Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust @edincityoflit.bsky.social Edinburgh is celebrating 20 years as the world's first UNESCO City of Literature. Connecting you to Scotland's stories since 2004.
Lucy Lee Jones @lucy-jones-books.bsky.social Translator & writer. Based in Berlin, she/her. Here for books recs in English and German to read and translate
Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social Poet, market researcher, husband, father, knobhead.
Book called Collecting The Data out via Red Squirrel Press or me. The "Aldi Stanley Tucci".
https://t.co/eJeeqVdmvz
Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social Director of the Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social; previously @theUL.bsky.social; Clore Fellow; FRSA. I like books, libraries, culture and cake.
Norfolk & Norwich Festival @nnfest.bsky.social On a year-round mission to improve access to the arts for all. 🎪
https://nnfestival.org.uk/
Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*) 
Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social Recently retired senior lecturer in English at the University of Bordeaux, France. 19th C. Scottish literature, RL Stevenson, travel literature, afterlives, literary tourism. Occasional French-English conference interpreter.
Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social Translator of Polish literature
Making Trouble Podcast @mollynaylor.bsky.social The creativity podcast about the trouble we’re having with the things we’re making. Hosted by Molly Naylor. New episodes every Monday.
New Writing North @newwritingnorth.bsky.social The writing and reading development agency for the North of England.
Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com Writer of #FlashFiction, #ShortStories and a never-finished novel. Spaniel-wrangler. Curmudgeon. Forest dweller. #MDANT She/her/cis rachaeldunlop.com
Emily Olsen @emilyolsen.bsky.social 🚀 Cataloguer, Science at Sotheby’s
💫1/2 of the Art Astra Podcast
Nerd about space, art, and pop culture.
Opinions my own.
Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social Reading, writing, thinking about the long 18th Century at the Faculty of English @cam.ac.uk. Irish woman baffled by the fens and the English middle classes. Emotional support/ emotional manipulation provided by a terrier.
Katherine @airedaletales.bsky.social 🏴 Home educating parent carer in North Yorkshire. Volunteer. Always a librarian. Also partial to knitting, gardening, reading, cake, culture and using public transport. ND family.
Phoebe C H @phoebeceehaitch.bsky.social ♥️ GLAMs. Books. Many cheeses. Giraffes. The NHS.
What would Paddington do? Do that.
Lamorna Elmer @lamornaelmer.bsky.social Publicising books while Rome burns @GrantaBooks
Nadine Zubair @nadinezubair.bsky.social This, that, and the other- J Noj hrcu @jonurch.bsky.social Working for engagement, accountability and equity.
Writing East Midlands @writingeastmidlands.com Supports, develops and champions writers from the East Midlands - supported by Arts Council England.
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Daneet Steffens @daneetsteffens.bsky.social Books, science, more TK. Bookish words for Boston Globe, CrimeReads, LitHub, LARB, etc. Also: swimfan.
The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com The Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize celebrate the best English-language fiction. https://thebookerprizes.com
Kildare Readers Festival @kildarereaders.bsky.social Books, talks and good vibes 📖
Every October in County Kildare
#KildareReadersFestival #KRF2025
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it. 
Yvvette Edwards @yvvetteedwards.bsky.social Writer. Author. A Cupboard Full of Coats. The Mother. RSL Fellow. Booker nommed. Reader of books. Lover of stories. Laughs at own jokes.
Ruth Martin @dances-with-voles.bsky.social German to English translator and general book botherer (she/her)
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social Stage haunter, writer, Addick in Dundee. Attention All Shipping live show coming to a theatre near you as long as you're near a theatre where it's on.
