Antoinette Fawcett's Starter Pack
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@editornncomet.bsky.social
@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
Galley Beggar Press is an independent publisher from Norwich. Citizens of the world. And foreign.
@julianhoffman.bsky.social
Writing, nature, people, climate, place. New book: LIFELINES (May, 2025) Author of IRREPLACEABLE & THE SMALL HEART OF THINGS Upcoming: RIVER SONG Prespa, Greece. Rep'd by @jmlockhart.bsky.social linktr.ee/jhoffmanprespa
@poetrysociety.bsky.social
A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social. poetrysociety.org.uk linktr.ee/poetrysociety22
@saltpublishing.com
WELCOME to Salt, one of the UK’s great independent publishers, established in 1999. Over twenty-six years, we have grown into a daring literary powerhouse, winning scores of awards around the world. Directors: @chrisemery.me & @jenhemery.bsky.social
@asls.org.uk
Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present. https://asls.org.uk
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social
New book The Place of Tides (Allen Lane) now in all good bookshops
@miverraswriter.bsky.social
New, real profile. Other profile: https://bsky.app/profile/miverr.bsky.social Author, composer, keyboardist, singer, illustrator, university graduate. THE REAL author of the THE HIDDEN FACE: https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Face-M-I-Verras/dp/B0CBW5MNC2
@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.
@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
@smallpublishers.bsky.social
Celebrating books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers online and through the annual gathering, Fri 24 & Sat 25 October 2025. linktr.ee/small_publishers_fair
@jonathangibbs.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St Georges, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
@profdavidmorley.bsky.social
Professor at Warwick Uni, Poet at Carcanet, Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift, PBS Choice for FURY, Forward Prize finalist, Writer of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Fellow Royal Society of Literature,Thought Fox.
@samreadbookseller.bsky.social
Est. by Sam Read in 1887. Award-winning small bookshop in the Lake District. Posts from @likewinterblue.bsky.social Insta: samreadbookseller Browse a selection from our virtual shelves: www.samreadbooks.co.uk
@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
@manchesterreview.bsky.social
The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing. https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
@drdavidcooper.bsky.social
Literary geographer writing about writing about place. Co-Director of the Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher. www.bloodaxebooks.com
@geoffcox.bsky.social
Working class author (memoir, NNF and folk-horror), better kept outdoors (whatever the weather) and well watered. Ageing runner with a passion for words, wild places and archeology. "Traceless" 2020 Currently querying memoir "A Skin Too Thin"
@corinnaboard.bsky.social
EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her. https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse
@janeburn.bsky.social
Poet, Writer, Artist, Maker. Person with Autism. Person with a hEDS. Kindness is so very important. Bios are difficult! I do much writing on https://burnj.substack.com/
@mbailatj.bsky.social
novelist/translator/reader, here for the sharpened pencils, books & writing talk, for all things language and foliage, for all the shiny things & shadows. (Eng, Fr, 日本語, Ital) Rep'd by Simon Trewin. www.michellebailatjones.com
@glasgowburns.bsky.social
Est. 2007 at the University of Glasgow for the development of research, scholarship and teaching in the area of Robert Burns (1759-96). The Queen’s Anniversary Prize winner 2023.
@karenllo.bsky.social
Author, essayist, The Gathering Tide, Abundance: Nature in Recovery and more. Academic, Senior Researcher and writer in residence with Lancaster University’s Future places Centre.
@metadot.bsky.social
Finds & Archives Project Officer @ Greenlane Archaeology Ltd in Ulverston, Cumbria. Loves small finds, cats, archiving and archives.... And databases/metadata😄
@jmatkin.bsky.social
British, mostly Scottish, poet in education + community projects / The Poetry Wire online courses / 3rd collection HIGH NOWHERE from IDP / out walking / plagued by the cat / www.jeanatkin.com
@johnglenday.bsky.social
Writer. Poetry. https://www.johnglenday.com https://www.northseapoets.com
@postalpathsguy.bsky.social
Author of books on UK footpaths. My book, Postal Paths, is due out April 2025 detailing the route used by rural postmen and women in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Follow me if you love walking footpaths. https://linktr.ee/postalpaths
@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
@suecumbria.bsky.social
Cumbrian cultural historian, folkie and writer. Here for intelligent conversation, Romanticism, social history of long nineteenth century, dialect, folklore… and cats, of course. https://independent.academia.edu/SueAllan1
@gritstonebooks.bsky.social
Gritstone Publishing Cooperative is Britain’s first publishing company which is an author-run co-operative. We publish non-fiction and fiction titles relating to the landscape and the countryside.
@kirstiepelling.bsky.social
Cumbrian rom-com author and reader. Fuelled by coffee and country music.
@caldwell10.bsky.social
Poet, writer, editor, lecturer, RLF Advisory Fellow. Latest book - Neither Here Nor There - SurVision. 5 poetry collections and interests in nature, moss, birds, prose poetry and education annecaldwell.net
@greeningpoet.bsky.social
British poet (The Interpretation of Owls: Poems 1977-2022 ed. Gardner, Baylor UP). Also editor of anthologies & editions of Blunden, Grigson, Crichton Smith, a new selected UA Fanthorpe & a forthcoming Matthew Arnold. Not forgetting a Rilke 'New Poems'
@kathleengjones.bsky.social
I'm an author and poet from the English Lake District. Left wing, passionate environmentalist, hater of bullshit www.kathleenjones.co.uk
@drpennybradshaw.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria. ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. Programme Leader for ‘MA Literature, Romanticism, and the Lake District’ at Ambleside.
@dunners.bsky.social
Birder based in Lancashire. Cumbria Bird Club Council member, Birds in Cumbria and Lancashire Bird Report section editor. Barrow AFC season ticket holder.
@northernjim.bsky.social
Poetry Editor of the Dirigible Balloon (submissions closed) https://dirigibleballoon.org https://northernjim.wordpress.com #Cumbria #Poetry
@paulinemackay.bsky.social
Head of Subject for Scottish Literature & Director of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow. Co-I Museums in the Metaverse (IUK). Burns/Bawdry/Cultural Heritage/XR.
@paulfson.bsky.social
Ex-Keswick Cumbrian exile, lost in literature, environment, ecociticism, weird fiction, capitalocene, fiddle, traditional and non-traditional music (often at the same time), and lots of walking & cycling isms and ings
@suewilkinson.bsky.social
Lake District landscape, literature, history and culture. #GrasmereDialectPlays Fell-walking, landscape photography, geology. #Cumbria #LakeDistrict Twitter: @sue_wilkinson
@grasdialectplays.bsky.social
Researching & sharing information about the extraordinary village plays performed in Grasmere from 1893 to 1937. Most were written and produced by Eleanor Rawnsley (nee Simpson); all were in Westmorland dialect. #LakeDistrict #Cumbria #GrasmereDialectPlays
@paperboatswriters.bsky.social
Paperboats is a collective of writers focussed on nature and environment in a time of climate and ecological breakdown. Scotland based and global in outlook, and write to affirm the astonishing life of this planet and how its future may yet be shaped.
@brianh61.bsky.social
Teacher, novelist, short story writer, published by Salt, Zagava, and Raphus Press. Possibly mad about art, film, fiction, and cycling.
@kerrydarbishire.bsky.social
Cumbrian. Poet. Latest collections: Jardiniere. River Talk - HedgehogPress.✨️
@vaikuspg.bsky.social
Writer of many parts, but the heartland is poetry – head to https:/www.philipgross.co.uk to see the range of 40 years of writing life.
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@editornncomet.bsky.social
Editor of The New Comet and the Comet Bulletin for The Norman Nicholson Society.