UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social Collecting since 1451, Archives and Special Collections @UofGlasgow, part of @UofGLibrary. Always inspiring people with our collections. #UofGASC
Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social I make comics. Bunny Vs Monkey, Looshkin, Megalomaniacs, Flember, Fish Head Steve, Max And Chaffy, and Super Duper Bunny League coming to Nickleodeon in 2024!
GIFCon @gifcon.bsky.social Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations is a meeting-place for academics, creative writers, and other fantasy-minded folks (we call them fantasts) to come together and discuss fantastical works in a supportive setting.
#GIFCon2026
Fantasy Literature @fantasyliterature.com www.fantasyliterature.com
We review fantasy, science fiction, horror, comics and magazines for adults, teens, and kids in print and audiobook format.
https://linktr.ee/fanlit
Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social Barrister | Member of Legal Feminist https://www.legalfeminist.org.uk/ | Chair of Sex Matters https://sex-matters.org/
"Hateful bigot with incredible institutional power, and connections to the current UK government"
A man's a man for a' that.
Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social Author of 'Winter's Wishfall'. Folklorist. Mum. Northerner. Lecturer in Folklore & History. Eater of cake.
The Phoenix comic @the-phoenix-comic.bsky.social Subscribe now & get every issue delivered to your door! Get 6 issues for £1 here 👉 http://thephoenixcomic.co.uk 
Shaun Gunner @shaungunner.bsky.social CEO of @TolkienSociety.org, Conservative Leader on Arun, ex-Mankind Chair, FRSA, bibliophile, Lego builder, gamer and good egg.
Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social Minimus sum, mus sum. (I am Minimus, I am a mouse.) I live at Vindolanda with my Roman family, and in Suffolk with Dr Helen Forte. We like to make Latin fun!
Gina Dalfonzo @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social Author, "The Screen & the Mirror," "Dorothy & Jack," "The Gospel in Dickens," & "One by One." I'm at https://dearstrangethings.substack.com/ and https://dickensblog.com. Beethoven fan, skating fan, Army brat, Pope Leo-quoting Protestant. #TCMParty #MST3K
Anton Muscatelli @antonmuscatelli.bsky.social Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow. Chair, Royal Economic Society. Economist. President, Royal Society of Edinburgh. Inter Milan fan. Opinions mine.
@andyd99.bsky.social @andyd99.bsky.social 
Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org International fan club and educational charity promoting the life and works of J.R.R. #Tolkien, including #Hobbit and #LOTR.
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/
Games and Gaming Lab (UofGGamesLab) @uofggameslab.bsky.social An ArtsLab Research Lab promoting cross-disciplinary research & education from tabletop to video games. We explore innovative uses of #games & #gaming to help people make ideas fly like bicycles, @uofglasgow.bsky.social & beyond! Follow/Like ≠ endorsement.
UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social Centre for Fantasy + the Fantastic + Masters in Fantasy (https://gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/fantasy/). Co-directors: @tattersdill.bsky.social and @mjrsangster.bsky.social. Website: https://fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/
Dr Alice M. Chapman-Kelly (she/her) @alice-mck.bsky.social Teaching Associate @strathclydehass.bsky.social - author of *Decolonising the Conrad Canon* (2022) and *Fanfiction as Queer Healing* 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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 🏳️🌈
Putri Prihatini @putriprihatini.bsky.social Under Indonesian sun. Love Tolkien, folklore, books. East Javanese living in East Borneo. She/Her. Banner by Amar Alfikar. I want Free Palestine, and transphobes getting shat on by vengeful pigeons.
My blog: https://putri2wotan.wordpress.com/
Madalena Daleziou @madalenadaleziou.bsky.social #SFF writer scribbling stories with too many ghosts.👻
Marc Alexander @mga.is Professor of English Linguistics (University of Glasgow), Director of the Historical Thesaurus of English, made the Hansard Corpus 1803–, likes cake. He/him.
Dr Louise Creechan @louisecreechan.bsky.social Wellcome Early Career Fellow, Durham University. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Ginger. Dyslexic. ADHD. She/her 🏳️🌈 Neurodiversity. Victorians. Musicals. Interrupting people. 
Troels Forchhammer (Parma-kenta) @parma-kenta.bsky.social Tolkienist & avid reader
Dane, Scout, physicist, father of 4
(he/him)
Janet Brennan Croft @banzailibrarian.bsky.social Tolkienist, librarian, cat lover, Granny Weatherwax wannabe, quilter, and occasional Deadhead.
