Ian Critchley @iancritchley.bsky.social Writer and Editor | Winner Hammond House, HISSAC | Stories in Best British Short Stories, Mechanics Institute Review, Structo, Lighthouse, Litro, Fiction Desk and others | Short story chapbook published by Nightjar Press
iancritchley.com
Axe Marnie @axehandle.bsky.social Arf Arf Arf !!! oh, and I make comics
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
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Emily Munro @emilymunro.bsky.social emilymunro.co.uk
Writer, filmmaker, curator
THE LIMITS novel (2027)
Alpine Fellowship runner up; Caledonia Novel Award LL; Best of the Net nom; Winner Briefly Write 10
Nom FOCAL International Award for Living Proof: A Climate Story
IG: @smugafgardening
David (W.) Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social Multi-genre writer
Spies: @headlinebooks.bsky.social
Spaceships: @solarisbooks.bsky.social
McDermid Award , Bloody Scotland Debut Prize 2025 winner, McIlvanney Prize 2026 longlist
Rep: @harryillingworth.bsky.social
More: https://www.davidgoodman.net/links/
Verona Campione @rickhough.bsky.social Author of Verona Campione, Verona at War and Notes from Verona. Optimistic Hellas Verona season ticket holder with a passion for the past. And wine. Also beer. Some whisky too.
David Frankel @daveyfrankel.bsky.social Prize-dodging writer of stories. Here despite popular demand. 'Forgetting is How We Survive' pub'd Saltpublishing.bsky.social . Shortlisted @edgehillprize.bsky.social. Chapbooks @nightjarpress.bsky.social & @salopress.bsky.social .
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Readit Club @readit.club If you’re into books - welcome 🤗
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Allen & Unwin @allenandunwin.bsky.social Australian. Independent. For Readers. 📚
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@zandoprojects.bsky.social @zandoprojects.bsky.social 
Magnus Watt @magnuswatt.bsky.social Urban fantasy author from the Scottish Highlands, now in Boro
Soon Enough: A Thin Places Novel and
Stories about folklore, belonging, and things that live in the dark
https://mybook.to/soon
https://mybook.to/Otherside
https://mybook.to/thinplaceswinter
Dave Cook @davecook.bsky.social 🏴 Ringo-nominated writer of comics + game history books. AI 🚫
Killtopia | BPM | Hello Darkness | Boom! Studios | Titan Comics | Bitmap Books | Agent: Watson Little
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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
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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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Geoff King @geoffo.bsky.social Omniscribe, wood carver, tree whisperer, quiet revolutionary. Scottish Highlands.
Seeking lit agent for crossover fantasy and literary novella
www.geoffkingwriter.co.uk
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https://www.buymeacoffee.com/geoffkingwriter
John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social I write comics! ORLA!, SINK, GRAWLGORE & SHANKS, THE NASTY, THE CRIMSON CAGE, AND THEN EMILY WAS GONE, MOUNTAINHEAD, HOTELL.
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Online shop: johnleescomics.bigcartel.com
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Tango @tiredsai.bsky.social Comic Writer/Artist. Your local cryptid✨💀 Dark Horse/Secret Stash, Boom, IDW, Mad Cave, Archie & rad indies. akatango.carrd.co
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The Reading Room in Melrose @melrose-bookshop.bsky.social A small independent bookshop in the historic Borders town of Melrose, Roxburghshire, focusing on Scottish writing and the best new books around. Sister bookshop of @wedale-bookshop.bsky.social in Stow, Selkirkshire. Welcome!
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)
Old Street Publishing @oldstpublishing.bsky.social Independent British publisher of non-fiction and fiction. Highlights include James Hawes's The Shortest History of Germany and Hannelore Cayre's The Godmother, winner of the 2020 'Crime Fiction in Translation' Dagger.
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@evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social Philosophy prof, able to bore people on any abstract topic. Aghast at the horror show that is U.S. politics. Fleeing into books, walks, horse time, and viola. None of this is working at the moment.
