Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social Poet, artist, writer. Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect, Diode Editions. Lammy Poetry Finalist 25, BSF 20, Wigleaf Top 50 longlist. Granta Memoir Bursary
Website: https://koss-works.com
Book: https://koss-works.com/dancing-backwards-towards-pluperfect/
Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social (she/her)
Berlin based writer, Granta Workshop Alum, words in Strange Horizons, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Wigleaf & more.
🌿🍄🐌💖✨🏳️🌈
Rep'd: @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social
My website! tyndall.earth
Artyou @artyou.bsky.social Even just visiting my store helps a lot. 😊 10x! https://www.zazzle.com/store/allpix
Discover creative products that add color and style to your life. From modern accessories to bold décor, each design stands out — perfect as a gift or personal statement.
BLACKWIRE⚡️ @blackwireco.bsky.social Theatre production company in Scotland⚡️
“A Scottish company to watch” ✏️
Mathieu Bokestael @mathieubokestael.bsky.social ECR (Literature, Philosophies of Biology and Immunity, Care, Critical Medical Humanities). PhD from UCD. Previously funded by @researchireland.ie
https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/people/residentscholars/mathieubokestael/
Author A.L. Norton @authoralnorton.bsky.social International, award-winning, bestselling author of over 33 books. Global award-winning book promoter. Owner of Readers Depot. Youtuber. Book Hoarder. #Autoimmune warrior. Married to Author Dell Sweet. #Disabled #childabusesurvivor #wolfpackauthor
Daily Stage Play Festival Contests @stageplaycontests.bsky.social Submit to these contests via Submittable. Full feedback on every submissions. Winners get their play performed by professional actors and made into a promotional video.
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Gerry Moynihan @gerrymoynihan.bsky.social Playwright
Writer of 'CONTINUITY':
⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Utterly gripping drama" The Guardian
"you do not know whether to feel reassured-or alarmed" #NewYorkTimes
Click to watch 'CONTINUITY':
👉 https://t.co/xz22glhjYz 👈
👀 https://geraldmoynihan890.wixsite.com/writer 👀
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
LET THEM EAT BOOKS THE PODCAST @letthemeatbooks.bsky.social Let Them Eat Books is a podcast by Colin Herd & Claire Reynolds about all the food you have & haven’t tried in all the books & poems you have & haven’t read.
Streaming weekly wherever you get your podcasts
🍽️📚📖✌🏻 https://bit.ly/LetThemEatBooks
Scissor Kick @scissorkickco.bsky.social A theatre company based in Glasgow, Scotland. We make work across a range of genres - from contemporary circus, physical theatre and new writing.
www.linktr.ee/scissorkickco
Jodi @jcfineartphoto.bsky.social Searching for beauty, goodness and truth. I am a non-apologetic liberal. Don't bother trying to DM. Also, for fuck's sake, spare me the porn. I love art, photography, poetry.
Aurelie Thiele @aureliethiele.bsky.social Author of THE PARIS UNDERSTUDY (Crooked Lane Books/Alcove Press), named by the Washington Post one of 10 noteworthy novels published in 09/24. Alumna of Bennington Writing Seminars & Granta Writers' Workshop. Also w/ Stanford Continuing Studies. Dallas, TX
Deirdre Maultsaid @deirdmault.bsky.social Educator, Writer, Poet, Queer,
Nature lover, she/ her 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
eCitizen ⓌⒻⓅⒷ Ⓥ Ⓐ @ecitizen1.bsky.social Healthy WFPB Vegan. Child Advocate. Atheist. LGBTQI friendly. Pro-Democracy. #BlueResisters Anti-MAGA, Anti-Trump.
Retired software engineer, grandfather who likes to build & fix things. Loving relationship with a sweet woman. Lifelong learner. Prankster.
Robin Como 🇮🇹🇨🇭 @roby2308.bsky.social 📍Como Italy
I❤️ justice, climate/nature/pollution protection,
culture, art,music
I❤️ 🎹🎹 🎸🎾⛷️🏊🤿⚽📸📽️
🚫No violence,wars, fanaticism,racial discrimination, corruption,scammer,drugs, smoking.
