BRILLIANT PEOPLE ON BLUESKY
A miscellaneous and eclectic selection of tremendous people I follow on BlueSky: writers, photographers, artists, literary bloggers, journalists, and all round good eggs
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@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
@olgawerby.bsky.social
I am scientist who writes science fiction and fantasy books and develops educational materials for all ages to use in schools, museums, zoos, or at home. You can read my blog at interfaces.com or see some of my ed materials at SupermarketScience.com
@ianseedauthor.bsky.social
Author: Night Window, The Underground Cabaret, Operations of Water, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Identity Papers, Makers of Empty Dreams, Anonymous Intruder. Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Gëzim Hajdari, Ivano Fermini. www.ianseed.co.uk
@noreenmasud.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
@grumpyoldbooks.bsky.social
Loves a book review😁👍🏼📚. Check out our site at https://grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2020/10/intro.html?spref=tw&m=1 Also Cymro
@vnerdbooks.bsky.social
She/Her Audiobook addict 🎧📚, amateur and v bad Booktokker Safe space for everyone except bigots TWAW TMAM ❤️ Follow me here 👇 https://instabio.cc/112100WHvdg
@forbookssake.bsky.social
• Book Blogger ✒ • Portrait Artist ✏️ • Thriller/Horror/True Crime junkie 🖤 • Rugby fan 🏉 • Harlequins supporter🃏 • https://forbookssake.home.blog
@hobbitualreader.bsky.social
📍 Cornwall, UK 📚Book Reader and Reviewer ☕️Tea Drinker ❤️Bookworm of many Genres 🐈⬛Cat Mum 📖CR : The Midnight Carousel 🎠
@helenorahillytv.bsky.social
Former telly executive in BBC & RTÉ. Live central Dublin after 30 years London. Politics, books, gardens, art, cats, travel, poetry. Friendly & approachable unless riled. No bots/trolls/MAGAs/Fascists/Anti-Vaxx please.
@angiplant.bsky.social
Reader, writer, reviewer. All things books. Live on the beautiful Isle of Skye booknbanter.Wordpress.com
@pjordan-writer.bsky.social
... BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio Ulster .. Shortlist Bridport, Second Fish, 3x Bath shortlist .. Best of net, Best small fic .. Pushcart nom X2 .. 50+ stories published .. BSc, MA, PhD...
@kmelkes.bsky.social
Author. Ginger. Potty mouth. #workingclasswriter Award-winning short fiction writer. Editing debut novel. Also writing tutor & editor. http://linktr.ee/kmelkes https://kmelkes.substack.com
@jodierobins.bsky.social
Writer rep'd by Alice Lutyens at Curtis Brown. Curtis Brown Creative alumna Lover of all things gothic Novella, The Off-Season, coming June 2025 Northern and southern in equal parts https://jodierobins.substack.com
@mucklewriting.bsky.social
Spikks Doric. Avid scribbler o wirds. https://linktr.ee/jogilbert
@clevercelt.bsky.social
Irish writer and dissociate professor of that thing you don't know that much about.
@traceyharriman.bsky.social
Reader, book reviewer, and lover of all things bookish 📚. Grief talk advocate, middle-aged (and good at it!), menopausal, owned by 2 cats. Soon-to-be bookshop owner!
@nicolehayes.bsky.social
PhD. YA author (Penguin Random) jnr fiction (Hardie Grant) non-fiction (Black Inc / The Guardian). Podcaster with The Outer Sanctum / The Writers' Retreat. Living on Wurundjeri land with 2 humans & 1 dog. She/her. https://linktr.ee/nicolehayes
@nessevely.bsky.social
Part English, part French. A bit sweary. Cancer survivor, just. 'Trying to balance the weight of the world with a rubber chicken' (AI review) "sick and malevolent mind" (review by friend) We're all meats of mixed origin, me thinks. Comes with typos.
