𝙷𝚊𝚗𝚔 @morneswords.bsky.social Ceci n'est pas un miroir.
Gribouilleur/Nerd
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
Aliye @c-imagine.bsky.social 🎧 Music × Technology × Curiosity
@crippledwriter.bsky.social @crippledwriter.bsky.social 
Jeffrey Hecker @heckheck03.bsky.social Poet, Teen Writers Fellowship Poetry Teacher (The Muse Writers Center), Poetry Staff Reader for Quarterly West and Okay Donkey Magazine.
Joshua Lander @jlander90.bsky.social Teacher and writer based in Edinburgh
imogen @imogenpdf.bsky.social 
Mel @mesmersi.bsky.social I enjoy writing.
Milena Williamson @milenawilliamson.bsky.social Poet & academic | Charm for Catching a Train http://tinyurl.com/bdcx2ka5 | Into the Night that Flies So Fast http://tinyurl.com/38tb8kzt
Dr Lucy Hall @necessaryletter.bsky.social 
Eleanor Fuller @eleanorfuller.bsky.social Winner Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 2023; finalist Fiddlehead Short Fiction Prize 2023 & Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024. Edith Wharton WiR 2024. Words: The Waxed Lemon, The Moth, Malahat, The New Quarterly & other lovelies. CCA-funded sabbatical!
Katie Driscoll @katiedriscoll.bsky.social Writer for BBC, FT, the Independent, A Rabbit's Foot and more
🏴🇸🇪
@wscottr.bsky.social @wscottr.bsky.social "...in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other." (Paine, Common Sense)
Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social Big things from small books - single short story chapbooks, available on subscription.
“Get em on your radar” — Stu Hennigan
Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social Writer, teacher-librarian, ESL advocate & cycling ambassador. SSAC completist. ❤️ my Brompton.
https://barbaramcveigh.weebly.com/
Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
Homeward Books @homewardbooksco.bsky.social Homeward is a small press. We publish books that defy the constraints of genre, because we believe that weird, brave, complex stories deserve a home. // homewardbooks.com
Jane French @janefrench.bsky.social Writer of medical and caregiving reports | published widely in email streams | family caregiver | advocate for low-income older adults
dave c @davepoems.bsky.social 
Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social Writer, editor, librettist. Writing a biography of Vernon Elliott and a radio play about Handel and Hendrix.
http://notes-upon-notes.com/
Martin A Parker @martinaparker.bsky.social Musician/composer mostly from my lap on a boat -
Latest - https://squigly.link/album/martin-a-parker/left-of-everything
https://martinaparker.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.subvert.fm/martin-a-parker
Love sounds, film, nature, cows…
Heather Cutforth @heathercutforth.bsky.social Just a person.
Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan Writer (Comic Book Story of Space Exploration, NYT bestselling BOWIE, secret 3rd thing), SFF & film essays. Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop alumni. Rep'd by RHA. Codexian. Everything is rubbish and all rubbish is wonderful. stevehorton.neocities.org
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
emer @emer.bsky.social writer, professional shakespeare opinion haver, shoegaze fan, film dyke. she/her. my book is called IRISH SHAKESPEARES: GENDER, SEXUALITY, & PERFORMANCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (out Oct). all my opinions are great actually x
Welcome To Primetime BITCH ! @luladasy.bsky.social 🎥Chaîne YT: http://urlr.me/4xHkv🎥
🔪Maman du @stabathon-festival.bsky.social
🍿Voix chez @jumpscarecast.bsky.social
🎟️Team On vous ment
#slashers-#vinyles-#jeuxdesociétés
#chiari
@boonyeah.bsky.social @boonyeah.bsky.social 
Kat Tancock @kattancock.bsky.social Writer, reader, editor, Russian > English translator. Gardener + crafter. Syilx + Secwépemc territory, British Columbia. kattancock.com
Chris Kelso @chris88.bsky.social Angry writer, eager editor, devoted dad
madelaine gnewski @maddignewski.bsky.social Writer with words in Friends On The Shelf, South 85 Journal, The Hemlock Journal & elsewhere. I use tarot to explore family, memory, and belonging 🔮 Find me on Substack: madelainegnewski.substack.com
Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social he/him
writer of stories and such
professional bookman for Rough Draft Bar & Books
contributing editor at Literary Hub
occasional guitarist and singer
https://drewsof.neocities.org/
Ivor @tearsofthetinman.bsky.social 
Kathryn @kathrynraver.bsky.social Literary translator, SFF enthusiast, & Assistant Managing Editor @ Asymptote Journal 💫 Words in ANMLY, Ancillary Review of Books, Asymptote, and others.
current reads: Violent Phenomena (Tilted Axis Press); The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar
Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social Mainly poetry in independent presses, art, glass, theatre & people playing. Allotment life. York with Glasgow links. UK.
