Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social Manc independent publisher with a conscience.
M.D. Isabelle Kenyon
2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year!
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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Ben Blench @benblench.bsky.social Magical person. Actual published poet. Freelance copywriter.
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
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Aea Varfis-van Warmelo @aeavvw.bsky.social biter
Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social Writer, author, poetry, editor, publisher. Founder of Rebel Inc. Co-founder of Bella Caledonia. Co-founder of Neu! Reekie! Co-founder of Push The Boat Out international poetry festival. MDANT. Love poetry, books, chess, volcanoes, Hibs. Citizen of Leith
Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social researcher, writer, literary historian 📖 early modern women’s writing, song culture & medicine 📜 book reviews editor at The Bottle Imp 📚 she/her 🎶 aspiring broadcaster 📻
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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social Lover, and writer, of myths, folklore, legends, fables, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror and fantasy.
Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.
Kerry Byrne @kerrybyrne.bsky.social Writer & editor. Fen wanderer. Collie wrangler. Words in BULL, Ellipsis Zine, Lucy Writers, Maudlin House, National FlashFlood, Pidgeonholes, Roi Fainéant Press, streetcake magazine & other fine places. BOTN nominee. Assistant Editor at Frazzled Lit.
Sharalee Roberts @sharaleeroberts.bsky.social Film | Animation | Screenwriting | Photography
English & Film Professor
Rory Turnbull @roryturnbull.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology at Newcastle University ✦ Bahá’í ✦ Scottish ✦ he/him ✦ I like bikes, network science, R, and Linux
Hedgehog Poetry Press @hedgehogpress.co.uk Hedgehog is a teeny one-man-band of a poetry press nobody knows about - shhh!
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SNACK magazine @snackmag.bsky.social Independent arts and culture magazine for Scotland and beyond
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hello@snackmag.co.uk 💛
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Christie Williamson @mcwpoet.bsky.social Poet, essayist, translator; Yell man in Glasgow; twa books fae Luath, ‘Oo an Feddirs’ an ‘Doors tae Naewye’
The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social Scottish Charity SC052417 caring for Gray’s studio & visual/literary material. Education & New Commissions. Inclusive Community. Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
WIL Scotland @wil-scotland.bsky.social The local news model is broken.
News deserts are growing outwith Scotland's big cities.
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Claire Reynolds @clairereynolds.bsky.social DFA Researcher in Creative Writing UofG
Co-host of the podcast Let Them Eat Books!
Highly commended Scottish Podcast Awards 2026
in Food,Drink & Hospitality 🍽️📚
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What is life without Books?! @wherearethebooks.bsky.social Promoting #OpenScience practises (in the Arab States) & #LordByron (everywhere else). Ravenous bibliophage lurking in the desert (with cats)
Chief Academic Officer, Knowledge E | Director, The Byron Society | Director, Forum for Open Research | BARS Exec
Turnaround Books @turnarounduk.bsky.social Book distributors for US & UK indie publishers including fiction, art, graphic novels, and everything in-between! Impudently independent since 1984 & employee-owned since 2022. 📚
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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
Interpret Magazine @interpretmagazine.bsky.social A new magazine of international writing, featuring winners of the International Booker, Neustadt Prize and US National Book Award 🏴
Laura Fyfe @lauraswriting.bsky.social Poet, writing tutor, former Stirling Makar. Lapsed parachutist with a chronic low-boredom threshold.
‘Truth Lies’ - Red Squirrel Press
‘Endless Blue’ - Stewed Rhubarb Press
‘Wellspring’ - Figment Books
‘Magpie Mind’ - Figment Books
figmentcreativity.com
David Morley @profdavidmorley.bsky.social Professor at Warwick Uni, Poet at Carcanet, Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift, PBS Choice for FURY, Forward Prize finalist, Writer of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Fellow Royal Society of Literature,Thought Fox.
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
Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana @corrintachibana.bsky.social Author of ‘Sing me down from the dark’ (SALT; 2022).
Worked in higher ed. in U.K. and Japan. Poems in P.N. Review, The North, MAGMA, Poetry Wales, The Interpreter’s House & The Madrid Review.
