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Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
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📝 Honorary Patron Kit de Waal
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Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social Mostly Edinburgh history, tenement life stories and the like. Current project - Tenement Town; Previous project - Small Town Noir.
Chus Martínez @chusmartinez.bsky.social Head of the Institute Art Gender Nature at the HGK, Basel. Artistic director of the 36. Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts. Associate curator of TBA21. A joyful writer
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Portrait in Mustard - Seren Books.
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