Important/Underrated Writers
Writers I Love/Who Have Inspired Me
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@demibroseph.bsky.social
@laurenshippen.com
making fiction podcasts at @atypicalartists.co every day. she/her the bright sessions 💡 breaker whiskey 📻 new year’s day 🌃 bridgewater 🌖 maxine miles 🔎 surviving hawkins 📚 laurenshippen.com atypicalartists.co icon by @emkaydraws.bsky.social
@clairedean.bsky.social
Writer & maker of zines & artist books. Day job as a conservator, mostly to be found repairing old manuscripts, maps & plans in an archive. Lancashire, UK
@samserrano.bsky.social
@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.
@stevecolewriter.bsky.social
Writer of children’s books, salsa instructor, Doctor Who book editor, frustrated pop star at facesfall.com
@leoneross.bsky.social
Author. Writing coach. Latest: THIS ONE SKY DAY/POPISHO. Pointillist. Joyfully maximalist. Jamaican/British 🇯🇲. Black, FYI. Goldsmiths, Edge Hill, Ondjaate & Women’s Prize noms. Won Manchester Prize for Fiction. Rep: Nicola Chang, DHA.
@meltaylorbessent.bsky.social
✨ Children’s Author: The Christmas Carrolls & Race To Imagination Island 🖥️ Authorfy Director / Host of ‘Write for Fun’ on YouTube 💌 info@meltaylorbessent.com
@redbreastedbird.bsky.social
Author of the Murder Most Unladylike series and the Ministry of Unladylike Activity. 🏳️🌈
@twilightstreets.bsky.social
Writes/edits books (info@bathliteraryagency.com) & occasionally scripts (http://jflagency.com/?p=4039). Ex-Kirrin/Dark/carpet flyer. Terrified of cows and spiders and alarmingly allergic to onion (restaurant eating is fun!)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴✊🏾
@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
@lucycaldwell.bsky.social
Writer of short story collections Multitudes, Intimacies and Openings, and novels inc. These Days. Regular masterclass series at Faber Academy.
@nicholasroyle.bsky.social
Writer. Latest: Shadow Lines (Salt). Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
@simonjamesgreen.bsky.social
Author & screenwriter. Boy Like Me, Finn Jones Was Here, Gay Club!, Heartbreak Boys, and more! www.simonjamesgreen.com
@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
@whusseyauthor.bsky.social
Award-winning author of the SCOTT JERICHO thrillers (KILLING JERICHO; JERICHO’S DEAD; BURYING JERICHO) and YA novels, including THE BOY I LOVE, BROKEN HEARTS AND ZOMBIE PARTS, and THE OUTRAGE among others https://linktr.ee/williamhusseyauthor
@caseymcquiston.bsky.social
crocheter, lad about town, bestselling author of gay romps. they/them. latest: THE PAIRING 🍝🍷 previously: I KISSED SHARA WHEELER 💌 ONE LAST STOP 🚊 RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE 🦃
@liznugent.bsky.social
No relation to Ted. Writer and rewriter. Sister and resister. Scullery maid to the House of Goldblatt. Strange Sally Diamond in all good bookstores now. And even the bad ones. Ha! As if there was such a thing as a bad bookstore. www.liznugent.com
@rainbowrowell.bsky.social
Yes! My mother named me this! Author of Eleanor & Park and the Simon Snow Trilogy. My new book, SLOW DANCE -- a novel about adults, set in the real world -- is out now.
@jamesmoran.com
📝 Screenwriter 🎬 Severance, Cockneys Vs Zombies, Tower Block 📺 Doctor Who, Torchwood, Spooks, Crusoe, Crossing Lines, Eve, Dave Spud, & more 👋 He/him www.jamesmoran.com
@cavan.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author, comic writer and screenwriter. STAR WARS THE HIGH REPUBLIC. GWENPOOL. GODFATHER OF HELL. NIGHT OF THE SLASHERS. SHADOW SERVICE. THE WARD. DEAD SEAS.
@unamccormack.bsky.social
NYT bestselling and BSFA award-winning writer. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
@kjcharleswriter.com
She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. http://kjcharleswriter.com
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social
Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. celesteng.com
@owenjones.bsky.social
Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Absolution. Repped by Joe Veltre at Gersh. Gigs: The Tuesday Agency. he/him
@demibroseph.bsky.social
They/He | 24 | UK | Irish descent Writer, poet, queer, reviews, languages Free Palestine, BLM, Trans Rights, Stop Asian Hate Depressed Spinster Hermit in all but age RTD fan | Dragon Age Nerd - Veilguard was good www.finnocallaghandoyle.squarespace.com