BRILLIANT PEOPLE ON BLUESKY (VOLUME TWO)
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
@lizmistry.bsky.social
Crime Fiction Author, Avid Reader and reviewer rep'd by Lorella Belli Literary Agency
@lukesblog1.bsky.social
💻 Book blogger who tweets almost exclusively about banging (and not so banging) books!
@moyetteg.bsky.social
Writer. Winner HachetteUK Debut Author Bursary 2023. Rep'd by Hannah Schofield at LBA Books. Comms @BlackGirlWriters. Steering Committee @saloneurope, and helping to organise @genevawriters Conference 2025. Londoner in🇨🇭📚📚
@whimsicalmuse.bsky.social
Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, winter lover, October devotee, cat rescuer, macaron maker, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and Oxford comma enthusiast.
@alisonbarrow.bsky.social
Book cheerleader, Bookshop fan, Reader. Often on book tour. UK publishing PR and events 📚 Penguin Random House 🐧
@eveainsworth.bsky.social
Award winning working class author. Writes children’s books and adult romance/suspense. Safeguarding Lead. Part time Lady Stardust. Somebody I Used To Love - 2024 Pieces of Us - 2025 Loves football, fudge and fascinating fascinations.
@samanthabrennan.bsky.social
Philosopher, feminist, ethicist, cyclist. Dean of Arts, University of Guelph. My Erdős number is 3. My pronouns are she/her.🌈 http://linktr.ee/sjbrennan
@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
THE BENEFACTORS (novel) coming JUNE 25, Sceptre. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
@saracrowley.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. Human. Managing editor at The Forge Literary Magazine. Winner of the Excellence in Prison Libraries Award.
@flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
Manc independent publisher with a conscience. M.D. Isabelle Kenyon 2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year! Sustainable, political and accessible www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk
@yetanotherevans.bsky.social
LITTLE WILD coming June 2026 (Mantle, UK; Holt, US; Fazi Editore, IT) Rep'd by Cathryn Summerhayes, Curtis Brown. Will work for croissants.
@shelleyharris.bsky.social
Writer (JUBILEE and VIGILANTE, W&N), Creative Writing lecturer at the University of Reading. Dogs, food and various forms of anguish.
@louisesblack.bsky.social
Author. Reader. British-Iranian living in Ibiza and London. 📚POMEGRANATE SKY (2010), THE WATER GARDEN (2021), DARKNESS FALLS IN JAKARTA (2024). Winner of the Virgina Prize for Fiction 2009. Rep’d by @megancarrollagent.bsky.social @watsonlittle.bsky.social
@thecomfychair.bsky.social
Book lover and blogger. Nothing beats a big comfy chair, huge mug of tea and a good book or three. 📚 https://comfychairbooks.blogspot.com
@lyndasbookreviews.bsky.social
Book blogger 💙📚 2026 CWA Daggers Judge Dog and Cat lover 🐈⬛🐕🦺 Theatre Goer 🎭 https://linktr.ee/Lyndaanne
@annachantwriter.bsky.social
Writer, reader, lover of history & folklore. Medieval historical fiction author.
@justine1902.bsky.social
Writing wee stories about Belfast and other bits and pieces. Bath Novella-in-Flash Award shortlistee 2025. Words in places like @theDublinReview.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social FlashFictionMagazine
@carcionejay.bsky.social
Fiction: The London Magazine, The Forge, Lunate, Epoque Press, elsewhere Best of the Net 2024 finalist Deputy Production Editor: Irish Examiner Cork via New York
@duntweeting.bsky.social
Retired senior exec and non exec; amateur musician; student of art history; kent county cricket club member.
@tobylitt.bsky.social
Writer. Activist. Diarist. Head of Creative Writing at Southampton University. https://tobylitt.wordpress.com/shop/
@susanallott.bsky.social
Author, features writer, story consultant. THE HOUSE ON RYE LANE and THE SILENCE out now with Borough Press / Harper Collins. Rep - The Bent Agency I love books and food and telly.
