Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social An independent publisher of innovative non-fiction.
www.reaktionbooks.co.uk
Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social Arts writer critic poet artist. Wrote a book on concrete poetry. Words in lots of places (gregthomas.online). Poem objects: oo-press.com. Board member, Edwin Morgan Trust, comms manager, Humanist Society Scotland. Democratic socialism & dungeon synth.
Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social artists' books, concrete poetry, perception, slowness, quietness, circles & lines, grey, Japan, Agnes Martin, moon jars, green tea, bit of a minimalist www.juliejohnstone.com
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/
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.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
Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social Doctor of Folk Horror & Wyrd TV | tinyurl.com/WyrdTV | Centre for Contemporary Legend | President of ISCLR | National Folklore Survey | Derby Dracula | The CK5 band | All views my own (she/her) https://linktr.ee/dr.diane.rodgers
Mark Baillie @mbaillie.bsky.social Scottish writer. Debut novel Salvage. Scottish Traveller history, music, books.
Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social Executive editor @thenarwhal.ca. Still hate gum. The lakes, they are Great.
(Illo by Andrea Bell, from The Leak, a kid's graphic novel about a girl that does environmental journalism!)
The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca Our pod of investigative journalists dives deep to tell stories about the natural world in Canada you can’t find anywhere else. Sign up for our newsletter: http://thenarwhal.ca/newsletter or become a member: https://thenarwhal.ca/bsky-member/
Barnaby Smith @abarnabyms.bsky.social Writer, editor, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher.
Website: https://barnaby-smith.wixsite.com/home
33 1/3 Oceania book on Crowded House
2nd album released in 2026: https://brigadoon.bandcamp.com/album/everyone-no-one
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
National Museum Directors' Council @nmdcnews.bsky.social The National Museum Directors' Council represents the leaders of the UK's national collections and major regional museums.
Our Newsletter updates you on what's happening in museums and cultural policy in the UK.
https://www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/
UltraViolet @ultraviolet.bsky.social UltraViolet is a women-led gender justice organization, with an online community of 1M+ members nationwide. We combine organizing, technology, creative campaigning, and people power to win real-world changes for women and gender expansive people.
Climate.us @climate.us We are an independent, nonprofit successor to Climate(.)gov, safeguarding public access to trusted climate data, tools, and information.
Donate: https://www.climate.us/donate
Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org Editor and director, Carbon Brief
https://bsky.app/profile/carbonbrief.org
Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org Award-winning journalism focused on #climatechange, science, energy and policy. Subscribe to our free newsletters: http://bit.ly/CBnewsletters or visit our website: https://www.carbonbrief.org/
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Anthropocene Commons @anthro-commons.bsky.social 
Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social 🌍 Climate Scientist & Palaeoclimatologist | Marine Geologist | Professor @ Cardiff University | Ageing marathon runner | #FirstGen | He/Him | 🏴 🇪🇺
The climate has changed before. Earth’s past can tell us a lot about what happens next.
Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Your Queer Spooky Bookstore x Small Press.
“A Good Story Will Haunt You”
👻🖤📚
www.littleghostsbooks.com
Dr Durre Shahwar @durreshahwar.bsky.social Writer, artist, creative writing lecturer. Editor: GATHERING: WoC on Nature (2024). Cardiff/London.
Folding Rock Magazine @foldingrockmag.bsky.social New Writing from Wales and Beyond.
A bold magazine for writers and readers of the best creative prose | Issue 001: Roots out now | Eds. @kathryntann.bsky.social & @rjph91.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/foldingrock
Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning writer. Metalsmith.
Books: Coup de Grâce (Titan Books), Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror (Ghoulish)
www.sofiaajram.com
https://sofiaajram.substack.com
SGSAH @sgsah.bsky.social The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, based at the University of Glasgow, offers world-leading support for doctoral researchers in the Arts & Humanities across Scotland. 🎓✨
Director: Professor Maria Fusco
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social Promoting Scottish literatures globally | https://scotlit-iassl.org | scotlit.iassl@gmail.com
Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com Pulitzer Prize winner & NYT bestselling writer (books, TV, film). Angel Down, Whalefall, Creepshow, The Shape of Water, The Living Dead, Rotters, The Autumnal, 21 more, visit the site or just trust me.
DanielKraus.com
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
Cymera Festival @cymerafestival.co.uk Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing.
🖊️ 2026 Festival 5-7 June, in Edinburgh & online. Tickets on Sale 1 March 2026
www.cymerafestival.co.uk
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
Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com Advocate for reshaping the digitalisation of work & workers | Founder of The Why Not Lab
Ethics of AI, workplace data & AI governance,
data rights. FRSA, member of OECD & UNESCO expert groups on A.I. Trade unionist. Live in 🇩🇰, work 🌏
www.thewhynotlab.com
Julia Liz Elliott @juliaelliott.bsky.social Fiction Writer: HELLIONS, THE WILDS, THE NEW AND IMPROVED ROMIE FUTCH (Tin House Books) http://www.juliaelliott.net/
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
BOARDS OF CANADA @boardsofcanada.bsky.social 
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
British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Latest news updates and reviews from the British Fantasy Society Community. Home to readers, writers, artists and gamers. Love SFFH? Come join us! www.britishfantasysociety.org
First Ten Pages Programme: https://british-fantasy-society.vercel.app/welcome
Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Publishes 6-sentence stories 2nd Thursday every month. No more than 400 words. Submissions always open. Never a fee.
