Box Of Greebles @boxofgreebles.bsky.social Narrative driven indie game studio working on Glasgow Subway narrative horror game TOKAMAK. From the people who brought you Cloudpunk, Nivalis Nights, Shadows of Doubt, Floaters and more!
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social Lecturer in English: C19 US & Oz Lit, racial transformation, white supremacy, the speculative.
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‘Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction’ out in pbk now!
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social Books: Tea with Jane Austen, At Home with Jane Austen, In the Garden with Jane Austen.Traveling Lecturer 2023 Jane Austen Soc. N. America. 18th & 19th century material culture & food history. kimwilsonauthor.com. 🚫👑
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social World’s greatest author
Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social Prof. of Colonialism & Heritage @ University of Leicester UK.
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@OnlyinBirmingham podcast
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Grace Knight @grace-knight.co.uk Glasgow based writer with credits across film, TV, audio drama, and theatre. www.grace-knight.co.uk. Current project for Choice of Games:https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/magic-at-the-masthead-by-grace-knight-wip-thread-60k-word-demo/178096
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Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social Writer of fiction about loss, belonging, nature and place | Botanical Short Stories (editor) | Three Roads | Travelling in the Dark | (in)visibilities & Cornish Short Stories (co-editor) | The Lost of Syros
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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.
Tilman Baumgärtel @tilmanbaumgaertel.bsky.social Professor of Media Theory
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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social Lecturer in Game Design | Technical Artist | Artist
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North House Press @northhousepress.bsky.social North House Press publishes a blend of Scottish fiction and non-fiction, introducing new voices and restoring to the public attention overlooked writing from the past.
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social Academic. Poet. Creative sociologist. Queer non-binary trans man. Spoonie. Gentletran & a scholar. Also part of the Queer Disability Studies Network snails. 🐌🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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
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Daniel Dagris @danieldagris.bsky.social Best Horror of the Year recommended. Twice Pushcart Prize nominated. Viable Paradise & Iowa Writers' Workshop summer alumnus. Studying at Cambridge for Master's in creative writing.
Heather Palmer @heatherpalmer.bsky.social BLOODBOUND is out on audible now!
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Dave Cook @davecook.bsky.social 🏴 / AI 🚫 Award-winning writer of comics + game history books.
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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/cypayseur
Locus and Ignyte Award winning co-editor of We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction. Hugo and Ignyte Award finalist critic/fan writer. Destroyer of Science Fiction. Bisexual all day. He/Him They/Them
Merlina Garance @merlinagarance.bsky.social she/they
🌈 📖 LGBTQ writer of romance books and poetry.
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Emanuela Patti @emanuelapatti.bsky.social Italian Studies at the University of Edinburgh | Intermediality & DH | Research Portfolio Holder SIS | Latest Book: David Rizzio at the Scottish Court. History and myth across arts and media (EUP)
Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com Maker of stuff that makes you laugh.
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Pittenweem Library @pittenweemlibrary.bsky.social This is the account of Pittenweem Library and Information Centre, a volunteer run community library located in Pittenweem.
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Goldsmiths Press @goldsmithspress.bsky.social Our publishing cuts across disciplinary boundaries and blurs the distinctions between theory, practice, fiction and non-fiction
Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social Co-Leader of the Scottish Greens.
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Rewriting Wor(l)ds @re-writer.bsky.social A transdisciplinary, community co-produced, research-practice partnered research project based at the University of Edinburgh, dedicated to exploring poetry, creative engagement, & the links to promoting lifelong wellbeing.
