Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️ Mostly writing short fiction. Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
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Author. https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/authors/jake_goldsmith/
Contributing editor to Exacting Clam.
Founder of The Barbellion Prize.
https://barbellionprize.org
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Literary and media agency based in Somerset House, London.
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Novelist (Old Baggage, Small Bomb at Dimperley, Wed Wabbit etc), ex TV producer (Room 101, Father Ted), voracious reader, owner of an adored and ancient dog, desultory gardener, attention span of a flea.
lissaevans.com
Canadian news columnist formerly CBC, newspapers, magazines etc. author, feminist, bookish person, centre-left. @heathermallick.substack
Chief TV Critic: @theindependent
Podcaster in Chief: @podotpods
Other "chief" roles: tbc
The literary prize rewarding mould-breaking fiction, launched and run by Goldsmiths UoL in association with the New Statesman
https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/
New independent publisher. Ireland's first press dedicated to literature in translation.
#artscouncilsupported
Average enthusiast. Author of Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, Ten Thousand Apologies, Base Notes and all the rest …
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Journalist, writer & editor (Independent, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Houzz): rubbish and interiors - see 'This is Rubbish' on Substack: https://substack.com/@kateburt
geographer, urbanist, Londoner, complicit observer
Writer, historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Slightly Foxed, New Humanist, Engelsberg Ideas.
“Jerry Stahl should either get the Pulitzer Prize or be shot down in the street like a dog.” Anthony Bourdain
Award-winning author of
Permanent Midnight; Nein Nein Nein!; I, Fatty etc… Novelist, journalist, screenwriter & (not great) actor
Showcasing the hideous trend of plastic lawns. Cutting through greenwash & exposing examples of garden habitats being replaced by sterile and lifeless astroturf
The new album 'Antidepressants' out now.
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Writer, web developer and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. Lapsed Interactive Media Academic. Webby Tech Stuff and webby book stuff.
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/
https://softwarecrisis.dev/
Director Digital Cultures Research Centre and Pervasive Media Studio Resident. Artist, writer and publisher. Opinions are all my own. Usually making something
Writer and journalist. Former arts editor at The Independent, and editor of Popshot Quarterly. The Bookseller sometimes
Voted “Most likely to be seen at the diner” by the class of 2002.
Senior Editor at @bombmag.bsky.social
Derbyshire based indie publisher | indie press champion | pop up bookshop
We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
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Journalist/lapsed mackem | Features/reviews/investigations. Mostly on culture. Currently reporter @theobserveruk.bsky.social (plus bits in @theguardian.com) | British Journalism Awards winner 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/rachael-healy
Literary Agent & Founder of Sarah Such Literary Agency, London. Shortlisted Literary Agent of the Year x 3 at The British Book Awards. Represents outstanding, award-winning authors.
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Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
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Vapid Response Unit. Tired dad. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi
Also, multi-faceted musical human. Perform with Scritti Politti, Cardiacs, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint, others. More info at rhodri.biz
Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor.
Free newsletter (dormant) at mariephillips.beehiiv.com
Lapsed New Yorker in Shakespeare's home town. I write and podcast about Apple, Scrivener, computer security, music, and photography.
kirkville.com
Extremely humble legend. Writer of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI, RARE SINGLES, CUDDY, THE OFFING, THE GALLOWS POLE (BBC/Shane Meadows), THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE etc. Books: https://bio.site/benjaminmyers
Novelist (Byron Easy, Jacob's Advice, Time Being @saltpublishing.com Sept 2026) & critic. Words Guardian, TLS, Literary Review. Radio plays BBC R3. Associate lecturer in Creative Writing Westminster University. judecook.com
https://judecook.substack.com/
bookish emo bisexual: writer, bookseller/barista. UKPR @ World Editions. HEARTBREAK IS A UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCE… Scumbag Press.
Writer. Orwell: The New Life now in pb. Poppyland: Stories coming in June. Avid Norwich City fan.
TV/Media Lawyer - law & popular culture/social sciences academic
• music of confusing genres • games • manga • anime • horror • weird shit & unsurprisingly other nerdy things •
Probable random drivel.
Can be annoying.
All views my own etc
Writer. Reviews non-fiction for the Sunday Times, edits The Author magazine. Books about the Kamasutra, Conspiracy Theories, Nepal and, next, a Himalayan mountain. Books, singing, wildlife, languages, running...
📓 SGSAH PhD Researcher in publishing @stir.ac.uk
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Translator from Portuguese and Spanish
Journalist at the Guardian / seeker.
"It's always gotten better by Thursday" (G Clinton)
Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
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Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy, alongside Yonit Levi. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE
▪️ Le compte Bluesky de Libération, avec une sélection de nos articles, enquêtes, billets et chroniques
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The official account of the Edge Hill Prize. £10,000 for the best published, single-authored short story collection from the UK & Ireland. Facilitated by FiN, Edge Hill University's narrative research group. Convener @saraheschofield.bsky.social
Home of world literature across languages. Book Club @hatchards piccadilly, BookBlast Diary reviews, interviews by publishing insider Georgia & friends; podcasts; lit executor Estate Lesley Blanch 🔗linktr.ee/bookblast
Instagram @bookblastofficial
A literary podcast hosted by Lori Feathers and Sam Jordison. Author interviews, publishing news and comment on classic and contemporary fiction.
The Republic of Consciousness Prize is dedicated to supporting small presses in the USA & Canada. Learn more at https://www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/.
