Dan Coxon @dancoxon.bsky.social He/him. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Awards winner (twice). Collection COME SING FOR THE HARROWING out now.
Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social Writer, designer, rule of three enthusiast.
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Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social Award-winning independent publisher of distinctive, unforgettable fiction and outstanding non-fiction.
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Publishing Scotland @publishingscotland.bsky.social Trade assoc & charity supporting book publishing.
Foillseachadh Alba in Gaelic.
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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social Disabled writer of things. Bad at being on BlueSky. Debut sci-fi horror novel AWAKENED out now with Angry Robot Books.
‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - New York Times
thom @tjcxyz.bsky.social ok now what
Inpress Books 📚 @inpressbooks.bsky.social Reaching readers on behalf of 50+ independent publishers. Funded by Arts Council England. Follow us on socials @inpressbooks📚 linktr.ee/inpressbooks 
Dr Jean Menzies @jeansthoughts.bsky.social PhD in Ancient History 🏺
Nonfiction author for children with DK; YA/Teens with Wren & Rook; and adult with 404 Ink.
Debut medieval fantasy retelling for adults coming May 2025 with Michael Joseph, Penguin.
Agent: Emily Glenister
Helen McClory @helenmcclory.bsky.social Writer, Reader, Hybrid creature
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https://helenmcclory.com/
Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
Forbes Masson @forbesmasson.bsky.social Shouty Turn
Associate Artist RSC and NTS
Alan Cumming @alancumming.bsky.social Willing to give it a go
xuanlin @xuanlintham.bsky.social writer and curator, ‘revolutionary desires: the political power of the sex scene’ forthcoming mar 2025!
preorder here: https://www.404ink.com/store/p/inklings-revolutionary-desires
Publishing at Stirling @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social The Publishing Studies masters course at the University of Stirling; tweets mostly from @pressfuturist.bsky.social.
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
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The Publishing Post @thepublishingpost.bsky.social A magazine for those wanting to learn about publishing📚 New issue every other Wednesday🎉
First Chapter Award 🏆
Email us at publishingpost@outlook.com to join the team!
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Alice Slater @aliceslater.bsky.social damn girl that looks yummy as fuck. what’s your email address?
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Nikesh Shukla @nikeshshukla.bsky.social Author. Wrote a Spider-Man comic. He wears a mask just to cover the raw flesh. A rather ugly brother with flows that’s gorgeous.
Mae Diansangu @vavapoetry.bsky.social Day job☀️ ASN classroom assistant
Creative practice✍🏾 Poet [Scots + English]
Drag alter ego🕺🏾👑 Uncle Tony
vavapoetry@gmail.com
Louise Welsh @louisewelsh00.bsky.social Writer, The Cutting Room, Plague Times Trilogy, To the Dogs & more. Prof Creative Writing, Glasgow University. Hon Prez Scottish PEN. Podcast Who Owns the Clyde. Librettist Anthropocene. Theatre, movies, cats, life 🏳️🌈
Hamza Jahanzeb (isn't here, contact via email) 🚫 Kindly NO DM 🚫 @hamzajahanzeb.co.uk 📕 The Rise & Rise of #ChappellRoan
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🎭 hamzajahanzeb.substack.com
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alex orr 🌷 @alexorr.bsky.social marketing with Hodder & Stoughton | @alexreads_ elsewhere | views my own | they/them 🏴
Blackwell's Manchester @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social Your friendly neighbourhood bookshop on Oxford Road, Manchester 📚 Bookchat, events and silly things. Bleets (?!) by @rednewsom.bsky.social
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/blackwells-manchester-11315868456
Nina Douglas @ninadouglas.bsky.social Professional cheerleader; books publicist, consultant (children’s, YA, crossover, charity and arts), reader, writer, story-obsessed. (NDPR, The Pocket Publicist)
Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social London's Independent Bookshop of 2024.
Fiction, London Books, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Travel, Classics, Children's Books, Cards, Totes, and Short Story Prize.
https://linktr.ee/bricklanebookshop
Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013
Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995
www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk, www.fiveleaves.co.uk
We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
Waterstones @waterstones.bsky.social All about the books
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Independent Publishers Guild @independentpublishersguild.com The IPG is the UK's largest association of independent publishers, supporting 600+ members with events, resources, training and much more.
https://linktr.ee/IndependentPublishersGuild
Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
Visit us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, or browse at https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
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Rach 🍂📚☕️ @rachelmayquin.bsky.social 2x Shortlisted Freelancer of the Year 2024 & 2025 (The Bookseller) 📚 Award-winning marketing consultant ✨ Publishing professional ☕ Writer ✍️ Herder of 🐱🐶🦔
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𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔶 ℜ𝔬𝔰𝔢 🌊 @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social • black cat owner and horror girlie
• sunday times bestselling author/forbes 30 under 30 with no mystique
• the lamb 🥩 @wnbooks @harperbooks
• audhd / bi
https://linktr.ee/lucyrosecreative
She/they
Canongate @canongate.co.uk Publisher. Always independent.
https://canongate.co.uk
@edbookfest.bsky.social @edbookfest.bsky.social 
Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social Communications Director, @canongate.co.uk. Currently working with Miranda July, Omar El Akkad, Len Pennie, Damian Barr, Lily King, John Niven & many other talented folk.
