A lighthearted book podcast hosted by Joe Haddow, where two authors discuss their work and get 3 minutes to pitch a book they absolutely love and think everyone should read!
Literary agent. Always looking for something interesting. www.katebarker.net.
Manchester Literature Festival presents inspiring live literature, poetry & culture. Check out our Spring & Summer events at www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
Sometime dramaturg, perennial scribbler, perpetual Prestonian.
Writer and ditch-poker. First novel, Starling, published by @FairlightBooks 2022. Next book, The Many Lives of Rivers, due 2027. Agent Julia Silk/Greyhound. she/her; pwME https://linktr.ee/sarahjanebutler
The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. Fighting for a fairer industry since 1884. #societyofauthors
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training https://linktr.ee/societyofauthors
Writer. All My Precious Madness published by Galley Beggar 2024; Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist, Authors Club Prize Shortlist, James Tait Black Prize shortlist. How Do People Stay the Same published 2026, Galley Beggar.
https://www.creativewritingtuition.com/
3 times a year Flash Fiction Award. £1460 prize fund. Anthology. Founded in 2015. 31st Award results out now. 32nd Award open. Judge Writer Editor and writing tutor Ingrid Jendzrejewski. Closes Feb 1st 2026
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.
www.saltpublishing.com
Book lover. Book reviewer. On the other socials as @JanetEmson
UK
fromfirstpagetolast.wordpress.com
Author, essayist and scholar. Recently grown up. Medicated somebody. PhDing at Lancaster University.
Agency page: https://tinyurl.com/39sren8c
Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Author | Screenwriter | Journo | Speaker
Turn Back Time (Bookseller pick for April) coming April 23rd (Hera/Canelo)
Rep’d by Emily MacDonald @ 42
Lecturer in Geophysics at the University of Aberdeen, using seismology to find out how the Earth works || Hill runner || Knitter
Author, Editor, Guardian Country Diarist, BBC Gardeners' World Mag. Patron #JohnClare Countryside Project, Fellow British Naturalists' Assoc. MA PGCE. Rep: Cathryn Summerhayes
LAND BENEATH THE WAVES: https://shorturl.at/LOt7x
linktr.ee/nicwilsonauthor
writer, sound artist, academic etc
✨new novel! THE UNEXPECTED✨
the sea is completely written for me
https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
Director of the National Poetry Centre in Leeds. Used to head up the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Love books, poetry, cycling and York City
Writer of love stories
*One Day In December* The Two Lives of Lydia Bird* One Night on the Island * A Winter in New York * Slow Burn Summer coming 2025*
Agent - Nelle Andrew @ Rachel Mills Literary
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
Writer. New novel LAMB out now from Dead Ink: mthill.co.uk/lamb
Modern literary agency representing a community of bestselling and prizewinning authors. We believe books can change the world.
rachelmillsliterary.co.uk
Reading Minds - a literary festival with a difference! Join us for a weekend of wellbeing through books on the West coast of Scotland 🏴
The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Senior Lecturer at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
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
Author of Witchland (coming 2026) and Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials. History, folklore, books, archives.
Coeliac(tivist), #freefrom food geek and MNU certified #nutritionist. Personal account to connect with fellow digestively challenged people.
She/her
Writer / Showrunner / Producer. TV & film. Created/written Night & Day, Around The World In 80 Days, Ordinary Joe, Bring Back Alice and lots of other stuff you might not have heard of 😊
theagency.co.uk/the-clients/caleb-ranson/
The Network alum | Channel 4 Writing for Television Award winner | Former forensic anthropologist | utter calamity
📍 South Yorkshire
📸 https://www.instagram.com/noomirosch94
Writer. Editor. Keeps things short.
Here (mostly) to share #FlashFiction, #ShortStories, writing community.
My flash fiction collection, The Map Waits, is published by Reflex Press: https://www.reflex.press/product/the-map-waits/
Professor at Warwick Uni, Poet at Carcanet, Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift, PBS Choice for FURY, Forward Prize finalist, Writer of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Fellow Royal Society of Literature,Thought Fox.
Neuroscience novel PATHWAYS, Fleet (UK 2024). Art novel GIRL READING, Virago (UK 2011). Award-winning author. katieward.co.uk
#WolseyWriters creative writing at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk wolseytheatre.co.uk/whats-on/
Author and creative director living in London & Snowdonia. Renovating a 300-year-old cottage with two fluffy cats, I help run a writing school (The Novelry), and I’m published by Penguin—Hold Back the Stars was translated into 22 languages ✨ katiekhan.com
Crime fiction festival in the North West. Saturday 31st January 2026 at Stockport Masonic Guildhall
Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now.' 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)
Writer, mum, Manc. Posts in bursts when not exhausted. Manchester Fiction Prize finalist (ages ago) Stories with Fly on the Wall Press (currently) Working on novel (forever)
Skin the Rabbit (The Braag) Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed (Verve). Writing long poems about rivers, absurdity & time +Arts Council £. Runs Sub Club for Manchester Poetry Library. Half poet, half tutor, half clown. Sheffield www.susiewilsonpoet.com
Hi, I’m Amanda a book mad ex-librarian working in a GP practice.
