Stephen D'Evelyn
@foxandstarbooks.bsky.social
We publish poetry and fiction chapbooks by UK debut authors with an emphasis on global majority writers. Founder/editor: @carrieetter.bsky.social; co-editor: Kaycee Hill; interns: Sophia Di Maida and Matt Thorpe-Coles
@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
@shelleytrower.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus (Roehampton) now novel writing (ACE funded) & working with libraries (SWRLS) in Cornwall. Preoccupations incl. sound, trauma, memory, life stories, silence collectivism, environmental crisis & see e.g. https://linktr.ee/shelleytrower
@ladyliminal.bsky.social
Prehistorian & Contemporary Archaeologist. Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage. Surprised, but very proud #MDANT Neurodivergent person
@cathrynpearce.bsky.social
British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast
@pascalepetit.bsky.social
BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),’Tiger Girl’ shortlisted Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica’ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
@timhannigan.bsky.social
Writer: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, Indonesia; academic stuff on travel writing. From Cornwall. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo
@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
Writer, tea drinker & Uni Lecturer | Latest Short Stories, Flash Fiction & Poetry - Bridport, Bath, Oxford Flash, Strix, Fictive Dream | Novels - William Morrow & Harper Collins | Editor @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social https://www.katehorsley.co.uk
@petermcallister.bsky.social
Flash and short story writer. Reviewer and editor/co-founder at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social. Best small fictions nominee. Creative writing lecturer. Literary Festival committee member.
@gemmagoodman.bsky.social
Researching Cornish lit 19thc to the present. Current research project on sustainable screen production. Out now ALTERNATIVE CORNWALLS published by University of Exeter Press.
@lisawoollett.bsky.social
Writer & photographer of award-winning books about the sea, beachcombing & mudlarking | Sea Journal | Rag and Bone | Lost to the Sea - 'Wondrous, elegant and haunting' Philip Hoare lisawoollett.co.uk
@emilybarr.bsky.social
Writer of many things. YA: The Other Girl, is coming from Penguin in May 2025. Sci fi in the US as Evie Green Backpack, The Sleeper and various others, back in the day (and working on more) Screenwriting is incoming...
@emmatimpany.bsky.social
Writer of fiction about loss, belonging, nature and place | Botanical Short Stories (editor) | Three Roads | Travelling in the Dark | Cornish Short Stories (co-editor) | The Lost of Syros emmatimpany.wordpress.com https://lnk.to/BotanicalShortStories
@caradocpeters.bsky.social
Archaeology, Geology, Kernow (Cornwall), sometime Cousin Jack
@tfuller.bsky.social
Writer, one of Literature Works Wordspace cohort 2023/4, tandem rider, fair-weather wild swimmer
@jackietaylorwriter.bsky.social
Short fiction & poetry & hybrid things. MLitt Creative Writing University of Glasgow 2023. Strange Waters (@ArachnePress , 2021). Writer in Residence by the sea in Looe (Jan - March 2025).
@janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social
Writer (Secrets of the Bees out in Jun 2025; Black Crescent, White Hare, Sea Gate etc), publisher (GRRM, Hobb, Feist, Lawrence, Heartfield, Kaner, ex Tolkien), allotmenteer. History. Morocco/Cornwall. Covid is airborne 💙📚 #Writing #Books #FBPE
@philipmarsden.bsky.social
Author. Microfarmer. ‘Under a Metal Sky’ (Granta UK Feb ‘25, US Nov ‘25) also ‘The Summer Isles’, ‘Rising Ground’ etc. Lives in Cornwall.
@roriesmith.bsky.social
Ex UK journo. Living in Bordeaux, France. Still calls Cornwall home. Writing novels. Published by WriteSideLeft. Station Philosophers' Club available Feb 28 geni.us/StationPhilosophers website: https://roriesmithbooks.my.canva.site
@annachorlton.bsky.social
Writing in the Cornish wilds. Author of Cornish Folk Tales of Place
@graylight.bsky.social
I like to tell stories, mostly through poetry…occasionally performing them. Live in Cornwall (Kernow), Land of my Fathers. Socialist, Humanist. SWFC www.graylightfoot.co.uk
@lindawilgus.bsky.social
Author, debut novel THE SEA CHILD set in Cornwall pub'd by Simon & Schuster UK, Ballantine @ Random House and Penguin Canada Jan. 2026. Rep’d by Madeleine Milburn.
