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
@ratherbereading.bsky.social
Katharine: Celt. Charity worker. Ink drinker & word wrangler of dark fiction Book Reviewer: Historical Novel Society. Short story published Bloody St Albans 22 Top 100: Cheshire Novel Prize 23 Mum to a neurodivergent tribe.
@kristinadecker.bsky.social
Historian & Writer • PhD on Mary Delany and the culture of Improvement at University College Cork • 18thC cultural history, country house & material culture studies, animal histories • Secretary Women’s History Association of Ireland • West Cork
@zdmarriott.bsky.social
Novelist, RLF Fellow, PhD Candidate at the Open University. Working class autistic spoonie. Aro/ace. She/they. Very proud to be represented by @agentkateshaw.bsky.social. THE MOONLIT MAZE is coming from @headlinebooks.bsky.social 2025! No dms pls.
@jnraeside.bsky.social
📚Don’t Make Me Laugh out NOW. juliaraeside.com Broadcaster/Writer - iPaper, Times, Guardian, BBC radio. Presents @boxdelightspod.bsky.social Agent: @charlotteatyeo.bsky.social
@paintsewgluechew.bsky.social
London based designer & maker, blogging & selling on Etsy. Slave to Willow the border terrier. Etsy shop: paintsewgluechew.etsy.com Blog: Paintsewgluechew.com #etsyseller #btposse #🎨 #🧶 #🍜
@stileantico.co.uk
Early music vocal ensemble, recording for Decca Classics. Represented by Ikon Arts. ‘Breathtaking freshness, vitality and balance' (NYT). www.stileantico.co.uk
@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
@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"
@jcarreirawriter.bsky.social
Author, playwright, musician, arts feature writer, world citizen, asker of questions, human being! Co-founder of QuirkHouse Theatre and Foreword Festival of fringe literature, UK. 📚 www.jackiecarreira.co.uk www.forewordfestival.uk
@tooriekep.bsky.social
Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Writer querying my first novel, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own. Shetlander in Aberdeen. #amwriting #amquerying https://linktr.ee/tooriekep
@hannahlitagent.bsky.social
Founder and Literary Agent at www.HS-LA.com @HSLANews.bsky.social #WeNeedDiverseBooks. Story lover. Vintage typewriter obsessed. Feminist. She/Her/Ms https://linktr.ee/hannah_litagent
@akbea.bsky.social
I twist other people's words for money. http://rewritten.uk Anything pre-July 2023 is imported from Twitter; I don't have a time machine. Not that I'd tell you about, anyway.
@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.
@jennyrichards.bsky.social
Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
@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.
@groomb.bsky.social
Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' (2024) and bestselling 'Northerners: A History' (2022).
@numberslady.bsky.social
Ink Drinker, Wine Drinker, Overthinker... Find me on Instagram where I take better photos and wax lyrical about the books that I love: https://www.instagram.com/numberslady_reads/
@salmanshaheen.bsky.social
Author of forthcoming thriller novel Freebourne. Cabinet Member for Culture, Leisure & Public Spaces on Hounslow Council. Journalist. Pundit. FRSA salmanshaheen.com Promoted by Ted Wall on behalf of Hounslow Labour councillors at 367 CHR
@magscampbell.bsky.social
Lover, and writer, of myths, folklore, legends, fables, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror and fantasy. Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.
@zamirarahim.bsky.social
Journalist, CNN London. Previously writing at The Independent, The Economist and TIME Magazine.
@anna-orridge.bsky.social
Climate crisis, books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. Shabby w/o the chic. Eco-horror novella PHENGARIS out with @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social, May 2025 Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
@wokestudies.bsky.social
English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. Archaic English. NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era. Prof. d'Emeritus. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
@everyheron.bsky.social
We are the Heron in the corner. Inspiring Heroneers all over Planet Earth, as you encounter Heronkind for 1st or 1000th time. Nature is reported in the fullness of life... To the full heart she is all but a figure of speech-Thoreau www.everyheron.com
@kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social
UK Writer✍️🏽 LL:Joffe Books Prize '24 Love 📚; Old Hollywood 🎥 &musicals🌟; Theatreland; Ella Fitzgerald🎙& Cole Porter 🎶 #amquerying my Greek isle set REBECCAxRIVIERA romantic suspense. Secrets, lies, slow❤️🔥 romance, betrayal & murder💀 See📍 🚫 unsolicited DMs!