Not every act of kindness is part of a plan.
Website :www.sarahowriter.com
Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social Writer and Literary Critic. Work in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Passages North, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story, Bending Genres, and FlashFlood.
Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
https://linktr.ee/emhall47
migliniiks (they/them) @migliniiks.bsky.social zynuotnīks-multimuokslinīks
🏳️🌈¡rainbowzzzz!🏳️🌈 (just a they/them causing may/hem!)
not gibberish, just not machine translateable (UPDATE: oh my, g00gle translate does Latgalian now :d)
rodūšuo darbeiba: linktr.ee/migliniiks
Joanne Tatham @tathamjoanne.bsky.social I’m an artist working within public spaces of exhibition and publication, thinking about who gets to make art and how, where and why 👀 Professor of Contemporary Art + Co-lead of MFA Arts & Humanities at Royal College of Art 🤡 UCU rep.✊ 🪱
@theodeomutts.bsky.social @theodeomutts.bsky.social https://maustoleum.itch.io/
Clare Patterson @clarepatterson.bsky.social Writer, PhD student at Centre for New Writing
Tommy van Avermaete @tommyvav.bsky.social Schrijver | Lezer | Essayist | Redacteur | Podcastmaker | Collectiespecialist |
Aan het lezen...
"Zal ik een wereld projecteren?"
Scarmilla de Winter @theswilkieway.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ They/He. ♋️♑️♐️♏️ Artist and Scar! 🐍🕷🦇🦁
🌍 Missing Mile
Portfolio: https://www.swilkiewayart.com/
No AI, no NFTs, please credit if sharing <3 ;)
Gordon Duncan @gordunc44.bsky.social Books, music and nature photography.
Member of the Friends of Morwell National Park.
Member of the Entomological Society of Victoria.
Reside on unceded lands of the Brayakaulung people of the Gunaikurnai Nation.
Persephone Possum 🔞🇵🇸 @plaguingpossum.bsky.social She/Fae/It • faeggot girlthing • weird-horror writer, performer, and preeminent freak of nature • God’s favorite in a well-adjusted kind of way
Writing: https://newgurlxeno.itch.io
LetterBoxd: https://boxd.it/2qQvL
James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social chronic illness || fiction || pro wrestling
Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social Writer & Researcher
Sociology post-doc at University of Galway
Fiction Reader at Anomaly Litmag
I write about movies and neurodivergence at: https://autcasts.substack.com
Proud #NeuroQueer (She/Her)
Amanda Anderson @magicetc.bsky.social Former librarian currently writing. Los Angeles native.
Eris Young is Eunuchmaxxing @erisyoung.bsky.social https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/eris-young/hunger-in-the-blood/9781035095346 pre-order HUNGER IN THE BLOOD Tor Nightfire 05/2027❣️👄🩸🦷🧛♀️
Rep: Alex Cochran, Greyhound Literary
Fiction Editor, Shoreline of Infinity
https://erisyoung.com/
Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social Wrote FAIR / GOBLINHOOD / VEHICLE / DUST SUCKER, translate German lit, publish Maltese lit at Praspar Press. Tutor, Granta Writers’ Workshop. www.jencalleja.com
Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social Tattoo Apprentice • Writer • Illustrator • Solarpunk• Animator • 🌼🍄🟫🐵 Anti-AI
🏴
https://phiastats.com/
Author and Illustrator of: False Memory (horror), The Fox Prince is a girl (wlw)
Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social Scottish drawerer and photographerer
“The funniest man in this lift” - the other man in the lift
Marswasrubbish.com
https://marswasrubbish.etsy.com
Ashley Mangtani @writerash.bsky.social Slipstream Writer ✍️
Published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons | LITRO | Washington Square Review | Boudin | Neon Dystopia | Expat Press | HAWKEYE etc
Short story collection ⬇️
ashleymangtani.com
@libk81.bsky.social @libk81.bsky.social 
michelle @mickeypip.bsky.social ✏️ Writer, Artist, Narrative Designer (scripts, stories, games and other stuff)
👻 Lover of all things weird
📺 Channel 4 New Writers '25
📚 Trustee Manchester City of Literature
🎬 BAFTA Connect
✍️ WIP: spec fic collection
🔗 https://linktr.ee/mickeypip
Niamh Donnelly @niamhdonnelly.bsky.social Writer / journalist / critic
niamhdonnelly100@gmail.com
Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social writer from herefordshire, living in edinburgh. scottish book trust new writer awardee, 2026. work in X-R-A-Y, Dishsoap Quarterly, The Rialto, Death Kit, Sextet.
