Action/Crime/Mystery Film & Screenplay Festival @crimemystery.bsky.social This festival now takes place every single month, giving filmmakers 4 tiers to showcase and promote their film. In-person public events also take place.
https://filmfreeway.com/crimemystery
www.crimemysteryfestival.com
Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social Scotland’s International Festival of Crime Writing. Stirling. 12-14th September 2025.
Stanchion Books - the football bookshop 📚 @stanchionbooks.bsky.social Stocking independently-minded football books, mags, photobooks and more for all ages and we ship worldwide.
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Keppie Design @keppiedesign.bsky.social The internationally successful design practice based in Scotland.
Karen Cole @karlou72.bsky.social UK book blogger at Hair Past A Freckle, book reviewer on Alfred FM.
Primary school ELSA/SEN TA
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The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social The official Bluesky page of the world’s longest-running national newspaper.
Join us online and in print for expert opinion, news and unrivalled insight.
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Harrogate International Festivals @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social We bring the very best in music, literature, crime writing, salon, spectacle and education to Harrogate
BooksfromScotland.com @booksfromscotland.bsky.social A website from @publishingscotland.bsky.social dedicated to championing the best new writing in Scotland.
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Chris Clark @chrisclark1975.bsky.social Spurs fan.
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Heart And Hand - The Rangers Podcast @heartandhand.bsky.social The original Rangers pod, providing free shows and subscription content. Top 100 on Patreon. Proud sponsor with Rangers FC.
Rangers FC @rangersfc.bsky.social *not official. If anyone from Rangers wants this handle, happy to handover. WATP*
Martin Geissler @mmgeissler.bsky.social Radio, TV and podcast presenter with BBC Scotland.
Hearts fan.
Page One @ukpageone.bsky.social Creators of the Page One notebook | Home of Page One - The Writer's Podcast & Page One Drafting Notes podcast
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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social Who on the cold grey coast of Ireland artist/illustrator I draw record covers sometimes my printshop lives here: brianmchenry.bigcartel.com/
David Keenan @reversediorama.bsky.social Author
Paul McGuigan @paulmcguigan.bsky.social Film and TV Director. Sherlock, Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool, Lucky Number Slevin, Gangster No1…
Teddy Jamieson @teddyjamieson.bsky.social Writer for The Herald, The Sunday Post, Nutmeg & anyone else who will have me. Getting on a bit. Contact me @ teddyjamieson@yahoo.com
Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social Publisher, White Rabbit Books
Tam Dean Burn @tamdeanburn.bsky.social You know Dasher and Prancer and Donner & Kebab…here’s Chancer 🎅🏼
John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social Writer, Comedian, Actor, Public Intellectual, Winner BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Sketch Comedy. Forever in our hearts.
Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social Your favourite comedian’s least favourite comedian. Buy my live stand-up special at www.gofasterstripe.com/bet
@victoriamelody.bsky.social @victoriamelody.bsky.social 
falco @shitrock.bsky.social band(s) - mclusky. future of the left. christian fitness. ball(s) - in a figurative sense x
Simon Hattenstone @shattenstone.bsky.social Guardian interviewer/features writer, with a thing for prison and miscarriages of justice (well not a thing for them as such, a thing for writing about them). Proud Mancunian/Salfordian. City fan of some vintage
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Tariq Ashkanani @tariqashkanani.bsky.social Writer. Winner of Bloody Scotland Debut and McIlvanney Awards. Co-host of the Page One Podcast. The Midnight King - out now!
https://www.tariqashkanani.co.uk
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Librarian's Husband's Book Club @lhbookclub.bsky.social Avid reader, reviewer & owner of Librarian's Husband's Book Club. #BookSky
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198217-the-librarian-s-husband-s-book-club
Disability community advocate. Work: PCSI - supporting careers for ppl w disabilities. 
drpeterjmurray.bsky.social @drpeterjmurray.bsky.social Reading crime fiction, SF etc, and touring book festivals; enjoying photography, good beer, wines & uisge-beatha. Retired nurse/health informatician. Still European
Gary Panton @garypanton.co.uk Author of THE NOTWITCHES and THE NOTWITCHES: PRISON BREAK. All the links for ordering can be found at garypanton.co.uk/books/
Represented by Rachel Mann at CAA.
