The Home of Creative Writing. Writing courses and retreats online and at three UK countryside homes. https://linktr.ee/arvon_
Department of History at the University of Bristol. Our research+teaching includes diverse approaches, from medieval to contemporary, across the globe.
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Children's writer based in Edinburgh. Adventure novels, pic books, trad tale retellings. Passionate re stories, politics, feminism. #longcovid. she/lher
Draws. Paints. Writes short. Is short. Has a tall dog. Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fiction & Best Microfiction noms. 2025 Best Microfiction Anthology
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Disability policy analyst @americanprogress.bsky.social by day, disability studies PhD student by night, disabled activist by later night.
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Novel writer 🌈, Shortlisted for the Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers 2025, Northern Female Voices participant 2024, Longlisted for A Writing Chance (Substack strand) New Writing North 2024 😍🎭 Londoner in Manchester 🐝☔ RNA Member
English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. Antifa. Archaic English. NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare. Erstwhile Prof. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional mermaid. Previously one half of Grammy Award-winning duo Simon & Garfunkel.
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Bitter Southerner in the UK. Effie Doodle's mom. Lover of sports, TV both prestige & reality, and very dark books. Recovering lawyer turned agent at Paper Literary
Writer of fiction, raiser of funds. Lover of dogs, books, gigs and travel. Live in Newcastle.
Latest writing: Winner - Flash500 2024
Shortlist - Flash500 Novel Opening 2024
3rd place - Fiction Factory SS 2024
Finalist - Scottish Arts Club FF 2023.
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Writer. Researcher. Editor. Genderqueer femme. Crip. She/they.
// medieval lit / media / gender / disability / pop culture //
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Independent bookshop on Bristol's legendary Gloucester Road https://gloucesterroadbooks.com/
We're the world's foremost literary prize for historical fiction & run the Young Walter Scott Prize. http://linktr.ee/WalterScottPrizes
Poet, author, artist, baker, photographer. Keen gardner & veg grower, advocate for nature and the underdog. All year open water swimmer, thalassophile, indie book publisher. Social & environmental justice now! Not a naturist!
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Lancaster's literature festival and development agency. Established 1978.
Independent historical researcher (involuntarily self-taught), writing at a frustratingly slow 🐌 pace due to severe chronic illness.
Scotland’s International Festival of Crime Writing. Stirling. 12-14th September 2025.
Award winning poet, editor of Poetry Wales, poetry coeditor at Seren Books, a founding editor of Modron Magazine
Researcher | Writer | Reader
PhD Psychology of Education, University of Cambridge, researching mental health in first generation students 🧠
Obsessive reader of 100+ books/year and reviewer of proofs for NetGalley 📚
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London based independent publishing house.
Dedicated to new authors, great storytelling & fabulous ideas 📚
Publishing independently since 1929.
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Publisher. Always independent.
https://canongate.co.uk
Literary, TV & Film Agency representing bestselling and award-winning authors worldwide
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Writer | The Naming of the Birds (Jan. 2025) l The House on Vesper Sands | Lives in a very small way.
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Avid reader, occasional reviewer. Beginner genealogist & dysgu Cymraeg.
Retired by moderate-severe ME/CFS & chronic migraine.
Managed by Rowan. She/her.
Children’s Writer | Write Mentor Mentee '23 | WM PB Award SL '24 | Rep'd by David Higham Associates @david-higham-books.bsky.social
That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
https://www.bodegacats.nyc
Author, editor, OU lecturer, trustee of Bhola's Children & 1/5 of Gill Merton. Irish Novel Fair Winner, Lucy Cavendish & MsLexia longlists. The Almost Truth (2024) & Letters From Elena (2025) published by Legend Press
📝 Worldwide creative writing comp
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📝 Raises funds for Bridport Arts Centre
The views of contributors do not reflect the views of The Bridport Prize.
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Performance historian, disability historian.
Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024)
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https://linktr.ee/patricktmckelvey
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TONS of poetry ➡️ https://sagepoetess.substack.com
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Academic & Writer | London & Wivenhoe | QMUL researcher | former creative writing teacher at Birkbeck and English Professor at University of Calgary | queer feminist theory | experimental writing
Historia Magazine is the online magazine of the Historical Writers’ Association
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historicalwriters.org
The literature development agency for the West Midlands region. Also programme and produce Birmingham Literature Festival and Spark Young Writers. Arts Council NPO.
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🌷 poet for Nature Calling 🌷
creative access adviser 💖 | FRSA | Probably writing poems!
I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
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Indie bookshop in Bristol, UK. All readers welcome 📚
Cinemas, Pervasive Media Studio, Undershed and all-round Bristol icon.
Bestselling author of 3 names:
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Currently writing novel number 18.
Also award-winning teacher. 😍📖💖
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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
Academic & theatre kid| Canonical Misogyny out now from Edinburgh UP! | less funny half of @nashaxpodcast.bsky.social | she/her | 🇱🇧
Creative type and mental health researcher. Founder of Playing Sane. Lived Experience work with NSPA, Rethink Mental Illness, & GMMH. Part way through a never ending PhD. Generally interested.
Small independent, inclusive, award-winning UK publishing house. Mostly poetry and short fiction, with the occasional fantasy/sci-fi novel. Prioritising LGBTQ+, Global Majority, Disabled, Welsh poets, and geographically isolated and Older Women writers.
Writer, soil scientist, nature lover. Passionate about peat. Guardian Country Diarist. Writing for Bloomsbury's British Wildlife Collection.