Live in Edinburgh, though more often on trains. Don't have access to DMs.
Kirstin Innes @kirstininnes.bsky.social Author 📕Fishnet (2015) 📙Scabby Queen (2020) 📗Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches (2021) 📘currently writing The Book Of Risk (novel not self-help manual), a screenplay and a musical. Maw of boys. Quite tired, yes.
Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy. 
Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social Academic, fourth 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
Tramp Press @tramppress.bsky.social Independent book publisher. The Most Normal Woman by Roisin Kiberd forthcoming end of August! Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Dee Stevens @deestevens.bsky.social Making TV @ Tiger Aspect Kids (Mr Bean / Charlie & Lola / Super Happy Magic Forest)
Making books @ Knights Of (Children’s Publisher of the Year 2022)
Selling books @ Round Table Books (Children’s Bookshop of the Year 2023)
Irish | they/them
Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social Uncharismatic megafauna.
Too fat to ride a horse, too poor to own a carriage.
https://linktr.ee/causticcovercritic
Peggy Hughes @hughespeg.bsky.social Chief Executive at @writerscentre.bsky.social. Feat. books, whimsy, radio, outdoors, running, walking, looking. NIrish via Scotland in Norwich
Dead Ink Bookshop @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social An independent bookshop exclusively stocking independent publishers, based on Smithdown Road in Liverpool.
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbookshop
Lynsey May @lynseymay.com Writer. Reader. Lover of tall tales. Weak Teeth out now, Prodigy scheduled for 2027: http://tinyurl.com/Buy-weak-teeth
Links and stuff: linktr.ee/lynseymay
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
www.damianbarr.com
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social Award Winning Small Press. SFF in Fiction and Academia. Est. 2015. Member of Publishing Scotland. https://www.lunapresspublishing.com
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social poet 🌙
free 🇵🇸
she/her
Sam Humphreys @sjheditor.bsky.social Editorial consultant and freelance editor with 20+ years in-house experience including PRH & Pan Macmillan: sjheditor@gmail.com
Likes: books, birds, babies, sun, v weak coffee
Collects: doors, dogs, clutter
Opinions: mine
Pronouns: she/her
Kishani Widyaratna @kishani.bsky.social Book bore
Publishing Dir, 4th Estate
Views all my own, retweets ≠ endorsement 
@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social Galley Beggar Press is an independent publisher from Norwich. Citizens of the world. And foreign.
Sarah Davis-Goff @sarahdavisgoff.bsky.social Tramp, dweeb
she / her
Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social 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
Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social Half Man, Half Bookshop.
Moved to Hastings in 2018 to start a wild new adventure with my family.
Not the inventor of the word "brainbow"
https://www.biggreenbookshop.com/
Helen Sedgwick @helensedgwick.bsky.social Author, editor, physicist. Books: The Comet Seekers, The Growing Season, The Burrowhead Mysteries trilogy. linktr.ee/HelenSedgwick 🏳️🌈
Chitra Ramaswamy @chitgrrl.bsky.social Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.
Timothy C. Baker @timothycbaker.bsky.social Lectures on Scottish and contemporary literature, writes about animals, tries to be hopeful. He/they. Currently trying to open a cinema in Aberdeen.
Sam Jordison @samjordison.bsky.social Mad as hell. Not going to take it any more. Journalist. Galley Beggar. 3AM Magazine Anti-Royal Correspondent.
Across The Pond podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/
Galley Beggar: www.galleybeggar.co.uk
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Charco Press @charcopress.com Award-winning publisher of outstanding Latin American literature. Edinburgh.
charcopress.com
Dr Chiara Bullen @chiarab.bsky.social ✨🏔️ THE INN AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT VENGEANCE IS OUT NOW 🏔️✨
sometimes author, sometimes academic. always anxious.
glasgow.
rep: Jessica Mileo
contact me buy my books etc: https://linktr.ee/chiarabullen
Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com Indie bookshop in Paris📚Online store ships to the world 🌎 Listen to our podcast here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company 🎧
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️🌈 she/they. Crepuscular/ Chaucerian/ enamoured of rot.
EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com The Edinburgh Minute newsletter. Read by 30,000+ locals. Get smarter about Edinburgh with a quick curation of news, culture & communities @ 7am daily 📬 Proudly subscriber-supported.
Written by Michael MacLeod along with thousands of local contributors.
Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social Cheerleader for Books and Beatles.
20+ years in the book trade.
Supporting publishers @publishingscotland.bsky.social
Editor @booksfromscotland.bsky.social
Author of Beatles 101.
Gimme all yer culture!
