Write & Shine
Morning writing workshops, peaceful retreats and an online library of writing courses, run by @gemseltz.
Artwork by Rose Wong for Write & Shine.
@kovesi.bsky.social
Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures. Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
@jolenemcilwain.bsky.social
Writer ✏️| SIDLE CREEK (Melville House) NPR & Library Journal Best Books of 2023📕 | Outside Kid 🌿| Motocross Fan 🏁 | HipCamp | Gardener 🪴| Scuba Mom 🤿 | www.jolenemcilwain.com
@bronterre1.bsky.social
# Chartism #C19th Radicalism #Cooperation #TradesUnions, #WorkingClassLiterature with forays into #Cricket #Punk & #Reggae & a reviving interest in Torquay United FC #COYY "In things essential, unity; in things doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity."
@emeccwarwick.bsky.social
The Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre In the Warwick History Department, for the encouragement, study, and exchange of ideas and research. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc
@profjohngardner.bsky.social
Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Doctoral School at ARU. Working on www.engineeringromanticism.com a Leverhulme Trust Research Project.
@englishassociation.bsky.social
Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
@jennyharper.bsky.social
SWW DTP (AHRC) funded English Literature PhD student researching Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, the working classes, Walt Whitman, British ethical socialists, non-anthropocentric relationships with nature, ecoscocialism, modernism.
@qmanivannan.bsky.social
Writing care, grief, and protests ✍🏽 Winner, ‘23 Kavya Prize for Scottish Writers 📖 PhDing/ teaching IR at the University of St Andrews 🌸 (they/them) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@perurealfonso.bsky.social
Al lasso, fuerça: https://ephe.academia.edu/Jes%C3%BAsdePradoPlumed In the Other Place: @perurealfonso
@workingclasshistory.com
History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
@workingclassicists.bsky.social
www.workingclassicists.com 🏺A hub of resources, support & solidarity ⚡️Representing the working class in classics 🏛️ Run by @miri.bsky.social & @misterconnor1.bsky.social ✍️ Platforming working class academics ❤️ Woke AF email us: info@workingclassicists.com
@jennyknight.bsky.social
Author | Writer | Editor *WILD MOON RISING* - 06/25 @akan_books @HarperCollins Kit de Waal's #CommonPeople Ed & Dev Ed @JerichoWriters Assoc Artist @WritersCentre Twitter/X @knightjennyk Ig @jennyaknight
@katherinelucyg.bsky.social
Teaches publishing at York St John University. Researches class and place in contemporary British literature. Ex-editor and festival organiser.
@stumcpherson.bsky.social
Prize Winning Poet | END CEREMONIES via BrokenSleepBooks| Graphic Artist at TRIED / FAILED www.stumcpherson.com www.triedfailed.com
@northernmailman.bsky.social
“He speaks in your voice, Salfordian, and there’s a pie in his hand bought half-price from the Co-op.” Novels To Rise in the Dark and Hunter available now on Amazon or DM for details.
@cdelull.bsky.social
🌈🔗 Pre order Cacoethes - a bisexual sugar baby novel: https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/cacoethes-paperback 📽️I'm like if an old man was a girl. She/her. 🎭Novelist & screenwriter, good at funny with a side of sad. 📍Manchester(ish)
@pbennett.bsky.social
Writer. Novel — Liberties, available now: https://www.rymour.co.uk/liberties.html & the usual places. Extracts in New Writing Scotland 40 and other publications. linktr.ee/peter_bennett
@joeharkness.bsky.social
Father | SEND teacher | Mediocre Author | Naturalist | Avid Reader of Ghost Stories | Massive Football Fan | Unlikely Punk
@nickmacwrites.bsky.social
Reader, writer, runner. Tea, trees, and cats. Co-editor Thin Skin magazine. My debut novel Slings and Arrows was published on the 28th March 2024. 📚💙
@richardnskinner.bsky.social
Writer working across fiction, life writing, essays, non-fiction & poetry. Director @FaberAcademy • Founder #VanguardEditions • Editor #14magazine. Most recent publication: ‘White Noise Machine’ (Salt, 2023).