Lari Don @laridonwriter.bsky.social Children's writer based in Edinburgh. Adventure novels, pic books, trad tale retellings. Passionate re stories, politics, feminism. #longcovid. she/lher
Barbara Henderson (new WIP 6831) @scattyscribbler.bsky.social Author. Scottish historical fiction and eco- adventures for kids. 2x Young Quills Winner. 🎭 Teacher, ✝️, 🏴 🇩🇪, Highlands.
www.barbarahenderson.co.uk
LJ @coffeecurls.bsky.social Probably talking to animals. Or reading a book 💙📚 Book blogger - fan of crime thrillers and psychological thrillers, the grittier the better! On 🐦 as @CoffeeCurls and @ReadandRated book reviews at www.readandrated.com
Uncertain Stories @uncertainstories.com www.uncertainstories.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
Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social Your Party MP for Coventry South 🌹
coventrysouth@parliament.uk
Promoted by Zarah Sultana at CWU South Midlands, Coventry, CV1 3EG
@rkgvideo.bsky.social @rkgvideo.bsky.social 
Abstractfalu @lonesometrapeze.bsky.social I like reading books a lot, studying languages and history, playing video games, etc.
I particularly use this account for books and all things book-related.
David Wardrop @dw39dundee.bsky.social I love science fiction and nature but not sure in what order.
Cherae @clclarkwrites.com SFF’s buffest lesbian. BFA & Ignyte & Locus Winner. Nebula & Hugo & BFA Finalist. TOURAINE'S ARMS & TOURAINE’S LEGS & TOURAINE'S @$$ & AMBESSA'S ARMS (Orbit ‘21,‘23,'25). français, العربيّة. they/she/sir/Hey, soldier.
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ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
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Maud Woolf @maudwoolf.bsky.social Scottish sci fi author represented by Lina Langlee at the North Lit Agency. Debut novel THIRTEEN WAYS TO KILL LULABELLE ROCK now shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2025
Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social Writing and freelance comms 🏳️🌈🍉
ORDINARY SAINTS is out now! https://linktr.ee/NiamhSquared
Sam Flowers @flowerysam.bsky.social Fictional
Short stories:
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Jac McGill @jacmcgill.bsky.social I’m an author, teacher, children’s life coach and co-founder of The Wee Coaching Company and Wise for my Size. Mum to two teenagers and designated pet wrangler!
Alice Slater @aliceslater.bsky.social damn girl that looks yummy as fuck. what’s your email address?
Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social Northern writer. Author of The Disappeared. Stories in The London Reader, Reflex Press, Palm-Sized Press. Finalist: Mslexia Short Story Comp/Dinesh Allirajah Prize. Arts marketer. Writer in residence Durham Writes & Crossing the Tees.
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The Bee @beelitmag.bsky.social A home for working-class readers and writers
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Fiona Brownlee @fionabrownlee.bsky.social Publishing consultant. PR & International Rights. Currently working with Canongate. Little,Brown. Hodder. Greystone. Muswell Press. Birlinn. Polygon. Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival. Swim judge. BSL beginner.
Kelly Creighton @kellycrimebooks.bsky.social Northern Irish author. DI Harriet Sloane series, State of Fear, Souls Wax Fair, Unbecoming, The Bones of It, etc.
I don't respond to anonymous accounts.
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
The Fiction Desk @thefictiondesk.com We’ve been publishing anthologies of new short fiction since 2010. Based in Scotland.
Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social Researching everyday lives using creative qualitative methods. Based at @UoMSociology.bluesky.social
Keara Donnachie @kearadonnachie.bsky.social Engagement & Growth Manager @ Blue Triangle. Matcha fanatic. Writer by day and night.
Balancing the Books @balancingthebooks.bsky.social A podcast to help writers balance the books … along with everything else in life ⚖️
Hosted by @caileansteed.bsky.social
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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social Horror/Fantasy writer. Mom of two semi-feral girls and a pack of mutts.
Follow for books, short stories & random things I find interesting.