I’m a bookblogger reviewing on my blog, Instagram and X.
My blog: mybookishblogspot.wordpress.com
Instagram: @mybookishblogspot
X: https://x.com/amandaduncan12?s=21
Bookseller. Blogger. 💙📚 🇺🇦 🇬🇱
TBR pile that can be seen from space.
#BookSky
Petrona Award 2026
Wildlife/ conservation 🐺
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
http://linktr.ee/ravencrimereads
Kirkus ★ THE LOVELY DARK out April '26 🇺🇸 | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | Rep'd: Bell Lomax Moreton | No AI |🌱
linktr.ee/mattfoxwriter
Doctor of Shakespeare, Master of Writing. Author of THE CONTINUITY GIRL (“A wistfully entertaining romantic comedy.” Jonathan Coe). Workshops for Prisoners for Stratford Literary Festival.
Journalist: The Guardian, New York Times, NYMag, BBC, Vogue, GQ, Rolling Stone.
Rep'd by United Agents 📚
✉️: louis-staples@hotmail.com
Book/ music/ theatre -lover, dog-devotee!
I read and write short reviews to share the love!
Books from my shelf, the library, and NetGalley.
Chester, UK 🇬🇧
Instagram: @clares_little_book_obsession
Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/clarer
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 - Tender & Home Matters - and non-fic book coach. Hosts Not Too Busy To Write Podcast. Aussie in London.
Research & Postgraduate Development Manager @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Historian of early modern science, communication & collections. She/her with 'Big North Energy'. Very personal.
Author. Podcaster. Sheffield. Books. Horror. Manchester City. Tea.
https://linktr.ee/debbieenever
King's Mother, Times Book of the Month July 2024.
@VikingBooksUK Agent @immmy @marjacqscripts
http://linktr.ee/AnnieGarthwaite
Novelist. Two books from @saltpublishing. “The Bothy” and “Dry Cleaning”.
Also Samurai for hire. (Only available Thursdays).
Writer
COLD TOAST (Dahlia Books) Republic of Consciousness Prize 'Book of the Month' & incl. in their list 'Best Small Press Fiction of 2025'
Rep'd by Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency
www.kamwords.com
I'm sorry, I don't know my personality type.
Writing memoir, essays, fiction, place, & neurodivergence. Curae Prize '23 & Bristol Short Story Prize '25 shortlisted.
#ADHD. Complete lefty.
linktr.ee/kerrymeadwriter
Writer (TV, theatre, radio)
Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out 9 April in UK / 9 June in US (pre-order at the link below!) 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
THE KILLING OF A CHESTNUT TREE out this October from Tordotcom
Lecturer at Lancaster
Hugo nominated // Philip K. Dick award nominated // BSFA Award nominated // British Fantasy Award nominated
Writer, academic, allotmenteer, cat wrangler
Former politico, now professor of writing books. Sunday Times bestseller, Essex Girl, autistic. Never knowingly underdressed. She/her. Here for ALL the witches. And the pigeons.
https://joannanadin.com/
https://instagram.com/jonadin
PhD, novelist, RLF Fellow at Uni of Lincoln & Lincoln Bishop Uni. Working class autistic spoonie. Aro/ace. She/they. Proud to be rep'ed by @agentkateshaw.bsky.social. THE MOONLIT MAZE 2025, from @headlinebooks.bsky.social. No dms pls.
Author of How To Be Free, How To Be Brave & How To Be True. I also research school stories, juvenilia, and girlhood in children's books.
didyoueverstoptothink.com
Welsh Indian South African Dutch Londoner. PhD in Philosophy of Education. Antiracist Dialogic Pedagogy. Children's Books. Teaching & Writing.
Rep: Rachel Mann, CAA https://www.darrenchetty.com/
YA author of twisty thrillers. Classic crime enthusiast, coffee drinker and cat parent. Not as dark as my books! Latest: LOVE YOU TO DEATH (Scholastic, 2023). Essex Libraries Author in Residence 2024.
Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Author of Remembered and Curdle Creek, former editor at John Murray, Academic at Cambridge Uni, event host and podcaster. I also write kidlit, short scripts, nonfiction essays, poems
Author. 📚♿️PhD. Academic. Programme Leader BA Creative Writing. Uni of Winchester. SoA. Always looking for the positive in a complicated life
Novels SNEGUROCHKA and also BIRDEYE (Salt), rep Lutyens & Rubinstein, leads MA Creative Writing at Winchester Uni, mentor for Jericho Writers, mother of tall ones, out for a walk.
