Here is a partial list of Twitter users writers may find interesting and useful:
| Name/Title | Twitter Handle | Description | Type1 | Type2 |
| Bookish | @BookishHQ | Discover smarter book recommendations, original book lists and articles, and author and book pages for classics and new favorites. Founders of #YAWednesday. | Aggregator | |
| Byliner | @TheByliner | We'll find you something good to read. | Aggregator | |
| Flavorwire | @flavorwire | Flavorwire offers cultural news and critique around art, books, music, and pop culture the world over. Highbrow, lowbrow, and everything in between. | Aggregator | |
| Longreads | @longreads | The best long-form stories on the web. Great with @Pocket, Flipboard, Instapaper. Use the #longreads tag to share your favorite stories. Est. 2009. | Aggregator | |
| Maria Popova | @brainpicker | Interestingness hunter-gatherer obsessed with combinatorial creativity. Editor of @brainpickings & @explorer. Bylines for @WiredUK & @TheAtlantic. MIT Fellow. | Aggregator | |
| The Millions | @The_Millions | The indispensable literary site' - @nytimes | 'Lots of reasons to love The Millions' - @GuardianBooks | 'A fantastic website' - @UtneReader | Aggregator | |
| TheBrowser | @TheBrowser | Writing worth reading. Share your links with us by adding the #browsings hashtag | Aggregator | |
| Vulture | @vulture | Devouring culture. Purveyor of #clickables. | Aggregator | |
| PEN Membership | @PENmembership | Membership department of PEN American Center. 4,000 members and growing. Apply at pen.org/join. for news on PEN members and events. | Association | |
| Anne Lamott | @annelamott | Author, Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies | Author | |
| Anne Rice | @annericeauthor | Author, Interview with a Vampire | Author | |
| Chuck Palahniuk | @chuckpalahniuk | Run by Dennis Widmyer (@denniswidmyer), webmaster of the official site at http://t.co/mGLOKNvp. Until Chuck decides to try this himself, I’ll do my best for him. | Author | |
| Cory Doctorow | @doctorow | Writer, blogger, activist. If you want a reply, use email. Blog suggestions here: http://boingboing.net/submit/ | Author | |
| Joe Hill | @joe_hill | Author of HORNS, HEART-SHAPED BOX and the forthcoming NOS4A2. Co-collaborator, with @GR_Comics, on LOCKE & KEY, an ongoing comic. Tumblr: http://t.co/nu0ZBuK0. | Author | |
| Margaret E. Atwood | @MargaretAtwood | Author, The Handmaid's Tale | Author | |
| William Gibson | @greatdismal | Author, Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition | Author | |
| Jessa Crispin | @thebookslut | The Book Slut blog | Blogger | Critic |
| Slacktory | @Slacktory | Slacktory is a humor blog. Our alignment is 'smart-dumb'. | Blogger | |
| Maud Newton | @maudnewton | Writer, critic, editor, neurotic. NYT Mag, Awl, Quarterly Co., Bookforum, Narrative, Granta, LA Times, B&N Review, Salon, Tin House Blog, Paris Review Daily. | Critic | Editor |
| Sam Sacks | @Sam_Sacks | I write the Fiction Chronicle for the Wall Street Journal and am an editor at Open Letters Monthly | Critic | Editor |
| Adrien-Luc Sanders | @smoulderingsea | Senior Editor @EntangledPub. Author (FROM THE ASHES, 2012). @BreeOgden's intern. Cynic. Geek. Gay. Silly misanthrope. Insomniac. Knows he looks like a girl. | Editor | Author |
| Jim Hanas | @jimhanas | Social media editor @newyorkobserver. Author of the story collection Why They Cried (Joyland eBooks/ECW Press, 2010). | Editor | Critic |
| Sarah Weinman | @sarahw | News Editor for Publishers Marketplace (@publisherslunch); Crime Wave column for @npbooks; editor of domestic suspense anthology forthcoming from Penguin. | Editor | |
| 99U | @99u | The 99U delivers the action-oriented education that you didn’t get in school, highlighting real-world best practices for making ideas happen. | Magazine | |
