Shared Umbrellas
Supporting those proving extra care for themselves or a loved one. It can be isolating and often extremely challenging, now more than ever in these times of uncertain funding. You are not alone. Let’s help each other. #Disability #ChronicIllness #CareGiver
@barrowmember.bsky.social
Love nature, writing, arts & crafts, music, community, books, #SciComm, play & growing. Editor Ciadish.co.uk (for chronically ill and #disabled [CIAD] writers & the readers who love their books). Co-founder CripCoop.co.uk mutual support network #CripCoop
@pollyrowena.bsky.social
Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller. FRSL hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs she/her rep @PortyLiterary Basic Nest Architecture Much with Body Recovering Dorothy Some Of Us Just Fall The Company of Owls https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
@liapas.bsky.social
#SciArt symptomatology and #anatomy #embroidery, writing, and #MECFS. A bit of music too. Canadian settler. she/her. https://linktr.ee/lia_pas
@ashleyshoo.bsky.social
#PhilTech #STS #DisabilityStudies #Cyborg #Bioethics #DisCoTec. Disabled person. Strong opinions and typos my urn.
@michellefranklin.bsky.social
Author. Linguist. Scholar of interdisciplinary subjects. ✒ Understands about semicolons 🐺 Myndil's mum 🕹️ Games and Narrative @spaceboat.bsky.social 🎵 Metal enthusiast and vocalist 📖 33 books published https://www.patreon.com/newshortstories
@francesryan.bsky.social
Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? and Crippled. E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
@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
@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Disabled & chronically ill writer. Former theatre critic. Clean air is a human right & vulnerable people aren’t expendable. Covid is airborne 😷 https://www.disabledginger.com A redheaded snippet who loves Sondheim. Once fainted into Hugh Jackman.
@robinince.bsky.social
Latest book - Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal out 1st May Robinince.com
@barryryerson.bsky.social
Writer. Audio nerd. Ninja. Cat dad. He/him. Pan 🌈 Books: 📖 The Child of Fire and Earth (MG fantasy) 📖 The Magic Circle (YA/NA scifi fantasy) 📘 Origins (scifi short stories) Website: www.barryryerson.com Quick link to books: www.linktr.ee/bryerson
@effies.bsky.social
SFF/middle-grade fiction writer. Strategy/marketing consultant. Bagel the Dog's human. Dadjoke teller. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled with #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories
@concordmoose.bsky.social
Disabled Poets Prize 2024 ‘Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed’ https://bit.ly/3X1A8aQ ‘Skin the Rabbit’ out @The Braag 26/3/25. Writes about rivers, absurdity & time +Arts Council £. Half poet, half tutor, half clown. Sheffield. www.susiewilsonpoet.com
@ellemcnicoll.bsky.social
ND. Bestselling author and award winning screenwriter. Agent: Lauren Gardner. Winner of Blue Peter Award & Overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize, 21. Emmy nominated #AKindOfSpark streaming on BBC iPlayer now! https://linktr.ee/ellemcnicoll
@mailbykite.bsky.social
Cultural worker/buruh seni. Disabled, from JKT. Latest book: amuk (2024), next: ANNAH, INFINITE (2025). Also ULTIMATUM ORANGUTAN, ROPE, INDIGENOUS SPECIES, & I make art. https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/amuk
@mattkendrick.bsky.social
Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50 Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/ Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
@nicolaz.bsky.social
PhD. Novelist (Hild, Spear, Menewood). All things Early Medieval. Here: Cats, crips, queers. Books, beauty, beers. MS ♿️🧪📚 AND NOW: FIGHTING 👊 nicolagriffith.com Banner ID: B&W image—pint of Guinness flanked by 2 books flanked by 2 tabby cat
@nicwilson.bsky.social
Writer & Editor, Guardian Country Diarist, BBC Gardeners' World Mag. Rep: Cathryn Summerhayes, Curtis Brown. #Nature #Place #ChronicIllness Nature memoir: LAND BENEATH THE WAVES out 12 June Pre-order https://shorturl.at/LOt7x linktr.ee/nicwilsonautho
@sylphsea.bsky.social
writer, visual poet. An Orchid in my Belly Button (Elsewhen 2025) https://books2read.com/AnOrchidInMyBellyButton Fifty One Trillion Bits (Trickhouse Press) 100% housebound #mecfs #disability https:// whimsylph.wordpress.com
@louisekenward.bsky.social
Writer, Artist, Psychologist MOVING MOUNTAINS PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni. Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com Represented by Portobello Literary
@clairerwade.bsky.social
Author of THE CHOICE. Winner of the Good Housekeeping First Novel Competition. Founder of Authors with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses (ADCI). Winner of the RNA Inclusion Award. ♿️💜 She/her https://linktr.ee/clairerwade
@nydiawriter.bsky.social
Novelist. Sycorax out 27/02/25 pre-order now published by Quercus | A Girl Made of Air published by Quercus | Bowie fan | Chronic illness: RA | Cat friend.