Benedict Sangster @benedictsangster.bsky.social Writer, Norwich, UK. Lover of all animals. Books and nothing else
benedictsangster.com
Kate ✨🐱 @magickitten.bsky.social ⛓️ https://linktr.ee/kate.neilan
🐈⬛ Cat lover 🪷 Outdoors appreciator
🏴 Cymru am byth 📝 Stories or death
✨💛🤍💜🖤✨🩷💜💙✨
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Manchester Literature Festival @mcrlitfest.bsky.social Manchester Literature Festival presents inspiring live literature, poetry & culture. Check out our Spring & Summer events at www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
@librariesarchives.bsky.social @librariesarchives.bsky.social 
Creative Dundee @creativedundee.bsky.social Strengthening Dundee’s creative community through connections, support and opportunities. Join our #AmpsDundee network and visit our website for news & events!
https://creativedundee.com/
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh @thebotanics.bsky.social The home of science, research and archives at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 🌿🔬📚
Find out more about what we do: https://www.rbge.org.uk/
SavRTruthTiger 💙🌊🌊🌊💙 @michaeljjohnson.bsky.social 💙Kindness = apex of wisdom💙
Trump didn’t win. Propaganda (lies) did:
“The rotten apple = DELICIOUS!”
Fox, Elon, Rogan & friends poison our democracy☠️
Outlaw Fraudulent News!
❤️🌎🌈 🇺🇦🦋Animals❤️
#BlueCrew #BLM #RESIST #TruthWarriors
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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/
Tabby Farrar @tabbyfarrar.bsky.social 🤓 Head of Search at Candour
📝 Also a writer in my free time
🗺️ Norwich, UK
🌳 Debating quitting social media entirely in favour of living in the woods
Lisa Woollett @lisawoollett.bsky.social Writer & photographer of award-winning books about the sea, beachcombing & mudlarking | Sea Journal | Rag and Bone | Lost to the Sea - 'Wondrous, elegant and haunting' Philip Hoare
lisawoollett.co.uk
Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social Created comics for UN, Penguin Random House, Guardian, Times. Creative Director @posnegorg. Gender Swapped Fairy Tales/Greek Myths (Faber & Faber). Member of The Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC). https://linktr.ee/karriefransman
Molly Twomey @mollytwomey.bsky.social Arts Council supported poet. ‘Raised Among Vultures’ & 'Chic to be Sad' published by The Gallery Press. Host of ‘Just to Say’ international poetry event. https://mollytwomey.com/ 💫
Sam Hacking @samhacking.bsky.social Artist & Writer: BA Hons Slade School of Fine Art Writer | MA Distinction Creative Writing UEA 2022| Escalator Prize ‘19 | Shortlisted BSSP ‘23 | Longlisted UEA New Forms ‘21 | Longlisted Bath Short Story ‘25 | samhacking.com | @samhackings
Kirstin Lamb @kirstin-lamb.bsky.social PR & Comms, books and art l Wrangler of two small people
Elmswell Library @elmswell-library.bsky.social A lovely library situated by the community garden on Cooks Road in Elmswell, Suffolk. Open Tues 10-1 & 2-7, Weds 2-5, Thurs 10-1 & 2-7, Fri 2-5, Sat 10-1 and Sun 10-3. Regular events include Storytime, Lego, Sunday Crafts, Pokémon Club and social groups.
@alicemarra.bsky.social @alicemarra.bsky.social Choir leader 🎶 Cat lover 🖤 
Maynooth University English Department @maynoothenglish.bsky.social 
Alasdair Lane @alasdairlane.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Guardian, Economist, Politico, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, Fortune, Atlantic, BBC, NBC, etc. I also run a journo / writer jobs newsletter – writeathome.beehiiv.com
Katherine Gregor @scribedoll.bsky.social Literary translator, writer, amateur cartoonist and photographer, Qi Gong practitioner. Blog on scribedoll.com
*No offence intended – will block followers I or one of my contacts don't personally know*
Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature & Culture at University of Vienna│Leader of Irish Research Council project 'Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing 1860-1950s'│Co-Founder of @flannobriensoc.bsky.social and @theparishreview.bsky.social
Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance. All 📸 mine, unless stated
Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social poems
Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm
Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025
North Wessex.
https://nicolachester.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
The Cheese Goddess @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social I eat all the cheeses!