📍Perth, Scotland
🌐 garypanton.co.uk
James Stewart @filmboyslim.bsky.social Creative man in a consumer's body. Writer, performer and film-maker, to various extents. He/him
https://linktr.ee/filmboyslim
Raf ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ @rtorrubia.com Writer/poet/optimist. Rep'd by @bigjcowen. THE SHIPWRIGHT AND THE SHROUDWEAVER OUT NOW from Gollancz. Acad. work with Bloomsbury Politics. They/them.
https://linktr.ee/RafaelTorrubia
Jen Bites @jenbitespeople.bsky.social In Edinburgh. Director, playwright, librettist, acting coach & dramaturg. Possible revenant. Prone to biting. Site: www.jenmcgregor.com.
Jo Gilbert @mucklewriting.bsky.social Spikks Doric. Avid scribbler o wirds. https://linktr.ee/jogilbert
Lynsey Gilmour @lalapie.bsky.social Poet, story teller, performer, mam fae Easter Ross.
Infrequently posting on or in poetry, Gaelic, Scots, left wing politics, music, art, Welsh and chicken keeping.
Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social Writer, designer, rule of three enthusiast.
www.ryanvance.co.uk
Pumpkin Spiced Hannah 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Shetlander in Aberdeen. Writer, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own because who else's would they be? https://linktr.ee/tooriekep
Shelley Day @shelleyday.bsky.social Author. Geordie riff-raff. Based in Paris/Edinburgh. Very annoyed about a lot of things atm.
Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social Writer, filmmaker, musician from Shetland. She/shö/her. Author of multi award-winning poetry collection 'Moder Dy' (Polygon, 2019). RSL Jerwood Poetry Award Winner 2024. Midder tongues, folklore, islandness, illness.
PeterUrpeth @peterurpeth.bsky.social Writer | poet | development editor | pianist | improviser | Journalist |
peterurpeth.com | peterurpeth.bandcamp.com | poetry collection - The 4000 Nights of New York in 1988 peterurpeth.com/4000nights | Cockney living in the Outer Hebrides
Gabrielle Griffiths @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social Writer in Brighton • Debut novel GREATER SINS out now from Doubleday (UK)
linktr.ee/gabriellegriffiths
Siân Bevan @sianyb.bsky.social Friendly potato
Gillian Jackson @gillianjackson.bsky.social Wife, mum, grandma, author with Bloodhound Books. Inspired by life, fuelled by chocolate. Servant to a rescued lab cross called Liffey.
Ruth Thomas @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social Latest novel The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line (a BBC Book at Bedtime) @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social
Agent Georgia Garrett @RCWLitAgency
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Home-Corner-by-Ruth-Thomas/9780571230624
Alison Irvine @alisonirvine.bsky.social Writer
Barrowland: the inside story of Glasgow's beloved ballroom (Luath)
Cat Step (Dead Ink) This Road is Red (Luath)
www.recollective.org.uk
Rep: Millie Hoskins, United Agents
Heather Palmer @heatherpalmer.bsky.social BLOODBOUND is out on audible now!
Rep'd by Lina Langlee at The North Agency
www.heatherannepalmer.com
Michelle Sloan @michlsloan.bsky.social Scottish author based in Dundee: The Edinburgh Skating Club (2022), Mrs Burke and Mrs Hare (2025).
Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social #Author of Connective Tissue (Taproot, 2023), The Tin-Kin (Duckworth, 2009), and Sea Legs (Penguin Fig Tree, forthcoming 2027)
www.eleanorthom.com
Andrew Blair @andrewblair.co.uk Software developer, poet, and only ever person to not be wrong about Doctor Who. Writer of 'The R-Pattz Facttz 2020' and 'polblar Tmolkop'. I was the first person to see comedy potential in the Vengabus.
He/him
https://andrewblair.co.uk
Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social Hybrid sci-art ex-astronomer now-author. Writes fiction, poems, essays, reviews. Latest two are 'Deutschstunden' from CulturBooks and 'Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)' from Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF. https://www.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk
Karen Gardiner @karendesuyo.bsky.social Scottish writer based in Northern NY, via Japan and elsewhere. Work in Condé Nast Traveler, BBC, Nat Geo, Washington Post and more. https://karengardiner.contently.com
Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social Mammal. Actor, writer, editor, reader, sister, comedy scene survivor, older than you think. Virtual collector and junk-fiend. Dispenser of small ephemeral offerings against the prevailing horror.