links, contact, etc. at: https://alicerowenawilson.wordpress.com/
🎃 Scary Bradshaw 🎃 @jackxparker.bsky.social (Jack Parker) - Autrice : Monstrueuse / Le Paon / Vénère
Podcasts : Rienàv’ / Feu de Camp / Mortel — REQUÊTES PRO PAR MAIL, MON PSEUDO @ GMAIL
https://www.patreon.com/taousmerakchi
Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com 📚 ATTIS & ALEPH coming Dec 2026...
📖 https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/tucker-lieberman/attis-aleph
Nerve. Verse. Snacks.
🌐 tuckerlieberman.com
🆒 he/him
Holly Baleen @hollybaleen.bsky.social 43, Queer, Fat, Transfemme, Artist. Guitar Hero. T4T. Polyam. UK. AVFC 💜💙. She/Her 🏳️⚧️
🔞 minors dni
https://ko-fi.com/hausofholly
S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social Some guy in Scotland trying to write strange stuff. Ex scientist. Current nothing. Occasional maker of dusty musical rambles. First novel coming soon...
https://spburton.weebly.com/
Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),’Tiger Girl’ shortlisted Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica’ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
@clairesawers.bsky.social @clairesawers.bsky.social Freelance journalist in Edinburgh, writing for The Quietus, The Wire, The Times, Big Issue, The List etc
linktr.ee/clairesawers
S P Clark @spclarkwriter.bsky.social S P Clark is a writer of poetry, prose, plays, essays and articles. www.simonclarkwriter.com
@aqlad38.bsky.social @aqlad38.bsky.social 
Daru Mcaleece @darustoryteller.bsky.social Gothic-tinged feral storyteller, writer, artist, & Druid. Embracing the strange. He/They
See Haunted Voices @ hauntpublishing.com
Support: http://ko-fi.com/darustoryteller
Eve Xin 心 @suitcaseofpoetry.bsky.social poetry / fiction / spoken word / migrant / exile
linktr.ee/suitcaseofpoetry
Colin Corrigan @storyenergies.bsky.social Irish writer and writing teacher. Talks a lot about Story Energies @ storyenergies.substack.com
Sonora @sonorachase.bsky.social Cozy leather chair with a thick book by a small fire with the smell of bread baking after a walk in the woods. Memoir: Femme. Solo Show coming to Hollywood Fringe June 2026. 🌈 BLM 🌊
Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com Dubliner in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Writer. https://www.LaurenceWrites.com/. 2025 Cúirt New Writing Fiction Prize. Posts in English/Français/Svenska. (He/Him/YerMan)
E R Murray @ermurray.bsky.social Writer of novels, essays, short fiction & poetry. Novels include The Nine Lives Trilogy (The Book of Learning, The Book of Shadows, The Book of Revenge) & Caramel Hearts. Rep'd: Sallyanne Sweeney She/her #workingclass #blacklivesmatter
Chris Frazer @cmfie.bsky.social Derry girl (we never grow out of it).
Doting abuela to twin boys.
I'm curious about everything.
Alliance Party NI supporter.
Veg grower with limited success.
I try to do my bit for the environment.