| Comb Magazine | @combmag | Comb is a blog for anyone who likes to read, see, hear, or clicked on this by accident. | Magazine | |
| Electric Literature | @ElectricLit | Saving literature one reader at a time. Tweets by @benasam. | Magazine | |
| Gigantic magazine | @Giganticmag | a magazine of short prose, interviews, and art | Magazine | |
| Granta Magazine | @GrantaMag | The Quarterly Magazine of New Writing. Tweets by @TeditorTed & @saskiavogel. | Magazine | |
| Guernica Magazine | @GuernicaMag | a magazine of art & politics https://www.facebook.com/GuernicaMagazine #politics #fiction #poetry #art | Magazine | |
| Harper's Magazine | @Harpers | An American general-interest magazine published since 1850. Tweets by @jeremy_keehn, sundry Harpies. | Magazine | |
| Knee-Jerk | @KneeJerkMag | Magazine | ||
| Lapham's Quarterly | @LaphamsQuart | Lapham's Quarterly is a journal of history and ideas edited by Lewis Lapham. | Magazine | |
| Laura Hazard Owen | @laurahazardowen | I write about ebooks, e-readers, Amazon, pricing, DRM, startups and other digital book publishing issues for paidContent/GigaOM. laura dot owen @ gigaom dot com | Magazine | |
| Los Angeles Review | @LAReview | divergent, West Coast literature | Magazine | Critic |
| Luna Park Review | @lunaparkreview | Luna Park blogs about the world of literary magazines, journals, zines, you name it. | Magazine | |
| Narrative Magazine | @NarrativeMag | A literary arts magazine that since 2003 has published online, for free. Also: http://facebook.com/NarrativeMag & http://narrativemag.tumblr.com | Magazine | |
| New York Magazine | @NYMag | New York Magazine's official Twitter account. Tweets by Shama Hussain. | Magazine | |
| New York Times Books | @nytimesbooks | Book reviews, news, author profiles, interviews and more on books from The New York Times. (Tweets by @johnwilliamsnyt) | Magazine | Critic |
| New Yorker Fiction | @NYerFiction | From the New Yorker Fiction Department. | Magazine | Critic |
| NY Review of Books | @nybooks | ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’ | Magazine | Critic |
| Open Letters Monthly | @olmonthly | An Arts and Literature Review. | Magazine | |
| Ploughshares Lit Mag | @pshares | Award-winning literary journal @EmersonCollege. Each issue guest-edited by a different notable author. Print/Kindle/Nook. Tweets by @AndrejaJean & @mimidcook | Magazine | |
| Publishers Weekly | @PublishersWkly | The international source for book publishing and bookselling news, reviews and information. | Magazine | |
| Shelf Awareness | @ShelfAwareness | Our free newsletters: Shelf Awareness Pro: Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade & the twice-weekly Shelf Awareness for Readers--reviews, news, book candy... | Magazine | |
| The Baffler | @thebafflermag | The journal that blunts the cutting edge. | Magazine | |
| The New Yorker | @NewYorker | The New Yorker is a weekly magazine with a mix of reporting of politics and culture, humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry, and reviews and criticism. | Magazine | Critic |
| The Northville Review | @nvillereview | Purveyors of fine creative work since 2009. (Tweets via our lead editor, @gnomeloaf. ) | Magazine | |
| The Paris Review | @parisreview | Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953. Managed by @alvarez_justin. | Magazine | Critic |
| The Rumpus | @The_Rumpus | The http://Rumpus.net: A place to read, on the Internet | Magazine | |
| Timothy McSweeney | @mcsweeneys | The Twitter feed of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and McSweeney's Books. | Magazine | |
| Tin House | @Tin_House | Tin House is offering a roof–despite the toxins of commerce–shelter meant to keep our language alive. –Allan Gurganus | Magazine | |
| Utne Reader | @UtneReader | Utne Reader & http://utne.com--The best of the alternative press--are digests of independent ideas and culture. Not right, not left, but forward thinking. | Magazine | |