Novelist, creative writing lecturer & aspiring bog witch. FEMME FERAL (my perimenopausal werewolf novel) is out April 2026 🐺
www.sambeckbessinger.com
She/her 🏳️🌈🇿🇦🇬🇧
Sins of My Father ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Guardian Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Academic. Memoir lover. #lifewriting Co-founder @londonlitlab.bsky.social Find me here: https://lilydunn.substack.com/
Writer, Fiction & Non-fiction. Associate Professor Stirling. Rep'd by Peter Straus at RCW. New book 2025 Rare Tongues - Secret Stories of Hidden Languages (Atlantic & Princeton). Also a novelist. Once a dancer, medievalist, phonologist..
Exhausted academic, second class.
Publishing Lecturer at the University of Stirling. Researcher of smartphone storytelling. Author of books on Paris, London, Scotland, cemeteries, chess, & dragons. Erstwhile doer of other things. Often mediocre. He/Him
Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids:
Minou Moonshine 2023/ Sam Singh 2024 @zephyrbooks.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical 2026
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren 2022 @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing 2020
Bad Betty Press
https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
Writer, book critic, creative writing facilitator.
Latest book: IN THE MOVIE OF HER LIFE (short stories, Doire Press, 2025).
Website: http://www.clairehennessy.com/
Blog: https://clairehennessy.substack.com/
Workshops: https://www.clairehennessy.com/store
Writer (JUBILEE and VIGILANTE, W&N), Creative Writing lecturer at the University of Reading. Dogs, food and various forms of anguish.
Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her
Spoken word poet, novelist, poetry filmmaker. Professor of Creative Enterprise, co-director of Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival. Loves trees.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0034P8U64
https://canceralleyproject.com
https://thebookofhours.org
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.
Writer, poet, creative writing lecturer, autistic, Jewish, likes cats. Latest book Letters to my Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood.
Author of many books, teacher, mentor, #Curae, campaigner, doctored, mum of 3. Wilts, Wales, Southern US https://linktr.ee/bookwormvaught?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=00043ddf-6cad-43e1-8c8a-d89 rep. Clare Coombes at Liverpool Literary Agency
Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
Writer, lecturer, something else.
Meet me here for writing, HE, politics, culture and sport. Life, then.
Now writing with Ghost @ https://lucy-sweetman-writing.ghost.io
🌿 Poet & nonfiction writer. ‘Strangers: Essays on the Human & Nonhuman’ w/Makina Books. 'WITCH' w/Penned in the Margins.
(https://makinabooks.com/product/strangers/)
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St George's, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape, and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
Author, mainly of fiction. Sound art.
Professor of Creative & Interdisciplinary Practice at University of Glasgow.
Books, cats, coffee.
Author of Grief Girl (Penguin Random House US/Pan Macmillan Aus) / PhD Candidate
www.erinvincent.com
Writer of books, lecturer of creative writing, sometime Guardian/Bookseller/Stylist journalist. The Illumination of Ursula Flight + Badly Behaved Women.
Author and Expedition Leader. Books: The Writer’s Map, Explorers Sketchbooks, Swallowed by a Whale, Bad Apple, Blue Badger, Clive Penguin, Are Wolves Afraid of the Dark? etc. Teach by day, write by night, icebergs in my holidays. 🐧📚❄️
Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof at Edge Hill, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Broken Sleep, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
Wrote FAIR / GOBLINHOOD / VEHICLE / DUST SUCKER, translate German lit, publish Maltese lit at Praspar Press. Lecturer in Creative Writing, Goldsmiths & Tutor, Granta Writers’ Workshop. www.jencalleja.com
Author, The Flicker Against the Light, A User's Guide to Make-Believe, The Last Treasure Hunt. https://linktr.ee/janealexander. Teach CW @ UoE. She/her. janealexander@net
Author/Academic “…movingly explores the interconnectedness of our minds, bodies, spirituality and physical environment…”
MA, PhD, SFHEA, RLF / Multi-Carnegie nominee
(LFG, Chiefs)
Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Academic | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
I write children's fiction. I puppy-wrangle. Hoffi coffi. If there's dancing, I'm in. Senior Lecture, Creative Writing at Lancaster. Published Bloomsbury, OUP, Andersen Press. All jokes my own. She/her
Writing and scrabbling around early 19th-century 🇨🇦 + 🇮🇪. Interested in churches, kitchen gardens, language, rebellions. N'hésitez pas à dire bonjour.
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Crime writer among other strange things.