Literary and media agency based in Somerset House, London.
https://greeneheaton.co.uk/
📚 Children's author of picture books, chapter books and Middle Grade.
🌟 Chair of the Children's Writers and illustrators Group at Society of Authors. 💃Posts are my own.
Everything writing. Tarot witch. Disabled and powerful.
Pronounced 'Ray'.
Hi, I’m Jenny! (She/her) ✏️ Chronic illness and disability content. “For when ‘Get Well Soon’ is just a bit shit”. Freelance designer, consultant, small biz owner 🏴 https://www.thisthingtheycallrecovery.com/links
Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, UMass Amherst.
Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn Press, forthcoming). http://sonjadrimmer.com/about-forte (She/her)
International Poet, Playwright, Curator & Editor of KIN, an anthology celebrating Romany, Traveller & Nomadic Communities with Salmon Poetry Press, Founder of Writing as Sanctuary’. #Breast Cancer Survivor/ Chronic Illness/ Disability
Omniscribe, wood carver, tree whisperer, quiet revolutionary, Scottish Highlands.
Seeking lit agent for YA/NA fantasy and literary novella
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Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
Writer, sailor, general weirdo.
Life on hold by severe #MECFS, currently 99% bedbound 🛌
Documenting my life like it is now, advocacy through photography 📷
📍Finland
https://nikosuvisto.com/
We're all normal to ourselves. I write. I hate hustle. I love shiny objects. Can't even influence an ant. Anthropology & sociology graduate. Author of books. Spoonie. And much more.
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Writer, curator, mentor, coach, artist. Imprint co-director of MAI Press, Punctum. Repped @portyliterary. Queer gardener. Certified DISCO DIVA (IYKYK). I do queer feminist film/art things and fight for disability justice.
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Senior Lecturer in Publishing researching disability. Ex-Penguin.
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The official account of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge.
https://www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/
Head of the Journalism Dept, City St George's University of London. Reader at CSG; writer at various. LL Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2023 and Fiction Factory 2024. Co-director of News on Stage and Contemporary Narratives Lab.
Author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, and more. Currently working on a novel about Lady Eleanor Talbot. Here for history and the stories we tell about it. Click for courses, mentoring, and etc: https://linktr.ee/imogenhermes
The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
The Prize Papers Project is dedicated to the study and digitization of the Prize Papers collection stored at The National Archives, UK. It is based at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and the National Archives, UK.
Learn more: www.prizepapers.de
historian of witchcrafts, folklore, France 18-20th c
ass. ed. French History
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
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Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Writer querying my first novel and writing another, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own. Shetlander in Aberdeen. https://linktr.ee/tooriekep
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Writer. Reader. Family historian. Chocolate lover. Cheshire Novel Prize Longlist ‘23.
Usually engaged in prose, poetry or procrastination.
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Author of the Eye Spy series of MG detective stories and The Multiple Sclerosis Diet Book. Looking for agent for YA novel. Lover of cats, cooking and genealogy.
Irish Writer, lover of books, hiker of mountains ✍️📚
* Shortlisted Historical Writers Association / Dorothy Dunnett Society Short Story Prize 2024
* Shortlisted Doris Gooderson Short Story Award 2024
* Longlisted Bedford Writing Competition 2023
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Literary Agent at Mushens Entertainment
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Actively growing my list
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📚💙 Scottish author of Fantasy and Science-Fiction. Fan of Pratchett, Dr Who, Red Dwarf, Douglas Adams
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An independent history, mythology and folklore podcast hosted by Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux.
Gather round the campfire and listen in!
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The Bateman Horne Center is a medical center of excellence for people with ME/CFS, Long COVID, fibromyalgia, post-viral illness, and comorbid conditions.
Children’s author. Rep’d by Hannah Sheppard @hannah_litagent @HS_LA_News . Actor, reader. Singing with Song Dragons. 🖤🩶🤍💜😵💫
Chicana + Indigenous author of SALT BONES (Mulholland) & RIVER WOMAN, RIVER DEMON (Blackstone). Bruja poeta. Magical-real monstrous mamawriter. Hexer of the patriarchy. Haunted woman.
She/Her/La Bruja
jennifergivhan.com
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Author of A Girl Behind Dark Glasses, A Girl in One Room and A Girl Beyond Closed Doors. Casual artist and public speaker too
Reads, writes, edits, gardens, cooks. Natural history, nice people. Whippet person 🌈🇪🇺🌹🥮🐺 Also Andrew Wille Writing Studio
www.wille.org
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History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Wondering & wandering. Duly concerned.
Supporting understanding & decency.
From farming stock… t’quiet sanctuary in the Dales. For finding solace & building strength. Off-kilter ne’er far off. #autistic #human
Writer, poet and guinea pig fosterer. These Mortal Bodies, my debut about sisterhood, girlhood and obsession, is out now with Simon and Schuster 🦇.
https://linktr.ee/elspethwrites
Mystery writer for adults & teens | A SPOONIE's GUIDE TO SELF-ACCEPTANCE (poetry chapbook) @bottlecappress | freelance editor | 💜🥄 | EIC: @flarelitmag.bsky.social 🔥| layout: Anahita Karthik | she/her
https://linktr.ee/kellyesparza
Literary magazine about chronic illnesses, mental health, & disabilities written by disabled & chronically ill creatives
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Contest opens 1/1/26 and ends on 3/1!
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Disability Awareness Consultant/Severely Disabled Creator, author of NOTES FROM A QUEER CRIPPLE (2025), podcast host of Disability After Dark, award-winning speaker
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