Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Under 5 Minute Film Festival @under5minutefest.bsky.social Submit your short film that's 5 minutes or less and get it showcased at the FEEDBACK Short Film Festivals in Los Angeles and Toronto. A monthly film festival event!
http://under5minutefilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/Under5minFilmFestival
Dark Talk @dark-talk.uk The official BlueSky account for the Dark Talk podcast.
• https://dark-talk.uk
• https://patreon.com/DarkTalkPod
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social An online journal publishing classically inspired short stories. Now open for submissions, 1000-8000 words. Edited by @CourtlandAvenue (Dave Gregory)
https://doric-literary.com/
Steph Wright @elmosmoe.bsky.social Leader and advocate for a different AI future which benefits everyone. CEO/MD and Co-Founder of Our AI Collective. Keynote speaker. Failed astrophysicist. Film geek. Parent. Love a GIF
Mark Baillie @mbaillie.bsky.social Scottish writer. Debut novel Salvage. Scottish Traveller history, music, books.
Rebecca Sharp @rebeccasharp.bsky.social New collection forthcoming 2027 (Tapsalteerie).
Recently: Maiden Mother Mage (Matecznik Press 2025, performed at Culross Abbey & Glasgow Cathedral); Long Field Loop (Tapsalteerie 2024, longlisted Scottish Poetry Book of the Year). www.rebeccajoysharp.com
Sarah Mackay @smgthomson.bsky.social Curator @natlibscot.bsky.social 📚
Dr Durre Shahwar @durreshahwar.bsky.social Writer, artist, creative writing lecturer. Editor: GATHERING: WoC on Nature (2024). Cardiff/London.
Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social Horror/SF writer, occasional artist, general creative chump. Creature of the abyss and cat dad.🐈
⚛️⚰️ATOMIC COFFIN⚛️⚰️
- out now in UK! (Transworld/PRH)
- Oct 6 in US/CAN (Saga Press/S&S)
Rep: @jjbker.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/benedictanning
Prof Ria Dunkley @riadunkley.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Pedagogy at University of Glasgow
Works with sustainability, community science, and learning in a changing climate 🌿🏞️🏴🏴🌎
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/
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
Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social Postdoctoral Researcher (elle/she) • Internet & Cultural Studies • Legal Knowledge & Environmental Law • Social & Climate Justice • Brussels Sprouts Appreciation Society • Arts & Crafts • Gardening • Sailing
FR/EN (Belgium/Luxembourg)
ch4ins4w @ch4ins4w.bsky.social chainsaw the gatekeepers.
multidisciplinary artist and game dev 🇨🇦🇮🇶🇰🇼
Nowhere, Fast! - June 26
www.ch4ins4w.com
Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social Bi. Lecturer int. climate politics, futures, childless geographies. UCU NEC LGBTQ+ rep (HE), 26/27 Equality Chair
UCU Commons. I mainly post about Girls Aloud. She/her
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5220-0914
Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
PerfectGod = S. Cyn = L. Gates = J. Glacier = L. Simz = Ziwe +c. @blackswanborges.bsky.social Mx Józef ≈ M.
Lonely + Looking for
Poetry Fiends and Friends...
[ I wake up *wishing* that I was:
Gertrude Stein + Ursula K. Le Guin. ]
Mx M— Józef ≈ M. J. Le Tölm...
Cover credit to Samara Cyn.
+c. (: Thank you kindly,
And stay safe :)
Juniper🧚🏽♀️ @juniper888.bsky.social 
poorly heir @poorlyheir.bsky.social Collective. Making stuff.
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
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow @uofgges.bsky.social School of Geographical and Earth Sciences at The University of Glasgow, UK. #BePartOfTheSolution 
Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social 🌱 Grow Food 🌎 Heal the Planet
🐝 For gardeners learning to grow regeneratively ♻️
📚 FREE knowledge + community on our website! ↙️
https://learndirt.com/
Zuzi Pope @zuzipope.bsky.social She/her | Fantasy writer | 🏳️🌈🇨🇿🏴
Co-host of Edinburgh Literary Salon
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
Follow 150+ flash publishers.
Read editor interviews.
Enjoy discounts on collections.
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Perth Women on Wikipedia @perthwomenwiki.bsky.social Group of editors and trainers partnering with library staff to bring the under-told histories of Perth's women to Wikipedia. Aiming to be inclusive and intersectional 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Changing the world in small and important ways!
Posts by Gill
Perth, Scotland
Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @ucc.ie • Scottish Romanticism, the Novel, Reading / Book History • IASSL Membership Sec • AFHEA • She/her
One Fall Review @onefallreview.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to professional wrestling themed poetry.
www.onefallreview.com
Submit: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/one-fall-review-0g27j
Just Keep Up Magazine @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social sci-fi / horror zine
poetry every 1st & 3rd Monday
fiction every 2nd & 4th Wednesday
new book & film reviews every month
justkeepupmagazine.com
https://ko-fi.com/justkeepupmagazine
https://just-keep-up-magazine.myspreadshop.com/
Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social Trying to make sense of my surroundings, and myself, in an ever-changing city. Dreamer and imagineer.