@nicktweet.bsky.social
More about me here: https://linktr.ee/nickwray Read my short stories & bedtime tales from the digital age at http://lunchwithjasonking.com WW1 Battle of Jutland play on Amazon @: http://goo.gl/yHZztl See also https://linktr.ee/nickwray
@carolynmorgan.bsky.social
Bookworm, aspiring author. Querying first novel, set in Swansea's copper boom, highly commended in Irish Writers Centre novel prize 2023. Editing novel 2, set in NZ and WW1 Swansea. 🏴 Day job consultant in magazine publishing
@oonapatrick.bsky.social
Writer of essays and memoir #cnf. I get mad about books a lot. BEHIND THE STARS, MORE STARS (Tagus). Summers: Disquiet Int'l, Lisbon 🇵🇹. she/her https://linktr.ee/oonapatrick
@susannahwalker.bsky.social
Author + campaigner for gender equality and safety in public space + post-war graphics + other stuff. Rants about stately homes here: https://susannahwalker.substack.com Co-founder of @makespaceforgirls and formerly @QuadRoyal
@barbarabyar.bsky.social
Writer Debut Novel: IN THE DESERT Spring 26 from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Collection: Some Days are Better than Ours (Reflex Fiction) Fiction Editor: Variant Lit https://barbarabyar.wordpress.com Kerry via San Francisco
@niamhcullen.bsky.social
Lecturer in history at QUB. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
@captaintonz.bsky.social
Retired PIRATE. Expert in Marine biological solutions and sea currents. Sea Whisperer. Present mission is to save the dying North Sea. We have a solution. Consultant on Piracy. Podcasts; https://www.originalpiratematerial.co.uk/podcast www.captaintonz.com
@janeandersonwritet.bsky.social
Historical Fiction Author. The Girl Who Fled the Picture & The Paintress. The Orchid Hunters Daughter will arrive in 2025. Dogs. Books. Founder and Organiser Edinburgh Writers Forum & Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival Website:https://jane-anderson.co.uk
@carldershem.bsky.social
Retired - now working primarily as a writer and musician. Books on Amazon, and working hard to improve my skills. I have my first million words done, and I'm working to be better. Playing music locally, and active in the Union. BKA practitioner.
@corinnaren.bsky.social
@charlottedonlon.bsky.social
> Writer + Spiritual Director + Gatherer > Books: The Great Belonging (2020) & Spiritual Direction for Writers (2026) > Starter Packs: Belonging through Art: https://go.bsky.app/L4GyyG1 Poets + Poems: go.bsky.app/U5FDhAq > https://charlottedonlon.com
@kellyalacey.bsky.social
Lover of books, coffee, music, bees, cats, movies, friends and family. I work freelance in publishing. Lovebooksgroup@gmail.com 📚 I love honest and constructive reviews.
@kellywelles.bsky.social
Football obsessive. Author. Currently writing a non-fic about the dark arts of football for Halcyon Publishing. .
@vickymackenzie.bsky.social
Writer, cat lady, John Ruskin obsessive, wrote a novel about medieval mystics. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/ Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
@velf.bsky.social
96% tea Analyst Lover of myth, literature, kitchen gardens, mist-pooled valleys, stinky cheese & 3,000yo dead guys @workingclassicists contributor TRYING to write Sleepy yet woke Uni of L'pool. KoW Cheddar. pfp©HerderEd 🌍Birkenhead UK
@livwrightes.bsky.social
32 | French author | Photograph || QUERYING : SECRET EMBERS Adult Contemporary Fantasy || RevPit 2025 Shortlisted & #10Queries winner
@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.
@waidner.bsky.social
Novelist. They. COREY FAH DOES SOCIAL MOBILITY (UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2023; US: Graywolf Press, 2024). STERLING KARAT GOLD (2021). Winner, Goldsmiths Prize.
@raynehall.bsky.social
"In a world of AI, bots and fakes, Rayne Hall will always be real." #NoAi #Writer of non-fiction and #Gothic #fiction. #Publisher of Gothic fiction anthologies. Teacher, coach. Avid #permaculture gardener. Lives in #Bulgaria with #rescuecats.
@rpatulny.bsky.social
Sociology Professor HKBU. Research emotions, loneliness, men, networks, urban themes. Part time writer and poet, dad, befriender of English teachers, Editor, Authora Australis @ausauthora.bsky.social Research, poems, stories - http://rpatulny.com/
@ggaffa.bsky.social
Writer, Arts Council manager, musician. Concrete Fields (Salt 2023) Out Of The Dark (Confingo 2021) graphic novel Rivers (Top Shelf 2021) www.davidgaffney.org
@katharinenorbury.bsky.social
Curious, walker, swimmer, thinker; anam cara. WOMEN ON NATURE @Unbounders THE FISH LADDER @BloomsburyBooks Shortlist @WainwrightPrize #neurodivergent @UnitedAgents
@jeremymillar.bsky.social
Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London. jeremymillar.org Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015 Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
@shelleyhastings.bsky.social
Writer | Producer | Mudlarker | Kitchen Raver | Arts & Dementia: Resonate Arts | Prev: SP Battersea Arts | Winner: Sean Ó Faoláin Prize & Aurora Prize | Finalist Mcr Fiction Prize | Stories: Southword, Miro, Chroma Editions… www.shelleyhastings.co.uk
@adrianslatcher.bsky.social
Manchester-based writer. Short story collection "Loners" out now from Confingo publishing. More details www.adrianslatcher.com or subscribe https://adrianslatcher.substack.com/
@lesleymcdowell.bsky.social
Author of CLAIRMONT @wildfirebooks.bsky.social 'Riveting, a clever portrait of a fascinating woman' Times 'Enthralling' Observer LOVE AND OTHER POISONS due July 2025 Repd by Ian Drury @sheilland.bsky.social ExJoycean Still Glaswegian she/her
@natalielouise83.bsky.social
Freelance editor and writer of historical fiction. Longlisted @write-mentor.bsky.social Novel Award 2025. Top 100 @bathnovelaward.co.uk 2024. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally.
@scottmillard56.bsky.social
Gay Navy Veteran. Been with the love of my life for 27 years. Proud Democrat. Pro Democracy always. Living in the Bold North. aka #Minnesota
@dearnomad.bsky.social
Travel, writing, & travel writing 🌎 Digital nomad 10+ years 📝 Working on a novel about running away to join the Human Towers (castellers) in Barcelona. ❤️ street art, languages, ice skating 📍 Currently in Cullera, then Barcelona
@barrowmember.bsky.social
Love nature, writing, arts & crafts, music, community, books, #SciComm, play & growing. Editor Ciadish.co.uk (for chronically ill and #disabled [CIAD] writers & the readers who love their books). Co-founder CripCoop.co.uk mutual support network #CripCoop
@beestung.bsky.social
a quarterly mag of non-binary & genderqueer & two-spirit writers that’s sweet & stings | imprint of sundress publications | eic sarahclark.bsky.social http://www.beestungmag.com https://beestungmag.com/newsletter
@beemorris.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 British author | LGBTQ+ Neurospicy 🧠 | Fuelled by coffee & spite ☕️ | Querying LYDIA IS DEAD ✍️ a murder-mystery horromantasy 💀🖤 https://linktr.ee/TheBeeMorris
@rosiewilby.bsky.social
Comedian, podcaster & author (The Breakup Monologues, Is Monogamy Dead?) Twitter: @rosiewilby IG / 🪡: @breakupmonologues TikTok: @rosiewilbyauthor 📚 ✍️ 🎤 🏳️🌈 🎭
@author19.bsky.social
Author living in London. My books are on Amazon, Goodreads, Ukiyoti. 💙 NO CRYPTO - INSTANT BLOCK 🚫 NO HOOK UPS 🚫 HAPPILY MARRIED - ♥🥰 I DO NOT NEED BOOK PROMOTION. INSTANT BLOCK. 🚫 I NEVER SEND MONEY. 🚫 FOLLOW FOR FOLLLOW. (unless no postings)👍
@misanthromantic.bsky.social
Nemophilist, Goblin, Swordsman, Socialist. 34 summers to my name, here to learn interesting things, shoot the shit and have a space to just be myself. Pfp alt text: an image of myself sat on a log staring into the distance.
