Turnpike Books @turnpikebooks.bsky.social Publisher of, mainly, classic Northern Irish writers and also of Barbara Comyns, Douglas Dunn, J.B. Priestley among others.
turnpikebooks.co.uk
Coin-Operated Press CIC @coinoppress.bsky.social We are an artist-led social enterprise based in Scotland 🩷 We host workshops & fairs and make collaborative zines every month! 🏳️🌈
http://www.coinoperatedpress.com
Infinite Women @infinite-women.com Allison Tyra: Creator of a database of 10,000+ women's biographies, author of Uncredited: Women's Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work and The View from the Hill (infinite-women.com/books), cat lady, AuDHD. She/her
www.infinite-women.com
Playwrights' Studio, Scotland @playwrightsstudio.bsky.social Playwrights' Studio, Scotland is an arts organisation exclusively dedicated to the long-term support, development and promotion of Scotland's playwrights.
Paines Plough @painesplough.bsky.social painesplough.com/link-tree
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society promotes the study of books and manuscripts of any date, particularly Scottish. Founded in 1890, it is the oldest such society in the world and the only extant one with a Scottish focus.
Nicolas Labarre @labarren.cpesr.fr Vice-president for research at University Bordeaux Montaigne.
Comics scholar, writer, player of games, teaching American culture. My latest book: Moebius (UP Mississippi in 2025)
https://cv.hal.science/nicolas-labarre
Julie Mapes @justjuliejam.bsky.social Queer comic creator she/they
🏴🏴☠️🏳️⚧️🌈
Nominated for changemakers award 2025
READ GRAND ADVENTURE YONDER! My gay magical pirate webcomic! 🏴☠️🏴☠️
https://linktr.ee/juliemapes
early-theatre-blog.bsky.social @early-theatre-blog.bsky.social Thoughts, meditations, and reflections on plays strange, odd, and forgotten. For theatre kids who are bad at theatre and have an eye for the analytical. Profile picture from John Babington's "Pyrotechnia," banner from William Prynne's "Histrio-mastix."
Jean McEwan @jeanmmcewanartist.bsky.social UK-based visual + participatory artist.
Collage, zines creative research with @thebinkshub @changingrealities + others. Care, justice, interconnection. Human & more than human worlds
Online shop for zines + prints https://jeanmcewanartist.bigcartel.com/
Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social An independent publisher of innovative non-fiction.
www.reaktionbooks.co.uk
Kirsty Lockwood @kirstystrickland.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel WE KNOW WHAT YOU DID publishing with Orion in February 2026 ✨📚
Shola von Reinhold @princessa-mangione.bsky.social 
David Hughes @usernameerror.bsky.social Glaswegian exile in Dublin. Librarian. Open scholarship enthusiast. Shill for Big Library. Power-hungry gatekeeper. King of infinite space. He/him/his. Personal account.
Just Get A Real Job @justgetarealjob.bsky.social A podcast where Script Editor Jamie Mackinlay helps listeners navigate & understand the creative industries by interviewing a wide range of creatives 🎙️
Listen Here: https://linktr.ee/Justgetarealjobpodcast
HMS Tern Living Museum @hmstern61.bsky.social We are creating a Living Museum at HMS Tern in Orkney. The team of volunteers and paid staff are recreating the look, smell and feel of a training airfield in World War II on Orkney. The site is open to the public, see our website for opening times.
Gary Erskine @garyerskine.bsky.social Comics - Character Design - Illustration - Concept Artist - Storyboards - Educator - Cat Wrangler - IKEA furniture builder - https://garyerskine.wixsite.com/garyerskine
Glasgow/Berlin
Ashley Douglas @ashleydouglas.bsky.social ✍️ 🌈 ✨📚 Writing the biography of Marie Maitland, Scotland's 16th-century Sappho (forthcoming 2026)
The Bear & The Fox @bearandfoxblog.bsky.social Family blog + children’s writer: recipes, crafts, book reviews, Edinburgh travel tips. Shortlisted for The Kelpies Prize for Writing 2026. https://www.thebearandthefox.com/
MJ Burns @mjburnsart.bsky.social Writer and artist 🏴🏳️🌈
Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social 4x SFSA ‘Best Writer’ winner. Writing, podcasts, radio, live shows. Anti-your-team agenda.