RSPB @rspb.bsky.social Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
🦅🦆🦉🐦🐤🐧
Our Website: https://brnw.ch/21wQQ1O
Cover photo: Aintright 📷
spinetingling @spinetingling.bsky.social Nancy Forde | Writer/Photographer | she/her🇮🇪🇨🇦🏳️🌈 MFA in Creative Writing (2026) | MA in Documentary Photography & Photojournalism (2021) | Grab a cuppa & curl up: spinetingling.substack.com (This here's my 📚 bsky. Personal bsky: @nancyfjorde.bsky.social)
The Forum Norwich @theforumnorwich.bsky.social 
Julia Forster | Write Within @writewithin.bsky.social ✨Writers' Cabin writer's retreat with sauna: Top 7 Retreat, The Sunday Times
✍️ Author Coach @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social
📸 http://instagram.com/_writewithin
www.writewithin.wales
Stephen Fothergill @stephenfothergill.bsky.social Baby Boomer, born in a pub beside the River Don at Attercliffe. Lover of blancmange, dark-brown tea, and penguins! Increasingly apolitical.
Big Fez @bigfez.bsky.social Content Consumer (well, mostly content)
Embra, Scotland
Kaddy Benyon @kaddybenyon.bsky.social Poet: Robbergirls (Salt, 2023), The Tidal Wife (Salt, 2018), Milk Fever (Salt, 2012).
Rep’d by: Rosie Pierce at Curtis Brown.
Push the Boat Out Festival @ptbopoetry.bsky.social Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival 12-15 November 2026
Festival, open mic, workshops, podcasts, and more.
Festival Nights + pre-festival events ON SALE NOW. Full programme announced 1 October!
https://pushtheboatout.org/
The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/
@wild-lakenham.bsky.social @wild-lakenham.bsky.social 
@rosemarykaye.bsky.social @rosemarykaye.bsky.social I review theatre, art and books, and like electronic music, pop, disco, jazz, opera, Siamese cats, coffee, tea shops, and scones with jam. I live in beautiful North East Scotland.
Sad Astronaut @shaun-sp8.bsky.social He/Him
Artist // Gamer // Star Wars // Vicious Leftist // Ally
Portfolio: sadastronaut.myportfolio.com
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social Quondam Prof. English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
SJ @sarahjanemcr.bsky.social Avid reader. Festival lover. Coffee drinker. Wanderer. Passionate about storytelling, the arts, people and our planet. @Mcrlitfest.bsky.social Co-Director 📚
M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com #Writer - mostly #SFF * #Editor * #Veteran * SJW * Linguistics * Will work for tea, but not before 9:30 am
meadowyarn @meadowyarn.bsky.social Dyeing yarn and telling stories in the Suffolk countryside
BookBlast® Official @bookblast.org Championing world literature since 1997. Book Club ; reviews, interviews, podcasts by publishing insider Georgia DC & friends & special events. Instagram @bookblastofficial www.linktr.ee/bookblast Accept no imitations
Andrew Stronach @aistronach.bsky.social Recovering journalist. Powered by caffeine and cortisol. Chart. PR. and Head of External Relations at the @QuadramInstitute.bsky.social in Norwich. Scottish 🏴 via Zambia 🇿🇲 Hedgehog champion 🦔
Fionnuala Cassidy @thestoryweaverni.bsky.social Author, scriptwriter, poet, creative writing facilitator and full-time story weaver doing what she loves ✍️❤️
Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social Writing. Reading. Making.
Boppin’ round Europe in a van with m’cats. Working on a novel that for now I'll just call "the Post Office book." It has vampires & poets.
Reading 📖 A Ghost in the Throat
deborahrosereeves.com
https://usps-teach-in.carrd.co/
Averie 💫🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 @therealaverie.bsky.social Queer, cat parent, etc. Spends 5 out of 7 days in admin hell 🔥
Brittany Bristol @britbristol.bsky.social Heydayriot.com
"She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.” Writer of romantasy and witchy romcoms. Lit rep by Susan Velazquez Colmant at Jabberwocky. She/her. Love animals, art, travel, crochet, and unexpected magic.
