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A free creative writing class and workshop for adult learners, supporting libraries and communities in Bath and North East Somerset.
@darlingaxe.com
Novel development & editing services. Our editors are industry experts and award-winning writers. Take your manuscript to the next level. DarlingAxe.com
@aerithgirl.bsky.social
Niche 🫖 Lady 💁♀️ YouTube: aerithgirll TikTok/X/IG/Rednote: aerithgirl
@bluevilla.org
Literary mag 📖 Est. 2023 🏙️ Bluevilla.org 🔗 Discord.gg/xVkWr5BJjk 👾 It’s a privilege to study sonder. 📖
@halfbakedprompts.bsky.social
Random story stuff to get you writing. Run the gauntlet by responding to all 150 prompts, found here -> https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5czgnb5wwkj2jlu7mdqciavg/feed/aaahxs3zqd77m
@facultybookshelf.bsky.social
Website dedicated to featuring books by academic authors. https://www.facultybookshelf.org
@elencaldecott.bsky.social
I write children's fiction. I puppy-wrangle. Hoffi coffi. If there's dancing, I'm in. Senior Lecture, Creative Writing at Lancaster. Published Bloomsbury, OUP, Andersen Press. All jokes my own. She/her
@carrieetter.bsky.social
Poet and novelist, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at U of Bristol | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bath, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
@mimithebo.bsky.social
Author/Academic “…movingly explores the interconnectedness of our minds, bodies, spirituality and physical environment…” MA, PhD, SFHEA, RLF / Multi-Carnegie nominee/Repped by Lydia Silver at Darley Anderson (LFG, Chiefs)
@oliverklangmead.bsky.social
CALYPSO out now from Titan Books // Lecturer at Lancaster
@joannanadin.bsky.social
Professor of writing books, Sunday Times bestseller, Manic Pixie Essex Girl. Never knowingly underdressed. She/her. Here for ALL the witches. And the pigeons. https://joannanadin.com/ https://instagram.com/jonadin
@zdmarriott.bsky.social
Novelist, RLF Fellow, PhD Candidate at the Open University. Working class autistic spoonie. Aro/ace. She/they. Very proud to be represented by @agentkateshaw.bsky.social. THE MOONLIT MAZE is coming from @headlinebooks.bsky.social 2025! No dms pls.
@chaletfan.bsky.social
Author of How To Be Free, How To Be Brave & How To Be True. I also research school stories, juvenilia, and girlhood in children's books. didyoueverstoptothink.com
@darrenchetty.bsky.social
Welsh Indian South African Dutch Londoner. PhD in Philosophy of Education. Antiracist Dialogic Pedagogy. Children's Books. Teaching & Writing. Rep: Rachel Mann, CAA
@ginablaxill.bsky.social
YA author of twisty thrillers. Classic crime enthusiast, coffee drinker and cat parent. Not as dark as my books! Latest: LOVE YOU TO DEATH (Scholastic, 2023). Essex Libraries Author in Residence 2024.
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen' Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth' Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
@whyiwrite.bsky.social
Author of Remembered and Curdle Creek, former editor at John Murray, Academic at Cambridge Uni, event host and podcaster. I also write kidlit, short scripts, nonfiction essays, poems
@nessharbour.bsky.social
Author. 📚♿️PhD. Academic. Programme Leader BA Creative Writing. Uni of Winchester. SoA. Always looking for the positive in a complicated life
@judithheneghan.bsky.social
Novels SNEGUROCHKA and also BIRDEYE (Salt), rep Lutyens & Rubinstein, leads MA Creative Writing at Winchester Uni, mentor for Jericho Writers, mother of tall ones, out for a walk.
@taniahershman.bsky.social
Queer writer of odd things: stories/poems/hybrids. New hybrid CNF book coming 2025. Permissioner, founder of Unbox Your Words. She/they 🏳️🌈 www.taniahershman.com; https://taniahershman.substack.com/; https://www.instagram.com/tania_hershman_writes
@sambeckbessinger.bsky.social
Novelist, creative writing lecturer & aspiring bog witch. FEMME FERAL (my perimenopausal werewolf novel) is out summer 2026 🐺 www.sambeckbessinger.com She/her 🏳️🌈🇿🇦🇬🇧
@emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social
Writes fiction & non-fiction, teaches, blogs @ This Itch of Writing https://linktr.ee/emmadarwinwriter
@lilydunn.bsky.social
Sins of My Father ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Guardian Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Academic. Memoir lover. #lifewriting Co-founder @londonlitlab.bsky.social Find me here: https://lilydunn.substack.com/
@drlornagibb.bsky.social
Writer, Fiction & Non-fiction. Associate Professor Stirling. Rep'd by Peter Straus at RCW. New book out 2025 Rare Tongues - Secret Stories of Hidden Languages (Atlantic & Princeton). Also biographer and novelist. Once a phonologist..