@rachaeldunlop.com
Writer of #FlashFiction, #ShortStories and a never-finished novel. Spaniel-wrangler. Curmudgeon. Forest dweller. #MDANT She/her/cis rachaeldunlop.com
@sfrost.bsky.social
Transport & climate policy at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Views my own. Dad in Bristol, raised in Norfolk (both UK). There will be typos
@andreamann.bsky.social
Frequent writer, occasional musician, landlocked yacht rock-lover. UK. She/her www.andreamann.com
@monicabyrne13.bsky.social
Writer living on the road, currently in Vietnam. Buy THE ACTUAL STAR: https://www.monicabyrne.org/the-actual-star. Reps at CAA, DG&B, and Kaplan/Perrone. She/her. monicabyrne.substack.com patreon.com/monicabyrne
@garethsouthwell.bsky.social
Self-employed writer, illustrator, philosopher. All views are those of my employer. 🏴 Sci-fi, philosophy and illustration: https://garethsouthwell.com Serialised sci-fi and philosophy: https://garethsouthwell.substack.com/
@muahi.bsky.social
The Arts and Humanities Institute is Maynooth’s flagship institute for groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research across the arts and humanities. The AHI leads research on one of the University’s five research beacons: Heritage, Language and Culture.
@annahm.bsky.social
Professor of Intersectional Humanities, Director of Arts & Humanities Institute, Maynooth University 🇮🇪
@carolwater.bsky.social
Former feature writer and editor, now writing fiction - women's and children's novels, and short stories. Loves travel, gardening, crafts, the coast and countryside. Cat owner. Married. UK-based.
@dreadflintstone.bsky.social
An unpublished author of fiction (the darker the better). On the verge of taking the great last step towards publishing; submitting. Left FB and X because of their owners. 🚫DM’s 🚫Porn 🚫Reform UK. Lives in Bath 🇬🇧 and España 🇪🇸
@inventingreality.bsky.social
I'm the author of 80+ books and an established editor who has helped more than 400 authors achieve their publishing dreams. My books include writing guidebooks, a novel, children's books and more. See inventingrealityediting.com
@lifelovelily22.bsky.social
#Poet📓#Writer✍️ #Kidlit🧒#Indie 📚 #OU Student🧑🎓 From the UK. 🇬🇧 Loves chocolate🍫music🎶and talking too much. 🤐 Everybody needs some Lily in their life! https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B08BKWYJC1
@harkaway.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter. Mutinous mutterer. Husband of much better person. Father of similar. New Cal Sounder novel SLEEPER BEACH is OUT NOW. UK pb Karla’s Choice coming May 22nd. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. (He/him) www.linktr.ee/harkaway
@serinahartwell.bsky.social
Award winning author of The Hidden Saga Step into my world and let me take you on a journey... https://serinahartwell.com/ https://books2read.com/ap/n0A0Mv/Serina-Hartwell
@katesfwriter.bsky.social
Writer, Untold Stories/Perspectives, Historical Fiction, Roman Archaeology, Ancient History, Pottery, Books, Travel, Gardens, Walking, Landscapes, #UNWC 2023/24, Winner #FNL #LFOW24 Jericho Writers
@minilebowski.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer, part time primary teacher, ex Head, Chartered College Fellow, outdoor learning (Dandy Lions), author. 🚫DMs 🏳️🌈 safe space
@lucyashford.bsky.social
Stories set in the past are my obsession, and I've had three dark historical thrillers published. At the moment, I'm writing Regency romances (I blame Georgette Heyer). Look out for my latest! Available in the UK and US this April
@laurabaronmusic.bsky.social
“Beauty in the Broken” “…finding light in the shadows -Baron’s stunning new album release “Vocal Media’s Beat #songwriter #IndieFolk #Jazz listen https://bit.ly/beautyinthebroken Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/8JoxudZ https://laurabaronmusic.com
@markantonyowen.com
𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁: @subruria.com. 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿: @iambapoet.com / @afterpoetry.com. 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿: Occasional online open mics.
@markwalsh.bsky.social
Books, Music, Art and Film. Exists in real life too. PR. https://themarkwalsh.substack.com/
@annachen.bsky.social
UK writer, historian, poet & broadcaster. Orwell Prize shortlisted. Ted speaker. BBC presenter & writer back when it was good. https://www.annachen.co.uk/home/about-anna-chen/
@annachantwriter.bsky.social
Writer, reader, lover of history & folklore. Medieval historical fiction author.
@lisasass.bsky.social
LitWit • Baroque music & early keyboards • Hockey • Enterprise tech marketing @LK_Sass@mas.to "Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time." ~Howard Nemerov #ClassicalMusic #Baroque #SciComm
@riotgrandma.bsky.social
Writes Victorian Crime Fiction. Elderly purveyor of coffee, chat & critique. Owned by a cat. Buy my books: THE VICTORIAN DETECTIVES: Author.to/Victoriancrime Proud bus pass owner and Tory/Reform hater. EU dual national 🇪🇺 NO DMs!