@germangin.bsky.social @germangin.bsky.social 
@dublinbookfest.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Premier book festival showcasing and celebrating Ireland’s writers, illustrators and publishers. Flagship festival 4 - 8 November with year-round events. Supported by the Arts Council.
https://linktr.ee/dublinbookfestival
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
carmine bee-eater @cafeconlethe.bsky.social 
Doug Johnstone @dougjohnstone.bsky.social Writer & musician. 20th novel Ghost Notes out now. Tombstoning and The Ossians also re-published in 2026. Album Crow Hill out now. Drummer for Fun Lovin' Crime Writers. www.dougjohnstone.com
Phil Keeling @philmakesmonsters.bsky.social Writer. Co-host of the Pixel Lit podcast. Dollar store Orson Welles.
Pre-order BE NOT AFRAID: https://bookshop.org/p/books/be-not-afraid-phil-keeling/6e016f5d890f19aa
@under-whelm.bsky.social @under-whelm.bsky.social Don't follow me.
Zain Rishi @zainrishi.bsky.social Brummie Poet 📚🌈
26 / Edinburgh (mostly)
NOON out now with the Emma Press
https://theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/pamphlets/noon/
Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social Crone, wastrel, lapsed (but twitching) novelist. Posts about art & lit.
Me: https://www.writersunion.ca/member/anne-denoon
My book: Back Flip, a novel about art & the 1960s: https://t.co/m7fQSOo6At or (with reviews) https://tinyurl.com/4dzwzpdp
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- B @bigdumbhorse.bsky.social @bigdumbhorse.bsky.social
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk ⦿ Design⸻imagination⸻climate⸻futures ⦿ http://imaginari.es ⦿ he/him ⦿ Not employer's views
alice @alspezz.bsky.social illustrator and fanart enthusiast 🦀 | ESP/ENG
portfolio/ https://aliciaesteso.com/
💌estesoalicia@gmail.com
🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social 👻 SFFH writer from MN
🌌 SFWA, Codex
🌿 sometimes moss
✏️ Work in Apex, The Dark, Flame Tree Press, Nature: Futures, The Saturday Evening Post, Adventitious, Gavagai, +
🚫 no gen AI 🚫
Story 🔗 https://gavagai.com/@abigailkemske/links 🌳 AbigailKemske.com
@sleepship.bsky.social @sleepship.bsky.social Writer, artist, parent.
I write about art in lutruwita at Makeando.art
they/them.
Free Palestine.
Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social Author, artist, poet, & Indigiqueer swamp hag. Grew up on the land & off the grid. Writing in The Deadlands, Augur, Nightmare, Malahat Review, Fiddlehead, etc. Aurora finalist, optimistic nihilist & possible witch. No GenAI
shanmonster.dreamwidth.org
Arlaina Tibensky @arlaina.bsky.social Parent, Writer, Ceramicist, Democracy Enthusiast. Words in One Story, Smokelong, Reckon Review, The Razor, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, etc. Pushcart noms, Best Small Fictions nom, Best of the Net nom. Nom nom nom. And Then Things Fall Apart, NYFA, etc.- C Cardboard Toast @cardboard-toast.bsky.social
Charismatic Megafauna @llmilktray.bsky.social 
Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social she/her
📖 Writer | Librarian
📍 Edinburgh | Burntisland | Cairngorms
Gleefully geeky. Writes SFF/literary speculative short stories, among other word-things. 💗💜💙
AI is not welcome here
Find me at https://www.fionamossman.com
Adrian Markle @amarkle.bsky.social BA English/Creative Writing Course Leader at Falmouth University. Fiction editor for Aethlon journal. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. Author of many stories and the novel BRUISE. Writing about class, gender, pedagogy, and sometimes sport.
https://linktr.ee/adrianmarkle
Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com Canadian writer in Scotland (via Denmark (got lost on the way home (sorry mom))) | Pushcart nominated | Placed/listed: BFFA, Bridport Prize, Welkin Prize, others | Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig | She/Her
erinbondo.com
@samrowe93.bsky.social @samrowe93.bsky.social 
EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social Writer of stories, dreamer of dreams, parent of child, and so on...
I like shiny things 🌟
@em.h.writes.things on Instagram 🦋
Simon Geraghty @sigeraghty.bsky.social Writer | IWC NMP 26