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B. Brinkman @bbrinkwell.bsky.social Auteur: Sport, niet altijd leuk!; De deur in de tuin, loopt op koffie, Blogger: https://sportnietaltijdleuk.com/ , INFJ
Raymond B. Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social Seattle-born farmboy, Madrid-forged, Europe-tempered, Poet & Prose Smith, Spinner of songs, Wanderer of words. All rights reserved.© Founder of: @ThreeWordGenre @Dyadigmas @TrilisyPoetry @BlueSkyPoetry @BlueSkyRemnant Web: raymondstowers.wordpress.com
BlueSky Remnant @blueskyremnant.bsky.social Micro-poetry and micro-writing capturing the remnants and aftermath of fleeting moments, impressions, and events that linger. Share them in a single BlueSky post with the #BlueSkyRemnant hashtag.
Three Word Genre @threewordgenre.bsky.social Share a photo, poem, reflection, or title—using just three words. Safe content only. Let our Daily Prompts inspire, or create your own “Three Word Genre.” Always tag #ThreeWordGenre. Genre ideas to explore: https://tinyurl.com/Genre-Inspiration-List
LucyD @ldpoetfic.bsky.social Writer of poetry and fiction and full time carer. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃
Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie Author of Nature’s Acre. Founder, Gardeningwell.ie — wildlife gardening in Ireland (Stamullen, Co Meath). Walled garden + school/community projects. Peat-free, pesticide-free. Native plants, pollinators. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
Stephen Komarnyckyj @komarnyckyj.bsky.social PEN award winning poet and translator at Kalyna Language Press, who is trying to save every abandoned dog on earth and return lost Ukrainian authors to the world. #FBPE #Ukraine #Poetry
JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org 🪬🧿 Freemason | Traveller | Historian | Novel Author | Filmmaker & Photographer www.youtube.com/c/journeydude www.weescotland.com www.sendmeonadventure.com 🇸🇰 living in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🕊️ Love you all!, Photos taken by me - NO AI! I follow people who love art & nature
Festival for Poetry @poetryfestival.bsky.social Daily Poetry Deadlines Submit for a free posting. Submit for a poetry reading video. Submit for your poetry to be made into a film. https://festivalforpoetry.com
Daily Submittable Deadlines @submittabledaily.bsky.social Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable. https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/projects
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site) Submissions open now: https://book-shelfie.com/submissions Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
@penanddrum.bsky.social @penanddrum.bsky.social
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
Balfron Book Festival @balfronbooks.bsky.social A celebration of books and storytelling in the Scottish Stirlingshire village of Balfron. 3rd to 6th September 2026 www.balfronbookfestival.com
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing. http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social Autistic: Late/Self Realised Writer/artist living in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland Community library volunteer Trans Rights Matter Black Lives Matter No AI Author of The Casa Martyrs https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CG2PQCP9
Pittenweem Library @pittenweemlibrary.bsky.social This is the account of Pittenweem Library and Information Centre, a volunteer run community library located in Pittenweem. This bluesky account is currently managed by @motiblackart.bsky.social https://pittenweemlibrary.org.uk/ SC047013
@rabbitnoam.bsky.social @rabbitnoam.bsky.social
Neurodivergence Connect Scotland @ndconnectscot.bsky.social Bridging the gap between educators & parents of neurodivergent children. CPD sessions | Free Online ASN CPD Programmes📄 http://neurodivergenceconnect.co.uk 📧 hello@neurodivergenceconnect.co.uk
Tope Hall @topehall.bsky.social Adventures of Slothy and Lord Thrilling
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Euan Taylor Author @euantaylorauthor.bsky.social The Hard Times: Prison Diaries: A book about crime, punishment, rehabilitation, greed, and putting a newspaper to bed before the editorial team gets locked up: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Times-Prison-Diaries-ebook/dp/B0DPVH8HFF/
Mick Connick @mickconnick.bsky.social Scotsman. Husband and father of two, a boy and a girl. Celtic fan.
Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social Writer, cat lady, wrote a novel about medieval mystics, forthcoming novel about John Ruskin. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/ Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
Jamais Arrière @pankelo.bsky.social
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings. https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
BookSource @booksource.bsky.social BookSource is a distributor of books and printed material. We provide a comprehensive service for over 170 client publishers. www.BookSource.net
A P Pullan @the-wee-pencil.bsky.social https://theweepencil.wordpress.com/ ; writer of kids books; self-publisher; studier of Diploma in CBT; sails Pica Belleau; walks Gubbins & Mavis; scone gobbler; drawn in Yorkshire; coloured in by Scotland; Ayrshire; #lufc; driftwood clockmaker; teacher
FEO @feoswald.bsky.social Poet, lover of words and flowers, retired academic. “We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
KidsWord & AllKidsBooks – Explore, Read & Share! @allkidsbooks.com 🌟 Join our vibrant community of children's book lovers! 🔗 KidsWrd.com | AllKidsBooks.com 👧 Parents & Teachers: Find the best books for young readers. ✍️ Authors & Illustrators: List & showcase your books to a global audience.
Jen Bites @jenbitespeople.bsky.social In Edinburgh. Director, playwright, librettist, acting coach & dramaturg. Possible revenant. Prone to biting. Site: www.jenmcgregor.com.
Keeks Mc @keeksmc.bsky.social Scots language poet 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Author of "Contermacious Temerity" and "Rede Wi Yer Hert" from Dreich Publications. Next collection coming 2026 with Drunk Muse Press.
Karen MacLean @dee2dee.bsky.social Scottish Independence supporter SNP member Dog and Cat lover Sometime writer From the Highlands
caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social C. A. Asbrey is a Scottish mystery author. Fan of all things Victorian, obscure, forensics, jaywalking, ordering the best meal, and dropping out of society. https://caasbrey.com/ https://www.facebook.com/mysteryscrivener/
Sam D Wright @samdwright.bsky.social Scotland-based, poetry and fiction. Published in Dreich magazine.
Maureen Myant @maureenmyant.bsky.social Escapee from the dark place. Author of The Search (Alma books) as well as the Glasgow southside crime series and standalone suspense novel, What Lies Beneath, all published by Hobeck Books.
Joaning @joaning.bsky.social Knitted a tea cosy once, and wrote a book.
Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social Author (Mary's the Name, Sonny and Me, Daisy on the Outer Line, The Everliving Memory of John Valentine) & co-host of I've Got An Idea For A Podcast he/him 📍Glasgow, Scotland
Betty McCann @bettymccann.bsky.social Scotland-based 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 writer with too many ideas and not enough words on the page! My heart is in Edinburgh, my body is in Glasgow, but my mind is wherever the books I read teleport me to 📖
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
@tippermuirbooks.bsky.social @tippermuirbooks.bsky.social
Mary M @marym276.bsky.social Edinburgh based osteopath and writer of biographical stories with courage and freedom at heart. Nature lover, baker, wildlife and landscape photographer. https://linktr.ee/mmonro276
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
James Dempsey @jamesdempseyauthor.bsky.social I write Fantasy, sometimes Sci-Fi. Husband, and father of two girls. Living in Edinburgh. Some time academic philosopher and corporate ethics consultant. BHAFC fan.
Feisty Blue Gecko (Philippa Ramsden) @feistybluegecko.bsky.social 🦎Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, formerly Global Dev professional, now gently unfurling, realising dreams of being a writer, poet and enjoying photographing tiny wonders. Breast Cancer survivor.
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
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
Peter Bennett @pbennett.bsky.social Writer. Novel — Liberties, available now: https://www.rymour.co.uk/liberties.html & the usual places. Extracts in New Writing Scotland 40 and other publications. linktr.ee/peter_bennett
Hannah Nicholson 🦭 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @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
Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social Scottish writer/editor. Queer AF. Terrible workaholic. PhD student in Creative Writing. Cinema Worms podcast co-host. She/they Repped: @lzats.bsky.social (literary) Kim Yau at Echo Lake (film/TV) Wife: @pegasusunder.bsky.social www.lindzmcleod.co.uk
Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
University of Aberdeen Centre for the Novel @aucfn.bsky.social The Centre for the Novel is a research centre dedicated to the study of the novel in all its forms, based at the University of Aberdeen. Visit our homepage here: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/llmvc/research/novel/
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow 18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing. Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚📖🗞️📰 @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Tyne & Esk Writers @tyneeskwriters.bsky.social Tyne and Esk Writers is an organisation that champions creative writing in groups across Midlothian and East Lothian. tyneandeskwriters.org.uk
Molly Murray | Seahorse Bookstore @mollymurray.bsky.social 🇺🇸 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Join our online Book Club seahorsebookstore.com Editor | Creative Mentor | RTT | flowmagic.org Neurosparkly Writer & Editor Query: MG Adventure 🐙
Sandra K @sandrakohls.bsky.social Writer, crime fiction/fantasy junkie, vintage rock chick & gamer, slow runner and book fiend. UofG MLitt grad.
