Moira Kurtin @moirakurtinwrites.bsky.social Short story and poetry writer, aspiring novelist. ๐ค๐ฉถ๐ค๐
Fondness for the whimsical and the macabre.
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Nightjar Press @nightjarpress.bsky.social Single short story chapbooks since 2009. Uncanny, dark, experimental. Manchester/London. Editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social. Design @johnoakey.bsky.social.
Alan Cleaver @postalpathsguy.bsky.social Author of books on UK footpaths. My book, Postal Paths, is due out April 2025 detailing the route used by rural postmen and women in the 19th and 20th Centuries. I live in Cumbria, UK. Follow me if you love walking footpaths. https://linktr.ee/postalpaths
Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social Crafter, research librarian, lapsed writer, former editor of The Girly Comic, watcher of kdrama, jdrama, tdrama, has ME/CFS, based in Leicester UK
https://factorfictionpress.co.uk/
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)
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Melissa Rea Author ๐๐๐ @melrea.bsky.social Four novels written. Fun novels about strong women with a pinch of magic. https:// @iquitcigs.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social Team Site StL Mo ๐ญ
Megan Bidmead @meganbidmead.bsky.social writer
mum of two humans, servant of two cats
https://meganbidmead.com
meganbidmead@proton.me
Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social A national charity dedicated to changing lives with reading and writing. Home of Bookbug, Book Week Scotland and Reading Schools.
Rat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social ๐ www.ratbaglit.com
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Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
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Sylvia Clare @sylviaclare.bsky.social writer, poet, memoirist, mindfulness teacher, neurodivergent grandmother. Books include The Mindful Gardener, No Visible Injuries, Travelling the Alphabet Geographically, The Buddha House, Love and Chocolate, Living with and Loving ADHD
Anders Edwards @andersedwards.bsky.social โ๏ธ Dystopian Author
๐ Erased & What Happened To Ava
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Howard Aiken ๐ @howard-aiken.bsky.social Blogger, writer, and reader. Looking for an agent for my real-world (no dragons) 14th-century historical fiction trilogy "Cruz Espada."
Blog: https://unexpectedangles.wordpress.com
Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
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Talis Kimberley๐ช๐บ @taliskimberley.bsky.social Songwriter/Performer/Wordsmith. Doggerel, Limericks. She/her. Folklore, yarncraft, pagan. Antifa, trans rights, organ doner, European. Made of stories. No AI. www.talis.net & YouTube. Will sing for supper & ยฃ. Re-enchantment is resistance.
@sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social @sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social Novelist and freelance editor. Drinks a lot of tea.
Published by Portland Press.
sarahhealeyeditor.com
Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social We challenge injustice, defend freedom and campaign so everyone in the UK is treated with dignity and respect.
Join us. Stand up to power.
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Release: Drugs, The Law & Your Rights @releasedrugs.bsky.social UK's centre of expertise on drugs and drug law. Global reports on decrim and racist policing. Campaigning for rights of people who use drugs.
Need advice? Contact 020 7324 2989/ ask@release.org.uk
Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social SF mag from Canada | 2007-2013, 2020- | Opening to submissions on November 1st.
Publisher of Saros SF
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Hinterland Magazine - open for submissions @hinterlandnf.bsky.social Hinterland is a triannual print magazine showcasing the best in creative non-fiction writing. Issue 16 out now! Edited by @andrewkenrick.bsky.social @ionamacduff.bsky.social and @yinflim.bsky.social. Based in Norwich. https://linktr.ee/hinterlandnonfiction
Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social Imagining a Scottish Democracy since 2007.
Bylines at the Guardian, Open Democracy, Herald, DeSmog, Bella Caledonia, Sunday National.
Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot @buchanan.today Academic, writer and commentator, living on unceded Whadjak Noongar Boodja; Hon Research Fellow (UWA).
Once dubbed โa ganja smoking hippyโ by PHONโs James Ashby on Sky News.
Fighting to live in a community, rather than exist in an economy. ๐ซ DMs.
Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social Illustrator, performer, walker of the hills at dusk, lunatic. Hooklander.