@kateog.bsky.social
Bridport Short Story Shortlist 2024, 1st Prize Fish Publishing Flash Award 2024, Bath Flash Fiction Longlist 2024, Laurie Lee Prize Shortlist 2024
@garypanton.co.uk
Author of THE NOTWITCHES, out now! All the links for ordering can be found at garypanton.co.uk/books/ Represented by Rachel Mann at CAA. 📍Perth, Scotland 🌐 garypanton.co.uk
@ruthiesthomas.bsky.social
Writer. The Home Corner (Faber) | The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line (a BBC Book at Bedtime). New novel in progress. Agent: Georgia Garrett @RCWLitAgency https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Home-Corner-by-Ruth-Thomas/9780571230624
@marikacobbold.bsky.social
Swedish - British writer. Latest novel "On Hampstead Heath." Enjoy talking books, all things writing (and pretty much anything else, now I think about it.)
@anitachaudhuri.bsky.social
Writes on all things psychology, communities and well-being for The Guardian’s G2 section. Photographer documenting migraine and other invisible conditions. 🏡 London ❤️ Glasgow www.theguardian.com/profile/anita-chaudhuri
@jenhemery.bsky.social
Publisher at Salt, editor, CBT-Hypnotherapist at Re:New Hypnosis. Likes words and brains.
@dtheherring.bsky.social
Beckett & Dante my rocks; Anne Carson, Judith Butler & Angie Estes my muses. I dream of a liveable planet for our futures - so ❤️ XR. I'm Lead Editor of indie poetry press Dithering Chaps which I post about here. He/him. https://www.ditheringchaps.com
@dpb59.bsky.social
Liverpool FC; Tennis; Hate the ToryUKIPCult; 🔸🇪🇺👍. Getting even older by the day, but is that more experienced 😉 #FBPE #FBPPR #KTTO #SouthportTogether #ReJoinEU #LFC #BurscoughFC
@callanderj.bsky.social
LFC, Retrogaming, Gaming, Linux. Windows is the biggest pile of shit OS ever made. If you are a tory or Trump supporter do not follow me. No DM 🚫 #Atheist. #Don'tBuyTheSun #JFT97.
@adamhulse.bsky.social
Girl Dad 🖤 Northern. Writer of working-class dystopia - Below Economic Thresholds, The Growth, The Forgotten War, Not a Good Fit At This Time. https://linktr.ee/adamhulseauthor
@lucysetonw.bsky.social
Native Londoner, long-time Cairene, now living DK. Citizen of Nowhere par excellence. Live by the written word. Lifelong close reader: originally Greek/Latin, then Wittgenstein, then medieval ceremonial architecture in Mamluk Cairo, now back to Eng Lit.
@louabercrombie.bsky.social
Author | Photographer Mrs Joe Abercrombie https://www.louabercrombie.com https://mybook.to/LouAbercrombieBooks
@bookhaus.bsky.social
Contemporary bookshop located in the heart of Bristol's vibrant Wapping Wharf. Member of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers.
@jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social
Writing about nature, science, history, and sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief. TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems) released Spring 2024. LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir) due out December 2026. Editor in Chief Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press.
@imhelenj.bsky.social
Creative, crossing the streams. Former Associate Publisher @londonreview.bsky.social Supports @goodchancecal Has a #heatpump. #communityenergy. Gloucestershire mostly. Chairperson of Forest Community Energy ⚡
@handwrittengirl.bsky.social
Copywriter by trade Book blogger/Aspiring Author If there’s words, then count me in! 📚📖🖊️ Find me and my book news at handwrittengirl.com Current 📖 ‘The Stranger at the Wedding’ by AE Gauntlett
@heatherjfitt.bsky.social
📚 Open Your Eyes 📚The Flight 📚The Boat Trip 📚Author 📚Editor/Blog Tour Organiser 📚 General Coordinator for the CWA (All views my own.) heatherjfitt.com
@johnironmonger.bsky.social
Bestselling novelist. Zoologist. Cruciverbalist. Husband. Dad. Grandpops. Festival Prize winner. Costa short-lister. And I've seen a Javan rhino.