World News Editor at Financial Times, ex Brussels bureau chief and media writer. Podcast: Hot Money. Sometimes dreams in Turkish. alex.barker@ft.com
Journalist, co-host of Blocked and Reported, author of The Quick Fix and an upcoming book on youth gender medicine. Mostly just asking questions.
More info: JesseSingal.com
Author: Villager, 1983, Everything Will Swallow You. Shirley Jackson Horror Writing Award winner who doesn’t write horror. "Hilarious" - Stephen Fry. "Made me laugh out loud" - David Sedaris. "Arrived damaged." - Amazon reviewer https://www.tom-cox.com
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Full spectrum story maven. Future Human, Bad Idea magazine, Kurdistan Museum and more to come.
Already writing more than I did on twitter
What's it going to be then, eh? All things Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) from his Estate and Archive in Manchester, UK.
www.anthonyburgess.org
Novelist. Poet. Reader.
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS, etc. 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS coming 2026
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
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Writer, businesswoman. Shorts in Mslexia, the Fiddlehead, dANDelion, +. On offer a novel, DIRTY WORK. In progress, A Slaughter of Peacocks. I want you to get lost in my dreams.
Author, nonfiction writing tutor, editor, proofreader. Out now in paperback, Endless Flight: the Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth (Granta). Agent: @thehamiltonagency.bsky.social
a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*)
WRITER – culture/music/street art
Into The Never — Nine Inch Nails & The Downward Spiral
Silhouettes And Shadows – David Bowie & Scary Monsters
Darker With The Dawn – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Clash / Louder Than War / the Quietus
29 years of news, rumors, minutiae about The Cure. Since June 1996.
🎶 I found you in a chain of flowers 🎶
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Joining the exodus - hopefully leaving the antiscience idiots to pat each other on their backs in peace
Editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk / Former EiC the Guardian/ @reutersinstitute ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
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Writer of LINT, The Book Lovers, Slaughtermatic etc, and Hyperthick comic. Weird/SF/slipstream/satire. Neurospicy, tall, in Scotland. 🪐📚 www.steveaylett.com
Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Writer
Publisher - Peninsula Press
Bookseller - Burley Fisher Books
Salt | Est. 1999 | One of the UK’s leading independent publishers.
High-impact fiction and brand-led non-fiction.
Redefining independent publishing for the 21st century.
Available in all good bookshops.
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Author of wrong fiction. #actuallyautistic richardblandford.blogspot.co.uk New novel My Life in Orbit out now.
If these pages contain a great deal about me, I can only suppose it must be because I have really something to do with them and can't be kept out. - Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Writer working across fiction, life writing, essays, non-fiction & poetry. Director @FaberAcademy • Founder #VanguardEditions • Editor #14magazine.
Most recent publication: ‘Crossing Paths’ (Poetry) (Black Cat, 2026).
Bangs on about Taylor Swift and books a lot. Was events manager for Blackwell’s Manchester, now with @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Nero Book Awards Fiction Judge 2023. He/him
novelist, historian, amateur hoofer | www.dianejosefowicz.com | pre-orders are open for THE GREAT HOUSES OF PILL HILL coming May 2026 from @sohopress
Writer, creative ecologist, owned by Grabbity & Copurrnicus. Currently writing an eco-sitcom podcast, Fieldwork, about four ecologists studying a rewilding project. https://fieldworkpodcast.substack.com/
Writing.
'The Orange Notebooks' in Electric Literature:
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'Home is Where we Start', Penguin
Words: Guardian, Aeon, Vogue...
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Writer, cat lady, John Ruskin obsessive, wrote a novel about medieval mystics. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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I think the best new fiction comes from indie presses, I enjoy translated fiction, experimental fictional, "forgotten gems," and Ancient Greek classics. My comfort reads are 20th C British women authors and Historical Fiction.
Indie publisher of beautiful titles inspired by buildings, cities and landmarks. Sometimes wears a book as a hat… | ManderleyPress.com
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Writer, editor, creative writing mentor, tutor @ National Centre for Writing. EVERYONE IS WATCHING / Picador / Neri Pozza / Czarna Owca / Elsinore. Repped by Sophie Lambert. www.meganbradbury.com.
Author, journalist, thought leadership, copywriter, ghost, PR ideas man, artistic working class histories, subculture, THFC fan. Trouble caused or solved. VG+, some surface noise. https://www.iainaitch.com & https://thisidea.co.uk/ London via Margate
Fiercely independent bookstore in Cambridge and Boston, MA
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Co-owner of @portersqbooks.bsky.social Author of The Art of Libromancy & An Exaggerated Murder. Opinions my own. BlueSky for @authorsabb.bsky.social & @massaabb.bsky.social He/him https://linktr.ee/joshthelibromancer
I read books, write books (Mothers, A Lonely Man) and write about books (Observer, LRB, Guardian etc). Was a Booker judge in 2025.
#architecture #design #interiordesign #homeimprovement #sculpting #painting
Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
Publishing remarkable writing from Germany
Continuing the Love German Books tradition
Find out more at https://vq-books.eu/
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.
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Author of LAKE OF URINE and THE COAST OF EVERYTHING
Executive editor at www.exactingclam.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/books/review-lake-of-urine-guillermo-stitch.html
Illustrator, coder, reader, bon-vivant. Please don't ask about HAL 9000...I don't like to talk about it.
Portfolio: https://www.dlbowman76.com (available for commissions)
Venezia / Los Angeles. I read books.