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kj🩸 @kiodja.bsky.social 20+ artist, multifandom🔞profic
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Starcrossed: A Gracerocky Zine @gracerockyzine.bsky.social Fanzine dedicated to the Grace x Rocky ship from Project Hail Mary in both canon and AUs~
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VER @ drawing comics @verface.bsky.social they / them | illustrator & comic artist
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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social Comic artist and writer from the UK. Currently illustrating The Island with No Name for The Phoenix and Star Breakers for Puffin
⭐️🖤Lainey🖤⭐️ @lunarkatstudio.bsky.social 41. Painter. Playwright. Occasional pirate and chaos goblin!
Good Omens. Doctor Who. Sherlock. Loki. The Magnus Archives. Steampunk. Dieselpunk
Victorian Gothic AU/Kinktober coming up next!
Altorina @altorina.bsky.social Altorina (she/her) 24+
2D illustrator and graphic designer
✨Book covers
✨Characters
✨Fanart
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E. L. McKee @elmckeewrites.bsky.social Writer of poetry, flash fiction, and non-fiction 🖋️
Anti generative AI, pro human creativity 🙌🏻
Library lover 📚🩷
📍UK
Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social Scottish writer. Not sure about this at all.
Iris Duane MSP 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @irisduane.bsky.social Green MSP for the Glasgow Region 💚
Socialist, feminist and trade unionist ✊🏾
Let’s make hope normal again!
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Views my own 🏴🇺🇦🇵🇸
Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social Mover. Shaker. Comic book maker. UK Comics Laureate for a while. Peaked too soon. (She/her)
Festival de l'imaginaire - LuxCon - Fantastikfestival @luxcon.bsky.social Luxembourg's premier Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Fan event, with literature, film & television, games, graphic novels, comics, manga, cosplay and other genre relevant media represented.
Maudie Smith (aka Amanda, Mands, Moobag) @maudiesmith.bsky.social Children's book writer with a side of veg and flowers. Based near the Bath
https://www.maudiesmith.co.uk/
https://contactanauthor.co.uk/Author/17/maudie-smith
Peadar Ó Guilín @thecallya.bsky.social Award-winning author of The Call and The Invasion. Pubbed by
@dfb_storyhouse and @scholastic. Repped by @mollykh
Also wrote The Inferior ❤️Gaeilge. Eats plants.
@uhiinverness.bsky.social @uhiinverness.bsky.social 
James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social Surrounded by yowling, nebulous forms. Writer: Green Wing, Piglets, first novel Pagans, available in paperback: https://www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/james-alistair-henry/2928377365622
Pumpkin Spiced Hannah 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Shetlander in Aberdeen. Writer, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own because who else's would they be? https://linktr.ee/tooriekep
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Creative Scotland @creativescots.bsky.social Hi 👋🏻 We’re Creative Scotland, the national agency for the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland.
🔎 www.creativescotland.com
📸 Tiree Music Festival, image by Kevin Kerr- C Comics Youth @comicsyouth.bsky.social
FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop @forumbooks.bsky.social Three lovely, friendly, award-winning independent bookshops in Corbridge, Whitley Bay + Alnwick
https://www.forumbooksshop.com
Events: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks
Ella (AppleSeeds) @appleseeds.bsky.social GOOD OMENS 😇❤️😈 40s, she/her
Dawn McLachlan @deemclachlan.bsky.social Poet, author, bookseller, allotmenteer - for hire or loan. Won some poetry prizes. Account is stuff from a small rural town in NE Scotland. Kitten content warning! Once a librarian….
#FridayPoem
She/Her
https://dawnmclachlan.com/
British Science Fiction Association @bsfa.bsky.social The British Science Fiction Association. Est 1958. Publisher of Vector, Focus, and the BSFA Review. Join us at http://bsfa.co.uk/join-the-bsfa
Alex Peace @ajpeace.bsky.social Lover of all things digital, political & Taylor Swift
Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org For People. For Planet. 🌍
All posts are promoted by the Scottish Green Party, 19b Graham Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5QN
David Coates @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social Bangs on about Taylor Swift and books a lot. Was events manager for Blackwell’s Manchester, now with @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Nero Book Awards Fiction Judge 2023. He/him
Serenity Booksellers @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Independent Bookshop in Romiley, Greater Manchester. Second bookshop in Stockport Centre now open! Co-founder Stockport Noir. Admin: @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social
Arachne 🏳️🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social STATION IN THE SKY available now. Author of queer SFF living & writing in Aotearoa (she/her). SpecFicNZ and Te Pae Tawhiti Awards. Uplifting good books and authors.
