Writing Place, Writing Planet, UCD & iCRAG 2026 | Lamplight Fellowship 2025 | Literature Bursary Award 2025 | Moth Short Story Prize 2024 | 'Somebody' MoLi 2020 | Room Little Darker 2018/17 | Latest story: https://stingingfly.org/product/winter-2025-26/
🖊: @bigissue.com @bigissuenorth.bsky.social 👻 PhD on the BBC’s Televisual Gothic @manmetuni.bsky.social 👩💼 Members Coordinator @igagoths.bsky.social
Author of THE REHEARSALS & FOR TWICE IN MY LIFE (Little, Brown) | ghostwriter (boo!) | prob crying at a sitcom right now | repped by Kimberly Whalen
Reader in English Literature & Film at @manmetuni.bsky.social •
@igagoths.bsky.social co-president • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • More here: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
NYC. Graphic novelist, criminologist, geriatric skateboarder, writer of The Resurrected, Murky Waters, & the Tunis to Sydney comics. Represented by The BKS Agency. New graphic novel incoming. Star Wars ❤️ 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 日本語👍
Eldest Sister. Childless Cat Lady. Italian Jew. Witchy Woman.
I’m from N-E-W Jerz
Writer at Crunchyroll, Polygon, WIRED, Vulture, GamesRadar, Inverse, Pokemon, Paste Magazine and other places / Rep'd by Aevitas Creative / Author of Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught A Generation To Catch Them All / Picked Charmander
She/her. Book person. An Old. Founder of Bookstore Romance Day.
Established in 1970, Eagle Harbor Book Co. is a full service, locally-owned and proudly independent bookstore located on Bainbridge Island, WA. With an extensive selection of books and gifts, we're the perfect "destination bookshop"
We are a bookstore -- a good one, we think! -- selling new books -- good ones, we hope! -- in Oakland, California.
A romance-focused bookstore in the suburbs of Chicago (Tinley Park, IL).
Selling HEAs like it’s our job since 2019.
https://shop.lovessweetarrow.com/product/second-chance-romance/10013?cs=true&cst=custom
https://linktr.ee/LovesSweetArrow
🐉 Rad indie bookstore located in beautiful & complicated Bremerton, WA
📚 Shop indie bookstores and support local
📍 Corner of 4th street and Pacific Ave
www.ballastbookco.com
Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Mystery, Horror & more!
Author events, book signings & more!
For general queries, please contact our booksellers: 619-539-7137
https://linktr.ee/mystgalaxybooks
Order books online or shop in-person at Canada's hardest to find indie bookstore, co-operatively run in Halifax, Nova Scotia, featuring $5 flat rate shipping across Canada!
www.linktr.ee/kingscoopbookstore
Your queer and trans owned liberation bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin. We ship anywhere in the US.
Canada's oldest Speculative Fiction bookstore, founded in 1972. www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com. We are located in Toronto, Ontario.
Inclusive, LGBTQ-owned "third space" bookstore w/ cafe, events, and free wifi in Elk Grove, just south of Sacramento
A queer online book shop based in the UK, specialising in LGBT+ graphic novels, books, and manga. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️📚✌🏻@proudgeekbookshop elsewhere.
https://www.proud-geek.co.uk/
Concord, NH. Indie Bookstore. Est. 1898.
www.gibsonsbookstore.com
Independent bookstore in San Francisco since 1967.
Our Sunset location is @booksonthepark.bsky.social
https://greenapplebooks.com/
For young readers and the young at heart. We're the independent children's and young adult bookstore with a little purple door. Posts mostly by Rumpian Timothy.
Est. 1992
Minneapolis, MN, USA
https://linktr.ee/wildrumpus
Established 2016, worker owned and operated since 2020. Always Carry A Book
https://www.helianthusbooks.com/
Indie bookshop in Paris📚Online store ships to the world 🌎 Listen to our podcast here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company 🎧
Independent booksellers in the Hudson Valley since 1975. Signed books, staff picks, and more! 📚 Open daily + free shipping on online orders over $30.
New & Used Books, Cards, Gifts
6208 E Speedway
Tucson AZ 85712
520-571-0110
Mostlybooksaz.com
An independent bookshop for Barnsley, UK. Eclectic ranges of fiction and non-fiction for all ages.
An independent bookstore for all kinds of independent readers, near Tower Grove Park in St. Louis.
https://leviathanbookstore.com/
Canada's largest, most eventful independent bookstore.
https://linktr.ee/mcnallyrobinson
Birmingham, AL’s independent bookstore
Find your book. Find your people. 🩵
lnk.bio/thankyou_bham
🦊Indie bookseller with an online shop📚Lots of signed books & special editions 🦊 Sale sections all year round with book bargains📚Gift packages, book subscriptions & E-gift cards available🦊Bookish gifts📚 FoxLaneBooks.co.uk 🦊
Swindon based independent bookshop, visit us online or in person! bertsbooks.co.uk - or 54 Godwin Court, Swindon, SN1 4BB
Email us on bert@bertsbooks.co.uk
The legendary independent bookstore.