Lover of Things Japanese and proud mother of teenager.
Poetry with Linda @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social poetry, nature, writing, reading, art, culture, languages, photography, travelling 🎨🖌️🖼️
Let's also be friends on Substack:@poetrywithlinda
Averie 💫🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 @therealaverie.bsky.social Queer, cat parent, etc. Spends 5 out of 7 days in admin hell 🔥
Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social Writing poetry | Debut collection: 'The Bone Folder', Drunk Muse Press 2024 | Shortlisted for Saltire Awards & Bridport 2025 | Winner McLellan Prize 2025, Saboteur Award 2023 | Board Moniack Mhor | Poet in Residence UHI | linktr.ee/caitjomac
thi wurd @thiwurd.bsky.social Glasgow based indie-publisher. Dedicated to quality writing, books, art, music & live events. 4 new ‘Day Schools’ Aug-Oct 2026
Annie Brechin @anniebrechin.bsky.social Poet, bellringer. The Mouth of Eulalie currently out from Blue Diode Press https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/the-mouth-of-eulalie-by-annie-brechin-isbn-9781915108012
Taylor Strickland @taylor-strickland.bsky.social Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social Poetry and other bits of writing | Pit Lullabies with Bloodaxe Books and The Quick and Liffey Swim with Dedalus Press | Essays in Tolka, The Stinging Fly and The Dublin Review | Poetry editor at Banshee | New Arcana forthcoming Sept 25 from Bloodaxe Books.
Fruitmarket @fruitmarket.bsky.social A free, public space for culture in the heart of Edinburgh, the Fruitmarket provides inspiration and opportunity for artists and audiences.
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social lit mag & small press | supported by the Arts Council of Ireland | issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) out now | latest book: Render by Billy Ramsell | https://bansheepress.org/
Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social Email info@scotslanguage.com for enquiries or to let us know about your work with Scots!
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Scots Language Resource Centre Ltd is a Scottish Charity, SCO21747, regulated by the Scottish Charities Register (OSCR)
Ellen Forkin @ellenforkin.bsky.social I’m a chronically ill artist, writer and poet living in beautiful Orkney with a passion for folklore, myth and magic. Visit my website: www.ellenforkin.co.uk
Robbie MacLeòid - Writer @robbiemacleoid.bsky.social Writer & Musician | Gàidheal | PhD in love and gender in medieval Gaelic | TTRPGs, video games, too many books
✏️ in Gutter, STEALL, New Writing Scotland, amongst others
Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social A literary nonprofit bringing you great poetry from across places, eras, and traditions.
https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
Leamington Books @leamington.bsky.social We are publishing Ceitidh Chaimbeul • Mohammed Moussa • Luca Serra
Ormston House @ormstonhouse.com Ormston House is a meeting place for the arts in the heart of Limerick city. Queries to info@ormstonhouse.com
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Iain 🏴 @iabernathy.bsky.social StoryGraph
@twoidmonster
Alyson MacKay (she/her) @alyson-mackay.bsky.social Just trying my best 🫠
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@annermacaulay.bsky.social @annermacaulay.bsky.social 
CDBoyland @cdboyland.bsky.social Poet/Editor | Debut collection 'Mephistopheles' | longlisted for Scotland's National Book Award | Founding partner with off-page, Glasgow-based visual poetry practice | https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/mephistopheles-by-cd-boyland
Patrick McGahon @paadzer.bsky.social Irish gay guy in the East of England 🏳️🌈
In my fifties
EastEnders & Bargain Hunt fan
RIP mum 💔 2022
Worked at Cambridge University & NHS
Awful at responding to DMs
Sober a few years
Not looking for hookups or onlyfans subscriptions
Hiram Larew @hiramlarew.bsky.social Poet. Newest collection, "This Much Very," was published in 2025 by Alien Buddha Press. Founder of Poetry X Hunger -- bringing a world of poets to the anti-hunger cause. HiramLarewPoetry.com and PoetryXHunger.com
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk Reader of SF&F, mainly. *Libraries have ebooks that you can read on your phone. Est. 2005
Sherezade García Rangel @everydayiamreading.bsky.social Venezuelan writer, podcaster, lecturer. Author of 'The Wounded Me' out from @blackwaterpress.com. Award-winning host & creator of On the Hill podcast. Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the UofL. Views on my posts are my own.