Cayemarsh.com
#ToitūTeTiriti
🚫genAI, fascism, billionaires, guns🚫
North Lanarkshire Libraries @librariesnl.bsky.social Library service in North Lanarkshire. News, events and of course books.
Lil Chase @lilchasewriter.bsky.social Editor & Author
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BooksfromScotland.com @booksfromscotland.bsky.social A website from @publishingscotland.bsky.social dedicated to championing the best new writing in Scotland.
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Katie Cunningham @katieiscunning.bsky.social Comic writer when I can be, PR for Time Bomb Comics. All opinions my own. Horror horror horror. Rep Macey Howell at WordLink. She/they
PictCon @pictcon.bsky.social A Scottish science fiction and fantasy convention about science fiction and fantasy in Scotland. #PictCon October 17 2026, Perth 🏴
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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social Disabled writer of things. Bad at being on BlueSky. Debut sci-fi horror novel AWAKENED out now with Angry Robot Books.
‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - New York Times
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
Ilkley Literature Festival @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social The north of England's longest-running literature festival.
Coming in 2026: 2-18 October 2026.
#ILF26 | Produced by @thewordupnorth.bsky.social
Veronica Price @vonprice.bsky.social Chartered librarian, MCLIP. NHS Knowledge &Evidence Specialist. Former School Librarian. Posts about library matters and books.
Blog: https://vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/
Hazel Pinner @hazelmpinner.bsky.social Passionate about #EqualityForAll #HumanRights 🏴 Primary Teacher in #Orkney. She/her. Free Palestine! Antifa. All views my own
"A good teacher...so far"
Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social she/her
📖 Writer | Librarian
📍 Edinburgh | Burntisland | Cairngorms
Gleefully geeky. Writes SFF/literary speculative short stories, among other word-things. Loves books, mountains, my cat Mishka & more. 💗💜💙
Find me at https://www.fionamossman.com
Scarfolk @scarfolk.bsky.social Scarfolk is a town called Scarfolk. For more information please re-read.
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
Liam McIlvanney @liammcilvanney.bsky.social Crime writer in the Deep South of Aotearoa New Zealand
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
Lynda Clark @lyndac.bsky.social Writer, reader, gamer. Still mostly bogling to Aswad. https://wouldyouliketochangethedifficultysetting.wordpress.com/
Any pronouns.
No alt text? No follow, no matter how cool & interesting you are.
There will be swears.
Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social Scotland’s International Festival of Crime Writing. Stirling. 12-14th September 2025.
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
han @hansoeii.bsky.social drawing what makes me happy! 🌈
freelance illustrator | german | she/her
Prints | Patreon | Portfolio | Comms | More:
📎 https://hansoeii.carrd.co/
✉️ hansoeiimail@gmail.com
Lena Mattheis @lenamattheis.bsky.social Lecturer in contemporary literature at Surrey University and host of the Queer Lit podcast. (they/she)
Sarah Webb @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social Award-winning Irish children's author, children’s book reviewer, book events programmer and Events Manager at Halfway up the Stairs Children’s Bookshop
Founder of #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/SarahWebbWriter
The Folkestone Bookshop @folkestonebookshop.bsky.social Local indie bookshop run by 3 friends by the sea!
Friendly, queer & trans run.
70-72 Tontine Street, Folkestone, Kent, CT201JP
www.thefolkestonebookshop.co.uk
Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social Comics & Novel Writer. Out now: Star Trek Celebrations, Overwatch. Dark Horse, Scholastic, Tokyopop, IDW, Oni Press, Simon & Schuster. Repped by @inthesestones.bsky.social. Benkahncomics.com. (They/Them)
Suna Dasi @sunadasi.bsky.social Dutch/Indian Muso/SFF Writer/Voice Thesp in Scotland.
Backing Vox/Analog Synth in @ebbband.bsky.social (Prog) & Krow (Metal)
Tiny Brown Sapphic Maenad
Cofounder PandoraFest (1st women led music fest Scotland 2016) & The Lodge Arts Collective. BSFA Nominee
@furtherfrom.bsky.social @furtherfrom.bsky.social 
National Book Tokens @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social A gift beyond words.