Barry Litherland Author @bl-writer.bsky.social Lives in SW Scotland. Reviews selected indie book. Author of The Phil Tyler Thriller Series and paranormal crime novels set in the atmospheric Scottish Highlands. Also lit. fiction, YA and middle grade.
Dr Margot McCuaig @margotmcc.bsky.social Novelist and documentary filmmaker. Wrote a PhD.
Kate Blackadder @kateblackadder.bsky.social Writer (novel Stella’s Christmas Wish plus short stories + magazine serials) and reader (in many genres). Toast-and-marmite eater. Member of Romantic Novelists Association and Edinburgh Writers’ Club. http://katewritesandreads.blogspot.com/p/my-books.html
Susan M Coon @susanmcoon.bsky.social Author of Tarbloch Book Club Series. #Psychologicalthriller writer #amquerying grandmother, gardener, orienteer and qigong teacher. #shouldknowbetter
Audrey Niven @nivenaudrey.bsky.social EIC The Propelling Pencil, Creative Coach and business consultant. Exploring new forms in writing and visual art.
L A Traynor @latraynor.bsky.social Writer, filmmaker, lover of archeological digs. Currently revealing late medieval Unst. Recipient of 2024 Dorothy Dunnett Centenary Award for historical fiction research. Founder of Women With Fierce Words.
@FrancesC.bsky.social @franapunk.bsky.social 💙📚Writer and Glasweigan chancer. 📖A BAD BAD PLACE Agents: Euan Thorneycroft & Oli Munsen @AMHeath Editor: Finn Cotton Transworld Penguin
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
Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social Digital Project Manager for Scottish Book Trust. Children’s books and comics enthusiast. Dyslexic. ME/CSF. Here for the kids book chat. All views my own. #KidsBooksFriday 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
David Dodds @daviddoddsauthor.bsky.social Author of urban fantasy fiction. Semi-retired bat ecologist. Gliding instructor. Butler to a highly-opinionated Jack Russell.
Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social "Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world." https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall
Sharon McTeir 📚 🐈 @sharonmcteir.bsky.social Creative Publishing Services Book design, picture research & rights. Currently learning Norwegian. www.sharonmcteir.co.uk Melrose, Scottish Borders 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📚🐈
Glasgow Review of Books @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social Online literary journal in English, Gaelic, and Scots | glasgowreviewofbooks.com | Writing from Glasgow to the world
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | https://urbanbadgercollective.com/links/
Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social dad/poet/educator/tradesman/gardener/bodhrán player/former boxer 🇮🇪🇸🇮 Winner, The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in poetry, 2024 (ESTATE SALE: University of Utah Press, 2025) https://uofupress.com/books/estate-sale/ www.dmurphy.online
Ko-mic @ko-mic.com Hello everyone! I’m building a web app for comic publishing. What would you like it to have? Publish and sell your comics or episodes however you want. More updates coming soon. https://ko-mic.com 🚫 IA
Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋 #Activist #HumanRights #AnimalRights #UBI #ClimateChange #Books #Tech #Poker #Chess He/Him/His ❌👑
Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
@barrington20.bsky.social @barrington20.bsky.social
BigFoxGamingBro @bigfoxgamingbro.bsky.social Collector 📦 Gamer 🎮 Music Enjoyer 🎧 Metalhead 🎸Currency Collector 💵 Gardener 🪴Language Learner 🗣️ Scots 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 English 🇺🇸
Kurt M @kmackxxx.bsky.social Musician, songwriter, guitarist, liberal, Buddhist, LGBTQIA+ ally. No human is illegal, believer. Happily married to my soul mate. If you are maga, you are the problem so kindly fuck off. Check out my Bandcamp page screamingelephantparade.bandcamp.com
Gallovidia Books @gallovidiabooks.bsky.social Independent bookstore- supplying the folk of Kirkcudbright SW Scotland with books, gifts and blether 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚 We like tea, dogs…..and books.