Scottish BPOC Writers Network @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social Advocacy, networking, promoting Scottish & Scotland-based writers of colour, literary events & spaces. https://lnk.bio/scotbpocwriters
FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop @forumbooks.bsky.social Three lovely, friendly, award-winning independent bookshops in Corbridge, Whitley Bay + Alnwick
https://www.forumbooksshop.com
Events: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks
Sara Sheridan @sarasheridan.bsky.social Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan All links: https://linktr.ee/sarasheridanwriter
Argonaut Books @argonautbooks.bsky.social | 🌊 Leith’s Independent Bookshop - Est.2021
| 🗓️ Open 7 Days a Week
| 🕰️ Sun-Thurs: 10:00-18:00/Fri-Sat: 10:00-20:00
| 📍 15-17 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 8LN
| 🌐 argonautbooks.co.uk
Floris Books @florisbooks.bsky.social Indie publisher based in Edinburgh. We specialise in beautiful books for children and fascinating non-fiction for adults. Check out our imprint @discoverkelpies.bsky.social
Visit us online - florisbooks.co.uk
Mark Bolsover @mdbolsover.bsky.social #Writer. #amquerying my debut novel.
IN FAILURE & IN RUINS—dreams & fragments (Into the Void Press), *1st collection: contra FLUX—moments caught (arrested) whilst in-from movement (Polyversity Press). #BookSky 📚
Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social An independent poetry publishing house based in rural Aberdeenshire | www.tapsalteerie.co.uk | join the Scottish poetry Discord: discord.gg/9bC6Gp2ZJM | & check out our imprint Stewed Rhubarb Press: https://stewedrhubarb.org/
Haunt Publishing @hauntpublishing.bsky.social Stories that stay with you. Gothic, horror and dark fiction books.
Emily Garside @emilygarside.bsky.social Writer & professional nerd putting the A in LGBTQIA+
PhD in representations of AIDS through theatre.
Much queer theatre and TV research.
Also, a lot of Hockey.
She/Her
Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social Κλεοπάτρα 🇨🇾 Writer, editor, translator | Stories in: swamp pink, HAD, Tiny Molecules, Flash Flood, Claudine, Raw Lit | she/her
Shortlisted, Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction
Best Small Fictions & Best of the Net nominee
kleopatraolympiou.com
Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social 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
The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social Independent Cultural Journalism from Scotland. Free monthly magazine, website, podcasts, and more. DMs not monitored, send us an email.
theskinny.co.uk
Burley Fisher Books @burleyfisher.bsky.social We sell books in Haggerston, London. New + used + antiquarian. Also zines, coffee, events + a riso press (not for sale, but come print with us)! www.burleyfisherbooks.com.
I Am Loud CIC @iamloudpro.bsky.social Scotland's premier spoken word organisation, learn more about our work at iamloud.co
Loud Poets: Best Regular UK Spoken Word Night 2023
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Arusa Qureshi @arusa.bsky.social Author of Flip the Script (404ink) and words sometimes in the Quietus, NME, Guardian, The Forty-Five etc.
Trustee @ Music Venue Trust & Hen Hoose
https://www.arusaqureshi.com/
Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social monster, phd-er, "professional" Bug Lady, queer[ing] ecologist, ex-marine biologist, poet.
Facilitator.
Environmental Advisor.
Critical ecology.
Escaping...
Writing a book (trying to)
Bugs'n'Liberation
https://linktr.ee/altbrownwriter
That Publishing Blog @thatpublishingblog.bsky.social 📚✨Blogging about all things publishing at https://thatpublishingblog.wordpress.com/
🧠 All views my own.
📱Find me on other socials.
📍London.
Doug Johnstone @dougjohnstone.bsky.social Writer & musician. 20th novel Ghost Notes out now. Tombstoning and The Ossians also re-published in 2026. Album Crow Hill out now. Drummer for Fun Lovin' Crime Writers. www.dougjohnstone.com
Heather McDaid @heathermmcd.bsky.social Professional dork. Ex-publisher, current books and puzzle person. Always tired.
https://heathermcdaid.com
Alex Thornber @nucosi.bsky.social bookish emo bisexual: writer, bookseller/barista. UKPR @ World Editions. HEARTBREAK IS A UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCE… Scumbag Press.
Portobello Literary @portyliterary.bsky.social A literary agency based in Edinburgh.
https://linktr.ee/portobelloliterary
genevieve jagger @catgorl.bsky.social Catgirl / writer / witch / tearful simp
Author of FRAGILE ANIMALS out with @404ink 🦢 📕
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www.genajag.com
Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling. 
elle nash @saderotica.bsky.social literary catgirl | author of Deliver Me, Gag Reflex, Nudes, & Animals Eat Each Other | phd candidate at university of glasgow | editor @thecreativeindependent.com 🌀
“i’m the bigger dog only for now.” —peter christopher
🐇linktr.ee/ellenash
Kirstyn @kirstyns.bsky.social Book editor and copy editor/writer.
Culture journo.
Sex, erotica + horrotica writer/editor.
Head mainly empty.
she/her
Carrie plays guitar 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @carriem.co.uk Writer, parent and guitar wrangler from Glasgow. Author of Small Town Joy and Carrie Kills A Man, singer in Unquiet Mind. Trans, she/her. https://linktr.ee/carrieplaysguitar. Pic: Omar Salam
Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social PhD Researcher in small press publishing & diversity at University of Stirling
Operations @charcopress.com
Freelance typesetter
Ex-publisher at 404 Ink
lauraflojo.com