National Book Tokens and Bookily gift cards can be spent in bookshops and online.
https://www.nationalbooktokens.com
CL Hellisen | Preorder The Shape of Monsters @clhellisen.com Writer, artist, occasional table. Cast Long Shadows (Luna Press) The Shape of Monsters (Audible, TorUK) A Million Points of Light (Audible)
Preorder The Shape of Monsters - https://geni.us/TheShapeofMonster
They/them
clhellisen.com
Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social Hopeless forest romantic, Scotland. ♿ 🏳️⚧️ (they) Award-winning author/ illustrator: queer historical romance & fantasy, comics & gamebooks.
Tags > #books #art
https://www.hari-illustration.com
Repped by Jessica Mileo.
Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social Comics writer:
●OFF MENU/ THE RESTAURANT AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (Little Bee/Faber)
●DEVLIN WAUGH (2000AD)
●YOUNG MEN IN LOVE (GLAAD award winner)
●RED SONJA
And more!
Oggerlach.wordpress.com
Open for work! Email on my site.
Rep: Stephanie Winter, KOMM
Iridescence - The 2026 Eastercon @easterconuk.bsky.social Iridescence 2026 is the UK's next Eastercon, the UK's longest running sci-fi convention. At the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, 3-6 April 2026.
https://eastercon2026.org/
Edinburgh SFF @edinburghsff.com ESFF is an open writing community for Science Fiction and Fantasy writers in Scotland. Events, resources & support, writing sessions, critique + more.
Community website for writers:
https://EdinburghSFF.com
World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social World Fantasy Convention, Brighton UK
Dates: Thursday 30th October - 2nd November 2025
Venue: Double Tree by Hilton Brighton Metropole
Website: https://worldfantasy2025.co.uk
#WorldFantasyConvention2025 #WorldFantasy25
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Gosh! Comics @goshcomics.bsky.social A mean little comic shop in the heart of London.
1 Berwick Street, London, United Kingdom W1F ODR
https://linktr.ee/goshcomics
Shell @shellbryson.com Writes sci-fi stories in Edinburgh. Founder of Edinburgh SFF writing community: https://edinburghsff.com - Software engineer by day. Personal site: https://shellbryson.com
Lois McFarland @loiswmcf.bsky.social Lecturer in Religion and Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Speculative fiction, feminist/womanist/queer theory, affect, ecology, and freaky apocalyptic things.
'Creation and Apocalypse in Feminist Speculative Fiction' (Bloomsbury 2026)
she/her 🏳️🌈
MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com Sapphic Scottish specfic duo E&M. Fungi fanatics, lurcher lovers, gin guzzlers.
The Needfire NOW OUT out with Solaris Books!
PREORDER The Haunting of Avis Lovelock TODAY!
Repped by John Baker @ PFD.
https://www.mkhardywrites.com/links/
Lin Anderson @linanderson.bsky.social A free spirit. Also crime writer & co-founder of the @BloodyScotland international crime writing festival.
Twitter: Lin_Anderson
Instagram: LinAndersonWriter
Threads: LinAndersonWriter
Web: http://www.lin-anderson.com
Comic Boom Podcast @comicboom.bsky.social Comic Boom - The Comics in Education Podcast. A podcast for anyone interested in the role comics can play in education, each episode host, Lucy Starbuck Braidley interviews an educator, a librarian, an academic or a creator of comics. www.comicboom.co.uk
Ariane Burgess MSP @ariane-burgess.bsky.social Scottish Green MSP for Highlands and Islands
The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social The Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year.
clarkeaward.com
Waterstones Argyle Street @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social Three storeys of books to discover in the heart of Glasgow 📚 with a charming cafe and exciting programme of events.
Fran Moldaschl @franmoldaschl.bsky.social https://buymeacoffee.com/franmoldaschl
Kelpies Prize for Writing Winner
Former #archaeology student
Children's book reviewer
Neurodivergent
inquisitivenewt.com
(Any pronouns)🏳️🌈
Waterstones Inverness @waterstonesness.bsky.social Waterstones bookshop in Inverness, Scottish Highlands 📚
Housmans Bookshop @housmansbookshop.bsky.social Radical booksellers since 1945. Monday to Saturday 11am to 6.30pm. Sunday 12pm to 6pm. Order online at: http://housmans.com/shop
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
Megaera @meggophoto.bsky.social The Them Fatale
Photo Archivist
@meggophoto on insta
www.meggophoto.com
Ginger Nuts of Horror @gnofhorror.com We put the "Ginger" in "Horror" 🔥
Book & movie reviews with a bite.