@matt-tucker.bsky.social
Writer. #amquerying my debut novel - The Fine Art of Shadows - a twisty supernatural mystery set in the aftermath of the First World War, with photography, séances and spirits. #WritingCommunity. Beta readers welcome 📖
@cauverymadhavan.bsky.social
Novelist:Paddy Indian, The Uncoupling,The Tainted @hoperoadpublish @PenguinIndia, @AAKnopf @speakingtiger14. New Book: #TheInheritance Sept’24. ❤️Golf❤️
@kericronin.bsky.social
Historian of Visual Culture. Human-Animal History. Writer. Pteridomaniac. Kayaker. Has a chronic illness you probably haven’t heard of. 😷 🍁 🏳️🌈 🌱 she/her https://kericronin.com/ https://instagram.com/kericronin/
@fascinatorfun.bsky.social
Retired Lawyer, cook, Europhile, books, music, good conversations, gardens, walking. Bird site refugee 🇬🇧 🇮🇪
@liamthorp.bsky.social
Political Editor, Liverpool Echo. 3 x Specialist Regional Journalist of the Year. Orwell Prize and Paul Foot Award nominee. Loves overpriced craft ale.
@magickitten.bsky.social
⛓️ https://linktr.ee/kate.neilan 🐈⬛ Cat lover 🪷 Outdoors appreciator 🏴 Cymru am byth 📝 Stories or death ✨💛🤍💜🖤✨🩷💜💙✨
@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966 | new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts | Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@rossignol.bsky.social
Writer. Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. More: https://linktr.ee/jimrossignol In this feed I often repost art, comics, video games, politics, and tabletop links.
@adamjfarrer.bsky.social
Essayist, Editor @ The Real Story, Winner NorthBound Book Award for COLD FISH SOUP (Saraband, 2022). BROKEN BISCUITS (HarperNorth, 2025) MD ANT https://linktr.ee/adamjfarrer
@adamsmet66.bsky.social
Thesp, Writer, Filmmaker. Writer & Director of Hedgehog - Best UK Short Jury Prize 2024 London Independent FF. Best Supporting Actor in a Short Film 2024 British Independent FF. Rep: info@newwondermanagement.co.uk
@rhodri.biz
Vapid Response Unit. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi Also, musical human. Producer for Lush Handmade Sounds. Perform with Scritti Politti, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint etc. More info at rhodri.biz
@regretteruane.bsky.social
Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
@dzyrl.bsky.social
Language learner, Europhile, cinema-goer, politics nerd. Day job at Bon, Brussels office of Agentschap Integratie en Inburgering. English/French/Dutch/Spanish
@anthonyzach.be
Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding. President of Demsoc.org
@freedmanhp4.bsky.social
The world’s softest grandpa and worst jazz trumpeter. Cricket, rugby, music, books, theatre, politics and - above all - family. You’d probably describe me as woke. And if you did, that’d be OK. I was (still am, for now) @freedmanhp4 in another place.
@johndeverill.bsky.social
Wanderer, wonderer. Sailor, soldier. Biker. Philosopher, as are we all when we stop to think.
@stefanstern.bsky.social
Journalist and author. Writes for FT, Guardian, Prospect and The Conversation. New book: Fair or Foul - the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition, out now. Visiting Prof at Bayes Business School
@paulclarke.com
The people photographer, working with the world's most interesting humans, dogs and brands. A graceful and melodious ape. paulclarke.com
@bigbeardedbookseller.com
a shambling lump of ennui with a beard, tattoos, and cat 📖 Art Work 📖 How To Survive Camping 📚 92/52 https://ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbookseller
@kitdewaal.com
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
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Writer Longlisted for Orwell Prize Shortlisted twice for Bridport Poetry Prize Longlisted for Bridport Novel Prize Looking for help to move things on