Chris Carse Wilson @chriscarsewilson.bsky.social Debut novel Fray out now with HarperCollins. Writer, runner, late diagnosed as autistic. Book orders, events, and agent contact👇 https://linktr.ee/chriscarsewilson
Fiona Mozley @fjmozley.bsky.social Novelist. New book AWAKE, AWAKE (2026). Also, ELMET (2017) and HOT STEW (2021). Booker-shortlisted. FRSL. Words in New York Times, Guardian, The Fence, British Vogue. Psychodynamic counsellor-in-training.
Angela Jackson @angelaj.bsky.social Writer. Northern. Left.
The Darlings bit.ly/3afYMeK
The Emergence of Judy Taylor bit.ly/3tno6rs
Two one-woman shows and stand-up at Edinburgh Fringe.
PhD student in TV Comedy Drama.
Might go on a bit about cats/flowers.
I sing better than I bake.
Armarna Forbes (is querying WE WICKED FEW) @armarnaforbes.bsky.social Writes stories about dead things. New Writers Award 2022 recipient (Scottish Book Trust). 🇺🇸➡️🏴 she/her
Karen is always reading @ktwrites.bsky.social Reader, writer, foodie
Shane Strachan @shanestrachan.bsky.social Writer and Lecturer in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Books include DWAMS (Tapsalteerie) and Refashioning Bill Gibb (Bloomsbury Academic, Jan 2026) 📚 Former Scots Scriever at the National Library of Scotland.
Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social Fiction writer. Ignite Fellow 2025: Scottish Book Trust. Winner: Canada & Europe, 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Stories: Granta, New Writing Scotland, BBC Radio 4. Www.carolfarrelly.com
Allyson Shaw @allysonshaw.bsky.social Writer, cat botherer, firebrand based in Orkney.Author of Ashes & Stones-shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize.🍉🏳️⚧️ally. Any pronouns 🏴 https://linktr.ee/AllysonShaw More active on Mastodon. https://wandering.shop/@AllysonShaw
Vicki Jarrett @vicki-jarrett.bsky.social Novelist (Nothing is Heavy, Always North), short story writer (The Way Out - collected stories). 
Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social TANGO LESSONS (Mariner)
I write prose. I like sheep. I’m much better on instagram.
Lecturer in Creative Writing University of Glasgow
mbflaherty.com
msmeghanbean.substack.com
she/her
Karen Campbell @writerkcampbell.bsky.social Book writer. Scottish. European. www.karencampbell.scot
Rodge Glass @rodgeglass.bsky.social Dad. Writer. Cheerleader at Strathclyde Uni. Author of 8 books inc Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography, Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs & Joshua in the Sky (Taproot 2024). Big fan of praise. (Giving & receiving) www.rodgeglassauthor.com https://linktr.e
Helen Sedgwick @helensedgwick.bsky.social Author, editor, physicist. Books: The Comet Seekers, The Growing Season, The Burrowhead Mysteries trilogy. linktr.ee/HelenSedgwick 🏳️🌈
Dr Helen Boden @helenboden.bsky.social Poet & Independent Literature Professional. A Landscape To Figure In (Red Squirrel Press). Best Scottish Poems 2022. ND. She / they. helenbodenliteraryarts.com
Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social Author, The Flicker Against the Light, A User's Guide to Make-Believe, The Last Treasure Hunt. https://linktr.ee/janealexander. Teach CW @ UoE. She/her. janealexander@net
Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social Writer, cat lady, wrote a novel about medieval mystics, forthcoming novel about John Ruskin. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
Cailean Steed @caileansteed.bsky.social Pronounced ‘Kaylin’ | #TheMirrorHalls coming 2026 in 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇸🇪 |
#Home🏚️ out now from Bloomsbury Raven | Writer, teacher & dog owner | Agent Oli Munson AM Heath | They/them | Host @balancingthebooks.bsky.social | 🏴🏳️⚧️
Rebecca Smith @rebeccasmithauthor.bsky.social Writer, journalist.