🚫OF,Porno,Crypto,Steam,Illuminati
@rabidbadger1.bsky.social @rabidbadger1.bsky.social Husband. Dad. Traveler. Avid reader. Shakespeare. Poe. Stephen King. Tolkien. Joe Abercrombie. Landscape gardener. Democracy lover. Cat lover. Music lover. Nature lover. Pizza . Very amateur photographer. Birder. Treehugger. Hiker. Love over hate.💙
Jude FireSong, aka Fabulous Phoenix Boy @fabulousphoenixboy.bsky.social (gender)queer [he/him]
AuDHD mad disabled survivor
citizen of the world
Scotland
🎭 poet
🦄 SFFH
🎨 art
📸 pics
🎲 TTRPGs
🔞 at times NSFW
🚫 AI/NFT
in: Broken Spine,Unicorn Teeth,en*gendered,Madrid Review,man made//made man,rainy weather days,S*x Gap,new words
The Street Library @streetlibrary.ataxia.scot The Street Library. Where books get social 📚
Use YOUR books - to raise funds for YOUR favourite charity.
http://StreetLibrary.co.uk
Main Bluesky account: @ataxia.scot
Ken @msbsongs.bsky.social Musician, retired teacher, creating and producing songs and sharing them. The name of my group is MRS SMITH'S BASEMENT. I hope you will give us a listen. 
Quick Dives @quickdives.bsky.social Quick, engaging posts—perfect for when you need a little escape!
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Daniel Hird @danielhird.bsky.social 🏴 Actor and Theatre-Maker @endeavourarts.bsky.social. Bits of directing, teaching, and set work when the need arises.
Represented by TCG Artist Management.
AHE. @ahumanendeavour.bsky.social Personal blog by an actor, talking about the crossover between his personal and creative lives.
https://a-human-endeavour.com
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
Susannah @susannahmccarthy.bsky.social Living and writing Nature and Night on the chalk downs of Kent ~ Granta Nature Writing alum ~ exploring the world of darkness ~ guiding women into the night ~
Siobhan Maher @siobhanmaher.bsky.social ✍️ Jewellery copywriter & brand storyteller @ Authology Studio. In the final throes of my MA Creative Writing & writing my debut novel… 🗽
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
Scottish Society of Playwrights @scotsocplaywrights.bsky.social The Scottish Society of Playwrights (SSP) develops and promotes the interests and craft of professional playwrights and playwriting within Scottish theatre.
www.scottishsocietyofplaywrights.co.uk
Kate Johnson @katejohnsonwrites.bsky.social Heal religious trauma, family dysfunction & shame. Reclaim your voice & freedom.
Bi exvangelical pastor’s daughter + survivor advocate.
⬇️ Substack
Quips and Confessionals: https://open.substack.com/pub/katejohnsonwrites
Lisa Ann Richey @brandaid-world.bsky.social What can I do to 'help'? #Politics #Africa #Humanitarianism #Aid #Writer Professor of Globalization, Copenhagen Business School. http://lisaannrichey.com She/her
Astrid Aillume @aillume.bsky.social A detective. Astrid Aillume's New Case: A Billionaire's Mystery
Cracking a case is like salty liquorice.
Surprising at first,but ultimately addictive.
Jimmy Kindree @jimmy-kindree.bsky.social ✍️Writing at Electric Lit, Ecotone, Raritan, Hopkins Review, etc., teacher👨🏫, 🇺🇸🇳🇴, knitter🧶, baker🫓, banjo🪕, he/him🏳️🌈, favorite moon phase🌖
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
Dayna Bateman @daynabateman.bsky.social Incurably curious // 2026 PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History // 2025 Bridport Memoir Prize Runner Up Winner // https://campsite.bio/daynabateman // Storyknife, Tin House, Granta Memoir Alum
Kamuka @kamuka.bsky.social Lefty, plant based, Buddhist, reader
LGBTQIA2S+ ally. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion! Anti-Fascist!
NYCFC! Mets! Everton! Gotham! Knicks!
https://letterboxd.com/kamuka
https://friendshipwithshams.blogspot.com/
https://motleykamuka.blogspot.com/
@alice-roberts21.bsky.social @alice-roberts21.bsky.social Philosophy PhD Student
Granta Short Fiction Alumi
Philip Murray @murraypj.bsky.social Writer, Teacher, Father. Dog Dad. Angler.
Granta Writing Short Fiction alumnus
MA Creative Writing, Lancaster University
Alan Keelan @alanjke.bsky.social Writer - memoir, story collection, novel all on the go
Alumnus of Granta memoir-writing course 2024
Lifemap: England-Australia-England-South Africa-England-Czech Republic-England
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social COLD TOAST Dahlia Books. Republic of Consciousness Prize 'Book of the Month'. Shortlisted for International Rubery Book Award. Wigleaf Top 50, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Mancs. Writing School QMD Prize, The Forge CNF prize
www.kamwords.com
Rima Praspaliauskiene @begoniavasa.bsky.social Anthropologist, Historian, Writer. Author: “Enveloped Lives: Caring & Relating in Lithuanian Health Care” (2022, Cornell UP);
Jane Marcellus @janemarcellus.bsky.social Writer, professor, cat mom
Lena Hunter @lena-hunter.bsky.social Editorial director, anthropologist & journalist
l.hunter@newsweek.com
📍 Denmark
Jane Maye @janemaye.bsky.social Writer, artist and founder of Nature Speaks.