Portland, OR | est. 1971
Half Man, Half Bookshop.
Moved to Hastings in 2018 to start a wild new adventure with my family.
Not the inventor of the word "brainbow"
https://www.biggreenbookshop.com/
32 room Indie book store at 631 S. Third St Col. OH
bookloft.com
In all our forms - bookshops in Gloucestershire, a festival or two, schools and libraries. Occasionally Hereward. Less often, Errol the dog.
A Tipperary, Ireland based indie bookseller of new, old and inbetween books. Spend €20 & get free shipping !
Gaeilge agus fáilte.
www.thebookshop.ie
linktr.ee/thebookshop.ie
https://www.instagram.com/thebookshop.ie/
Located in downtown Kutztown since 2012, Firefly Bookstore is an independently-owned and operated new and used bookstore. Re-located in a bigger store in 2017, we now have almost 3000 square feet of space for over 65,000 items.
YVR's legendary independent bookstore. Est. 6/00. 'The pessimism of the intellect, the optimism of the will.' (Gramsci). 2025 Living Wage employer.
Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
www.littletoller.co.uk
Instagram / @littletollerbooks
Read, Recycle, Rediscover
Second-hand bookshop and music venue in Kenilworth, Warwickshire run by Victoria Mier. Profits to charity. Patron is glorious Bad Seed Warren Ellis. Posts by Victoria.
Ireland’s biggest independent bookstore - new, secondhand & bargain books - where you find what you didn’t know you were looking for!
An Post Bookshop of the Year 🏆
A tiny world of books and bookish gifts. Come visit, bring chocolate! Owner is a delight, at times. Drinker of terrible tea (allegedly)
Www.bridgebooksdromore.co.uk
Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013
Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995
www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk, www.fiveleaves.co.uk
We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
We are an indie bookshop selling new books for all ages, games, puzzles and stationary. Situated in the heart of Bridport, near to the jurassic coast.
PhD student, info sci at UIUC. Research in DH–NLP, AI, cultural analytics. Python enthusiast. Interested in place studies, US lit, creative writing, writing studies: https://matthewkollmer.com
I also own a rare book firm: https://eveninglandbooks.com
Independent bookstore in Calgary [Moh’kinstsis]. Open 7 days a week. Free local delivery. Dog friendliest. Find good books here. www.shelflifebooks.ca
1st Black owned book store in the US focused on Science Fiction and Fantasy as validated by the ABA
Indie bookstore in Western Australia - Independently published and small press romance books are our specialty.
https://wildheartsbookshop.com.au
Harvard Square's landmark independent bookstore since 1932. Visit us at Harvard.com
A tiny indie bookshop in Bloomfield, Ontario, Canada. Translated literature, travel, offbeat history, walking, geography, folklore & other interesting finds.
287 Bloomfield Main St, around the back. Open Friday - Sunday.
www.wanderingalbatrossbooks.com
Chicago's 1st Manga Shop! 🌈Proudly Queer-Owned & Arab-Owned
Manga • Manhwa • Danmei • Comics • Crafts • RPGs • Games • Curiosities
(Posts, comments, and bizarre opinions about popular media are by Ryvre/@NikaRiots)
Bookstore to be in St. Paul, MN.
Our website: https://darkmatterbooks.co/
Independent shop for new & used books in Greenfield, MA. Established 1994 but under new ownership since September 2019.
Contemporary bookshop located in the heart of Bristol's vibrant Wapping Wharf. Member of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers.
Located in Houston, Texas, MBTB is one of America’s oldest and largest bookstores dedicate to crime fiction.
https://linktr.ee/murderbooks
West Houston's favorite bookshop. Can we say that? Opinionated service and fantastic author events since 1996.
Worker-owned radical bookstore and cafe in Baltimore, the greatest city in America
Children’s Independent Bookshop in Salisbury. Open 9:30-4 Mon-Fri 9:30-5 Sat 11-3 Sun. Visit our website https://rocketshipbookshop.co.uk/online-shop/
Posts by Jo
Celebrating 40+ years of locally owned, independent bookselling.
Based in Miami, Florida.
Black feminist owned bookshop based in the DMV. We aim to empower and inspire diverse authors, readers, and storytelling traditions. Our site: Kindredbook.shop 📚💙 shop keeper: @jasminedaria.bsky.social #ncstatealum
A new & used bookstore owned by two best friends in Grimsby, ON 🇨🇦
https://www.tiktok.com/@grimsbybooks
instagram.com/grimsbybooks
www.grimsbybooks.com
4 Ontario St.
Indie bookstore in Tkatoronto. Radically supporting 2SQTBIPOC writers since 1987
#ownvoices kidlit and YA experts/ founder: Sheila Koffman
315 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6R 2M6
hosting events throughout GTA
anotherstory.ca
Independent bookstore proudly located in the heart of historic downtown Salisbury NC for over 20 years
Indie Bookshop in Mentone, Indiana
Woman Led. Love Powered.