Farisa Khalid @drfarisakhalid.bsky.social PhD in English. Art historian. English professor specializing in British literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, genre studies (science fiction, spy fiction), and the environmental humanities. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/734326
Gutter Magazine @gutter.bsky.social The magazine of new Scottish and international writing.
https://www.guttermag.co.uk/subscribe
Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Hertfordshire
Convener Open Graves, Open Minds Project (OGOM)
Gothicist & Botanist: Vampires, Werewolves, Gothic Fairies, Wolf Children, Angels, Yōkai. @DrSamGeorge1
Jon Green Books @jonmgreenbooks.bsky.social A Texan born writer in Glasgow. This account is mostly for keeping track of the books I read, and occasionally for some writing stuff.
Eileen Farrelly @eileenfarrelly.bsky.social Scottish poet based in Glasgow. Occasional runner, printmaker, songwriter photographer…
@bobmcdevitt.bsky.social @bobmcdevitt.bsky.social 
The Northern Tapestry @northerntapestry.bsky.social Exploring the sagas and stories that link medieval Iceland, Scandinavia & the northern British isles https://northerntapestry.com/
Rebecca Jones @drbecjones.bsky.social Archaeologist; #Roman Frontiers; Scottish History and #Archaeology at National Museums Scotland @ntlmuseumsscotland
Dig It! @digitscotland.bsky.social Discover Scotland’s stories with ground-breaking archaeology news and events that are open to everyone | A @socantscot.bsky.social project | #HESsupported | #ScotArchStrat | Visit https://www.digitscotland.com/
Lindores Abbey Distillery @lindoresabbey.bsky.social 🥃 The spiritual home of Scotch whisky, distilling once again after 523 years.
🔞 Sip responsibly | over 18s only
📍Newburgh, Fife, Scotland 🏴
Chris Scullion @scully1888.bsky.social Deputy Editor, VGC. Writer of video game encyclopedias. Professional games journalist for 20 years. Formerly of Official Nintendo Magazine and CVG. Tired Old Hack. Celtic supporter. Scottish. Dad joke aficionado. LGBTQ+ ally
Marco Rinaldi @marcorinaldi.bsky.social Scots-Italian writer. Winner of Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect 2025
Venezia fan. Host of @ukPageone.bsky.social, @narrativedamagerpg.bsky.social and @Rigorepod.bsky.social
www.marcorinaldi.info/
linktr.ee/ukpageone
https://linktr.ee/narrativedamagerpg
L Izet @solarisstory.bsky.social L. Izet | She/They | Scottish | No AI
Creator of ‘Solaris’ a queer audio-story inspired by Scottish folklore & language. Ep 4 is now available on Spotify&Patreon: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fQARzTaFXQ4vAPz2xss5O?si=N6pJm3OGSGmcRlb-SSp4dg
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
A toad @toadlett.bsky.social I'm a comics artist, writer and worm appreciator. Look at things I do here: https://toadlett.com/ lettydraws[at]gmail[dot]com
she/they/he
University English @univeng.bsky.social Represents university and college English depts in the UK
Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com some lady.
she/her | sorayanadiamcdonald.com
Dawn Robertson 🇪🇺🏴🇫🇷 @hayloftbooks.bsky.social European/Scottish/Cumbrian/Norse
#RejoinEU, #SaorAlba, #ToujoursEuropéen
Sussex University, publisher & journalist, rural life, history, language, humanist
Banff Int. Mountain Literature + 8 Lake District Book of Year awards
www.hayloft.eu
Olivia Rutigliano @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social Writer | Editor at Lit Hub & CrimeReads | PhD from Columbia in Victorian lit & entertainment | Host of the podcast Culture Schlock | Other work in Vanity Fair, Vulture, AirMail, the Baffler, Lapham’s Quarterly, LARB, etc. | Repped by Chris Calhoun
Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social Renaissance literature, temporality, politics, material texts, historical recipes; Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play https://tinyurl.com/historical-futures
Omipalone Press @omipalonepress.bsky.social Omipalone is a queer art collective based in Glasgow, Scotland. Comprised of four friends and lovers, the collective makes comics, zines, prints and artwork.
https://linktr.ee/omipalonepress 💅
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social The CMRS brings together staff and students from across the University of Edinburgh studying the medieval and Renaissance periods.
Find out more at https://hca.ed.ac.uk/centre-medieval-renaissance/seminars-and-events/seminars
Robert Munro @bobbymunro.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Film / Hibs / People's Republic of Leith
'The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself'
~ Henry Miller
Helen Spencer @helspencer.bsky.social Head of Research at Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. PhD in archaeological glass science. Consultant in museum and heritage collections care. Trustee at Tarbat Discovery Centre.