Exploring attentive wondering, one object at a time. The world becomes richer as the quality of our attention deepens.
naturespeaks.co.uk
Some Random Monk @phranicholas.bsky.social Educator. Community builder. ☸️ monk. Tragically woke. Race traitor. Tends not to reply to DMs. https://linktr.ee/phranicholas
LA Martinson @lamartinson.bsky.social Film Producer/Director & Writer. Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius BBC. TinHouse Planning a Novel24. Granta: Writing Literary Short Fiction24
https://www.lisamartinson.co.uk/
Claire Deans @clarabelled.bsky.social Writer, teacher, mother, lover of life.
Published in New Writing Scotland, Gutter, Poetry Scotland, longlisted Mslexia short story competition.
Circusaerialist @circusaerialist.bsky.social Writer, Academic.
Ninth Letter Literary Award finalist, Bridport Story Prize long list,ABR Elizabeth Jolley Story Prize long list, Bath Story Prize long list.
Granta Workshop Alumni.
www.jenniferwawrzinek.com
Lesley Stanley Roberts @lesleylsroberts.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Widow. Midwest.
https://riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-things/just-now/
Theatre Studies at University of Glasgow @theatrestudiesuog.bsky.social News and events from the Theatre Studies team: https://www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/theatre/
Persistent Theatre Productions @persistenttheatre.bsky.social 🎭 “Lifting Women Through Untold Stories”
📍International all female led theatre UK and US
🎟️ https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/the-end-is-near
www.persistenttheatreproductions.org
Michael Doris @doris.scot Music. Politics. Celtic. Lotus. Science. Art.
Kirsty Eila McIntyre @kirstyeila.bsky.social Scottish actress, check out what I do here: https://app.spotlight.com/9178-9089-8617
@stage2page.bsky.social @stage2page.bsky.social 
HAMLET EU Project @hamleteuproject.bsky.social An EU-funded project bringing AI to the CCIs. Through HAMLET's Hub, artists, creative directors, writers, game developers, and AI experts co-create with tools for adaptive storytelling, dance analysis, 3D assets and more. https://hamlet-project.eu/
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
@readnow.bsky.social @readnow.bsky.social 
Dr David Canty @drdavidcanty.bsky.social Academic Cardiac and Mobile Anaesthetist | University of Melbourne and Medical School | Medical Director of Sleep Dentistry Services | Day Care Anaesthesia Special Interest Committee
🌐 www.sleepdentistryservices.com.au
📞 0429 058 878
Ross Wilcock @rosswilcockmedia.bsky.social Gay/ disabled Scottish poet, writer and activist. 🏳️🌈🏴 open mics 2 times a month. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
Edinburgh Napier Acting @napieracting.bsky.social training intelligent, creative, and empowered actors!
St Louis Atheists @stlouisatheists.bsky.social "If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe" Carl Sagan @rsslmo.bsky.social @atheists.org @ffrf.org @nickfish.me @ethicalstl.org @riatheists.bsky.social ⚛️ 📚💙🐕 🚭 Team Site
Short and Sweet Theatre @shortsweettheatre.bsky.social A joyful Scottish theatre company.
☕Milk On The Side: A Barista Musical 🎵 EdFringe 11-24th, 3pm
@glasgow comedy @edfringe.bsky.social - Tickets on sale now!
Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social Programme Officer - eResources with the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC)
Developing a single digital platform and a national e-resources collection for Scotland's public libraries.
https://scottishlibraries.org/
Ross Crawford @rosscrawford.bsky.social Scriever/writer in Scots/English. Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2024. PhD in Scottish History from University of Glasgow. Works in heritage. He/him. Views ma ain.
https://linktr.ee/rrmcrawford
Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social Fiction writer. Ignite Fellow 2025: Scottish Book Trust. Winner: Canada & Europe, 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Stories: Granta, New Writing Scotland, BBC Radio 4. Www.carolfarrelly.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/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/BooksfromScotland
Wren @wrenbrian.bsky.social Canadian playwright, dramaturg & producer based in Scotland.