Pro EU, anti fascist. https://thomassbrown.com/ Store here https://thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/ and also here https://www.redbubble.com/people/TattercatStudio/shop
Robin Hobb @robinhobb.bsky.social Writer of fantasy and SF. Gardener. Chicken tender. Dog Person but cat friendly. Washington state USA. Old and getting older. Stay off my lawn! No AI ever. All posts from me.
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, โWhatever You Do, Just Donโtโ, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Boycott Amazon @boycottamazon.bsky.social The Great American Protest. Lover of libraries. Buy it for life. Anti-consumption. Permaculture. Simple Living. Thrift Stores. Thrift Store Cats. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Reduce, Reuse, Freecycle. No Lawns. FQHCs. People over Profits.
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
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/
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Carly Razzell @carlyrazzellauthor.bsky.social Novel writer ๐, Shortlisted for the Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers 2025, Northern Female Voices participant 2024, Longlisted for A Writing Chance (Substack strand) New Writing North 2024 ๐๐ญ Londoner in Manchester ๐โ RNA Member
Rewilding Affric Highlands @affrichighlands.bsky.social Rewilding Scotlandโs epic east-west corridor. For nature, people and livelihoods.
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. ๐ก๐ก๐ฎโจ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst ๐ธ๐ค
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Louise McLaughlin author she / her @louisemclaughlin.bsky.social ๐๐ Scottish fantasy author of D-Notice series- Cassie discovers saving the world with Glaswegian retired gods is a tough gig.
FREE BOOK links
Deviation: Wandering gods https://BookHip.com/HBMLCLS
Darkness https://BookHip.com/XNZJLNF
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. ๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฅ. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk Poet, author, artist, baker, photographer. Keen gardner/veg grower, advocate for nature & the underdog. All year open water swimmer, thalassophile. Social & environmental justice NOW. Daily photo from Scotland.NOT a naturist!
https://linktr.ee/Debhandmade
Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social Theological Monsters (University of Wales Press), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UKโs leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
๐ https://hopenothate.org.uk
Karrie Marshall @karriemarshall.bsky.social โ๏ธAuthor & Speaker | Exploring love + possibility in caring services
๐ก Background in health & social care
โค๏ธ compassionate care without burnout
๐Creator of The Four Five Formulaยฎ
Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com Aspiring novelist with one project in the revising and one in the planning, blog-keeper (which makes me retro), reader, ponderer, flaneuse, yoga person, goofball, friend.
Blog: https://observingleslie.com
Author site: https://lesliefarnsworth.com
Ardyce Alspach @ardyce.bsky.social Senior Editor at UNSQ :: speculative fiction :: Freelance writer sometimes :: Professional Nerd :: neurospicy :: opinions my own :: she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Ioana Cerasella Chis @cerasellachis.bsky.social doing some stuff, sometimes
~Bread & Roses: Rest & Free Time Under Disabling Capitalism~
Glasgow
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Banksy. @bbbanksy.bsky.social Anti-MAGA.
Zoรซ Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social Award winning poet, editor of Poetry Wales, poetry coeditor at Seren Books, a founding editor of Modron Magazine
Blackwater Press @blackwaterpress.com International small press based in West Virginia, publishing beautifully crafted stories in fiction, history, and memoir for readers everywhere.
Anne Hamilton @annehamilton.bsky.social Author, editor, OU lecturer, trustee of Bhola's Children & 1/5 of Gill Merton. Irish Novel Fair Winner, Lucy Cavendish & MsLexia longlists. The Almost Truth (2024) & Letters From Elena (2025) published by Legend Press
Donna Scott @wishusdonna.bsky.social Writer. Editor of Best of British Science Fiction and other things. Chief word wrangler at The Slab Press. Occasionally a comedian. www.donna-scott.co.uk
Lucy Abbotts @lucyabbotts.bsky.social Words and humour. Not medicine but a tonic at least. 
Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ at NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) ๐จ AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker ๐โโฌ rep: @mfredturner
Chris Carse Wilson @chriscarsewilson.bsky.social Debut novel Fray out now with HarperCollins. Writer, runner, late diagnosed as autistic. Book orders, events, and agent contact๐ https://linktr.ee/chriscarsewilson
Amanda Rutter @alrutter.bsky.social Commissioning Editor at Solaris Books. Owned by three hellhounds. Talks a lot about politics, sports, books and dogs. Knitter, crocheter and lover of loud music.
Joni Page Author @jonipageauthor.bsky.social Wild child. Optimist.
Writer of captivating, happy tales.
Author of Beach Shorts - a Sandthology & The Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl.
Website: www.jonipage.com
Gratefully living on Kaurna Country, Australia.
James Aithie ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ @jamesaithie.bsky.social "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards"- Soren Kierkagaard
Dumfries and Galloway / Isle of Lewis ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
I'd mute #ScottishIndependence if that's not your bag, as I bang on about it a lot.
Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social Small independent, inclusive, award-winning UK publishing house. Mostly poetry and short fiction, with the occasional fantasy/sci-fi novel. Prioritising LGBTQ+, Global Majority, Disabled, Welsh poets, and geographically isolated and Older Women writers.
Dr Jen Jones @jensoilandpen.bsky.social Writer, soil scientist, nature lover. Passionate about peat. Guardian Country Diarist. Writing for Bloomsbury's British Wildlife Collection.
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Michael @michaelsten.bsky.social A books๐, films๐ฌ, photography๐ธ, music๐ถ, and knowledge๐ lover from Malta (Europe). Iโm always happy to follow back and get to know people ๐.
@efremseeger.bsky.social @efremseeger.bsky.social ๐โ๏ธ Former TV writer (Fresh Prince, Queer as Folk and others) turned novelist. Working on fifth thriller. Repped by Victoria Skurnick at LGR. #booksky #author #thrillers
SNACK magazine @snackmag.bsky.social Independent arts and culture magazine for Scotland and beyond
Art | Noise | Community
hello@snackmag.co.uk ๐
snackmag.co.uk + https://linktr.ee/SNACKmag
Claire MacKay @highlandherbalist.bsky.social Herbalist, writer, dreamer, over-thinker, sometimes strums guitar.
The Bee @beelitmag.bsky.social A home for working-class readers and writers
https://thebeemagazine.com
Youth Demand @youth-demand.bsky.social ๐ข Youth-Led Action
โ๏ธThe UK gov must stop driving genocide
โก๏ธ Stop all trade with Israel | Make the rich pay damages
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J D Currums - Author @jdcurrums.bsky.social Author of an eclectic mix of fiction. Favourite genres are Thriller, Crime, Supernatural.
https://linktr.ee/JDCurrums
www.payhip.com/JDCurrums
Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social Writer, curator, mentor, coach, artist. Q IS FOR GARDEN out July 2026. Imprint co-director of MAI Press, Punctum. Repped @portyliterary. Queer gardener. I do queer feminist film/art things and fight for disability justice.
Saga Harne๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @sagaharne.bsky.social Writer of dark fiction. Lover of fiction, art, music, film, and television. Fighting the good fight. Empathy. Feminism. BLM. She/Her. Slava Ukraini.
Highland Good Food Partnership @highlandgoodfood.bsky.social We are building a local food system that benefits the planet, empowers people, and supports producers. We bring people together to create a fair, sustainable, and resilient food network โ and you can join us in making it happen.
Louisa MacDougall @louisamacdougall.bsky.social Children's author based in the Hebrides. Rory and the Snack Dragons, the Highland Cowgirl & the Great Auks Great Escape. Mostly #kidlit books and wildlife. louisamacdougall.co.uk
Anna P. Read @annapread.bsky.social writer of historical fiction and fantasy; lover of nature, folklore and food; singer, mum, PhD; Polish in Scotland
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**
caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social C. A. Asbrey is a Scottish mystery author. Fan of all things Victorian, obscure, forensics, jaywalking, ordering the best meal, and dropping out of society.
https://caasbrey.com/
https://www.facebook.com/mysteryscrivener/
Ethical Consumer @ethical-consumer.bsky.social We're an indie, NPO, CO-OP & world leading ethical consumption magazine, est. 1989.