MSK @janeadams70.bsky.social 🤷‍♀️Free Shrugs🤷‍♀️ ****If you haven’t read what Project 2025 has in store for women-your wives, daughters, mothers, aunts-go read it!!!! You need to be informed and prepared****
Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social Scriever, Gomerel. Scriever an Furthsetter o "Lichtsome Limericks: 101 (an a bit) Scots Limericks". Oot NOO! A micht dicht ma posts noo an agane. #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #Scots #ScotsPoetry #ScotsScrievin #Gaidhlig #Independence #Scotland
Agnes Kormendi @tapsiful.bsky.social Used to translate books, now a manual software tester. I write sad poems in English and sff stories in my native Hungarian. I make Celtic knotwork inspired animal drawings and take too many photos of the same hills and vales. Trans rights are human rights.
Calumg @calumg.bsky.social There's my side, and there's a few assholes in the mix, then there's the other side... where all the other assholes are. Celtic, Politics, Cooking, Music and YoYo
Yvonne Banham @eviewriter.bsky.social Author MG/Teen Horror & Paranormal Fiction #DeloresMackenzie Hiker; Trail Runner; Cute dogs; Not-so-cute-dogs; Gothic Fiction; Cake; Strong Coffee; Often found in dungarees and Docs (yes at my age!)
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
Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social Visitor, scriever, ex-prof/-makar/-you name it, loser. Still seeking your poems for endlessly subdividing online/print projects: Ghost Furniture Catalogue; New Boots and Pantisocracies (Art Sonnet Chain); New Gude & Godlie Ballatis (Dundee Renga), etc.
Flora Johnston @florajowriter.bsky.social Scottish fiction writer. The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay and The Paris Peacemakers available now. Represented by Jenny Brown Associates.
Sylvia Hehir @sylviahehirwrites.bsky.social writer in Scotland. likes being outside
Cllr Lynn Ballantyne-Wardlaw, Dunfermline South (SNP) @lynnbw.bsky.social Secretary City of Dunfermline SNP (Promoted by Lynn Ballantyne-Wardlaw c/o 68 Chalmers St, Dunfermline).
@junefetteswrites.bsky.social @junefetteswrites.bsky.social
William Meikle @williammeikle.com Wee sweary Scottish writer, living in Canada, with 30+ novels and 300+ short stories in genre presses over the past 30+ years. Mostly at williammeikle.com ... mostly.
Alexander Hyogor @hyogor.bsky.social 🦄 Scottish / 🫎 Swedish Psychic Clairvoyant Fortune Teller - Karmic soulmate relationship and soul purpose readings available for your future. https://hyogor.tel
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
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
Anna P. Read @annapread.bsky.social writer of historical fiction and fantasy; lover of nature, folklore and food; singer, mum, PhD; Polish in Scotland
Esquiver @esquiver.bsky.social IMMIGRANT. US diplomat (ret); US-German dual citizen; Jew. Enthusiastic Edinburgher. Crumhornist. Journalist, critic, and writer of fiction/plays. Will not cede em dash to AI. Mordant, feminist, and generally oblique. Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut.
Susan Penny Indexing @susanpennyindexing.bsky.social Professional indexer - mostly arts and humanities. Passionate believer in the power of books and reading, especially for children. When I'm not at my desk I'll be on the beach with dogs or ponies.
Pen Stewart @penstewart.bsky.social fantasywriter, writerscoach, Author in residence, editor, speaker, leesconsulent/leescoach middelbaar onderwijs in België en Nederland. https://www.penstewart.com https://www.auteurslezingen.be/pen-stewart https://deschrijverscentrale.nl/auteurs/1596193
Interpret Magazine @interpretmagazine.bsky.social A new magazine of international writing, featuring winners of the International Booker, Neustadt Prize and US National Book Award 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