17 years strong. Still scared. Still reviewing.
👇 Dunk into our latest posts
https://gnofhorror.com/
Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social Scottish SFFH Author | Shirley Jackson Award & BFA Finalist | Latest: LIMELIGHT, Shortwave, DARK CRESCENT, Luna Press | Words in Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, & more | Rep: Michael Mungiello InkWell, Film/TV: Sean Berard https://linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social Words and music. Glasgow, Scotland
he/him https://linktr.ee/neilwilliamson
LATEST 📚 Hand-Me-Downs (short story collection) https://bit.ly/4fhuSt9
🎶Extinction Event (album) http://bit.ly/4w4EKMC
NEXT 📚 ???
Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social Berlin-based Scottish writer. Words in New Flash Fiction Review, Vestal Review, Trampset and elsewhere. Featured in Best Small Fictions 2024. My pen name came to me in a dream. You can find a selection of my writing here: https://linktr.ee/ruralunease
Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com Novelist, scriptwriter, imaginative futurist, recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV), Zoo City and Bridge.
Marieke Nijkamp @mariekeyn.bsky.social #1 NYT bestselling author of novels, comics, and graphic novels | nonbinary | 🌈📚 | 🏳️🌈 | ♿
Out now: SPLINTER & ASH | Up next: AFTER WE BURNED
📖: mariekenijkamp.com
Fèis Rois @feisrois.bsky.social Fèis Rois enables people of all ages & abilities to access, participate in & enjoy traditional arts & Gaelic language through a diverse programme of activities in Ross & Cromarty, across Scotland & beyond.
www.feisrois.org
Oliver K. Langmead @oliverklangmead.bsky.social THE KILLING OF A CHESTNUT TREE out this October from Tordotcom
Lecturer at Lancaster
Hugo nominated // Philip K. Dick award nominated // BSFA Award nominated // British Fantasy Award nominated
Gary Panton @garypanton.co.uk Author of THE NOTWITCHES and THE NOTWITCHES: PRISON BREAK. All the links for ordering can be found at garypanton.co.uk/books/
Represented by Rachel Mann at CAA.
📍Perth, Scotland
🌐 garypanton.co.uk
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social 📖 GRAVE EXPECTATIONS, DISPLEASURE ISLAND & THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH out now!
◦ good books ◦ murder ◦ swearing ◦
Recovering games journalist
#BWithTheT
Rep Stevie Finegan at Zeno
@totalplaytime.com
https://alicebellauthor.com/
Jenny Litster @sethornelgtales.bsky.social Scottish children's fantasy writer and purveyor of eight-year-old humor. 
Proud Geek LGBTQ+ Bookshop @proud-geek.co.uk A queer online book shop based in the UK, specialising in LGBTQ+ graphic novels, books, and manga. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️📚✌🏻@proudgeekbookshop elsewhere.
https://linktr.ee/ProudGeekBookshop
Paperboats Writers @paperboatswriters.bsky.social Paperboats is a collective of writers focussed on nature and environment in a time of climate and ecological breakdown. Scotland based and global in outlook, and write to affirm the astonishing life of this planet and how its future may yet be shaped.
Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-cat-bride/charlotte-tierney/9781784633622
Best British Short Stories ‘26 / Best Weird Fiction of the Year ‘25 / Conjunctions / The London Magazine / 3:AM / NER / Weird Horror.
All ‘moor, no snore.
Blackwell's Manchester @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social Your friendly neighbourhood bookshop on Oxford Road, Manchester 📚 Bookchat, events and silly things. Bleets (?!) by @rednewsom.bsky.social
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/blackwells-manchester-11315868456
t s a m @tsamasaurusrex.bsky.social Lvl 35 Gay Boy.
Bookish nerd. Coffee slut. Husband.
Maybe vaguely NSFW at times but, y’know, in a cute way. He/Him 🏳️🌈🍉
psn: tsamasaurusrex
switch: sw-7089-7863-3009
Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social Childish writer. 🇬🇧 + 🇦🇺. Carnegie-nominated.
Rep: @agentalicewilliams.bsky.social
My type on paper
YA: Splinters 🪞 Electric Life ⚡
MG: Last Hope Highway, Day of the Whale, Mort the Meek, Animal Rescue
School talks / workshops KS1-KS3
www.racheldelahaye.com
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