Walter Scott Prize
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@gabriellekent.bsky.social
Writer - Knights and Bikes, Alfie Bloom. Co-creator of Rani Reports (as Gabrielle Shewhorak) and Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch with @rhi.bsky.social. Former game developer/lecturer. Agent- @Hannahlitagent.bsky.social
@colmoregan.bsky.social
Comedian, author (Bolloxology AnnDevine Three Irish Mammies Books Climate Worrier) broadcaster, MC event host, TV narrator/voiceover, Irish Examiner columnist podcaster The Function Room Podcast
@patriciascanlan.bsky.social
Author. Series Editor Open Door books. Half Dub half culchie. Loves Wickla and country life. Hates book snobbery. Also on @[email protected]
@lyndalaplante.bsky.social
Lynda La Plante, CBE. Author of 40+ bestselling books. Creator and screenwriter of over 170 hrs of television, including Prime Suspect & Widows. http://lyndalaplante.com
@hollowaywriter.bsky.social
The Language of Remembering, my debut novel, out in February 2025. Work in The Stinging Fly, The London Magazine, Irish Times, Irish Examiner. Winner of Bath Short Story Award 2023. Agent Eleanor Birne, RCW https://bio.site/patrickholloway
@fotoole.bsky.social
Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
@briangdillon.bsky.social
Writer. AFFINITIES, ESSAYISM & SUPPOSE A SENTENCE published by Fitzcarraldo & NYRB. GONE TO EARTH (on Hounds of Love) & AMBIVALENCE (on education) forthcoming.
@caoilinnhughes.bsky.social
Irish novelist and short story writer. Author of THE WILD LAUGHTER, ORCHID & THE WASP and THE ALTERNATIVES, coming April 2024 with Riverhead and Oneworld.
@sarahmaintains.bsky.social
Poet, Community Worker, LGBTQIA+ Politics, Climate Action FREE PALESTINE
@ermurray.bsky.social
Writer of novels, essays, short fiction & poetry. Novels include The Nine Lives Trilogy (The Book of Learning, The Book of Shadows, The Book of Revenge) & Caramel Hearts. Rep'd: Sallyanne Sweeney She/her #workingclass #blacklivesmatter
@rorygleeson.bsky.social
Writerfella: Rockadoon Shore | Blood in the Dirt | Psychic Print, Screen & Audio stylings for BBC, Granta, RTÉ, Dublin Review. I was on The Chase. https://linktr.ee/rorygleeson
@naoisedolan.bsky.social
Irish novelist, essayist and critic. Author of EXCITING TIMES (2020) & THE HAPPY COUPLE (2023) / https://linktr.ee/naoisedolan / labhair Gaeilge liom
@clarakiyoko.bsky.social
From Ireland, Japan and Canada Author of CATFISH ROLLING🌊 SONGS FOR GHOSTS out 2025 👻 Writer and reader she/her
@christinebreen.bsky.social
In Kiltumper, we write, we garden, we read, we make art…Niall Williams’ most recent novel is ‘Time of the Child’ Four Letters of Love is out mid July
@megcathwrites.bsky.social
Books, poems and trees 😌 Author of five novels-in-verse with Little Island 🧡 📍Donegal meg-grehan.com
@adellestripe.bsky.social
Human Swiss Army Knife. Professional Earwig. Author of Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, Ten Thousand Apologies and Base Notes: The Scents of a Life. https://bio.site/adellestripe
@fergalkinney.bsky.social
Culture Editor of Tribune / also writes at New Statesman, The Guardian, The Quietus, The Face
@juderogers.bsky.social
Journalist @guardian @obsnewreview @newstatesman, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Music, culture, books, people 🤓
@newwritingnorth.bsky.social
The writing and reading development agency for the North of England.
@heidijames.bsky.social
Writer (The Sound Mirror, So the Doves) Podcast (First Graft) Academic
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
We make books! An independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes. ✨📚
@eanstruther.bsky.social
Writer. Latest novel, In Judgement of Others, out now https://linktr.ee/eleanoranstruther
@cbeditions.bsky.social
Writer and publisher (CB editions, 2007 to now: www.cbeditions.com)
@melvillehouse.bsky.social
An independent publisher based in Brooklyn, US and London, UK.
@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social
Located in Nashville, Tennessee, TMB publishes fiction, poetry, music history, history, speculative fiction, and more. Visit thirdmanbooks.com to view our full catalog and also for submission guidelines.
@stuhennigan.bsky.social
Writer, poet, editor, musician. Ghost Signs (Bluemoose 2022) Keshed (Ortac, Feb 2026) Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, pub. tbc) #MDANT https://stuhennigan.substack.com/ https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/4207/stu-hennigan
@matosman.bsky.social
Suede bassist. Author - The Ghost Theatre out now via Bloomsbury. Producer/composer. Didz at Quietus for musical stuff, Victoria Hobbs at AM Heath for books
@markcousinsfilm.bsky.social
Filmmaker/writer. The Story of Film/Dear Orson Welles/A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Women Make Film/I am Belfast/My Name is Alfred Hitchcock/The Story of Looking/Atomic/Stockholm My Love/Life May Be/Bigger than The Shining http://www.markcousins.org
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social
Journalist (Guardian/Observer, MOJO, BBC Culture, the i), podcaster (Origin Story, Oh God What Now?) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
@philiphensher.bsky.social
Author of 12 novels, most recently To Battersea Park. Comes with schnauzer.
@carolmorleyfilm.bsky.social
Filmmaker Writer Director https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2024/oct/05/mark-kermode-on-carol-morley-typist-artist-pirate-king-the-alcohol-years-dreams-of-a-life-the-falling-out-of-blue
@heawood.bsky.social
Wrote a bestselling memoir for Penguin Random House about the time I moved to Hollywood and accidentally became someone’s mother. Read more on heawood.substack.com
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
Founded in 1974, Graywolf Press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature.
@deadinkbooks.bsky.social
Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool https://linktr.ee/deadinkbooks
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc Nature, climate, people. Prof at Cambridge. https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
@tracychevalier.bsky.social
Author (Girl with a Pearl etc). Maker. Best advice: Less is more. Website: https://tracychevalier.com/
@kandasamy.bsky.social
Poet & Novelist ¦ Fellow, Royal Society of Literature ¦ Winner PEN Hermann Kesten Prize '22 ¦ Shortlisted Womens Prize ¦ Fellow IWP, Iowa ¦ PhD ¦ தமிழ்
@dwhitehouse.bsky.social
Writer. New book - Saltwater Mansions, coming June 2025 Old books - About a Son, Bed, Mobile Library, The Long Forgotten
@alcs.co.uk
We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing authors and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977 www.alcs.co.uk
@susannacrossman.bsky.social
Writing. 'The Orange Notebooks' Bluemoose. https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-orange-notebooks/susanna-crossman//9781915693266 'Home is Where we Start', Penguin Words: Guardian, Aeon, Vogue... https://susanna-crossman.squarespace.com
@steviechick.bsky.social
Writer, sub-editor, pizza-maker. The Guardian, MOJO, Loose Lips Sink Ships. Books. The good shit. steviechick.com