@pressfuturist.bsky.social
Lecturer in Publishing at the University of Stirling. Researcher of smartphone storytelling. Authors of seven books for Amber on Paris, London, Scotland, cemeteries (twice), chess, & dragons. Erstwhile doer of other things. Baritone. Often mediocre. He/Him
@gitaralleigh.bsky.social
Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doctor. Kids: The Destiny of Minou Moonshine 🐘 The Voyage of Sam Singh 🦜 @zephyrbooks.bsky.social Poetry: Siren 🧜🏽♀️ @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social A Terrible Thing 🧝🏽♀️ (Bad Betty Press) https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
@chennessybooks.bsky.social
Writer, book critic, creative writing facilitator. Latest book: IN THE MOVIE OF HER LIFE (short stories, Doire Press, 2025). Website: http://www.clairehennessy.com/ Blog: https://clairehennessy.substack.com/ Workshops: https://www.clairehennessy.com/store
@shelleyharris.bsky.social
Writer (JUBILEE and VIGILANTE, W&N), Creative Writing lecturer at the University of Reading. Dogs, food and various forms of anguish.
@catherinespooner.bsky.social
Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her
@lucyenglish.bsky.social
Spoken word poet, novelist, poetry filmmaker. Professor of Creative Enterprise, co-director of Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival. Loves trees. https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0034P8U64 https://canceralleyproject.com https://thebookofhours.org
@kkwiltshire.bsky.social
Reader in Creative Writing, love reading, love writing! Programme Leader for Creative Writing and convenor for the Fiction Writer’s Network research group at EHU, former British Academy Innovation Fellow - but views all my own.
@jlimburg.bsky.social
Writer, poet, creative writing lecturer, autistic, Jewish, likes cats. Latest book Letters to my Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood.
@bookwormvaught.bsky.social
Author, Creative Writing & English teacher, entrepreneur, #Curae prize, editor, mum of 3 lads. Rep. @keslupo Maass Agency, NYC. Wilts, Wales, Southern US https://linktr.ee/bookwormvaught?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=00043ddf-6cad-43e1-8c8a-d89
@notrockyhorror.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
@lucysweetman.bsky.social
Writer, lecturer, something else. Meet me here for writing, HE, politics, culture and sport. Life, then. Now writing @ https://lucy-sweetman-writing.ghost.io/
@rebeccatamas.bsky.social
🌿 Poet & nonfiction writer. ‘Strangers: Essays on the Human & Nonhuman’ w/Makina Books. 'WITCH' w/Penned in the Margins. (https://makinabooks.com/product/strangers/)
@zoestrachan.bsky.social
Author, mainly of fiction. Sound art. Professor of Creative & Interdisciplinary Practice at University of Glasgow. Books, cats, coffee.
@erinvincent.bsky.social
Author of Grief Girl (Penguin Random House US/Pan Macmillan Aus) / PhD Candidate www.erinvincent.com
@writercrow.bsky.social
Writer of books, lecturer of creative writing, sometime Guardian/Bookseller/Stylist journalist. The Illumination of Ursula Flight + Badly Behaved Women.
@huwlewisjones.bsky.social
Author and Expedition Leader. Books: The Writer’s Map, Explorers Sketchbooks, Swallowed by a Whale, Bad Apple, Blue Badger, Clive Penguin, Are Wolves Afraid of the Dark? etc. Teach by day, write by night, icebergs in my holidays. 🐧📚❄️
@robertsheppard.bsky.social
Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
@jencalleja.bsky.social
Writer of FAIR / GOBLINHOOD / VEHICLE, translator of German-lang lit, publisher of Maltese lit at Praspar Press. Tutor, Granta Writers’ Workshop. Hastings, UK. www.jencalleja.com
@larapawson.bsky.social
#STOPGAZAGENOCIDENOW #ENDTHEOCCUPATION https://unstrunglarapawson.com/
@janealexander.bsky.social
Author, The Flicker Against the Light, A User's Guide to Make-Believe, The Last Treasure Hunt. https://linktr.ee/janealexander. Teach CW @ UoE. She/her. janealexander@net
@bethunderdown.bsky.social
Novelist with Penguin Viking, creative writing teacher with the University of Manchester and Faber Academy. Hiking, gardening, crochet, coeliac disease: old-person stuff.
@jenbowden12.bsky.social
Journalist | Writer repped by @liverpoollit @brendo_ed | Editor | Northern Voices podcast | Dr of Northern stories | #TeamHorn | Pityakker linktr.ee/jenbowden12