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Writing a book about medieval imperfection.
irinadumitrescu.com
Siobhan Mulligan (she/her) @siobhanmull.bsky.social Fiction writer, artist, sword enthusiast and ghost enjoyer. Technically a doctor. Rep'd by Laura Rennert @ Andrea Brown.
The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social Swept up in the beauty, depth & wonder of Middle-earth. Joyfully sharing all things Tolkien 📚 Hopeful because of Jesus ⚡️ My Substack: www.christopherstites.com
Marie Bretagnolle @mariebreta.bsky.social PhD researcher studying #illustrations for #Tolkien's Middle-earth stories, at Paris-Est Créteil University. She / they.
PhD blog at voirtolkien.hypotheses.org- V Vincent Ferré @vincentferre.bsky.social Professeur Littératures comparées Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3). Médiévalisme ; Proust ; Tolkien ; traduction, édition. Posts are my own.
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
Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social Romanticism & Tolkien PhD at UofGlasgow | Co-editor ‘The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien’ (shortlisted for The Tolkien Society Awards) | Website: https://will-sherwood.com/
Dr. Gascoyne 🇨🇦 @debbieg.bsky.social Retired English prof, continuing independent scholar of children's fantasy, particularly interested in intertextuality and the sublime. Photographer, dog lover, gardener, and nerdy nerd nerd. I review for Strange Horizons.
Cameron Bourquein @cameronbourquein.bsky.social Tolkien fan and scholar with a focus on Sauron, his development, and his intersections with Legendarium metaphysics | artist, designer, writer | fandom old | (she/her) | CameronBourquein.com | TheRoadToArdaHealed.substack.com | SauronProject.com |
Tim Bolton 🐿 | 🏹 Ranatuor of Meriadoc 💍 (He/Him) @timbolton.bsky.social 🧙♂️ Graduate in Art History, #Tolkien fan, explorer of new places and gamer. #LOTRO. Organiser of #TolkienTrewsday. Fan of #TROP #TheRingsOfPower 💍 Runs "The Gathering Hall" community RPG space 🎲
📗✍️ https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/
Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Co-founder @guildmedmak.bsky.social.
Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers 7: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024).
Next books on Du Maurier, & Beowulf.
Walk to Work Glasgow @walktoworkglasgow.bsky.social Walking, slowing down, stopping - taking time to look at details that usually go unnoticed. Nature never ceases to amaze. Glasgow & Wester Ross. All images: 📱
Taylor Driggers(-McDowall) @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social Author, QUEERING FAITH IN FANTASY LITERATURE (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). Editor & nonfiction writer: fantasy, queerness, theology. 2024 Le Guin Fellow. Secretary of Govanhill Voices. Creative nonfiction at https://buttondown.com/taylordriggers-mcdowall
Henry Gee 亨利·纪 @endofthepier.bsky.social Author, @nature Editor. DISCLAIMER: Reposts aren’t Endorsements. Personal views needn't reflect those of my employer as they don’t know where they’ve been. Personal website https://henrygeewriter.blogspot.com
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk We are the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We get millions of children & families reading together from the earliest possible age.
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Ralph Bakshi @ralphbakshi.bsky.social Bakshi Art and Animation. Run by Ralph and Eddie Bakshi. Animation art shop: https://www.ebay.com/str/bakshianimationart
Website: www.bakshistudio.com
Dennis Wise @denniswise.bsky.social Tolkien & fantasy scholar
Editor: SPECULATIVE POETRY & THE MODERN ALLITERATIVE
REVIVAL (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683933304/)
denniswilsonwise.net
Tolkien Gateway @tolkiengateway.net Official account of Tolkien Gateway, your encyclopedia for The Lord of the Rings and beyond. #lotr #tolkien
Shawn E Marchese @shawnemarchese.bsky.social He/him. Co-author of Why We Love Middle-earth. Co-founder and resident word nerd on The Prancing Pony Podcast. Aiya Eärendil elenion ancalima.
University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk Changing the world since 1451 🌍 | #TeamUofG #WorldChangingGlasgow https://www.gla.ac.uk/
Anna McFarlane @mariettarosetta.bsky.social Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at Glasgow Uni. Working on speculative fiction, representations of reproduction, medical humanities. Series editor Palgrave SFF: A New Canon. Twin Peaks/Blindboy obsessive.
https://glasgow.academia.edu/AnnaMcFarlane
Ali Baker @alisonbaker01.bsky.social BA Primary lecturer at UEL. Children's fantasy literature researcher. Podcast host at Fantasy Book Swap. Trans rights are human rights.