sherezadegarciarangel.com
The Elegy Project @elegyproject.bsky.social poems in public places
reach us at: https://theelegyproject.org
The Street Library @streetlibrary.ataxia.scot The Street Library. Where books get social 📚
Use YOUR books - to raise funds for YOUR favourite charity.
http://StreetLibrary.co.uk
Main Bluesky account: @ataxia.scot
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
William Bonar Poetry Prize @wbonarpoetryprize.bsky.social The prize is held annually in collaboration with St Mungo’s Mirrorball and Red Squirrel Press in memory of the Scottish poet William Bonar (1953-2021). More information on submission here: https://stmungosmirrorball.wordpress.com/the-william-bonar-prize/
Scottish Network for Religion & Literature @religionlit.bsky.social Sharing knowledge & developing research around the dynamic relationship between literature and religions @uoedivinity.bsky.social
Get Launched @getlaunched.bsky.social Make yourself the 'Go To' person in any industry and earn a side income from running small networking events.
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Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social poet, translator, prof | the deering hour (Ornithopter) | The Space of Disappearance (SUNY) | Cartographies of Exile (Routledge) | dir. The Elegy Project | dir. Rutgers Translation Studies Initiative
F. E. Clark @feclark.bsky.social I live in Scotland, paint, write, take photos. I love books, music, and walking in the hills. BIFFY50 2020. Noms: Best Microfiction, Best Small Fiction, 2 x Best of the Net, 3 x Pushcart. #FromMyWalk #amquerying. **I can't see or reply to DMs**
The Reading Room in Melrose @melrose-bookshop.bsky.social A small independent bookshop in the historic Borders town of Melrose, Roxburghshire, focusing on Scottish writing and the best new books around. Sister bookshop of @wedale-bookshop.bsky.social in Stow, Selkirkshire. Welcome!
Michael Marks Awards @michaelmarksawards.bsky.social The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets celebrate work published in the UK. The 2025/26 Awards are opening for submissions soon.
Our partners are @britishlibrary.bsky.social, Wordsworth Trust, @thetls.bsky.social and The British School at Athens.
eCitizen ⓌⒻⓅⒷ Ⓥ Ⓐ @ecitizen1.bsky.social Healthy WFPB Vegan. Child Advocate. Atheist. LGBTQI friendly. Pro-Democracy. #BlueResisters Anti-MAGA, Anti-Trump.
Retired software engineer, grandfather who likes to build & fix things. Loving relationship with a sweet woman. Lifelong learner. Prankster.
Penny Shutt @drpennyshutt.bsky.social Poet, child psychiatrist, Kinship Carer and Whippet owner
Living in Edinburgh
She/her
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Veblen Director Programme @veblendirectors.bsky.social Helping ambitious people get their first board seats. Regardless of your background.
Mark Beldan @markbeldan.bsky.social Painter / London & Toronto / markbeldan.com
Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social I help ambitious people raise capital, get board seats, take companies public. Let's get more entrepreneurs and builders on bsky!
Author of 4 best selling business books
Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social petrajohanaponcarova.com | Research, poetry & translation between Gaelic, Czech & English | Rannsachadh, bàrdachd & eadar-theangachadh eadar Gàidhlig, Seicis & Beurla
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social probably typing with a cat on my shoulder | Professor of Public Policy & Health @uofgussp University of Glasgow | Editor, Sociology of Health & Illness | Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences | author 'How Britain Loves the NHS' @policypress
Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie Author of Nature’s Acre. Founder, Gardeningwell.ie — wildlife gardening in Ireland (Stamullen, Co Meath).
Walled garden + school/community projects.
Peat-free, pesticide-free. Native plants, pollinators. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Rebecca Goss @gosspoems.bsky.social More on Instagram @gosspoems
Poet & mentor. Books with Carcanet Press. Poet-in-Residence for CW+, the official charity for Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund.