Community Driven. Book Inspired.
Reading: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
www.pagesaplenty.com
She/They
Multi award winning children’s bookshop & school book fair provider. New £1, £2 & £3 children’s books 📚 Doncaster
https://linktr.ee/boggledybook
Made UK's only regular #illustration reportage in @privateeyenews.bsky.social
2011-2020. Created @smallpressday.bsky.social in 2016 & Jam bookshop in 2022-2025.
https://linktr.ee/jambookshopuk
Still draws stuff:
Queer feminist collective in Asheville, NC, operating a bookstore co-op & social movement space since 2008 on Tsalagi land. Ⓐ Ⓔ Ⓥ
The Haunted Book Shop, Mobile AL's downtown bookstore. Come in for the cat, stay for the spectral droning chants that aren't there.
A Romance bookstore based in Chicago, IL.
#TwigBookShop | 📚Local Indie Book Store!
🎉Open since 1972! |📍SA, TX @HistoricPearl
⏰10-6 every day!
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 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
The indie bookstore serving Salem, MA and visitors from around the world since 2014. Books, gifts, and more. Our toy store, Silly Bunny, is in the same location.
📍260 Essex Street - Downtown
https://linktr.ee/wickedgoodbooks.
A local, independent bookstore in Grass Valley, CA. Proudly providing our community with quality reads since 1976.
www.thebookseller.biz
https://www.redbubble.com/people/TheBookSellerGV/explore?page=1&sortOrder=recent
Supplying all the book needs of Beverly Farms, MA, since 1968. Co-owned by @sampfeifle.bsky.social and @hhharlow.bsky.social. Come see us sometime (or go to www.realbookshop.com).
Also, home of the "John Updike's Ghost" pod: https://pod.link/159468689
📚 Indie bookstore in Winsted, CT
🐈 Fostering through Sophia L'Orange Kitten Rescue
📖 Curation, expertise & a place to meet bookish friends
👩 Woman-owned
curiouscatbookshop.com
Your friendly neighborhood independent booksellers. Haight Street, San Francisco. Est. 1976.
11AM - 7PM daily. Find the good stuff at booksmith.com
Keeping Melbourne in good books since the 1960s.
60 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC, Australia
https://paperbackbooks.com.au
The oldest bookshop for children in the world. Melbourne, Australia.
A community co-op bookshop in the heart of #Haringey, North London located at 35 Turnpike Lane. We do books and events and local.
http://linktr.ee/allgoodbookshop
Small used & new bookstore in Rogers Park, Chicago.
1522 W. Jarvis
Tuesday-Saturday, 11-6
Sunday 11-5
Posts most often by @kateharding.bsky.social
Indie bookstore/bar/vegan restaurant in Columbus, OH. 🌴
30+ years of fine books and endless love in Portland, Oregon. We publish daring literary books by writers you should get to know. Editors: Kevin Sampsell (PDX) and Emma Alden (Philadelphia).
Visit us at www.futuretensebooks.com
Indie bookstore in St. Paul, MN since 1984! 🎈
Independent bookstore for over 40 years in Katy TX; we sell new & used books
We're a small-town books, comics, and gaming shop in Milan, Michigan with a focus on making the world a better place for our community.
That queerly friendly neighbourhood bookstore in the community of East Van on unceded and occupied MST land. Offering new and used books, small gifts, and Cozy Chairs™ for the queer soul and beloved community since 2023. www.crossandcrows.com
Queer Bookstore in Lansing, MI
wayfaringbooksellers.com
At the REO Town Marketplace ~
Open: Thurs 11-5, Fri-Sat 11-6
New & Used Books
Since 1960, we have been your proudly independent neighborhood bookstore in Glen Ellyn, IL committed to providing excellent customer service and a wide range of books for all readers.
https://bookstoreofge.com
Your friendly neighborhood bookshop in Hayward, CA since 2017!
Community bookshop in central Scotland. Avid reader. And yes that’s my actual name!
As a socially conscious bookstore we prioritize social goals alongside financial returns, which means we seek to actively address literacy concerns in our community as part of our bottom line.
Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally doesn't DM people. Fan of small & independent publishers.
https://carpelibrumbaltimore.com/
1854 W. North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
quimbys.com
Zines + Books + Comics + Tracts + Plenty
https://linktr.ee/QuimbysBookstore
Inclusive new and used bookshop in Lafayette, Indiana with a maze of books to get lost in. Offering new and used books and unique gifts. Sister shop to @mainbooksIN
www.secondflightbooks.com
Huxley and Hiro: Bookseller in historic downtown Wilmington, Delaware
Bookseller musings from the indie bookstore in Waterbury, Vermont.
Books and more plus bespoke literary events that are off the hook!
Bridgesidebooks.com
Boston’s Only Queer/Feminist Indie Bookstore 🌈📚💜
📍Somerville, MA
https://linktr.ee/allshewrotebooks