Interested in all things #archaeology #museums #glass #Scotland #heritage
scot17thcentury.bsky.social @scot17thcentury.bsky.social PGR-led research group focused on Scottish 17th century studies. Hosting a symposium event at the University of Glasgow on 11 June 2026.
Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social History, Britain, culture, cities, selfhood, sexuality, gender, #20s30s.
Now - The Institute: The untold story of Pelmanism and its followers
Just out - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
He / him
Mòrag Law @mosgeul.bsky.social Gàidhlig writer. New Writers' awardee 2017.
Edinburgh Diamond @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social Edinburgh Diamond is the University of Edinburgh's Library Publishing Partner for Diamond Open Access books and journals that are led by our academics, professional staff and students.
@ianhunter60.bsky.social @ianhunter60.bsky.social 
The Scottish Medievalists @scotmed.bsky.social Official account of the The Scottish Medievalists: The Society of Scottish Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Run by @neilmcguigan.bsky.social :
https://scottishmedievalists.com/
Chris Kelso @chris88.bsky.social Angry writer, eager editor, devoted dad
Jen Harland @jenharland.bsky.social Zooarchaeologist, Associate Professor in Environmental Archaeology at the University of the Highlands and Islands, based in Orkney. Currently obsessed with whaling history and whaling stories in Scotland. 🇨🇦
Jim Fraser @jimf555.bsky.social 🧬Professor of forensic science ✍️ Writer
🔬 Expert witness/case reviewer
🎥 Broadcaster ⚖️ Formerly; Magistrate, Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commision
👮A/Dir Scottish Institute for Policing Research.
https://shorturl.at/gliiw | https://tinyurl.com/29x3r43c- R Regi Claire @regiclaire.bsky.social 🇨🇭-born fiction writer & poet. Finalist @forwardprizes. Winner @mslexia /PBS Women’s Poetry Comp. 2x finalist 🏴 Nat Book Awards. @royallitfund. Dog lover.
Lunar Sea Literary @lunarsealiterary.bsky.social Writing everywhere, for the underappreciated.
Based in Scotland. #litmag
Poetry, arts, and literature magazine.
🍉
https://lunarsealit.wordpress.com/lunar-sea-literary/issue-0/
https://linktr.ee/lunarsealiterary
Donna Moore @badsvillebroad.bsky.social Love dark, warped humorous crime fiction; historical fiction; film noir; punk. Author of crime fiction and historical fiction. #author #crimefiction #mysteryfiction #historicalfiction #filmnoir #punkrock #books https://www.donnamooreauthor.com/
Dr Carol Baraniuk @carolbaraniuk.bsky.social Writer and reader of Scottish and Irish literature, and of poetry and history generally. Also enjoy crime fiction with strong regional settings.
Looking to find a publisher for a 3 vol family saga set mainly in Scotland and Co Down
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Historian of Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9632-1068
JD Kirk @jdkirk.bsky.social Writer of crime fiction. 
Helen Dallas @helcdall.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at University of Galway working on Romantic theatre. Current project on history plays. Writer, theatre fan, cat aunt. she/her
OpenARC Research Centre @openarc.bsky.social OpenARC, The Open University Arts & Humanities Research Centre, is the hub for research in the School of Arts and Humanities at The Open University. It hosts a broad range of research groups, and facilitates disciplinary and interdisciplinary research.
Andrew Peel - Author @andrewpeelauthor.bsky.social Author Footsteps on the Moor & upcoming Sherlock Holmes and Operation Hecate. Married, living in Fife.Insane Lego enthusiast. I delete DMs & emails offering book marketing. https://linktr.ee/andrewpeelauthor
Jonathan Melville @jonmelville.bsky.social Fan of old films and telly / Author of books on Local Hero, Highlander, Tremors, Hamish Macbeth and Jim Henson / Owner of too many Blu-rays. Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/iyB
Kenny Boyle @kennyboyleofficial.bsky.social Actor and writer from the Isle of Lewis who talks about Scottish mythology and books and stuff!
David Craig (author) @dcraig.bsky.social Author of action/adventure fantasy and Scottish Gothic urban fantasy. Published by Elsewhen Press. Repped by John Jarrold Literary Agency. he/him
https://elsewhen.press/index.php/catalogue/author/david-craig/
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net Professor @ University of Strathclyde | migration and diaspora history | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•they | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
Cameron Flint @cameronflint.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Aberdeen, researching cultural, social and military history in Early Modern Scotland.
