portugal 🇵🇹 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
@yvonnejewkes.bsky.social
Criminologist. Memoirist @ScribeUKbooks. Writer in Residence HMP Grendon and HMP Rye Hill. Creative writing tutor Freedom to Write. Agent Eleanor Birne @rcwlitagency https://linktr.ee/YvonneJewkes
@dickie-dunn.bsky.social
Sometime poet, often new music detectorist, do an alternative music podcast 'Sonic Nomads' w/ Musomuso.com Post-punk, alt, indie, darkwave etc Proudly aging goth & unconvicted flamingo worrier 🎶KEEP LOCAL MUSIC (A)LIVE🎶
@stephenmay1.bsky.social
'Spry sardonic voice.' (Hilary Mantel) Last book #SellUsTheRope Next book #Greenink Publisher @_SwiftPress Agent: @EuanThorneycrof
@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief of Byline Times. Journalist. Writer. Speaker. Curious explorer of the forces that shape us. Outside. Looking in. Identities. Politics. Media. Culture. Nuance. Complexities. Contact: [email protected] / hardeepmatharu.wordpress.com
@adey70.bsky.social
I write for The Big Issue about arts and culture and stuff. SE London, via Derby, Cov, N London and Glasgow.
@janeannie.bsky.social
Writer / Editor / Broadcaster / Socialist / Dylanologist / Books Ed The Big Issue / book Letter to my Younger Self: Inspirational Women out now. Glasgow
@danigaravelli.bsky.social
Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
@waltontiger.bsky.social
Castleford Tigers RL and Everton FC, Cat loving craft beer drinking layabout, collected kids now moved on to grandkids…
@lrp.blog
Truth above Delusion, Growth above Comfort, Wisdom and Knowledge above all. 📚 ❯ 🦆 ❯ #Birder, Husband & Blogger. 🐦 Staring at a talking box is not for me 😳📺 Proud Gen Xer. Writing over at... lrp.blog 📧 [email protected]
@mjohnharrison.bsky.social
New novel: Serpent's Tail 2026, no title as yet Blog: https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/about Profile pic: C Phillips
@adamroberts.bsky.social
Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction. https://profadamroberts.substack.com/
@kitdewaal.com
Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use [email protected]
@karlwiderquist.bsky.social
Political philosopher & economist focused on distributive justice. Writes about Basic Income; the ethics of poverty, freedom, inequality, & other stuff. Works at Georgetown-Qatar. Lives in New Orleans. Website: Widerquist.com, email [email protected]
@willcoldwell.bsky.social
Freelance journalist. Words in The Guardian, GQ, FT Mag, Wired, 1843 Magazine, Prospect, The Observer and beyond Get in touch: [email protected] willcoldwell.com
@msclairebiddles.bsky.social
“the glamorous node of glasgow”–grant morrison // writing about music + films @ the wire, the guardian, the tribune, quietus, tone glow, singles jukebox etc // big opinions @ overinvested podcast // https://clairebiddles.carrd.co/
@wildtwin.bsky.social
Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer. Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books) Wild Twin was published by Little Toller on 18th Sept