Inaugural issue coming March 2026. Details and subscription: https://crossroadsfolkhorror.my.canva.site/
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Writing competition for unpublished and independently published novelists. Entries close on the 31st of May. Judged by Sally Williamson (Transworld) and Hayley Steed (Janklow & Nesbit). Organised by the Literary Studio. Bloomsbury, London
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Surrounded by yowling, nebulous forms. Writer: Green Wing, Smack the Pony, Delivery Man, Piglets, my first novel Pagans now available in paperback: https://www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/james-alistair-henry/2928377365622
Last November top UK experts briefed leaders on the latest science to galvanise genuine emergency action on the climate & nature. The film version of this landmark event is out 7.04.26.
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writer, editor, prof, traductrice
Queer ecofiction novel forthcoming @Stelliform.press: The Hunger of Those Who Built It
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Queen's | UofT | ISTI | Clarion
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Tortured soul behind the writer's resource
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A small press based in Lexington, Kentucky that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic, and literary fiction. Submissions open at brownhoundpress.com.
Master Mariner, Marine Conservationist, Environmentalist, Writer and Poet
Horror author, writing group enthusiast, TV fiend and sentient blancmange.
Author and historian, specialising in witchcraft, folklore and cats. Co-founder of #FolkloreThursday
The Story of Witches - Out Now
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willowwinsham.com
Senior Lecturer in Psychology. Researching paranormal and conspiracy beliefs. Council member, Society for Psychical Research.
Disabled writer of dark fantasy, horror, and sci-fi. Horror Tree Reviewer. Lover of metal music, graveyards and dusty libraries.
https://corinnepollard.wordpress.com/
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Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
Writer of The Apparition Phase, the comedy/drama High Strangeness, co-writer/presenter of the podcast Broken Veil. New novel, Solace House, coming next spring from Atlantic Books
Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
Co-Host of Strange Studies of Strange Stories and Rachel Watches Star Trek!
Home of Strange Studies of Strange Stories and The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast!
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Podcast host, rocker and monster-about-town.
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Salt | Est. 1999 | Independent & family-run.
Fiction (crime, historical, horror, literary), non-fiction, poetry & short stories.
Beautiful books you wonโt forget. Available from all UK and Ireland bookshops.
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The Ghost Story Book Club podcast. Join host Adam Z. Robinson @adamzed.bsky.social as he discusses classic ghost stories with special guests. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!
Writer and actor
Theatre co: The Book of Darkness & Light (https://bsky.app/profile/tbodal.bsky.social).
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The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Published and promoted on behalf of the Green Party, at PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ.
Weโve been publishing anthologies of new short fiction since 2010. Based in Scotland.
A new operating system for creative people
https://www.metalabel.com
Prize-dodging writer of stories. Here despite popular demand. 'Forgetting is How We Survive' pub'd Saltpublishing.bsky.social . Shortlisted @edgehillprize.bsky.social. Chapbooks @nightjarpress.bsky.social & @salopress.bsky.social .
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lit mag & small press | supported by the Arts Council of Ireland | issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) out now | latest book: Found in a Context of Destruction by Tim MacGabhann | https://bansheepress.org/
Politics Professor, University of Manchester.
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes, good & bad, are mine only.
My Substack, "The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Senior Fiction editor at Titan Books. Debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER out now from Black Shuck Books.
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He/him. From Bridgwater, in Bristol. Writer, editor, content designer. Ghost stories, films. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: my book Intervals of Darkness https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDR8X9QY
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Momster of Elsebub, Sindre & #SookieTheFarmCat living in the arse-end of Norway.
-I mostly post about (horror)books and cats. Sometimes I review the odd read.
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Horror writer. UK. Stories in Best Horror of the Year, Vols 15 & 16
Full list of published and new stories here ๐
charliehugheswriting.blogspot.com
Independent press dedicated to literature of the gothic, fantastic, strange, and supernatural. รon House, Dublin, Ireland. Posts by Brian J. Showers. www.swanriverpress.ie
The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
Single short story chapbooks since 2009. Uncanny, dark, experimental. Manchester/London. Editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social. Design @johnoakey.bsky.social.
Author and reviewer. Sunburst Award winner. Nebula, World Fantasy, Stoker, Locus, Shirley Jackson, British Fantasy, Lamba, and Ignyte finalist. She/her. www.acwise.net. https://linktr.ee/acwise
Editorial Director for Crime & Thriller at Transworld Books, part of Penguin Random House ๐ง๐ ๐ All views my own
Maltese born, Edinburgh novelist. ASD. Lapsed journalist. PhD St Andrews. Writes as Jonathan Grimwood, Jack G & Jon Courtenay G. Owns cat thatโs a drug addict.
he/him
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http://jonathangrimwood.com
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Writer. New novel is THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE. Previous titles include WHAT A CARVE UP!, THE ROTTERS' CLUB, MIDDLE ENGLAND, MR WILDER AND ME ...
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Award-winning powerhouse publisher of SF ๐ Fantasy ๐งโโ๏ธ Spec Fic โจ, and Horror ๐ง Part of Rebellion Developments ๐ https://linktr.ee/solarisbooks
Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbooks
Independent publisher.
Leeds.
Publishing director: Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social
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Publishing independently since 1929.
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Independent British publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction. Also the home of imprints Corvus Books, Allen & Unwin UK, and Grove Press UK.