| Wag's Revue | @Wags_Revue | Wag's Revue is an online-only quarterly of poetry, essays, fiction, and interviews with waggish luminaries of our day. | Magazine | |
| C-SPAN2's BookTV | @BookTV | C-SPAN2's BookTV is every weekend (8am Saturday - 8am Monday) on C-SPAN2. This is Book TV's official Twitter Site. | Media | |
| NPR Books | @nprbooks | Notes on NPR Books stories, the future of reading, and what to read next, with NPR.org's book editor. Email us: Books[at]npr.org | Media | Critic |
| PBS | @PBS | PBS invites you to explore new ideas and discover new worlds. Join us here for conversation and sharing. | Media | |
| GalleyCat | @GalleyCat | The First Word on the Book Publishing Industry | News | |
| Guardian Books | @GuardianBooks | News, reviews and author interviews plus tweets from the Guardian and Observer books team | News | |
| L.A. Times Books | @latimesbooks | Literary news and reviews from the @latimes' Jacket Copy blog and Books section. See http://latimes.com/twitter for more streams. | News | Critic |
| Poets & Writers | @poetswritersinc | Poets & Writers, Inc. is the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers. | News | |
| Word and Film | @WordandFilm | The Intersection of Books, Movies, and Television. Keeping a literary eye on what’s keeping the world entertained. | News | |
| Alfred A. Knopf | @AAKnopf | Dedicated to publishing distinguished fiction and nonfiction | Publisher | |
| Algonquin Books | @AlgonquinBooks | Founded in 1983, independent publisher of literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. Opinions our own, not representative of the company. | Publisher | |
| Basic Books | @BasicBooks | Renowned publisher of serious nonfiction by leading intellectuals, scholars, and journalists. | Publisher | |
| Coffee House Press | @Coffee_House_ | Coffee House Press is an award-winning, nonprofit literary publisher of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. | Publisher | |
| Doubleday | @doubledaypub | Publisher of Grisham, Dan Brown, Lethem, Palahniuk, McEwan, Atwood, Bryson, Child, Millard, Morgenstern, Whitehead, and many more of your favorite authors. | Publisher | |
| Farrar, Straus & Giroux | @fsgbooks | Farrar, Straus and Giroux has published award-winning fiction, nonfiction, & poetry since 1946. Tweets by @nickcourage & @iza_woj (hello!) | Publisher | |
| Graywolf Press | @GraywolfPress | Founded in 1974, Graywolf Press is an independent, nonprofit publisher of literary fiction, nonfiction, & poetry. Tweets by Casey Peterson (@case_face). | Publisher | |
| Harper Perennial | @HarperPerennial | We're one of the paperback imprints of HarperCollins. We like you. | Publisher | |
| HenryHolt | @HenryHolt | Henry Holt and Company, for over a century, published writers that define their era and endure far beyond it. Email Jason.Liebman @ hholt.com for review copies. | Publisher | |
| Iris Blasi | @IrisBlasi | Marketing Manager at @OpenRoadMedia. I like books and the people who read them. Iblasi @ openroadmedia.com. | Publisher | |
| Little, Brown and Co | @littlebrown | One of the U.S.'s oldest and most distinguished publishing houses, Little, Brown publishes James Patterson, David Sedaris, Anita Shreve, Malcolm Gladwell & more | Publisher | |
| Melville House | @melvillehouse | Melville House is an independent publishing house in Brooklyn, specializing in literary fiction, non-fiction, crime, poetry ... and liking it. | Publisher | |
| Norton Anthology | @NortonAnthology | See the winners of the 2012 Norton Anthology Student Recitation Contest! http://facebook.com/NortonAnthology | Publisher | |
| Nouvella | @NouvellaBooks | Novellas by emerging authors. Currently launching A FAMILIAR BEAST by Panio Gianopoulos: http://bit.ly/SuL5bn. Tweets by @deenadrewis and @bushnelle. | Publisher | |