No DMs without asking first. I am a prolific blocker.
Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social Director of Development at Imperial War Museums. Tolkien Scholar and author Live in Balham London 🏳️🌈
M. G. Leonard @mglnrd.bsky.social 🖋️Author - Time Keys🎶 - Portly 🦦- The Ice Children ❄️- The Twitchers 🦅- Adventures on Trains 🚂- Beetle Boy🪲
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🪲Posting about author-y book-y nature-y stuff.
🐞Agent: Kirsty McLachlan
❓Use my website for ALL enquiries: www.mgleonard.com
Tim Peacock @drtimpeacock.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in History & War Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social
& Director @uofggameslab.bsky.social. Space, Nuclear, Games, AI, Politics. Helping to make ideas fly like bicycles! Views mine. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/timothypeacock
Rob Maslen @profrmaslen.bsky.social Fantasy books, films, anime, comics, Early Modern Literature, life. He/him. I blog at The City of Lost Books. Come and see! https://thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/
S.A. Gales @sagales.bsky.social YA SFF Author.
Debut Novel iNSiDE coming out Aug 2025!
@mythsoc.bsky.social @mythsoc.bsky.social 
Donato @donatoarts.bsky.social Artist of science fiction and fantasy themed oil paintings and drawings - Robots, Astronauts, Narrative Art, and Middle-earth.
donatoarts.com
Hal Duncan @halduncan.com Writer, editor, gardener--sometimes even in that order.
Queer. He/thon, but mainly just cause thon's a guid Scots pronoun fur aebdy, whitever thur gender.
Contact: hal AT halduncan DOT com
Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social #Flashfiction writer and #collage artist. Stories in Gooseberry Pie, Fictive Dream, Gone Lawn, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story & others. Based in Brighton, UK
www.anikacarpenter.com
Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social UK writer rep by Becky Bagnell @lindsaylit.bsky.social , magical/fantasy MG, YA romantasy, loves folklore and cake @WriteMentor CNA winner 2023, @writingawards SL ‘22, speech therapist, ADHD-er, Mum, 1st class cat butler, 2nd class archer
Imogen Russell Williams @imogenrw.bsky.social Kids’ book critic, esp for The Guardian
Kathy Hoyle @kathyhoyle.bsky.social Writer, dreamer, PhD student. Northern lass. Words at @nffr.bsky.social @theforge.bsky.social @fictiveDream.bsky.social @SoFloPoJo.bsky.social Winner @Bathflashaward.bsky.social Writing bot for @writershq.bsky.social
https://kathyhoyle.com
Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social She/Her/Sí/Í; children's author, podcaster (shows.acast.com/storyshaped), dormant medievalist. linktr.ee/sinead.ohart. Rep: Clare Wallace. Art: Úna Woods. Free Palestine.
Lisa J Allen @lisajallen.bsky.social Children's author. UNDERCOVER ANGEL books 1 and 2 out NOW for ages 9-12!! https://amzn.to/3QmPi6q & https://amzn.to/3NreKcM with Tiny Tree!!! www.lisajallen.com
Melanie Ramdarshan Bold @drmrb.bsky.social Researching children's & YA books, authors, publishers, and readers at the University of Glasgow.
Formerly @ILoveCopyright on Twitter
Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social Stop fucking about and start writing.
Online courses | workshops | writing retreats | community | tea | biscuits | swearing | gold stars ⭐️
Frances Hardinge @franceshardinge.bsky.social Writer of downright odd children's/YA books. Hobbies include travelling, dressing in period costume and scuba diving. Addicted to volcanoes and trying new things.
Claire Fayers @clairefayers.bsky.social Children's author. Fantasy and Welsh folklore. Hobbies include boardgames, piano, gardening and cooking. Owned by two cats. She/her. 📚🐱🐱
Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social Writes epic and contemporary fantasy novels along with varied shorter fiction. She/her. All opinions absolutely my own. For more, see www.julietemckenna.com
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Andrew Ferguson @trotter.tolkienguide.com Andrew Ferguson - UK #Tolkien and #Hobbit book collecting expert, moderator (Trotter) on http://tolkienguide.com and host on TolkienGuide YouTube http://bit.ly/39FRXWV
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Fellowship of Fans @fellowshipoffans.com Entertainment & Middle-earth source and channel breaking the latest news & updates from Tolkien's world and beyond
Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine Edited by Michael Damian Thomas. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026 Hugo & 2024 Locus Award Winner. uncannymagazine.com
Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social Writer, editor, publisher. Science fiction and fantasy, also queer history. Welsh. May rant about rugby.
Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social Multi awards-shortlisted SFFH & non-fic author. Editor & typesetter. SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 now in the wild! https://linktr.ee/tiffaniangusauthor Leftie, feminist, ex academic, ally, anti-AI. she/her. Now 🇬🇧 was 🇺🇸
Joel Merriner @joelmerriner.bsky.social Doctor of art history, artist and writer, author of https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/illustrating-the-lord-of-the-rings-in-the-soviet-bloc-9781350442085/ adventures in '80s fandom and the visual Legendarium
Dr. Meg MacDonald @megintransition.bsky.social PhD belief & gods in fantasy @angliaruskin, work in R&D @UofGlasgow, DH Promotions @Glasgowin2024. Tendency to pun-escalate. She/Her Cis/Bi 🌈🏳️🌈
Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social Science fiction writer
SR Westvik @srwestvik.bsky.social 🇸🇬 🇳🇴 Second Age gremlin. Elendil connoisseur. #1 Dúnedain defender. Writer. War historian. All views my own.
Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social Writer, editor and consulting historian - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Doctor Who Magazine - and now former Alzheimer's carer. Ex-History of Parliament, also liable to write about North-East England and Oxford as well as television.
Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, essays & podcasts. Every Monday, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024.
linktr.ee/strangehorizons
Iridescence - The 2026 Eastercon @easterconuk.bsky.social Iridescence 2026 is the UK's next Eastercon, the UK's longest running sci-fi convention. At the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, 3-6 April 2026.
https://eastercon2026.org/
Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com Author of The Baby on the Fire Escape; working on the biography of Ursula K. Le Guin. American in Amsterdam.
"Opinion is the beginning of ignorance." —Lao Tzu
Science Fiction Foundation @sffoundation.bsky.social Founded by George Hay in 1971, the SFF promotes the study and understanding of science fiction, both in the UK and overseas. Home to the journal Foundation and the SFF Library at Liverpool. Become a member at www.sf-foundation.org and support our work!
Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social Writer and Art Historian. Old Fox stories. Edward M.Bannister catalogue raisonne and research. Reynard the Fox and Fox for All Seasons published by Bodleian Publishing. Oxford & Dorset. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnneLouiseAvery
SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction -- founded 1979, Hugo winner for 1979, 1993 and 2011 editions, now free online at https://sf-encyclopedia.com/ with principal editors John Clute and David Langford.
Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social Writer (Secrets of the Bees; Black Crescent, White Hare, Sea Gate, Tenth Gift etc), publisher (GRRM, Hobb, Feist, Lawrence, Heartfield, Kaner, ex Tolkien), allotmenteer. History. Morocco/Cornwall. Covid is airborne 💙📚 #Writing #Books
Katherine Langrish @kathlangrish.bsky.social I write children's & YA fantasy novels, and moonlight as a folklorist. I blog at https://steelthistles.blogspot.com/
Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author of novels, children’s books, poetry and essays. This account is managed by her estate.
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link
Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Clarke Award, BSFA, Kavya & Saltire Awards finalist | THE SALT ORACLE out now https://geni.us/saltorac | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her 🏴
http://linktr.ee/raine_clouds
SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social Author of the Varjak Paw books, Phoenix and TYGER! I also write about children's books & all things connected - libraries, literacy & reading for pleasure.
http://www.sfsaid.com/
Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social Energy Infrastructures & C19 Periodical Press at Uni Bremen | Scottish Literature, EnvHums | she/her
Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation (Heritage and Creativity) at the University of Reading, and Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture
Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature| Interested in all things arboreal | Trees in C19 English Fiction (2021) | she/her
Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her
Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social Academic in medical humanities, science fiction, history of psy disciplines, and UFOs. English Literature, University of Glasgow. Blog www.ufos.ac.uk. Academic profile: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/gavinmiller/
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of School, Critical Studies, University of Glasgow.
Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures.
Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social Academic at the University of Glasgow, working on / teaching James Joyce, Children’s Literature, Stevenson, Decadence. Parent. Cat Owner. Fool.