Editor, Jeff Harvey (@jhhwriter.bsky.social)
https://gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/
Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social A think tank that develops strategies and policies for cultivating #DigitalCommons.
https://openfuture.eu/
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
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
Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal @poetrybrum.bsky.social PBLJ is a biannual print magazine of contemporary poetry, rooted in Birmingham. Engage with thought provoking essays, interviews and in-depth reviews. Subscribe Now!
https://poetrybirmingham.com/ 
Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social An archive of everyday life, thought and feeling in the UK. Based at The Keep in East Sussex. Find out more at massobs.org.uk
Find out more: massobs.org.uk
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@the-writingschool.bsky.social @the-writingschool.bsky.social The Writing School Online was founded by Kathryn Bevis in 2020 and we are here to help you find your creative voice and build a writing community.
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social World’s greatest author
General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine @generalwitch.bsky.social The British Horror Podcast and Zine
Britain… an ancient kingdom with cruelty and torment in its blood
Join Ross Jon and James as they tread where few dare
From Dracula to Damien Herbert to Hellraiser
www.generalwitchfinders.com
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social Writer and mumbler. Haunted Generation, Fortean Times, Electronic Sound, Doctor Who Magazine, Shindig, Mulgrave Audio, Wiffle Lever To Full, Scarred For Life and Summer Winos. Summat to do innit
Zuzi Pope @zuzipope.bsky.social She/her | Fantasy writer | 🏳️🌈🇨🇿🏴
Co-host of Edinburgh Literary Salon
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
Climate Visuals @climatevisuals.bsky.social World's only evidence-based & impact-focused climate photography resource. A Climate Outreach project.
Browse our image library and resources at climatevisuals.org
Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social Quarterly speculative fiction, poetry, and non-fiction
Unapologetically antifascist and feminist.
NO AI!!!!
Spec SFF
magazine.trollbreath.com
https://ko-fi.com/trollbreathmagazine
https://linktr.ee/trollbreath
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/
Zoetic Press @zoeticpress.bsky.social Speculative fiction, poetry, and art, curated by a global team of editors who want the world to be its best self. 
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/
GoBike Strathclyde @gobikeglasgow.bsky.social GoBike, the Strathclyde Cycle Campaign. We are a campaign group wishing for all ages and abilities to have the chance to use cycling as a natural way to get around!
https://gobike.org/join-us
Also
@GoBikeGlasgow@mastodon.scot
@GoBikeGlasgow@twitter.com
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
Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social Live in Chicago, write for Wired, got a great attitude
Send me tips: kate_knibbs@wired.com / Signal: kateknibbs.09
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁
www.megireid.com
Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social Talented ruin. Riverboat floozy.
Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland.
Crawford Award winning collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press now. https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Elaine Feeney @elainefeeney.bsky.social Writer
Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way (2025)
Nominated for Booker Prize
Lectures: University of Galway
Agent: Peter Straus RCW Lit Agency
Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social author of TURMERIC & SUGAR (Thirty West). stories in Wigleaf, Short Story Long, Berkeley Fiction Review, HAD, Craft, Fractured, etc.
annavangalajones.com
Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social Author: TACOMA; A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
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)
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
Scottish Industrial Heritage Society @scotindustria.bsky.social SIHS promotes the heritage of Scottish industry, past and present. Founded in 1984 by combining the Scottish Society for the Preservation of Historical Machinery and the Scottish Society for Industrial Archaeology. www.sihs.co.uk/ 
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
Community Land Scotland @communitylandsc.bsky.social A collective voice for community landowners throughout Scotland, representing and supporting land reform through community land ownership
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 
Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* on sale @lozzawriting.bsky.social Writer, Edinburgh.
Editor: @frazzledlitmag
BOTN nominated 2024. On all socials same name.
Writing for children: @lozzakidwriting
Website: https://lauracooneywriting.wixsite.com/website
Editing: www.kofi.com/lozzawriting
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
J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social artist, writer, researcher, fossil hunter, PLA licensed mudlarker, and lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds https://luckysoap.com
Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social Genre Lecturer, Writer, Journo & Prod, EIC of @nighttidemag.bsky.social: Diverse Horror Perspectives, Host of From Inside the House Pod, Member of Nyx Horror, 13 Minutes of Horror for SHUDDER
NY-er in London
https://nighttidemag.com/
http://momoshaty.com
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 🌿🏞️🏴🏴🌎
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/
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
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
Michael Lee Richardson 🦡 @hrfmichael.bsky.social Working class writer, director and One to Watch. Mocatriz. Rep'd by Louisa Minghella at Revolution Talent.
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
Henry Roberts @henryroberts.bsky.social Photographer and writer. Part-time NGO work. Occasional theatre-maker. Full-time cat lover.
Words in Guardian, Independent, LWL, AnOther, ArtReview, Verso, A Rabbit's Foot, Aesthetica
https://linktr.ee/henryroberts
https://www.henryrobertscreative.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/
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
Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com Comic artist and illustrator
Portfolio: tomhumberstone.com
Newsletter: tomhumberstone.com/newsletter
Links: tomhumberstone.com/links
Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network @eehnetwork.bsky.social Hello Bluesky! We are a network for research and teaching in Environmental Humanities at University of Edinburgh 🌱✨🌞🐛❄️
Hayden Lorimer @slipshodspeller.bsky.social Geographer. Runner. Sometimes both. 
Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social The Scottish History Society is a registered charity and the leading publisher of original sources relating to the history of Scotland. Founded in 1886, the Society has published over 170 volumes.
Patrick Hart @silcrow.bsky.social 
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.
UofGARC @uofgarc.bsky.social The Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre is the creative and collaborative heart of research at the University of Glasgow.
Find out more http://gla.ac.uk/research/arc/
https://linktr.ee/uofg_arc
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
@historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social Historian
Devjani Bodepudi @dbodepudi.bsky.social Poet. Novelist. Mum. Teacher. Comino Poet in Residence. PhD-ing at Man Met-the poetics of Language Loss and Identity. Interested in Postcolonial research from a British diasporic POV.
Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse