@clairesawers.bsky.social @clairesawers.bsky.social Freelance journalist in Edinburgh, writing for The Quietus, The Wire, The Times, Big Issue, The List etc
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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com Designer, writer, and photographer.
crop.photography
Domenico Di Rosa @domenicodr.bsky.social Scholar in Modern and Contemporary Queer and Trans Scottish Literature
🏳️🌈 he/she/they
Third Force News @thirdforcenews.bsky.social Scotland's only third sector news outlet dedicated to sharing news from charities and voluntary organisations. Got a story? Email tfn@scvo.org.uk
Caroline Rance @carorance.bsky.social head of campaigns at Friends of the Earth Scotland
keeping fossil fuels in the ground
#ClimateJustice #JustTransition| she/her
On here sporadically at best
(Views here my own and may not represent my employer etc)
Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social Then: archaeologist, art historian, editor. Now: lover of music, admirer of creatures. Essentially stateless.🌵
poorly heir @poorlyheir.bsky.social Collective. Making stuff.
Laura Rattray @drlaurarattray.bsky.social Reader in American Literature, University of Glasgow. All things Edith Wharton, US women's writing, modernism, 1930s, Transatlantic Literary Women
Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social Charity advancing understanding & appreciation of public statues & sculpture. Webinars, talks, books, statues of women & sculptors' lives databases, forthcoming sculpture residency & Marsh Awards for Public Sculpture, Conservation & Fountains. pssauk.org
Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Poet, Mother, Southerner
📜Archives, Material Media Studies, American Poetry, Artists’ Books
🎓MA, MLS, MAE, MFA, ABD PhD (C&IS)
👩🏼🏫Teach: Typography, Games, Poetry, Gender Studies
🌐 https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
🤐Posts don’t reflect my institutions
Alex Thomson @byebyepride.bsky.social Prof of Modern Literature & Critical Theory | Head of School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures, University of Edinburgh | Deputy Chair, English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social
Cicero @ciceroishere.bsky.social The truth is not about advocacy.
https://justicewell.com/cicero
JESUS THE APOLLO 🌞🌙 @jesustheapollo.bsky.social Musician | Actor | Scientist | Poet | Author | Philosopher|
Multi faith
“To live to surf the silvers of the moon”- JESUS THE APOLLO
28 -📍UK
https://linktr.ee/stefanoark
David M. Hoyle @david-m-hoyle.bsky.social Poetry reader and writer. Poems in Rough Diamond Press, Alien Buddha themed anthologies, Iota, MIDLVLMAG and others. Music transcriber. Art, history, outer space. Lives on south coast, UK.
Richard Price @paintedspoken.bsky.social Richard Price, poet (Lucky Day, Small World, Moon for Sale, Late Gifts all from Carcanet) and novelist (The Island, from Salt)
Joe Marsh @joewmarsh.bsky.social Writer in Derbyshire Dales
MOO-HA-HA (intergraphia)
joemarsh.co.uk
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Mark Bolsover @mdbolsover.bsky.social #Writer. #amquerying my debut novel.
IN FAILURE & IN RUINS—dreams & fragments (Into the Void Press), *1st collection: contra FLUX—moments caught (arrested) whilst in-from movement (Polyversity Press). #BookSky 📚
Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social Collection of both established and emerging Scottish artists.
Publisher of Scottish Art News.
flemingcollection.com
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/
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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Holly Corfield Carr @hollycorfieldcarr.bsky.social writer | poet | lecturer
https://hollycorfieldcarr.co.uk/
Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
Diego Espíritu @diegoespiritu.bsky.social ➔ BUF/NY ┃ GDL/Mx
https://www.diegoespiritu.com
https://able-journal.org/en/the-strange-blue-incandescence-of-mites/
IG: @maquinaspostconcretas
Spandrel Fallacy Press @spandrelpress.bsky.social Small print press / innovative poetics from Alice Tarbuck & Lucy Kelsall
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust) / Ed-at-large, Pen and Anvil Press, MA / Afterbody, Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh: tinyurl.com/afterbodybluediode
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
Stewart Smith @drstewartsmith.bsky.social Writer: jazz, improvised, experimental, Scotland & the avant-garde @ The Wire, Bandcamp, The Quietus, We Jazz, Guardian. Associate lecturer Newcastle University. Musician. He/him. 🇵🇸
National Galleries of Scotland @nationalgalleries.bsky.social Three galleries. One world class collection. Discover in Edinburgh here:
📍National
📍Modern
📍Portrait
& Online
Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯: 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 & 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴
by @lauracforster.bsky.social & @joeljoel.bsky.social out June 2025
https://linktr.ee/friendsincommon
Cities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social One of the world's biggest sound projects, covering more than 130 countries with 2,000+ contributing artists. Remixing the world, one sound at a time. www.citiesandmemory.com
David Brown @dbrownprintmaker.bsky.social Printmaker and artist in East Anglia. Art, architecture, music & poetry. Borromini and Hawksmoor. Rembrandt and Hepworth. Work in the V&A & other public & private collections.
Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social Connecting you to art 🖼 Art UK is an art education charity and digital space that connects everyone with the UK's public art collection.
Take part in the #OnlineArtExchange every Thursday!
https://artuk.org/
https://linktr.ee/artukdotorg
Collective @collective-edin.bsky.social A free contemporary art gallery on Edinburgh’s iconic Calton Hill 🔭
⭐ Current exhibitions: Highland Embassy by Shen Xin & Panorama: New Views of a City
🏛️ Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm
https://collective-edinburgh.art/
Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social Poet | Writer | Freelance Art Historian
UK https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
Pamphlet available from Salò Press: https://www.salopress.com/store/nasty-objects-julia-biggs/
Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social 📚 Artists' Books projects CFPR | UWE Bristol: Artists' Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter, Bristol Artist's Book Event | MA Fine Art Printmaking Subject Lead. https://linktr.ee/sarahbodman 📚
Roshni Gallagher @roshnigallagher.bsky.social Poet from Leeds based in Edinburgh (she/her)
Even the Trees (Bloodaxe, 2026)
Bird Cherry (Verve, 2023)
https://roshnigallagher.com/
Art - Science - Self-Awareness @art-science.bsky.social Art, Science and Self-awareness. Frank Seidl Alumnus 1972, Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
205TF @205tf.bsky.social TF, two letters that stand for Type Foundry and Typographie Française (French Typography).
https://www.205.tf/
Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social 
Transmissions from the Dark @transmissionsftd.bsky.social Black metal, dungeon synth appreciation channel/page/person (Duncan. Hi) covering all forms of blackened artistry and expression. Will post personal stuff too, bcz I can't be bothered to have too many accounts.
https://linktr.ee/transmissionsftd
LD @probablyld.bsky.social extreme short guy energy
Tamsyn Challenger @tamsynchallenger.bsky.social Artist. Poet. Nacreous cloud.
Chris Yeoh @crowsef.bsky.social zines | writing | community | DIY core | AoS | going through a dungeon synth and black metal thing right now 🇵🇸 (he/him)
cyeoh.com
@unoriginalsins.bsky.social @unoriginalsins.bsky.social 
The Bristol Poetry Institute @bristolpoetry.bsky.social Official account of the Bristol Poetry Institute at the University of Bristol. Blog https://poetry.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/. Insta @ thebristolpoetryinstitute. Events on #UoBrisBPILive
Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net Listen to the station live here: http://vintageobscura.net
All tracks are:
- More than 25 years old
- Have fewer than 30,000 views on YouTube
- Curated by community reddit.com/r/vintageobscura
Charlotte Jung @jungcharlotte.bsky.social concrete poet and playwright
www.charlottejungwriter.com
Fraser Sutherland @frasersutherland.bsky.social Coalition Manager at Stop Climate Chaos Scotland. Frequently found throwing granite on ice 🥌
Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018
Website: brokensleepbooks.com
The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social Trust of the first Scottish poet laureate, Edwin Morgan.
Chris Creegan @chriscreegan.bsky.social Public policy consultant, Non-executive, Runner.
www.chriscreegan.co.uk
https://open.substack.com/pub/chriscreegan
Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social Loves books. Writes poems.