@acwilsonwriter.bsky.social
Writer, swimmer, reader, music-maker. Cornwall-based. Proper job. Here for fun & games & booknookery. Royal Literary Fund Fellow. London Writers’ Salon Coach. @acwilsonwriter.substack.com
@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
@johnironmonger.bsky.social
Bestselling novelist. Zoologist. Cruciverbalist. Husband. Dad. Grandpops. Festival Prize winner. Costa short-lister. And I've seen a Javan rhino.
@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
@literatureworks.bsky.social
We are a charity in South West England using words and stories to support creativity and wellbeing. We connect people and communities, nurture talent, and champion the power of storytelling, writing and reading. 📖 literatureworks.org.uk
@swrls.bsky.social
Uniting, inspiring, collaborating across libraries, information services and cultural organisations in the South West www.swrls.org.uk LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/swrls Chair of Trustees: Donna Gundry Coordinator: Shelley Trower
@jenniferedgecombe.bsky.social
Poems 'The Grief of The Sea' @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social + 'New Poetries VIII' @carcanet.bsky.social / fiction editor @headlinebooks.bsky.social / grow veg 🌱 jenniferedgecombe.weebly.com
@bexhogan.bsky.social
Author of YA (NETTLE, BLACK HEAT and VIPER, VENOM & VULTURE) and young MG (BRONTE TEMPESTRA series). Probably daydreaming. Or napping.
@jojakeman.bsky.social
Coffee drinking, Cornwall dwelling, cat wrangling, novelist and screenwriter. All views stolen from someone cleverer than me. ONE BAD APPLE 🍎 out now 📕
@amarkle.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Falmouth University. Canadian in the UK. Author of many short stories and the novel Bruise. Writing about class, gender, pedagogy, and sometimes sport. https://linktr.ee/adrianmarkle
@inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks https://inkfishmag.com
@ruthheholt.bsky.social
Prof of literature and culture. Gothic, crime, masculinity, ghosts. Lead of the Dark Economies Scholarly Association (dESA). Editor Rvenantjournal.com
@ben-smith-writer.bsky.social
Author and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing @exeter.ac.uk Doggerland (4th Estate) Writing, reading, surfing (in any order…)
@abeaumontbooks.bsky.social
🦉Folkloric books, folk music, gothic meanders 📚Indie Press 2025 Distinguished Favourite 🦌 Folk horror obsessed 🐉British Fantasy Soc London Event Org 🌊Books @brigidsgatepress
@joparsons.bsky.social
Researching #bonktastic #bonkbusters Senior Lecturer Falmouth Uni @EdinburghUP.bsky.social Series ed: #Gender and the #Body, and #19thC and #NeoVictorian Cultures Co-Ed #13CornishGhostStories #TalesoftheWeird #DoomedRomances #histsex
@ihussainwriter.bsky.social
Debut adult novel “Northern Boy” came out June 2024 (ABBA, Bollywood, cobbles) - rep Robert Caskie | working on debut children’s MG novel - rep Lucy Irvine @pfd | child of the 70s/80s
@natashacarthew.bsky.social
UNDERCURRENT, THE BOOK, OUT NOW | All enquiries Juliet Pickering @BlakeFriedmann 🔗 https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/natasha-carthew-3/undercurrent/9781399706513/
@joanpassey.bsky.social
BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | English Lecturer | UCU Rep | Haunted Shores Network | Victorian environments, coasts & seascapes 🌊 | Queer ecologies 🍄 | Gothic 👻 | she/they 🏳️🌈 https://joanpassey.co.uk/
@thecure-forever.bsky.social
The Cure: Songs Of A Lost World New Album AVAILABLE NOW! www.TheCure.com
@bobbafett.bsky.social
Vocal Coach, Ireland www.vma.ie (Shillelaghs and Shenanigans!) Likes Music & Football. 🔴⚫️
@clientearth.bsky.social
⚖️ We use the power of the law to protect people and the planet. 📍 London, Brussels, Warsaw, Madrid, Berlin, Beijing, Los Angeles, Tokyo 🌍 www.clientearth.org
@patriciadebney.com
Writer/Survivor/Activist. Award-winning four poetry collections, novel. Next: memoir re Child Sexual Abuse LEAVING LOCUST AVENUE. Extracts in blog. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 https://patriciadebney.com/ #CSA #ChildSexualAbuse #EDS #MCAS #writer #memoir