@scottextsoc1882.bsky.social @scottextsoc1882.bsky.social 
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Isabel Finch @isabelfinch.bsky.social Freelance writer & culture journalist interested in cities, tech and health - also doing commerical content/copywriting bits
Say hi/commission me: hello@isabelfinch.com
📍Glasgow
Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation The Poetry Foundation transforms lives through the power of words. Publisher of POETRY magazine. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
@victoriawhitworth.bsky.social @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social 
Council for Global Anthropological Linguistics @theglocal.bsky.social This is the official profile of The GLOCAL,The global council for Anthropological Linguistics
Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic DASG @dasg-glaschu.bsky.social Dachaigh airson Stòras na Gàidhlig (DASG). dasg.ac.uk mail@dasg.ac.uk
Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social Woolf and Queer Phenomenology. Also, sometimes poet. He/Him
Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com Full Professor of Critical AI Literacy | Slow AI
When to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone.
https://theslowai.substack.com/
Simon @malkydungeon.bsky.social I make comics, a Viking era one called the Hogback Saga and Malky Dungeon about a Scottish occult detective
https://www.patreon.com/malkydungeon
@clairesawers.bsky.social @clairesawers.bsky.social Freelance journalist in Edinburgh, writing for The Quietus, The Wire, The Times, Big Issue, The List etc
linktr.ee/clairesawers
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Archaeology, University of Glasgow, the Urban Prehistorian, and Keeper of Hookland’s Stones. Glasgow’s Archaeologist in Residence (self-appointed)
Dr Marika Ceschia @marikac.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher, writer, literary critic
Twentieth century American literature, decolonial studies, gender studies
IASH alumna
Wrote: https://lsupress.org/9780807182499/otherworldly-mothering/
She/her
Janet E Kay @janetekay.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist working on early medieval burial archaeology and plague
Tordotcom Publishing @tordotcompub.bsky.social Publisher of cutting-edge SFF short fiction.
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social Mainly poetry in independent presses, art, glass, theatre & people playing. Allotment life. York with Glasgow links. UK.
Not every act of kindness is part of a plan.
Website :www.sarahowriter.com
ARA Scotland @arascot.bsky.social The Scottish section of @araukie.bsky.social
Comann na Tasglannan is Clàraidhean na h-Alba.
Nicky Melville @nickymelville.bsky.social 'avant-radge' | Power Cuts (zimZalla) | sounding ... out (Essence Press) | Imperative Commands (Dostoyevsky Wannabe) | Decade of Cu t s (Blue Diode Press) | ABBODIES & ABBODIES COLD (Sad Press) + Fuck This 🎧
http://fuckthis1.bandcamp.com
Samuel Verdin @samuelverdin.bsky.social Editor | Writer | Freelance
www.samuelverdin.com- N Natalie Jayne Clark @nataliejayneclark.bsky.social
Jude Reid @squintywitch.bsky.social Freelance writer, surgeon, collie-wrangler. Black Library author, Fresh Ink @natlibscot, Gàidhlig. All opinions my own. She/her/i
That girl with the posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social Weird nerd pervert on the internet. Robot liker. Disabled and socially isolated. Loser Failgirl Lesbian. She/her.
My dog: @np2hu.bsky.social
Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Viking Studies @uoncsva.bsky.social. Visiting Professor @insuhi.bsky.social, FBA. The Saga of the Earls of Orkney: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-saga-of-the-earls-of-orkney/ https://uonenglish.substack.com/s/ragnas-islands
Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre @sjhcscotland.bsky.social We aim to increase access to Scotland’s Jewish history & encourage engagement with the collections of the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre.
Join us for a Guided Tour or book an Educational Visit with your school.
https://linktr.ee/sjhc
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science at National Museums Scotland & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. VP British Society for the History of Science #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
SJ Groenewegen @sjgroenewegen.co.uk SFF author, trans-inclusive feminist, gay, non-binary, autistic. BEM.
Website: https://www.sjgroenewegen.co.uk - includes links to all my publications.
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/sjgroenewegen - new posts so often on politics and/or writing.
World Book Day UK @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social 📚 World Book Day® - Thursday 5 March 2026 📚
World Book Day is a charity, sponsored by National Book Tokens. Follow here for news, bookish fun and more!
Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social Real and imagined oceans in equations, paper, and code. Strathclyde Uni + Wasps Studios, Glasgow | neilbanas.com/projects
James Macdonald Lockhart @jmlockhart.bsky.social Author of Wild Air & Raptor.
Literary Agent: James Lockhart Agency: jameslockhartagency.com