She/her
For everything else, incl. WHITE DOOR order link: https://linktr.ee/burgitree
PS: DM for signed/review copies
Banner: shadows of cast-iron chair & plant on flagstones.
Headshot: white woman (long hair, glasses) smiling
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com One of the UK’s leading independent publishers. Literary fiction, poetry and short stories, published with care. Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Iain Sarjeant @iainsarjeant.bsky.social Photographer & publisher based in the Scottish Highlands
iainsarjeant.com
Editor of @anotherplacemag.bsky.social and runs @anotherplacepress.bsky.social
Sam Kilday @samkilday.bsky.social Artist, Art Technician & Island Advocate for Bute with @CHARTArgyllIsle
Argyll Heritage Craft Resident 2024 at @CovePark
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samuelkilday
Website: https://www.samkilday.com
Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. 💙
⬇️ buffer.com/bluesky
Joel White @joeljoel.bsky.social Friends In Common out now, come say hi on the tour : https://linktr.ee/friendsincommon @friendsincommon.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🍉
GLARC tapes / Communal Leisure
Writing about solidarity, Islamophobia, antiracist & Queer history, No Borders, music.
c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social vagabond. mendicant. diarist. wreck.
Un de ces féroces infirmes retour des pays chauds.
"So here is us, on the raggedy edge..."
(from the film 'Serenity', 2005)
Traverse Theatre @traversetheatre.bsky.social TravFest26 on sale now!
Championing stories and storytellers.
This account is monitored Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm.
Registered Scottish Charity (SC002368)
Guy Dickinson @tracing-silence.bsky.social architect / wanderer
www.tracingsilence.com
https://tracingsilence.bigcartel.com/products
www.johnpawson.com
Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social Art historian, curator, editor.
Currently author/project editor Patrick Heron catalogue raisonné. Also writing about Gustav Metzger, Yoko Ono and others. Weeding, pruning, mowing, Cymru.
https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/membership/members/andrew-wilson/
@benedictatkins.bsky.social @benedictatkins.bsky.social 
Steel Incisors @steelincisors.bsky.social VISUAL POETRY WITH TEETH. Independent press. EIC @badbadpoet.bsky.social
www.steelincisors.com
@kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social American poet residing in India / Corbel Stone Press
Murdo Eason @fifepsy.bsky.social walking / writing / between world & word
images / text / fragments / assemblage
Fife, Scotland (mostly)
murdoeason.com
Max Shirley @maxrshirley.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature at a London uni. Research/write on avant-gardes, contemporary lit, the politics of form.
Lance Newman @lancenewman.bsky.social I make art out of words, teach at Westminster University, and guide rafting trips in the West. My new book of poems is called Proverbs of Earth. More info at www.lancenewman.org
Charlotte Cosgrove @charlottecosgrove.bsky.social Poet / Lecturer / Socialist / Wellbeing / Editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal
love writing, reading, cats, learning, and sitting down.
Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social Poet.
Portrait in Mustard - Seren Books.
PhD candidate: Barbara Hepworth,
Creative Writing & Art History - MMU.
Agent: Laetitia Rutherford at WatsonLittle.
Paul Stubbs @paulrstubbs.bsky.social Poet
The Icon Maker / The End of the Trial of Man / Lost Songs of Gravity / Beast: The List Chronicles / The Carbonized Earth, essays on Rimbaud
https://poetpstubbs.wixsite.com/paulstubbs
Watch with moi @watchwithmoi.bsky.social Posting watches and rare gems across the world of archive/fan-conserved film and TV and occasionally from the cinema.
All views my own. 🎬 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴
Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social Poet. Only in it for the money.
(And now also a CHASE-funded PhD student working on the blank spaces of 20th century poetry at UEA.)