Work in LCRW, Uncharted, Abyss & Apex
Member of HWA, Codex
Eugie Award Finalist
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Ricky Monahan Brown @rickyballboy.bsky.social Writer. Poetry pamphlet Drawer of Letters from Broken Sleep Books – "Wonderfully audacious" 🖤 Terminal and Other Stories 🖤 Little Apples (novella) 🖤 Stroke: A 2% chance of survival (memoir) 🖤 Next: Teller of Tales in Tantallon Tìr’s Call of the Isles
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Kayleigh Bohan @kayleighbohan.bsky.social Bookish, Scotland. Charity worker, writer, they/them. Kpop, disabled & class politics, knitwear, easily tempted outside by a library or museum. 🏳️🌈📚🏴
National Centre for Writing @writerscentre.bsky.social The National Centre for Writing is a place of discovery, exchange, ideas and learning for writers, translators, readers and everyone who loves words.
Signe Rudoviča @signeru.bsky.social Sharing Sensory Stories Project manager @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social Love and live Edinburgh 💙
#ReadingForPleasure I read everything from picture books to YA! Interested in Additional Support Needs, education, language/s, literacy, &pugs
Mercedes M. Yardley @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-Winning author, dark fantasist, family girl, artist, cupcake baker.
Cymera Festival @cymerafestival.co.uk Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing.
🖊️ 2026 Festival 5-7 June, in Edinburgh & online. Tickets on Sale 1 March 2026
www.cymerafestival.co.uk
Z.K.A. (she/her) @pegasusunder.bsky.social MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (Amistad, Aug '27)
THESE HOLLOW BODIES (Nov '26) - NEON HEMLOCK KICKSTARTER LIVE!
writer & psychiatrist M.D. (she/her)
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rep @clgslr.bsky.social
Cinema Worms podcast!
❤️ @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
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
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
Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social petrajohanaponcarova.com | Research, poetry & translation between Gaelic, Czech & English | Rannsachadh, bàrdachd & eadar-theangachadh eadar Gàidhlig, Seicis & Beurla
Golden Hare Books @goldenharebooks.bsky.social Independent Bookshop of the Year 2019 UK & Ireland. PostBooks subscription boxes + bespoke literature consultations. Contact us at mail@goldenharebooks.com // 0131 225 7755
Find us at 68 St Stephen Street, Edinburgh EH3 5AQ
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Calum Barnes @balumcarnes.bsky.social melancholic resister | words Tribune, The Quietus and 3:AM | beats Shinlifter | keep cool but care
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Jean-Loup R Smith @jlarts.scot Composer, Musical storyteller 🎼, Artist, Guitar Player 🎸, Taiko player 🥁, Musician 🎹, Photographer 📷, Occasional Actor 🎭, Language nerd, Finnophile 🇫🇮, X-Phile 👽 .
Scottish 🏴 French 🇫🇷 European 🇪🇺
Alison Hennessey @alisonhennessey.bsky.social Publishing Director of Raven Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books. Lover of the gripping & the gothic, the contemporary & the cunning. Comprehensive school girl in literary world. Easily bribed with a chocolate orange. 
Rowan MacDonald @rowanthewriter.bsky.social Writer + Book Reviewer
Lutruwita / Tasmania
https://linktr.ee/rowmac
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it. 
Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social We’re a literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys.
Posts: @carolinamata.bsky.social, AJ Jolish & @emotes206.bsky.social
https://splitlipthemag.com/
John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social Recent US Beat Poet Laureate
Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press
Past Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association
Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep.
https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs 🏳️🌈
Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social Scotland’s International Festival of Crime Writing. Stirling. 12-14th September 2025.
Andi Leigh @andileighwrites.bsky.social Poet, novelist, short story writer, & visual artist.
💛🤍💜🖤 🌻 🖤🩶🤍💜
EIC: @oatleafpoetry.bsky.social
andileighwrites.com
lism. @pixlet.net "Never trust a girl without a horror story." Manic Pixie Dream Girl in remission. Still writing about the music, aye. Swiftie, Celtic fan, bereaved daughter, cat person. She/her.
Goblin Purwin @goblinpurwin.bsky.social Comic book artist, writer and illustrator
Suzy A @suzyaspleybooks.bsky.social Crime writer. Geordie in Scotland with a dash of Danish. Debut novel Crow Moon out. Shortlisted for good stuff. @OrendaBooks Agent Euan Thorneycroft @AMHeath 🖤💫📚
James @thequietthinker.bsky.social Historical fiction addict 📚
Roman Empire enthusiast 🏛️
AI curious 🤖
Growing things at the allotment 🌱
Reading everything I can. 24/50 books in 2026.
Books, history, AI, allotment adventures and questions I’m still figuring out.
Always up for a chat 👋
Paco B. Garcia @pacoofcastile.bsky.social Rabidly anglophiliac man (he/him) born in the wrong place (Spain) and living in the wrong time (post-DVDs/post-Brexit). About to stop procrastinating since 2007...
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social A national charity dedicated to changing lives with reading and writing. Home of Bookbug, Book Week Scotland and Reading Schools.
Bonnie 🪷📚 @bonnie5913.bsky.social Socially awkward book addict.
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 📖📚🌠🌌
Write like a Grrrl @writelikeagrrrl.bsky.social 💥Ignite
🔥Inspire
❤️🔥Thrive
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Creative writing courses & retreats around the world #feminist 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Averie 💫🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 @therealaverie.bsky.social Queer, cat parent, etc. Spends 5 out of 7 days in admin hell 🔥
Jen Grainge @sbtjen.bsky.social Scottish Book Trust
Regional Outreach Coordinator, Highland
📚 #ReadingSchools #ReadWriteCount
🍎 Former Primary Teacher
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Kristie De Garis @kristiedegaris.bsky.social Writer // Photographer // Drystone Waller
Rosie Callaghan @rosiecallaghan.bsky.social NHS, Music, Books, Wasdale and a bunch of other stuff
Cal Flyn @calflyn.bsky.social Author of the Sunday Times bestseller ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT: LIFE IN THE POST-HUMAN LANDSCAPE—a book about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places. Currently at work on THE SAVAGE LANDSCAPE, expected early 2026
Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social hopeful gardener. trainee therapist. mamma of dogs and cats. teaches & writes about Scottish lit - children's, medieval, women's, fairy tales, folklore 🌿 she/her
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/
Fiona McDerment @fionamcderment.com Reader, writer, parent, partner, friend, maker, dreamer, ⚽️ fan, ally, Scot. Not in that order.
She / her. Glasgow ish.
https://fionamcderment.substack.com/
Kate @trixyflo.bsky.social #Writer Based in #Liverpool. Anti-capitalist. Working class.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/31923737-kate-berry
https://www.instagram.com/kateberrywriter/
https://kateberry162355.substack.com/?r=76a06r&utm_campaign=pub-share-checklist
Eris Young is Eunuchmaxxing @erisyoung.bsky.social https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/eris-young/hunger-in-the-blood/9781035095346 pre-order HUNGER IN THE BLOOD Tor Nightfire 05/2027❣️👄🩸🦷🧛♀️
Rep: Alex Cochran, Greyhound Literary
Fiction Editor, Shoreline of Infinity
https://erisyoung.com/
Little Strings (Clare) @littlestrings.bsky.social 🌺 musician of soft, alternative pop songs & writer of serious and not serious things
Vlogging creative life in UK & South Korea | @UofGlasgow.bsky.social MLitt Creative Writing I @UofGFantasy.bsky.social Officer
🎟️ EdFringe debut show on sale now!
Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social Writer | The Naming of the Birds (Jan. 2025) l The House on Vesper Sands | Lives in a very small way.
https://vspr.st
Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social Swore I'd use the death of twitter to stop scrolling and start writing and yet here I am 
Sheri Friers @sherifriers.bsky.social CEO of The List Magazine which has been ‘helping people get a life’ since 1985.
Amy Taylor @trashtaylor.bsky.social Cunning Stunt.
Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social MP for Islington North
Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org Book workers organising in solidarity with Palestine, and against fossil fuels ✊📖🍉
fossilfreebooks.org
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opencollective.com/fossil-free-books
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Miranda Moore ☀️ @sparewriter.bsky.social YA debut A BEAUTIFUL, TERRIBLE THING @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social Oct 25 . writer & editor . fiction & nonfiction . lover of wilderness, kindness & sunshine . winner DFB Search for a Storyteller 24 & Wells Fest of Lit Book for Children 23 . RLF Fellow 24-26