| OpenRoadMedia | @openroadmedia | Celebrating the past. Building the future. 360' e-publishing. Soho, New York City · http://openroadmedia.com | Publisher | |
| Other Press | @otherpress | Independent publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction | Publisher | |
| Pantheon Books | @PantheonBooks | Publishers of literary fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, and Jewish interest books (under our Schocken imprint). | Publisher | |
| Penguin Books UK | @PenguinUKBooks | Penguin Books UK, based in London, publishing the best books and authors for 77 years | Publisher | |
| Penguin Books USA | @penguinusa | Penguin Books USA is the U.S. affiliate of the internationally renowned Penguin Group. | Publisher | |
| Penguin Classics | @PenguinClassics | Because what you read matters. | Publisher | |
| Penguin Library | @penguinlibrary | Links, reviews, news and love for Librarians from the Penguin Library Marketing dept- bringing the bird to your hands! | Publisher | |
| Plume Books | @PlumeBooks | Plume is an imprint of Penguin USA. We publish bestselling paperbacks + e-books by Tracy Chevalier, Lev Grossman, Jonathan Tropper, Cracked.com, + many more! | Publisher | |
| randomhouse | @randomhouse | Here to chat about books & writing. Bookworms, unite! | Publisher | |
| Riverhead Books | @riverheadbooks | We’re a publisher dedicated to extraordinary, ground-breaking, unique fiction and non-fiction writers and their work. | Publisher | |
| Scribner | @ScribnerBooks | Founded in 1846 by Charles Scribner. Publisher of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Stephen King, Don DeLillo, Jeannette Walls, Chuck Klosterman, & many more. | Publisher | |
| Simon & Schuster | @simonschuster | Simon & Schuster is one of the leading English language publishers in the world. Follow us for book, author & industry news and free book giveaways! | Publisher | |
| Simon & Schuster | @SimonBooks | A division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. us for book, author & industry news, and free book giveaways! http://simonbooks.tumblr.com/ | Publisher | |
| Soho Press | @soho_press | Indie publisher of literary mysteries, fiction, and memoirs. Tweet or DM for review copies. | Publisher | |
| Spiegel & Grau | @SPIEGELandGRAU | Spiegel & Grau is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. We publish books. | Publisher | |
| Summer Smith | @tsummersmith | Publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in nyc, and lover of all things battered & fried. | Publisher | |
| The Overlook Press | @overlookpress | We're an eclectic indie press: fiction, mysteries, history, politics, bio, art, design, & much more. Tweet or DM us for review copies! | Publisher | |
| The Penguin Press | @penguinpress | Ideas that matter, storytelling that lasts. Award-winning fiction and nonfiction. Tweets by @chapmanchapman (hello). http://thepenguinpress.tumblr.com/ | Publisher | |
| Vintage & Anchor | @VintageAnchor | From Classic to Contemporary—The Best Books in Paperback. A member of the @aaknopf group at @randomhouse. http://vintageanchor.tumblr.com/ | Publisher | |
| Vox Pop Publishing | @VoxPopBooks | Vox Pop Publishing offers print-on-demand publishing services for every author and project. | Publisher | |
| W. W. Norton | @wwnorton | Independent publishers since 1923. Tweets by Steve, Peter, and Sam. | Publisher | |
| Goodreads | @goodreads | The largest site for readers and book recommendations. Find new books, recommend books, track your reading, join book clubs, win advanced copies, and much more! | Social Media |
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This is only a sampling and may be updated at any time. If you have a Twitter user you would like to suggest, please share in comments.
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