@vikkipatis.bsky.social
Author of queer dark novels, aka Victoria Hawthorne. Scottish with an English accent. Owned by golden retrievers. Views mine. Not on Twitter. 🏴🏳️🌈🇵🇸 she/her https://linktr.ee/vikkipatis
@victorialilly.bsky.social
Victoria. She/her ✒️ Author of literary and folk-horror short stories 📖 Writer for the Independent Book Review 📚 victorialillywriter.com
@neetschapman.bsky.social
Author of bestsellers 💛 THE VENICE SECRET 💌 THE FLORENCE LETTER 🌻 THE TUSCAN DIARY Publisher: Bookouture 📍Surrey UK https://amzn.to/3ES3oGy
@anniegarthwaite.bsky.social
King's Mother, Times Book of the Month July 2024. @VikingBooksUK Agent @immmy @marjacqscripts http://linktr.ee/AnnieGarthwaite
@eeleach.bsky.social
Oxford Prof, FBA, medievalist, musicologist, avid writer, and reading enthusiast. Best friend of Theo (aka Mr Dog). If you jump straight into my DMs to ask qs without interacting in the public feed, I will conclude you are a bot and block you.
@maireadhearne.bsky.social
Irish/Cork Book Reviewer/Blogger 💙 📚☘️ Dig. Mkting/PA for writingIE. Views my own #booksky Blog - www.swirlandthread.com
@alanfalconer.bsky.social
#BLM #BlueCrew 🌊 #Antifa #UBI #ExtinctionRebellion #GreenNewDeal #SocialistSunday 🌹 Hibee. Allergic to Tories. Abhor nationalism of all kinds. Still on Twitter as @TheAitchF
@valeofdurhamarch.bsky.social
Archaeology and history writer for Focus on the North East magazine. Investigating the archaeology of the Vale of Durham.
@karenpowellwrites.bsky.social
FIFTEEN WILD DECEMBERS shortlisted Nero Book Awards 2023; a best historical fiction book of 2023 (The Times); THE RIVER WITHIN (2020) Northern Writers' Award; @EuropaEdUK; https://linktr.ee/karenpowellwrites
@janem.bsky.social
Reading, writing, tea and all the biscuits Winner: W&A/whitefox'23|LWB p100 Prize'22|#EWPP '22
@elkwrites.bsky.social
Emerging Writer. Recovering Cultural Studies scholar. New here... Words in the Honest Ulsterman, Dark Mountain, and forthcoming The Belfast Review & ... Author of Un/Making Worlds (punctum books, 2023) ellenkirkpatrick.co.uk (& some #photography)
@eamon65.bsky.social
I'm an Irish writer, intending to query my Dublin-based thriller sometime this century.🤞📖 Freelance substantive editor https://clearviewfictionediting.com/ Cake, I'm happy to note, is my downfall.🍰 Ally🌈 No DMs🚫 #WritingCommunity #amwriting #Editors
@radiomukhers.bsky.social
Author. Scottish, Bengali, generally confused. “The Godfather of Anglo-Asian Crime Writing” (Daily Express) Rep’d by @stubbleagent From Glasgow. BlueSky is not a concept we’re familiar with. More here: abirmukherjee.com
@europesheila.bsky.social
🔶Former MEP. Electoral Commissioner. Scottish Lib Dem. Papy’s mum. Gardener. Birdwatcher. Conservationist. Outdoor swimmer. Rugby. She/her.🏳️⚧️ally. DMs with IRL friends only Aberdeenshire, Scotland
@mikebeer.bsky.social
Classicist:likes Elagabalus,cultural hybridisation,Caravaggio & Brutalism.Assoc. Lecturer,OU;Hon Research Fellow,Exeter.Trainer & coordinator, Classics for All.
@simontrafford.bsky.social
Curriculum Leader of Classics at a state grammar school; IB examiner; author of a few Classics related bits. Swansea University, University of Oxford alumnus. Living in Kent; working in SE London. https://swansea.academia.edu/SimonTrafford
@cogitoergo.bsky.social
Archaeologist by education, teacher by profession (history/philosophy/Latin) | plants, geeky things and the past are my hobbies | lover of Mediterranean archaeology | snarky bog witch ♾️
@harrymccarthy.bsky.social
Lecturer in Early Modern Literature working on childhood, race, gender, education, and performance. Book on boy actors with @cambridgeup.bsky.social.