Rural: The Lives of the Working-Class Countryside out now. Published by William Collins
Beckcsmith.com
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social poet 🌙
free 🇵🇸
she/her
Victoria Bennett @beewyld.bsky.social Disabled writer, carer & apothecary gardener. 🧙🏼♀️Founder/Host Wild Women Writers’ Salons 🏆Shortlist World of Books Sustainable Story Awards 2025📚PreOrder THE APOTHECARY BY THE SEA (2026) Debut memoir ALL MY WILD MOTHERS (2023- Nautilus Award Winner) 🦭Orkney
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
Dr Russell Jones @russjoneswrites.bsky.social Writer in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Books. Food. Dogs.
https://linktr.ee/russjoneswrites
SHADOW OF MADNESS out now! @dvbishop.com Writes historical thrillers set in Renaissance Italy • SHADOW OF MADNESS out now: https://linktr.ee/D.V.Bishop • Free newsletter: https://dvbishop.substack.com • Rep: @jennybrownagency.bsky.social • Ex-Tharg
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
Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social Scottish SFFH Author | Shirley Jackson Award & BFA Finalist | Latest: LIMELIGHT, Shortwave, DARK CRESCENT, Luna Press | Words in Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, & more | Rep: Michael Mungiello InkWell, Film/TV: Sean Berard https://linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
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.
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
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.
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
Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social Journalist, broadcaster, Mum of 2 boys, owner of 2 cocker spaniels
Unbelievable Britain - YouTube 🎧
BBC Newsnight 🎥 📱
And Then Came Breast Cancer 🎧
BAFTA RTS Sony Pink News AIB British Podcast Award winner
Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social Author. The Wolf That Chews Rocks, the Erin Callahan thrillers, and some politics nonsense. Wulferhampton interloper. Twat.
Buy direct and save a few quid.
https://russelljonesauthor.com/
Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social I’m not always having a go at wrong’uns…sometimes I’m sleeping | Political Commentator & Co-Host of The Trawl Podcast https://linktr.ee/thetrawlpodcast | @TimesRadio | @jeremyvineon5
Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social Co host @thenewsagents .
Formerly @bbcNewsnight - interviews with Prince Andrew Donald Trump Bill Clinton Mark Zuckerberg etc etc .
AJ West Author @ajwestauthor.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling novelist: THE BETRAYAL OF THOMAS TRUE #AlwaysTogether 🦚 📚 Broadcaster 🏳️🌈 Homosexual
Linktr.ee/ajwest
Victoria Goldman @victoriagoldman.bsky.social Journalist. Editor. Author. Crocheter.
https://linktr.ee/victoriagoldman
Anne Corlett @annecorlett.bsky.social Author. Immersive theatre enthusiast. Family historian. Allotment wrangler. Northerner in Somerset.
📖 The Space Between the Stars (Pan Macmillan)
📖 The Theatre of Glass and Shadows (Bonnier)
Agent: Laura Williams (Greene & Heaton)
https://linktr.ee/annec
Portobello Book Festival @portybookfest.bsky.social Portobello Book Festival is a volunteer run festival, taking place over the first weekend of October.
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. 📚
Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social Avid mother, reader, runner. Custodian of agrayarchive.bsky.social Curatorial practice centred on care.
Nathan Ross @nathanross.bsky.social 
We Could Send Letters @wecdsend.bsky.social I'm Tom. Music geek, leftish, suboptimally organised librarian, optimist - Pompey FC, Hampshire CCC and KC Royals fan, so needed! Musically all over the shop. Tile courtesy of the William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow.
Sep 26-30: #5CoverSongsEvens
Stephen Burns @sburns27.bsky.social Husband / Dad / Architect / Scottish Football Fanatic
MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social Historically inaccurate
He/him
https://www.mooseallain.co.uk
Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social Baker, walker, animal-lover and writer who's hoping this place is kinder and wiser than the last. Books: Everything Happens for a Reason out there somewhere, Happy is the One just out and available here: https://geni.us/G3otY
katieallenauthor.com
Jojo Moyes @jojomoyes.bsky.social writer, parent, eejit