Dan Scales @scales-dan.bsky.social Lanky left armer | UKC/UCL History grad | Arts & culture fundraiser 💸🎨 📚
Probably rambling about music or #ncfc (to even fewer people than on Twitter of yesteryear)
Annie Brechin @anniebrechin.bsky.social Poet, bellringer. The Mouth of Eulalie currently out from Blue Diode Press https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/the-mouth-of-eulalie-by-annie-brechin-isbn-9781915108012
Liam O'Marascal @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social Irish 🇮🇪 Liam O'Marascal, from County Laois, immigrant and emigrant, navigating a UMSL MFA, writing Irish fiction about families, social injustice, and rural life. Woodworker by day, writer by night. Unbound Book Festival board member. Featured in Past Ten.
𝙺.𝚁.𝙼𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚎 @the-bibliosmiac.bsky.social 𝙼𝙰 𝙰𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝 & 𝙼𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝙷𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 @𝙴𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐𝚑
𝙷𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚍 (𝙰𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝/𝙼𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚊𝚕). 𝙸 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍. 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚘𝚔. 𝙸 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚏𝚏. 𝙸 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔.
𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜, 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚠𝚑𝚘𝚖 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚜.
𝙲𝚢𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌. 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚛 𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚎.
Geniusandcats @geniusandcats.bsky.social Retired Irish social worker in London. Avid reader. Love my cats. Stand with Ukraine and Palestine. ♿️ No posts/bio, I will block.
Gillian Hamnett (she/her) @gillianhamnett.bsky.social Proofreader & copyeditor for Simon & Schuster and Canongate
Editor of commercial fiction and memoir
Book sales and publishing consultation
Freelancing as Dark Sky Pages, based in Wigtown – Scotland's National Book Town 📖📚🌠🌌
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social The International Flann O’Brien Society
Organising conferences, books, readings, screenings, events dedicated to the life & works of Brian O'Nolan
Profile pic by David O'Kane
Oona Frawley @oonaf.bsky.social This Interim Time out with Lilliput Press May '25. Assoc Prof at Maynooth University. 
Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies, U. Otago | President International Flann O’Brien Society & ISAANZ | PI Marsden Project ‘Modern Immunity’ | co-author w/ Matthew Hayward of The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonisation, Radical Campuses and Modernism
Nick Holdstock @nickholdstock.bsky.social Author of The Casualties, China's Forgotten People, et al. Shortlisted for Novel Prize. Rep'd by Pew Literary https://www.the-tls.com/authors/nick-holdstock www.nickholdstock.com Porcupine, a novel, out in December. Substack: https://tinyurl.com/mbze39az
sarah maria griff @griffski.bsky.social don’t do anything i wouldn’t do 😎
now: eat the ones you love 🌱
next: strange is the light 👁️✨
& then: everything not saved🐅
MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social Recovering bookseller.
Boats, Books, Battlestar Galactica.
Scotland my home. Opinions my own.
Dolly Dimple @dollydimple.bsky.social Rose in the streets, Sophia in the sheets. Book hoarder. 
James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social I write stuff
He/Him
https://jamesoswald.co.uk
Caitríona Shanahan @caitrionas.bsky.social She/her//sí/í. Done working around the world, happy to be back home in the gorgeous Kingdom of Kerry, ensconced in Munster, the true home of northern hemisphere rugby. Lucky to have such wonderful niblings who keep me in touch with this 21st Century stuff.
Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social Norwich academic/lecturer in digital media/public archaeology/AI/multimedia storytelling/UCU/bassline junkie/dogmother/stuff/nonsense/whimsy/claptrap
Sarah Matthews @sarahmatthews.bsky.social Reader, Braille tutor, interested in assistive tech, publishing and accessible art.
Trying to use this new place while totally blind so please be patient with me and add alt text to your photos
Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/
Nicola Naismith @nicolanaismith1.bsky.social Visual Artist and Researcher. AHRC PhD student University of Manchester. HE Lecturer. Consultancy, mentoring and training focused on the support and improvement of working conditions for creative practitioners. HEA & Clore Fellow. www.nicolanaismith.co.uk 
Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social Writer, walker, and mandolin player. Probably that guy you saw looking at something on the ground. Faculty and MFA program director at Emerson College, and editor at https://necessaryfiction.bsky.social/.
http://www.stevehimmer.com