Patrick James Errington @pat-err.bsky.social writer (recent poetry collection THE SWAILING w/ MQUP) | translator (E.M. Cioran's Notebooks, forthcoming) | Researcher & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Rewriting Wor(l)ds | lecturer @ UofEdinburgh | co-Director @ The Literacy Lab
Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤 @ldlapinski.bsky.social Author in the Highlands 🏴, for kids, teens and adults. Next adult book: THE FROG PRINCE, Summer 2027 🐸👑
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Simon Groth @simongroth.com Curious writer. Aprendiendo español. ‘Ephemeral City’ is available now. Stories and ephemera published in a box that can be read in any order you like. Follow along with my new book in progress. simongroth.com/newsletter
Casey Peterson @caseypeterson.bsky.social Not very good at stuff
Viccy Adams @viccyiswriting.bsky.social Freelance writer & literature consultant. 
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it. 
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social Dark fantasy, bleak science fiction, unsettling horror, and Weird genre grime.
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The Future Fire @thefuturefire.bsky.social Magazine of social-political and progressive speculative fiction, feminist SF, queer SF, eco SF, world SF and cyberpunk. (Bleets by Djibril.)
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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com Series Editor of BASFF. Publisher of @lightspeedmagazine.com (+ Editor) and NIGHTMARE. Editor of 50+ anthologies. Co-editor (with Jordan Peele) of OUT THERE SCREAMING.
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Charlie @sfarleycharlie.bsky.social Open Education and Playful Engagement at University of Edinburgh.
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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social Criminologist. Former Lada driver. Atrocity crimes | democracy | police | Bosnia & Herzegovina | ex-Yu | family history | other people's cats... (he/him)
Idle hands draw social theorists poorly on a digital egg.
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Joe Noteboom @joenote.bsky.social Lecturer researching and teaching about education, technology and society
UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social The union for academic and academic-related staff at the University of Edinburgh
Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social Author of Chaos Walking, Monster Calls, More Than this, Burn, Different For Boys. Won a couple Carnegies and an Olivier. Four wins away from an EGOT.
Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social Narrative Wrangler-Videogames, TV, theatre, and more. Narrative Director on Battlefield. Previous Horizon Forbidden West/CalloftheMountain- Prince of Persia - Fable. Views my own.
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city The Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design @citystgeorges.bsky.social, University of London conducts leading user-centred research. Home of the MSc HCID. https://hcid.city/ #HCID2026: https://hcidconference.co.uk/
Tracey "Tam" McGarrigan @ansiblecomms.com Marketing strategic advisor & boss lady for interactive tech, video games & the creative arts AKA "The Queen of making stuff all okay!"
Vic Michaelis @vicmmic.bsky.social actor + improviser + sorry about the birds
Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com Publisher of otherworldly fiction @ Psychopomp.com
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MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social Digital rights advocacy and research | Decolonial | Digital sociology MSc from @uoe-sps.bsky.social | Peruvian in London
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
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Catherine Pip @catherinepip.bsky.social I like making things.
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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social Writer, comedian, podcaster, stone-clearer, snookerist, ventriloquist
Allan Radcliffe @allanradcliffe.bsky.social Writer & critic 🏳️🌈 He/Him. Novel The Old Haunts shortlisted for McKitterick Prize & Shortlisted for Saltire First Book Award 2024
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embhow @scribbledawn.bsky.social impact interactive wordjam heartune
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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social Shortwave is an indie horror/sci-fi press. Our books are distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster. Founded and run by @alandistro.bsky.social (active HWA member, full SFWA member).
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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher.
Leeds.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social Writer. All My Precious Madness published by Galley Beggar 2024; Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist, Authors Club Prize Shortlist, James Tait Black Prize shortlist. How Do People Stay the Same published 2026, Galley Beggar.
https://www.creativewritingtuition.com/
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. 💗💜💙
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social Inequality Economist, former trader and author of The Trading Game. Other Economists make predictions, but my ones are actually right.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com Editor & founder, @comicsgrid.com. Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Sharing and reposting are not endorsement. I am human; I have critical views. Absolutely personal capacity. Mexican British. DMs are not monitored. https://linktr.ee/ernestopriego
Fairlight Books @fairlightbooks.bsky.social We’re an independent publishing house dedicated to standout storytelling, from inventive literary novels to page-turning book club favourites.
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