Memorial Device: Alternative National Treasure
Claire McDade @clairemcdde.bsky.social Heritage, social justice, music, culture, and, increasingly, gardens and cute animals.
Heritage Lead for Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow https://heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/
REELpoetry Int'l Film Festival @reelpoetryfilmfest.bsky.social Poems Worth Watching. Festival and community celebrating short poetry + experimental films from around the world since 2019 | Houston, TX
2026 Festival: Sept. 18-25
https://reelpoetry.org/
Submissions Now Open
https://filmfreeway.com/REELpoetry2026
Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
cescadarvill.bsky.social @cescadarvill.bsky.social PhD researcher of soil and trees. I have been researching different practices of woodland expansion in upland habitats. More broadly interested in land-use transitions for nature recovery.
Orkneyology @orkneyology.bsky.social Orcadian-American creative partners, storytelling, writing and publishing in the Orkney Islands: Orkneyology.com
LycopeneDream @bonnievivante.bsky.social Reading and sharing art, literature and poetry. Also here for the cute 🐶 🐱 and memes. Sometimes I scribble.
Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴📚📖🗞️📰
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social "Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall
Meg Bertera-Berwick @megberteraberwick.bsky.social Writing about land & memory. PhD in post-colonial stuff. Shortlisted for the Nan Shepherd Prize 2023. Glasgow. Free 🇵🇸
On insta: @meg.berteraberwick
Newsletter: https://podbypod.substack.com/
Represented by @portyliterary.bsky.social
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network @eehnetwork.bsky.social Hello Bluesky! We are a network for research and teaching in Environmental Humanities at University of Edinburgh 🌱✨🌞🐛❄️
Jennifer McMahon @jmcm.bsky.social IRISH writer, repped by Brian Langan, Storyline Literary Agency. Winner, All-Ireland Scholarships Creative Writing Award (public caterory), Novel Fair '23. Shortlisted, Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards '23. Words in many places.
Jack Wright @jackwrightauthor.com Horror author from the North of England. Reyt Spooky.
Stories of grief, folklore, and the things that move when they shouldn’t.
Duskfield Pines — ???
Anna’s Veil — ???
https://ko-fi.com/jackwrightauthor
https://buymeacoffee.com/jackwright
Farah @farahauthor.bsky.social ✍🏼 poetry including haiku tanka haibun
award-winning
Pushcart Prize nom
Touchstone Award shortlist (haiku) winner (haibun)
UK author: Deerleap Hollow Series🦌🩸📚
🖤horror movies nature art gardening 🌱
PhD
🇵🇸Freedom for all🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/farahauthor
Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography in Scotland.
Research = mental health/missing people/seasonal affective disorder/geohumanities/CC.
Not travelling to USA anytime soon.
Human 🦋
https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/livingwithsad/winteringwell/resources/
Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com Novel development & editing services. Our editors are industry experts and award-winning writers. Take your manuscript to the next level.
DarlingAxe.com
David (W) Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social Multi-genre writer
Spies: @headlinebooks.bsky.social
Spaceships: @solarisbooks.bsky.social
McDermid Award , Bloody Scotland Debut Prize 2025 winner, McIlvanney Prize 2026 longlist
Rep: @harryillingworth.bsky.social
More: https://www.davidgoodman.net/
Henry Coles @pitest.bsky.social Fiction: Scottish Book Trust New Writer 2023. SCWBI Undiscovered Voices 2024. Repped by Lucy Juckes at @jennybrownagency.bsky.social
https://henrycoles.com
Tech: Made mutation testing popular - Java Champion
https://pitest.org https://www.arcmutate.com
David Aitken @davidaitken.bsky.social Wordsmith, lost deep in the word mines, collecting acceptable adverbs and credible similes. Keen to surface and present my findings to an astonished world.
Michael Lee Richardson 🦡 @hrfmichael.bsky.social Working class writer, director and One to Watch. Mocatriz. Rep'd by Louisa Minghella at Revolution Talent.
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
BooksfromScotland.com @booksfromscotland.bsky.social A website from @publishingscotland.bsky.social dedicated to championing the best new writing in Scotland.
Subscribe to our monthly newsletter: https://booksfromscotland.com/subscribe/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/BooksfromScotland
University of Stirling Archives @unistirarchives.bsky.social News, events and activities related to the collections held in the University of Stirling Archives.
Find out more at:
https://libguides.stir.ac.uk/archives
Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com Comic artist and illustrator
Portfolio: tomhumberstone.com
Newsletter: tomhumberstone.com/newsletter
Links: tomhumberstone.com/links
Patrick Hart @silcrow.bsky.social 
N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social I like big cats. ER doc. Horror author. Artist. Cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. Member of HWA. Pro-choice. BLM. I voted for her. Star Wars & BravoTV fanatic. She/her. 🌊🏳️🌈
Personal site: https://njgallegos.com
Podcast: https://www.screamkingspodcast.com
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Gillian Shirreffs @gillianshirreffs.bsky.social Doctor of Fine Arts. Author of ‘Brodie’ and ‘Elephant’. Writer. Researcher. Coffee Drinker. And a big fan of care that is careful and kind.