@mrsquirrel.bsky.social
Married, he/him, pro Democracy, anti-Christo-Fascist & standing with Ukraine & Canada! I block all Christo-Fascists, Chats, Fundraising & Bitcoin! The 🚨icon in my posts indicates my personal opinions. #BlueCrew #StrongerTogether #Resist
@maplemysterygames.bsky.social
I'm Jan & I write scripted murder mystery party games. 10 fun themes. I love connecting with fellow writers & creatives. Games are easy to run; host plays too; clues ARE there; high-quality party kits. No DMs unless I know you https://maplemysterygames.com
@zzaman.bsky.social
Researcher, Lecturer @ UoM. Editor of Pre-Raphaelite Society Review. Loves all things to do with the Pre-Raphaelites, 19thC, Dante, and Islamicate history. Views own. She/her.
@draftsmann.bsky.social
Welsh speaking artist, graphic designer, writer, rugby sufferer and draftsman in the classical sense. Associate member of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art. All artwork shown is for sale - DM me. www.portraitpainter.me.uk www.landscapepainter.me.uk
@heatherbelmonte.bsky.social
Organising Supremo - Virtual Assistant. My job is to make your job easier. PA to @kitdewaal.com VA support for @TinyChanges.bsky.social Life support to @PaulBelmonte.bsky.social 😉 http://www.hbva.co.uk 💙Edinburgh 💜Books 🧡Cake 💛Travel
@braydenrwrites.bsky.social
Hi there! I primarily write contemporary and literary fiction for both YA and Adult audiences. Occasionally, I write speculative fiction, and this one time I wrote a dystopian book. Currently querying.
@suzyhenderson.bsky.social
Writer of historical fiction, fantasy & romance. Lost in the 1940s. Copious tea drinker. Loving Lake District life. Curtis Brown Creative Alumna. Published by DP Books & Northodox Press. Shortlisted for RetreatWest First Chapter Prize 2025.
@rammwriter.bsky.social
Novelist. Brit 🏴 Currently #amquerying an espionage/time travel thriller [Slow Horses x Life on Mars]. Dabbles in folk horror. Songwriter with Ghostfire. Plays guitar. Likes a pint. No phishy DMs please. 🚫 🇺🇦 https://linktr.ee/gert_ramm
@diimoffatt.bsky.social
Artist, staunch wench, Lymphocytic Colitis, gardener, wife, mother, grumpy old tart, autistic.
@susannacrossman.bsky.social
Writing. 'The Orange Notebooks' Bluemoose, 05/25 'Home is Where we Start', Penguin https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/457409/home-is-where-we-start-by-crossman-susanna/9780241650905 Words: Guardian, Aeon, Vogue... https://susanna-crossman.squarespace.com
@vaslittlecrow.bsky.social
Da'ka yamoká-ju óta maboya borikua mun Mnisótamakoxe. Facilitator, philosopher, award-winning poet/multidisciplinary artist, Velvet Rasputin LLC founder. Mostly an old fart. Los gatos son buena gente. ¡Wepa! @velvetrasputin.bsky.social vaslittlecrow.com
@booksinwales.bsky.social
📚💙 Book lover and reviewer 💙📚⌛ Massive fan of gothic historical fiction 🖤 Love anything bookish, dogs, nature and food 💓 Always looking for glimmers ✨ small moments of positivity and light in a dark world 🌍 #booksky
@paradiselibrary.bsky.social
📚 Award-winning #book & #theatre critic. ✍🏻 #Writer querying my first novel. 🎭 Often pretend to be someone else on stage. 💻 Day job: global #marketing. All my links: https://linktr.ee/Paradise_Library
@taniacarinapires.bsky.social
PT/ES - 🇬🇧EN #Translator specialising in legal translations ⚖️ Portuguese raised in Reading, England 🇵🇹🇬🇧 #Bookworm 📚 All book photos are mine 📷 You can also find me on: Instagram & Threads - taniacarinapires
@bertrom.bsky.social
In a past life, I was a film teacher, photographer, theatre director and film editor. Now a psychogeographer and Jungian explorer searching for my Anima, and some purpose.