PeterUrpeth @peterurpeth.bsky.social Writer | poet | development editor | pianist | improviser | Journalist |
peterurpeth.com | peterurpeth.bandcamp.com | poetry collection - The 4000 Nights of New York in 1988 peterurpeth.com/4000nights | Cockney living in the Outer Hebrides
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social Researcher, scholar, writer, freak. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ EVE book out now. This ainโt samizdat but twitter ainโt either. www.catbohannon.com
Sadie @mouseandproud.bsky.social Just a woman trying to live in peace, who likes cats and dogs, and people who arenโt racist sexist fascist aholes. Tax the rich, rejoin EU. LGBTQIA+ ally
Raphaela O'Rorke @raphaelaororke.bsky.social 
Burning Chair Publishing @burningchair.bsky.social Indie publisher getting great books out to the world.
Find us here: https://www.burningchairpublishing.com
Les Hodge @leshodge.bsky.social Writer/Musician/Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2024
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Ani @aninewforest.bsky.social 56-year-old disabled former journalist and environmental campaigner [insert verb depending on my state of health] among the flora and fauna of this ancient landscape. (New Forest, U.K.)
Jelena Katrina @legalwanderer.com If you're ready to grow on Bluesky, I will show you what actually matters so you stop wasting time and energy.
I blend deep tech insight with human psychology.
Ask me for tailored guidance.
I also write travel stories that stay with you.
Jonathan Silvertown @jwsilvertown.bsky.social Biologist, author, Hon. Prof. University of Edinburgh. The full story at www.JonathanSilvertown.com
Ray Anyasi @rayanyasi.bsky.social Author | Poet | Screenwriter
Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social Always wanting to know what's around the corner & over the horizon, & determined to find out.
(Avatar & banner is painting of a kitten in an upturned umbrella, at sea with high waves on either side, floating toward the sunrise.)
Art by Petra Brandstrรถm
Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social Citizen scientist, Brit in Sweden, endless maker of soup for babies. Galaxy Zoo turned me into a penguin. Always looking for more galaxies.
@permaculturemag.bsky.social @permaculturemag.bsky.social 
Authors Publish | Magazine for Creative Writers @authorspublish.com International submission calls from ๐publishers and literary magazinesโno reading fee, no literary agent required. ๐ธ Open to writers everywhere. ๐
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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | ๐ Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social Journalist, author, filmmaker and broadcaster. Writer at Large with @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Made in Ireland, found in Scotland
MDANT๐๏ธ
AKA โthe kind of strutting cosmopolitan socialist whoโs made for Blueskyโ
Am Fear Uaine ๐ @amfearuaine.bsky.social Spooky n booky. Folklore groupie. Scottish history / ethnology alumnus.
FSA Scot. Bookshop guy.
Tha beagan Gร idhlig agam. Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg.
Eco-socialist #GreenYes ๐๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ช๐บ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Member @scottishgreens.org
Albannach. Eรฒrpach.
Scottish. European.
Grant Snider @grantdraws.bsky.social Keeper of sketchbooks. Loser of pens. Author of THE YEAR I STOPPED DRAWING, coming this fall from Abrams Books.
Mike Adams @highlandscouse.bsky.social Scouse Scot in the Highlands. Critical Care Paramedic. Mundus sine caesaribus.
Jo A @joadams.bsky.social Music, books, walking, travel. Having adventures under a red tin roof.
Peasant Magazine @peasantmagazine.bsky.social A fantasy & historical fiction literary magazine for lovers of short stories by indie authors. Learn more at: http://fiction.charlesmoffat.com/peasantmagazine/
Rory Mcleod @rorymcleoduk.bsky.social Rhythmic storyteller, multi-instrumentalist, singing unpalatable truths about broken hearts or social injustice in bold, lyrical rich original dance songs. Info, tour-dates, album downloads, blogs, videos, presskit go to:
www.rorymcleod.com
RosieMacKenzie @rosiemackenzie.bsky.social Nature loving Artist
The Ecologist @theecologist.org Ecological, social and and economic justice. Publishing since 1970.