Pete Ward @phenryward.bsky.social Books, art, theatre, and telling people I liked the thing they made. Weird / Gothic short stories published or forthcoming in Cosmic Horror, Macabre, Frost Zone, Rat Bag and elsewhere. Editorial reader at Gavagai.
Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social Film, media, & cultural historian, U. Minnesota. Sometime film critic.
Books: Tales of Militant Chemistry; Remapping Cold War Media; Army Film and the Avant Garde. Coming in 2027: Film Stock: An Int'l History of a Sensitive Medium.
www.alicelovejoy.com
Daily Short Story Deadlines @shortstorycontests.bsky.social Submit your short story to the relevant genre. All of these contests are guaranteed acceptances. Your story gets a video performance reading made!
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-short-story-contest-deadlines/
David Galletly @davidgalletly.bsky.social Illustrator. Hello!
Valeria Vescina @valeriavescina.bsky.social Author 'That Summer in Puglia' (2018). Creative-writing tutor, runs writing retreats in the Alps. Founder member & co-manager @WomenWritersNet. #HistFic novel inspired by true events in 16th-century Italy will be out in 2026. Women's history nerd.
Galactic Suplex @galacticsuplex.bsky.social Hello Humans. I am intercosmic Wrestler & Writer, Galactic Suplex. I am The Intercosmic Wrestling Champion. My Cosmic Leg Drop is my strongest technique. I will write a book for Human consumption. End.🌌
Peter McCann Ashton @petermccannashton.bsky.social Starter Packs I find go into my Starter Pack. YMMV
poetry & photographs © 2026 Peter McCann Ashton
https://www.instagram.com/petermccannashton/
Jai Michelle Louissen @jaimichellepoet.bsky.social Scottish poet living in The Netherlands. Poetry Scotland, Dust Poetry, Acropolis, Crow and Cross Keys. Second chapbook ‘THE WEIGHT OF VAPOUR’ by Alien Buddha Press EIC of The Winged Moon 
Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse
Daily FilmFreeway Festival Discount Codes @filmfreewaycodes.bsky.social Daily discount codes for various festivals to submit to on FilmFreeway
https://filmfreeway.com/festivals/discounts
Deborah Tomkins @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social Author of prize-winning #ecofiction. #Nature. #Climate.
Aerth (@weatherglassbooks.bsky.social)
The Wilder Path (@aurorametro.bsky.social)
Represented by Sara Langham https://davidhigham.co.uk/authors-dh/deborah-tomkins/
deborahtomkinswriter.com
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK)
Something Wonderful (US)
Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
Stories in Zoetrope, Southern Review, Ploughshares, BBSS, &&
She/her
Ally
St Louis Atheists @stlouisatheists.bsky.social "If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe" Carl Sagan @rsslmo.bsky.social @atheists.org @ffrf.org @nickfish.me @ethicalstl.org @riatheists.bsky.social ⚛️ 📚💙🐕 🚭 Team Site
E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com Award-winning Scottish science fiction & fantasy writer. Podcastle, Strange Horizons, Shoreline of Infinity, ParSec, Best of British SF. More: emfaulds.com NEW HANDLE, bethkesh will still work.
#scruffyGarden
Runs @bibliotta.bsky.social
I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social Anti-Smoker My Website campralquitsmoking.net See How I Quit 20 Years Ago Fought Nicotine 35 Years Supporting others who Quit 🚭 STL MO ❤️To Promote Authors 📚 & Ozarks 🌄 Photographer 📷 Pez Add @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social 💙
Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social writer, translator, cat
Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social Artist, maker, author. MDANT.
Happenstance and holy smoke
Strong Women, Strange Worlds @swsworlds.bsky.social Our mission is to elevate the voices of women and other underrepresented gender identity authors of science fiction, fantasy, and horror; to highlight stories featuring strong female and non-binary characters; and to share these stories with readers of all
Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social Supporting and promoting #WomenWriters. On insta at womenwritersnetwork and Twitter (X) @womenwritersnet.
Leon Perniciaro @leonp.bsky.social In words, alas, drown I. Editor of @HavenSpec.bsky.social. English PhD candidate at @UConn.bsky.social. He/him.
Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
Natasha Ryan @justplainscrambled.bsky.social Poems by day, prose by night. Préfère l'impair.
Ella McLellan @booksella.bsky.social Regional Outreach Co-ordinator for Scottish Book Trust in N,S & E Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway. Children's books, playfulness, comics and graphic novels, gaming, nature, bugs and general fun nerdiness. All views my own
Jason Croot @jasoncroot.bsky.social Bradfordian, actor and author of the Bradford Back in the Day Memories Series: Bradford, Eh? & Bradford, Ye What? and the nostalgic football book Bradford or Leeds, Eh?
https://www.jasoncroot.com
Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social Poet. Living in Wisconsin. Author of Without a Prayer.
www.scottmcconnaha.com