💚 Val she/her 🏴🏳️⚧️🇪🇭 @scribblingval.bsky.social Published poet. Lefty supporter of Scottish independence, trans rights, Palestine. Ungagged. Anti fash. Fiddler. ****No DMs! Immediate block***. Animals 🥰. Ultra woke, be warned
Mathieu Bokestael @mathieubokestael.bsky.social ECR (Literature, Philosophies of Biology and Immunity, Care, Critical Medical Humanities). PhD from UCD. Previously funded by @researchireland.ie
https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/people/residentscholars/mathieubokestael/
Peter Williams @petermwilliams.bsky.social Managing Editor, Prospect
Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival @poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social A poetry festival by the sea under the big skies of East Anglia. Thurs 5th to Sunday 8th November 2026. ☀️📚🩵
Website: https://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/
Facebook: poetryinaldeburgh.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poetryinaldeburgh/
Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social Avid mother, reader, runner. Custodian of agrayarchive.bsky.social Curatorial practice centred on care.
Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social I’m a good listener. I make Hello You the Shropshire podcast: intelligent, progressive, quirky conversation for Shropshire and the wider world. Ex BBC radio. Event/panel host, photographer, musician, empath, folk festival MC.
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🏳️⚧️ Poli @hellopoli.bsky.social "Postmodernist Neo-Marxist". Queer. Fat. Lapsed medieval art historian. Current day job in data analysis. EN/PL/FR/IT/DE
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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin
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All posts made in Ireland.
Paul Murray @renebatt.bsky.social Artist, feeder of two cats,walker of my wife’s dogs, love art, poetry, James Joyce, St.Patrick’s Athletic, Leinster Rugby ( why are my teams so far away from where I live???) I live in Sligo, Nth West of Ireland: where W.B.Yeats is buried.
Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social Cat mom and somewhat nerdy. Ex-engineer now doing business things. She/her.
London-Bangalore-Delhi. Posts are personal opinions.
Stevie Burns @stevieburns.bsky.social Berlin | He/Him | 🏳️🌈🖤
Lola_Clare @lolaclare.bsky.social Twitter migrant. Social media creep. Chronic reposter. Interests include art, culture, environment, politics, science & society...the world in general 🌍 Earnest engager with a fondness for snark and irreverance. Thanks for stopping by 👋
Yvonne @yvyd.bsky.social "I will yeah" 🇮🇪
Victoria @vixilated.bsky.social Bookdragon. Educator: NYC History, Movies. Dancer past. Citizen of a hijacked "Democracy". ai abolitionist.
Photography my own, unless otherwise noted.
Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social Irish Oceanographer working on Atlantic Overturning & Irish sea level. Husband & Dad. He/him
Marcas Ó Cathluain @marcasocathluain.bsky.social Watermelon man 🍉 Conallach/Donegallian
#CelticFC 🍀
Sóisialach. Suim agam i gcúrsaí polaitíocht, peil agus neart eile.
Sometimes antisocial, always antifascist.
Saoirse don Phalaistín! 🇵🇸
Lucie Elven @lucieelven.bsky.social 
Deirdre Bell @deirdreb.bsky.social Here for the dopamine, the music and The Resistance.
Video Editor | Mom | NJ
And when you're feeling sad
And everywhere you look
You can't believe the things you see
When it all comes down so bad
And beauty lies exhausted in the streets -Nick Cave
Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social Author. The Last Ditch, paperback coming out in May.
Freelance writer. Lapsed novelist. Cinephile. Substack coming soon.
Interesting writing gigs in the politics or arts line gratefully considered.
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social 4 books a long time ago.
Philip Oltermann @philipoltermann.bsky.social Culture editor for Europe, The Guardian. Ex-Berlin bureau chief. My book The Stasi Poetry Circle (Faber & Faber) is out now
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
Miranda L. Barnes @mirandab-oa.bsky.social Research Associate, Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences (MORPHSS), Uni. of Cambridge (Cambridge Digital Humanities & Cambridge University Library). Views my own.
[Find my poetry account at @luminousjune.bsky.social]