Theatre lover, hobby weaver, slow hiker & book worm. wrenbrian.com
Free Interactive Digital Experience Available Until May 18: The Investigator yukondigitaltheatrecollective.com/theinvestigator
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
@lubnakerr.bsky.social @lubnakerr.bsky.social 
Anne McMaster @annierose25.bsky.social Poetry. Films. Photographs. Plays. Novels. Images my own unless a repost. Writing in English/Ulster-Scots. I chase words and the light. Available on tour, in books and on BBC Radio/TV. New work autumn 2025. Never too many cats.
J Franklin @franklyfranklin.bsky.social Writes stuff 'n that
The Grim Collective @thegrimcollective.bsky.social Combining poetry with music and sound.
Created by
Nik Paget-Tomlinson and Jack Hunter
Michael @mrgb19.bsky.social Some time actor. Professional cynic whose heart's not in it.
Probably joking (albeit badly).
(he/him)
Edinburgh/Scotland
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
Ella Hällgren @ellahallgren.bsky.social swedish playwright, actor, theatre maker in edinburgh ☀️ rep Wozniak Management | 1/4 of Untie My Tongue | r/Conspiracy @ Edinburgh Fringe 2025!
Taylor Strickland @taylor-strickland.bsky.social Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
Dammit Doug Smith @dammitdougsmith.bsky.social Retired Curmudgeon at Large. Ne’er do well of questionable morals. Proud purveyor of unmitigated tommyrot. Prone to exaggeration and totally unnecessary embellishment.
Chris Veteri @chrisveteri.bsky.social book reader. fiber crafter. hill walker. tv watcher. husband to my husband.
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Edinburgh based actor by way of New York City.
Macrobert Arts Centre @macrobertarts.bsky.social Central Scotland's leading arts venue. A hub for all genres of cultural events, including exhibitions, creative classes & our very own Filmhouse.
Lish Adam @veritablish.bsky.social 🎬 🎭 📝
Young Speakers Scotland @youngspeakersscot.bsky.social Committed to reducing inequality and helping young people find their potential through speech and debate programmes. SCIO no SC050590
https://youngspeakersscotland.org.uk/
Thaddeus Nagey @thaddeusnagey.bsky.social
Musical Playwright! Union ACTOR! REALTOR!
Composer/SINGER/Writer/POET! Animal lover. Human rights advocate. Philanthropist.
Environmentalist. Believer in creating equality & equity. Love’s the answer.
www.ThaddeusNagey.com
www.becauseitssunny.com
Paul Connolly — Actor + Improviser @paulconnollyactor.bsky.social Your friendly Edinburgh based actor, improviser, amateur ukulele player who’s sometimes spotted in NYC. Currently self-represented.
Nik Paget-Tomlinson @nikpt.bsky.social Musician, composer, sound designer, foley artist, audio editor and collector of sounds
Emilie Patry @emiliepatry.bsky.social Actor
She/her
Rep’d by Infinity Artist Management
Fergus @fergushs.bsky.social SGSAH-funded PhD researcher @ Glasgow Uni exploring the Picts in medieval, insular manuscripts. 📚
Jack Hunter @jackhuntercreative.bsky.social Performer. Writer. Poet. Represented by Infinity Artists. 🥚🐺🎤
https://jackhunter.uk
Owen Thomas @owenjthomas.bsky.social 38| Work in Production for Scottish Theatre company | Proud dog dad | Queer,Poly | all views are my own
Catriona MacLeod @thatcatmacleod.bsky.social
writes & directs theatre & film / ad + exec producer of performance, artistic development initiative + Glasgow rehearsal space _and friends / don't make me sing
catmacleod.com
https://linktr.ee/andfriends.scotland
I S Knight @is-knight.bsky.social By day, mathematician, data geek, pedant. By night theatre lover and sometime reviewer - Central Editor for The Reviews Hub. Views my own etc
Claire Swanson @claire-roses.bsky.social Head of Creative Engagement at Capital Theatres in Edinburgh. Loves programming, producing and participation (not necessarily in that order). Develops Yorkshire accent when excited. Excited often. Views my own. She/her. 
Emma Ruse @emmaruse.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Chief Exec @frameworktc 🧡 Company Asst. @stellarquines 💜 Freelance Producer & Director 💛
Jacq @jacqueline2024.bsky.social Classically trained professional actor. Performed in NYC, London, Stratford-upon-Avon,
SFO, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee.
Love projects that support human rights.
Practice-based PhD in theatre performance-Renaissance.
DEMOCRACY!
Stephen Christopher @stephenchristopher.bsky.social
Playwright. Passionate about harm reduction and recovery.
The Scaff & Dancing Shoes with Graeme Smith.
PenPal Productions @penpalproductions.bsky.social Edinburgh-based theatre company