@paulaknight.bsky.social
Author, illustrator, comics memoir THE FACTS OF LIFE (Myriad) Kidlit Books x3 Writing illustration comics poetry photography Disabled nonambulatory bedbased 6yr #pwME No DMs pls https://linktr.ee/paulajknight https://ko-fi.com/bedscape She/Her
@writebiggs.bsky.social
Reader, writer, sleeper agent Loves history, folklore & growing things ME + expansion packs ADCI network ♿️ | she/her Curtis Brown Breakthrough winner ‘24, Jericho Writers Mentorship, Novelry Octopus winner ‘23. LL Lucy Cavendish Prize ‘24
@everdundas.bsky.social
Writer: Goblin | HellSans Rep: Jenny Brown Associates Inklusion Guide co-founder Obsessed with Pearl Jam, Suede, The Sisters & Bauhaus #AutisticAF #QueerCrip #TransAlly (banner photo: The Abomination 🖤 from Lynch's Dune) https://linktr.ee/EverDundas
@beewyld.bsky.social
Disabled writer, carer, home-ed mother & apothecary gardener. Founder @WildWomenPress 🧙🏼♀️ Host Wild Women Writers’ Salons 📚Debut memoir ALL MY WILD MOTHERS (2023) @JohnMurrayPress. Cumbrian now living in Orkney 🦭
@marbledmayhem.bsky.social
Poet, publisher, essayist, crip—PhD on gender, genre & disability at NTU, Singapore. Vising PhD Fellow: IMH, Durham. Digital Editor at Osmosis Press. Debut collection: 712 Stanza Homes for the Sun (2023) (they/them)♿️🏳️⚧️
@jaxxi.bsky.social
•writer•vegan•sick for a living🌈🍀💙 Brotherton Prize 2024 - Live Canon Prize 2025
@travisclau.bsky.social
(he/him/his) Assistant Professor + Poet @ Kenyon: c18/c19 British Literature/History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)/Health Humanities/Disability Studies travisclau.com
@rickardsisters.bsky.social
Sisters who make graphic novels together including Eisner nominated The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and No Surrender with SelfMadeHero 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally ✊
@rickdove.bsky.social
Poet | UK Poetry Slam Champion 2021 | Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator | Activist 🏳️🌈♿️ ☮️ | 🔗 https://linktr.ee/rickdove |
@nmjk.bsky.social
The State of Me, HarperCollins, 2008 | Shortlisted Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2012 & 2023 | Love books, tulips, jazz, birds, French films | Novella-in-progress | Had ME since 1983 https://www2.societyofauthors.org/soa-member/nasim-marie-jafry/
@nordqvistbooks.bsky.social
Author IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD (Grand Central ‘26) | romance & fantasy | Spoonie | disabled | sensitivity reader | #SaltingTheVibes 😷 https://nordqvistbooks.com
@tambourine.bsky.social
instagram.com/sick.cinema 🥞 🫖 📚 sick poet / library mole london
@stephanieburgis.bsky.social
Fantasy writer, history geek, dark chocolate addict! Writes sparkling fantasy rom-coms for adults and fun MG fantasy adventures. She/her. linktr.ee/stephanieburgis
@fionaswriting.bsky.social
She/her, Disability Justice, feminist, equalities consultant, writer, performance poet. Zines, physics, poetry, politics, cats, accessibility, landscape, Scotland, complexity 🏴❤️🦕 https://linktr.ee/FionaRobertson
@sallywrites.bsky.social
MG author: Toby and the Silver Blood Witches, Max and Monty with Collins Primary Winner of the Book Bloggers' Novel of the Year Award 2022 Owned by three-legged rescue dog ME/CFS https://linktr.ee/SallyDoherty
@naturalistdara.bsky.social
20 ~ autistic ~ award winning author of ‘Diary of a Young Naturalist’ and the ‘Wild Child’ series ~ Nature Nerd and biology student ~ University of Cambridge. He/him 📍Co Down / Cambridge https://daramcanulty.com/
@rainewilson.bsky.social
Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Kavya & Saltire Awards SL | THE LAST TO DROWN 🌊 and WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST 👻 out now | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her http://linktr.ee/raine_clouds
@johnpring.bsky.social
Editor/founder of Disability News Service; author of The Department, published by Pluto Books, August 2024; disabled journalist and author; autistic.
@novicsara.bsky.social
Author TRUE BIZ + GIRL AT WAR 🧏🏻 deafie | 🌈 they/she/👉🏼 |📍Philly https://linktr.ee/Novic
@vikkipatis.bsky.social
Author of queer dark novels, aka Victoria Hawthorne. Scottish with an English accent. Owned by golden retrievers. Views mine. Not on Twitter. 🏴🏳️🌈🇵🇸 she/her https://linktr.ee/vikkipatis
@adapalmer.bsky.social
Novelist (SF, fantasy), historian (Renaissance Europe, intellectual history, Italy, classical reception), composer (filk, Viking stuff), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), food, cool photos of history (#SomethingBeautiful) Blog exurbe.com
@erinmorgenstern.bsky.social
Author of The Night Circus (2011) & The Starless Sea (2019), creator of The Phantomwise Tarot (2022). she/her. Ask me about my cat. https://linktr.ee/erinmorgenstern
@jlsmilges.bsky.social
Always all of my love, always all that I can hold. Author of #QueerSilence, #CripNegativity, and other words on crip, trans, and queer worlding. They/them. https://linktr.ee/jlsmilges
@annabookwriter.bsky.social
Author (The Ember of Elyssia Quartet, Fortune's Calling Trilogy, THE BRIDAL PARTY, THE PRINCE WITH SIX FACES). Dice roller. Disability justice advocate. All opinions mine. All around nerd. https://linktr.ee/annaholmeswritesbooks (She/they) ♿️🏳️🌈
@louiestowell.bsky.social
Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
@spoonieauthnet.bsky.social
A community initiative for authors and publishing professionals who manage spoons. Founded by Cait Gordon. (Logo is a grey spoon in the center of an open book of light purple and dark grey pages.) Our website is spoonieauthorsnetwork.com
@caitgauthor.bsky.social
Disabled, autistic, and queer. Author of the award-winning, disability-hopepunk adventure, Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! Award-winning co-editor of the disability fiction anthology, Nothing Without Us Too. I also like cake. (She/her) 🇨🇦