@jlimburg.bsky.social
Writer, poet, creative writing lecturer, autistic, Jewish, likes cats. Latest book Letters to my Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood.
@jacobslr.bsky.social
Writer, reader, editor, facilitator, programme leader, artistic director. Geeks for mobile computing, creative coding, generative tech, ergomech keyboards, sci-fi & spec fic...
@chrissywilliams.bsky.social
Poet & Comic Book Writer | GOLDEN RAGE from Image Comics ("Battle Royale meets The Golden Girls”) | BEAR & LOW from Bloodaxe Books | PERVERSE magazine editor | https://open.substack.com/pub/chrissywilliams
@jntod.bsky.social
Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
@amykey.bsky.social
Writer - Arrangements in Blue, Isn't Forever, Luxe. My substack is So Glad I'm Me https://amykey.substack.com/
@kitdewaal.bsky.social
Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Henry Allen. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
@elissaaltman.bsky.social
Author of Permission (3/25), Motherland, Poor Man’s Feast, Treyf, many essays. Author, teacher, editor, musician. Ever hopeful. 🕊️🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺 Poormansfeast.substack.com
@drewgum.bsky.social
Writer of The Lodger, Me and Mickie James, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. Lambda Award Finalist. Leicestershire Short Story Prize winner. Saltburn - Feb 2025. Indie Press supporter. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 MD ANT 📍Enderby,UK https://linktr.ee/drewgum
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Award winning indy publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal. Based in West Dorset www.littletoller.co.uk Instagram / @littletollerbooks
@samatlounge.bsky.social
Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy.
@damianbarr.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster. 🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃 He/Him 📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel (Sept 2025). I’m also curating a show about them for Charleston. 📕 Maggie & Me. 📕 You Will Be Safe Here. 📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer. PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
@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
@rubycowling.bsky.social
THIS PARADISE: Short stories // Boiler House Press // http://tinyurl.com/RCTParadise // Shortlisted Edge Hill Prize; Longlisted Orwell Prize // Luddite
@ronanhession.bsky.social
Rónán Hession. Irish author @1dublin1book Listed @anpostibas @booksaremybag #BritishBookAwards #KerryGroupIrishNovel @Soc_of_Authors @dalkeybookfest @PrizeRofC Contact via www.ronanhession.com
@annamazz.bsky.social
Writer. Very small. Books normal size. THE CLOCKWORK GIRL, BOOK OF SECRETS etc. Writes thrillers as Anna Sharpe. Also a criminal justice lawyer and a dark history geek.
@patricknessbooks.bsky.social
Author of Chaos Walking, Monster Calls, More Than this, Burn, Different For Boys. Won a couple Carnegies and an Olivier. Four wins away from an EGOT.
@stellduffy.bsky.social
Pākehā Londoner; Dr (not the medical kind), existential psychotherapist, supervisor, doctoral research in postmenopause; writer of 17 novels/70+ stories/15 plays, yoga for writing workshops; 2 x breast cancer; knee, hip, & some brain mended with metal
@natashacarthew.bsky.social
UNDERCURRENT, THE BOOK, OUT NOW | All enquiries Juliet Pickering @BlakeFriedmann 🔗 https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/natasha-carthew-3/undercurrent/9781399706513/
@theothersambaker.bsky.social
One of the millions of journalists who’s defected to Substack and started a podcast. https://theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com/
@sarahcrown.bsky.social
Director of Literature at the Arts Council, currently moonlighting as National Director of Communication. Books; politics; journalism; walks; trees. Won’t balk at the occasional cat
@salenagodden.bsky.social
poet & author: latest books ‘Mrs Death Misses Death' 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' 'With Love, Grief and Fury' & ‘Springfield Road’ books & gigs: https://linktr.ee/salenagodden Substack: https://salenagodden.substack
@jamiattenberg.bsky.social
Living in NOLA with a small pup. Author of 10 books. The latest: 1000 WORDS and A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. Come write with me: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com
@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com
@mobeena.bsky.social
"I don't know if this is a race thing or a lady thing but I'm mad as hell" Libraries, vampires and Sherlock Holmes. Very good bad influence. She/Her. Currently on maternity leave so adjust your expectations accordingly.
@kathleenjamie.bsky.social
Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.