@awoodall.bsky.social
GP researcher. SMI, multimorbidity. Hon .Clin. Senior Lecturer, Inst. Population Health, Univ. of Liverpool. Rural GP & integrated care lead for county. Centre-left politically. Rejoin EU. Reform/fascists = blocked when detected. No X/FB acct owned
@huwgriffiths.bsky.social
Literature; piano; 🏳️🌈; Blue Mountains; Associate Professor of English Literature at University of Sydney
@michellesbooknook.bsky.social
29 💛 | Lincolnshire, UK 🇬🇧 | Lifelong book worm 🐛 | Coffee lover & introvert ☕ | Happily married 💍 | Health warrior ♿ | 2025 BG: 11/50 📚 | #booksky https://linktr.ee/michelles_book_nook
@anthonypainter.bsky.social
Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment. "The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter #ynwa
@historymondays.bsky.social
Author & Historian | Exploring #Towton1461, the Wars of the Roses & medieval military history⚔️ 🗣️ For a deeper perspective join me at: historymondays.substack.com
@angusdunican.bsky.social
Actor/Comedian/Writer Very old Comedy special: http://bit.ly/45AAMxa My Doctor Who: http://bit.ly/3XeATtL TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@angusdunican_comedy?_t=ZN-8v7oZrnRHEM&_r=1 Rep: @bccreativelondon.bsky.social More: www.angusdunican.com
@ronanhession.bsky.social
Rónán Hession. Irish author @1dublin1book Listed @anpostibas @booksaremybag #BritishBookAwards #KerryGroupIrishNovel @Soc_of_Authors @dalkeybookfest @PrizeRofC Contact via www.ronanhession.com
@steveblackford.bsky.social
Father, Son and Holy Goat. An eccentric and cantankerous old soul with a heart mainly of gold. Author of 15 books, seller of very few. Lives in a time warp with the ghosts of my heroes Hunter S Thompson and Salvador Dali https://linktr.ee/theblackfordbook
@claredraycott.bsky.social
Writer of Contemporary Book Club fiction. Longlisted in Jericho Writers #LFOW23 1st 500 words competition. Love, love, love books. ME and Fibromyalgia for 36 years and counting.
@mikeachim.bsky.social
Writer (on science, travel & curiosity), Yorkshireman, tedious enthusiast, professional overthinker, Megathreader. Now: Scotland. Writes Everything Is Amazing: https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/
@diebooth.bsky.social
🦇Goth 📖DIY author of the beautiful macabre ✏️ Professional editor 🏳️🌈 #LGBTQ + 🎶DJ #LastRitesChester⚰️ Ko-fi: diebooth🔸he/him🔸BE NICE TO EACH OTHER 🖤 #endgenocide #antigenerativeAI https://diebooth.wordpress.com
@bookmadjo.bsky.social
Mancunian book blogger. I read rom, lit fic, historical + thrillers. #books #f1 #swfc #BookSky #Packers She/her, Cis, Ally 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ INFJ
@jpreedman.bsky.social
Author of historical fiction on Medieval Women, the Wars of the Roses, Stonehenge and Robin Hood
@iancritchley.bsky.social
Writer | Editor | Reviewer | Winner Hammond House, HISSAC | Stories in Structo, Lighthouse, Litro, Fiction Desk and others | Short story chapbook published by Nightjar Press
@lindzmcleod.bsky.social
Scottish writer/editor. Queer AF. Terrible workaholic. PhD student in Creative Writing. President of the Edinburgh Writers' Club. Repped: @lzats.bsky.social (literary) Kim Yau at Echo Lake (film/TV) Bae: @pegasusunder.bsky.social www.lindzmcleod.co.uk
@rosiemeddon.bsky.social
Author of historical sagas set in WWI/WW2. Currently writing my fourth wartime trilogy, this time for Penguin Michael Joseph. Find out more about my books at rosiemeddon.com Lover of the countryside, often to be found on my North Devon allotment.
@ryoungsulk.bsky.social
Talks nonsense, and writes the same. Author of silly afterlife books - http://mybook.to/gloomwood. Beezy & Grim live here. He/Him.
