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The Grim Collective @thegrimcollective.bsky.social Combining poetry with music and sound.
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Annie Rutherford @annierutherford.bsky.social Translator, writer and cultural project leader. Artistic director at Highlight Arts. Particularly interested in collaborative working and creating communities. 2025 BCLT translator-in-residence. (she/they)
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Prof Zoe Strachan @zoestrachan.bsky.social Author, mainly of fiction. Sound art.
Professor of Creative & Interdisciplinary Practice at University of Glasgow.
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Eleanor Livingstone @eleanorl.bsky.social Sometime poet and editor, former poetry festival director, Scottish. Likes walking, talking, beaches, gardens, travel. Two new books out in 2023 from Red Squirrel Press (she/her)
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Lady on a Wire @ladyonawire.bsky.social Shannon Lynette is an author, poet, and editor. She’s also the owner of Lady Chaos Press, a small independent press. ❤️🔪🖤
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Rochford Street Review @rochfordstreview.bsky.social Rochford Street Press is committed to publishing work which pushes boundaries. Edited by Mark Roberts & Linda Adair on Darug & Gundungurra land.
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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social The Magazine of New Writing.
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Skein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of stories underrepresented in Irish literature
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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e. amato @eamato.bsky.social poet, performer, writer, storyteller, curator, editor, filmmaker, scripty, facilitator, and plant-based kitchen witch
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SNACK magazine @snackmag.bsky.social Independent arts and culture magazine for Scotland and beyond
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Rebecca Swift Foundation @foundationswift.bsky.social Advancing the craft, creativity and wellbeing of women poets in the UK
West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social * We are most active on Instagram * Thanks for joining us and making this year our biggest, buzziest festival yet. Save the dates: July 9-16 2027
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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social ...a world of different...
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Islay Book Festival @islaybookfest.bsky.social We are an annual autumn book festival on Scotland's whisky isle. Next festival taking place 27th - 30th August 2026. 📚
Corr Blimey @corrblimey.bsky.social Your destination for reviews and news of theatre, film, music, and events across Scotland.
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Hotchpotch Dundee @hotchdundee.bsky.social Monthly open-mic for writers at Blend on Dock Street in Dundee. Follows or reposts are not endorsements. Follow the Standards of Behaviour at https://hotchdundee.org.uk.
Poetry London @poetrylondon.bsky.social London’s Leading Poetry Magazine. Autumn 2023 Issue 106 OUT NOW.
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Ilkley Literature Festival @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social The north of England's longest-running literature festival.
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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social.
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Scottish BPOC Writers Network @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social Advocacy, networking, promoting Scottish & Scotland-based writers of colour, literary events & spaces. https://lnk.bio/scotbpocwriters
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.
Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher.
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Jacob Sam-La Rose @jacobslr.bsky.social Writer, reader, editor, facilitator, programme leader, artistic director. Geeks for mobile computing, creative coding, generative tech, ergomech keyboards, sci-fi & spec fic...
Saul Williams @saulwilliams.bsky.social Poet
The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social Independent Cultural Journalism from Scotland. Free monthly magazine, website, podcasts, and more. DMs not monitored, send us an email.
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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social.
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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
Company of Wolves @companyofwolves.org Scotland's leading laboratory theatre company
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Samuel Tongue @samueltongue.bsky.social Poet, Editor (samueltongue.com) and Co-Director of Kalewater Cottage Creative Retreat kalewatercottage.co.uk
Glasgow Review of Books @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social Online literary journal in English, Gaelic, and Scots | glasgowreviewofbooks.com | Writing from Glasgow to the world
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Portobello Literary @portyliterary.bsky.social A literary agency based in Edinburgh.
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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 🏳️🌈
National Theatre of Scotland @ntsonline.bsky.social On stage, on screen, on tour
Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social Stand-up poet. Radio 4’s The Verb regular. Northern, neurodivergent writer of Northernness and Neurodivergence. “On Sycamore Gap” & “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras” (Harper North). “Bigger on the Inside” (Smokestack).
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Lucy English @lucyenglish.bsky.social Spoken word poet, novelist, poetry filmmaker. Professor of Creative Enterprise, co-director of Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival. Loves trees.
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Portobello Book Festival @portybookfest.bsky.social Portobello Book Festival is a volunteer run festival, taking place over the first weekend of October.
Youth Theatre Arts Scotland @ytartsscot.bsky.social We are Scotland's national development organisation for youth theatre.
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Katie Ailes @katieailes.bsky.social Poet, researcher, educator, dancer. Co-Director, I Am Loud CIC. 2023 Glastonbury Poet in Residence. she/her.
Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com Scottish outdoor travel writer 🌲
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Tyrone Lewis @tyronelewis22.bsky.social Poet/Photographer/Video Editor/Camera Man
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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social NEW novel 'The Life Of Life' publishes March 2027
'The Good Immigrant - 10th Anniversary Edition' out this month, September 2026, Canongate Books
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https://www.salenagodden.co.uk
Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social Writer, editor of poetry, including Poetry Scotland and Whaleback City Press. Knee-deep in assorted poetry-related malarkey including New Boots & Pantisocracies, the Otwituaries, Double Dactyl of the Week, Project Abeona and more.