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Indie publisher of bold, unforgettable international fiction, half in translation. Shortlisted IPG Best Newcomer 2015/16. CWA Crime & Mystery Publisher of the Year 2020. Nibbies Finalist Small Press of the Year. Visit us at www.orendabooks.co.uk.
Indie Publisher of historical fiction, championing authors and stories based in Northern England and Scotland. SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Award-winning independent publisher of distinctive, unforgettable fiction and outstanding non-fiction.
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Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
My retirement project is helping keep the Firth of Clyde clean. The Clyde is a beautiful inland sea with porpoises, dolphins, seals, sometimes whales, and migratory seabirds like gannets #beachclean #FirthofClyde #CowalPeninsula #Argyll #Scotland
Adjunct instructor in English and one of the writers at Broken Hands Media.
They/he. Variously, Theo deRoth, Edgar Mason, Charles-Elizabeth Boyles. Reading, writing, fiber arts. No fun ever.
Horror author from the North of England. Reyt Spooky.
Stories of grief, folklore, and the things that move when they shouldnโt.
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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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Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
Award-winning writer, blogs https://jankaneen.com/ '23 Bath NiF winner, SL Rubery Award & First Pages Prize '24 Flash & Short story collection, Hostile Environments on sale https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/hostile-environments-paperback
Gig going, theatre loving, craft beer drinking, Tex-Mex-fancying writer from Sunderland. Writes for NARC. magazine.
https://linktr.ee/craftbeardmackem
Author & Musician (they/them)
3rd novel WE ARE TOGETHER BECAUSE @AtlanticBooks | You Are Wolf (folk)
| Edinburgh Short Story Award 2024 winner | 4 British Composer Awards | linktr.ee/kerry.andrew ๐ ๐ฆ
Writer, reader, hiker https://linktr.ee/jenn_ashworth
Artist, NHS, Mental health, LFC, Film. https://tomcox76.wordpress.com/
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Health inequalities, primary care access, community engagement and the voluntary sector - own views, repostsโ endorsements
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Creating the next generation in the north of England. www.writingsquad.com
Lefty, plant based, Buddhist, reader
LGBTQIA2S+ ally. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion! Anti-Fascist!
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Author | Editor | Book coach.
Bristol girl now living in France. Caledonia Novel Award SL. Goldfinch Novel Award LL.
Repโd by Judith Murray at Greene & Heaton
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Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Artist/Writer/Film Maker
Modernist.
www.modernistpunk.com
Planning & environmental campaigner. Co-founder Community Planning Alliance www.communityplanningalliance.org. Founder Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons www.pylonseastanglia.co.uk
Photographer in North Carolina Triad.
Father. Husband. "Elder Emo". I'll make a hobby out of just about anything.
All photos posted are my own.
I shoot both film and digital.
Musician, author & podcaster from Wales ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
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participatory, playful + political artworks by an interdisciplinary studio | powered by curiosity, coffee + misplaced idealism | finally left the hellsite
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Skilled in unobtrusive, authentic #storytelling
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Ultra-woke lefty animal lover. Making beats in Devon to retain sanity. Anti-hunt, anti-cull, anti-cruelty, pro-kindness.
Flash fiction, short stories and longer fiction. YA ms going out on submission. Rep: Al Guthrie, The North Literary. 2026 Scriever for the Federation of Writers (Scotland).
Queer writer of odd things. 10th book, "It's Time", a hybrid chronomemoir, out now. Permissioner, founder of Unbox Your Words. She/they ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ www.taniahershman.com; https://taniahershman.substack.com/; https://www.instagram.com/tania_hershman_writes
The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Bronx Based, MD ANT ๐ฅ
Art, photography, literature, and lots of post-punk/vinyl
Stenographer, Wannabe Writer, MA Museum Studies, Volunteer. Wonder what Iโll be when I grow up ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
Illinoisan transplant to North East England - wouldnโt live anywhere else ๐
I live on the North Yorkshire coast, where I enjoy walking & taking photos. I โค๏ธ music, reading and being out in nature. Always a Hippy. LCFC. โ
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Alt process and art. Light manipulator. Gobsh!te and hopeful fool. FMS sufferer. Part time human.
Non-profit marine research and Kelp rewilding.
For biodiversity, the oceans and the planet.
Writer of short stories, novels, plays.
http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk
Forthcoming: Five Different Stories About One Thing (Confingo). Preorder: https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/five-different-stories-about-one-thing-by-elizabeth-baines
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Writer & photographer of award-winning books about the sea, beachcombing & mudlarking | Sea Journal | Rag and Bone | Lost to the Sea - 'Wondrous, elegant and haunting' Philip Hoare
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London-Born Saxophonist and Composer living in Stockholm.
โOne of the better fried-egg accounts on this websiteโ
#Teesside, music, football, books, theatre, and the coast
Campaigner against the welfare nightmare & environmental pariah that is salmon farming
Lawyer. Writer. Artist. PhD: Creative & Critical Writing: The Hybrid Aesthetic as Decolonial Practice
Winner of Queen Mary Wasafiri Prize 2023. Co Ediitor: Gathering (2024). Nasiasarwarskuse.com
Words in The Nation, Granta, Sight & Sound, and more. PhD Researcher at the University of Westminster. THIS WAY TO DEPARTURES, stories about leaving the place you're from, was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize.
Earthling. Writer (Salt Publishing, Fictive Dream, The Incubator), Runner, Walker, Psychogeographer, owned by Border Collie and Welsh Sheepdog, PhD in Creative Writing