@alicefwrites.bsky.social
Award-winning writer of short stories & longer fiction. Debut short story collection, The Truth Has Arms and Legs, published 2023 by @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social www.alicefowlerauthor.com www.linktr.ee/alicefowlerauthor
@sophiehaydock.bsky.social
Author, journalist, marathon runner, mudlark | Curator Folkestone Book Festival | debut The Flames @DoubledayUK #EgonSchiele | agent Juliet Mushens | Madame Matisse coming in March 2025
@dramagirl.bsky.social
Actor MEAA-Equity, educator, voice artist (AAVA), serial traveller, enthusiast. Books, beach, cricket, gardening, painting - all the good things. PhD (UHM). #Tanarian #Queenslander User: #2,874,118, Registered: 30 Dec 2023
@ghollandphoto.bsky.social
Freelance photographer, Galway born, based in Dublin. 🏳️🌈 She/Her ☕ Coffee lover ☀️ Sunrise/sunset chaser 📸 Portraits & all things literature! www.gerhollandphotography.com
@helencooperbooks.bsky.social
Author and illustrator of ‘Pumpkin Soup’ trilogy. ‘The Bear Under the Stairs’ The Taming of the Cat’ and many others - mainly Children’s books. Northerner living in Oxford. helencooperbooks.co.uk
@nomadwarmachine.bsky.social
Bricoleur, remixer, connected educator. #DS106 #CLMooc #SoTL Owned by two black tuxedo cats. Knits a lot. Feminist. Uke player. Good Practice Adviser (Academic Developer) @UofGlasgow. https://www.nomadwarmachine.co.uk/
@susiesbookreviews.bsky.social
📚💙Book lover and reviewer 🏴Scotland 🙋🏻♀️She/her 📧susiebooks@yahoo.com Buying books and reading books are two different hobbies, don’t judge me. Also manages @hburghbookfest.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/susiesbookreviews?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@andrewholgate.bsky.social
Former Sunday Times literary editor. Now writing a book about the death of Mussolini for Weidenfeld.
@raeswabey.bsky.social
Writer. Mother. Mood reader. Genre floozy. WIPs: a speculative literary novel and a YA urban fairytale. Often bunking off with forays into flash. 📍Brighton, UK. An ally, always 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ No DMs please.
@birdwriterwrites.bsky.social
Cheese lover, animal/nature admirer, movie & anime lover, loves music. I love writing children's and ya books. Lyricist and composer. #addBirder
@caitlindavies.bsky.social
Writer, #BadGirls, #QueensoftheUnderworld, #PrivateInquiries, historian, swimmer, jumble lover. Thanet, Kent. Rep by Robert Kirby, United Agents. https://www.caitlindavies.co.uk/ Seaside art https://www.instagram.com/7baysbroadstairs
@markdudley.bsky.social
A criminal writer - Shortlisted for 2024 Yeovil Novel Prize for 'High Water', Longlisted for 2022 Exeter Novel Prize and 2023 Grindstone Literary Prize for 'Dead Wood' No unsolicited DMs. https://linktr.ee/markdudleyauthor
@natbaker.bsky.social
writer of fictional words @takahemagazine @HeadlandJournal @NewsroomNZ @millymagazine @Turbine | Kapohau...Occasional reviews @Kete Books...Here for writing and writers...Opinions all mine (She/her)
@tracyking.bsky.social
Writer, animation producer, scicomms consultant. Currently writing about medical malpractice. Books: Learning To Think (Penguin) The Cost of Trust (Harper Collins) Tim Minchin's Storm (Orion)
@lisatimoneywrites.bsky.social
Author with 3 names. #books Agent, Laura Williams (Greene & Heaton) Lisa Timoney - Family Dramas Kate Storey - Book Club Fiction Naomi Williams -Psych Thrillers https://linktr.ee/lisatimoneywrites
@mgzimeta.bsky.social
Ethio-Brit literary journalist | Geopolitics & society | Former refugee | Philosophy PhD | Words in LRB, Paris Review, The Atlantic etc | Broadcasts for BBC TV and radio | website mgzimeta.com | For tech policy I'm @TechMilly.bsky.social