Cake Moth @cakemoth.bsky.social A moth cake is a kind of a
poison
A cake moth is a kind of a
phylum
Cake Moth collects strange
poems & prompts
[When stars are not stars
they are moth circuses]
The Poetry Bookshop @poetrybookshop.bsky.social The largest bookshop of its kind in the UK. Devoted entirely to poetry since 1979
Find us online or in person in heart of Hay on Wye the worlds first Booktown
Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social Poet, essayist, translator, lapsed philosopher. Consulting Poetry Editor, Cable Street, https://cablestreet.org. My book: Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila.
Rachel Curzon @rcurzon.bsky.social Poetry, mostly.
Anne Petrie @anniepp.bsky.social 
Polly Verity @polyscene.bsky.social Paper sculptor. Geometric origami. Sulptural folded forms.
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Collette @colletterobertson.bsky.social Love cats. art. community. music. films. pals.
Giant Tank presents Tfeh, monthly experimental music shows @ Fruitmarket
Sarah Kudirka @sarahkudirka.bsky.social Artist | she/her | also curator, gardener + stitcher | Glasgow | #standwithukraine
#freepalestine🇵🇸Instagram: @sarahkkd | Scotland🏴 www.sarahkudirka.com
Jade Fletcher @jadefletcher.bsky.social Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. She/her.
https://jadefletcher.weebly.com/
Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social Author of Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness (Guernica 2024) A Place for People Like Us (Guernica 2025)
Vidal, At Bay Press, 2026
For All the Men... reissue (Guernica 2028)
Fiction and art enthusiast. Humber School for Writers faculty.
Nicky Melville @nickymelville.bsky.social 'avant-radge' | Power Cuts (zimZalla) | sounding ... out (Essence Press) | Imperative Commands (Dostoyevsky Wannabe) | Decade of Cu t s (Blue Diode Press) | ABBODIES & ABBODIES COLD (Sad Press) + Fuck This 🎧
http://fuckthis1.bandcamp.com
Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
r miller @writtentherapy.bsky.social i'm not a writer. or a poet. not really. i am, however, a complete wreck. ♡
on occasion NSFW
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:accsjrrbptz4uxs7yu6mejwq/feed/aaaduyt7enloe
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.
Michele Hutchison @michehut.bsky.social Translator, editor, writer, poet
c22 @c22press.bsky.social An experimental publishing collective focusing on Dada, Surrealism, and the avant-garde. Nathan Anderson, Lachlan J McDougall, Vernon Frazer, Joshua Martin
https://c22press.wordpress.com/
Sue Barry-Schulz @susanbarryschulz.com poetry, collage, disability, Crohn’s Disease, Covid Informed, very sad, Buffalo Sabres fan, 🇪🇪, #LGM, ModPo alum, IC grad, she/hers, physical therapist in another life, NY➡️NC
www.susanbarryschulz.com
#keepmasksinhealthcare
#abolishICE
Charles Jensen @charlesjensen.bsky.social Author of SPLICE OF LIFE: A MEMOIR IN 13 FILM GENRES, poetry coll. INSTRUCTIONS BETWEEN TAKEOFF AND LANDING, & more. EIC: @villaineralit.bsky.social. Genre is a construct. Opinions mine. He/him. https://charles-jensen.com
Jason Why @londonpoets.bsky.social This year we’re organising two book fairs: the Mayfair Mini Book Fair on 7 March and the Multicultural Book Fair on 5 September. Both offer a full day of readings and author talks — and both are completely free to attend.
James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social Poet, artist, performer and publisher based in the UK. Prolific maker of visual poetry. Recent books: COSMIC HORROR (Hem Press), WHAT’S THIS FLESH? (Intergraphia), WASTES / WRAITHS (Atomic Bohemian). https://t.co/QoN4GHLvNE
Richard Cooper @richardhcooper.bsky.social Reads, writes, watches, gets increasingly leftwing as he gets older. I live in Battle, East Sussex. I’m 42. I try & write essays (on literature, film, TV drama, TV comedy) for my blog. I’m on the Spectrum. I have an MA. Socialism or barbarism.
Lisa Kelly @lisadmkelly.bsky.social Poet. @carcanet.bsky.social. A Map Towards Fluency (shortlisted for Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021) The House of the Interpreter (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) BSL Level 6 
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey