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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Religion, University of Glasgow. Old books, MSs, and ideas; classical music; and our cat. My views.
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Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow. President, @bars.bsky.social. New book: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/introduction-fantasy.
Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social Writer and teacher. Literature and science, dinosaurs, fantasy/sci-fi, alternate history, worldbuilding, periodicals, museums, etc. Fiction as W. J. Tattersdill. He/him.
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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
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Les Hodge @leshodge.bsky.social Writer/Musician/Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2024
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William F. DeVault @williamfdevault.bsky.social New Generation Beat Poet Laureate (lifetime),
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social 🇳🇮🇵🇷 Author of ALLIGATOR TEARS (‘25) and HIGH-RISK HOMOSEXUAL (‘22) / Lambda Literary Award. American Book Award.
Jennifer Park @jennmpark.bsky.social early modern literature, critical race, history of science & medicine • environmental and disability justice • community care • she/her • crip time #LongCovid
Anna McFarlane @mariettarosetta.bsky.social Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at Glasgow Uni. Working on speculative fiction, representations of reproduction, medical humanities. Series editor Palgrave SFF: A New Canon. Twin Peaks/Blindboy obsessive.
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Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim.bsky.social Philosophy professor, Univ of Arizona 🌵 executive team at SEP 👩💻 thinking about fiction, poetry, music, movies, time, VR, AI & East Asian thought 🇰🇷🇰🇵 freelancer for philosophy, arts & culture ✌️
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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
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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
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
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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.
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thi wurd @thiwurd.bsky.social Glasgow based indie-publisher. Dedicated to quality writing, books, art, music & live events. 4 new ‘Day Schools’ Aug-Oct 2026
Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social Literary non-profit. Publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers since 1999.
Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Economics, Oxford University. 
Vik Shirley @vikshirley.bsky.social Poet/Writer/Editor. PhD Dark Humour and the Surreal. Some Deer (Broken Sleep) Strangers Wave: Joy Division Photo Poems (zimZalla) & Corpses (Sublunary Editions). Persona Digitalia forthcoming w/PhotoWorks. Co-edits Surreal-Absurd @ Mercurius Magazine. 🪩 👻
Oliver Harris @oliharris.bsky.social Writer - crime novels, thrillers. Teaches creative writing at MMU.
Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social #Tolkien expert, Professor of #Fantasy and Children’s Literature at the University of Glasgow. Substack: https://dimitrafimi.substack.com
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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social Communications Director, @canongate.co.uk. Currently working with Miranda July, Omar El Akkad, Len Pennie, Damian Barr, Lily King, John Niven & many other talented folk.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social Author / Env Historian / TURNING, TWO TREES MAKE A FOREST, DOG HEARTED, DISPERSALS, A GARDEN CALLED HOME / Queries to David Godwin Associates please
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Guardian Country Diarist. Author of LAND BENEATH THE WAVES (one of BBC Wildlife Best Books of 2025): https://shorturl.at/PFJPF
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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Anita Felicelli @anitafelicelli.bsky.social author of the short story collection HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS and other works of fiction. books editor at Alta Journal, critic, essayer.
Cate McGowan @catemcgowan.com Author of four books: poetry collection—SACRIFICIAL STEEL, essay collection—WRITING IS REVISION, stories—TRUE PLACES NEVER ARE, & novel—THESE LOWLY OBJECTS. Prose & poems smattered everywhere. Em dashes rule!
PhD, MFA, MA.
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Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social Complete fiction
Matthew Fox @mattfoxwriter.bsky.social THE LOVELY DARK is nominated for the Kirkus Prize 2026 🇺🇸 | Kirkus ★ | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | No AI |🌱
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Lizzie Speller @l1zz1e.bsky.social Tutor CW Cambridge. Ex Classicist.
Love poetry, water, ruins, churchyards.
Author,The Return of Captain John Emmett; At Break of Day, memoir, lyrics. Short-listed Forward Prize. Judge International Hellenic Prize.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Sublunary Editions @sublunary.bsky.social Independent publisher based in Seattle, WA, devoted to small books of unmissable writing.
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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social Daily quotes from the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, Good Morning, Midnight etc. "If I could choose, I would rather be happy than write." Dead since 1979.
Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social Bird campaigner. Nature author of #Fledgling about how I rescued raised & released 2 wild birds: one made nests in my hair for 84 days AND Nature Needs You -The Fight To Save Our Swifts about my swift brick campaign to save birds reliant on our 🏡 to breed🪶
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social The University of Glasgow Communications team. News and expert comment. Contact media@glasgow.ac.uk
Kelly Farber @kelfarbs.bsky.social Here to follow book accounts for my job
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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social artist, writer, researcher, fossil hunter, PLA licensed mudlarker, and lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds https://luckysoap.com
Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.
Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social The State of Me, HarperCollins, 2008 | Shortlisted Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2012 & 2023 | Love jazz, tulips, birds, French films | Second novel in progress | Had ME since 1983 https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/nasim-marie-jafry/
Val McDermid @valmcdermid.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
Islay Book Festival @islaybookfest.bsky.social We are an annual autumn book festival on Scotland's whisky isle. Next festival taking place 27th - 30th August 2026. 📚
Hannah Lavery @hannahlavery.bsky.social Poet. Playwright. Performer. Director. Dancing in my kitchen. hannahlavery.com
A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness.bsky.social essayist + critic + art historian ⎔ book WE THE PARASITES (https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/we-the-parasites) ⎔ Critic in Residence at IDM-NYU ⎔ THESE NEW FRAGILITIES coming in 2028 from Seven Stories Press
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Helen McClory @helenmcclory.bsky.social Writer, Reader, Hybrid creature
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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social #Author of Connective Tissue (Taproot, 2023), The Tin-Kin (Duckworth, 2009), and Sea Legs (Penguin Fig Tree, forthcoming 2027)
www.eleanorthom.com
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/
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️🌈 she/they. Crepuscular/ Chaucerian/ enamoured of rot.
Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social COYOTELAND | FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming UPROOTED
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Nicky Melville @nickymelville.bsky.social 'avant-radge' | Power Cuts (zimZalla) | sounding ... out (Essence Press) | Imperative Commands (Dostoyevsky Wannabe) | Decade of Cu t s (Blue Diode Press) | ABBODIES & ABBODIES COLD (Sad Press) + Fuck This 🎧
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Vivian Lee @vivianlee.bsky.social Senior editor at Little, Brown
Not a girl, not yet a dad
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Julie Fowlis @juliefowlis.bsky.social Singer, musician, voice artist, composer. Gàidhlig/Gaelic. Singer on Disney Pixar’s ‘Brave’. TV/radio presenter and creative collaborator. Love the Scottish outdoors and sport.
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The Believer @thebeliever.net A quarterly literature, arts, and culture magazine.
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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, publishing (and funding, through the non-profit Antipode Foundation) the very best radical research
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Jordan Kisner @jordankisner.bsky.social 
Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Poems in Iowa Review, Poetry London, TLS, The New Republic... | Academic | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
Erin Vincent @erinvincent.bsky.social Author of FOURTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING - published in AUS/UK/US/CA March/April 2026
www.erinvincent.com
Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
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Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Hellebore contributor • poems in NewPoetry.ca, Ekphrastic Review, South Shore Review • 🇨🇦 in Connecticut • /|\
James McEnaney @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social Journalist and writer
Former English teacher & lecturer | Author of 'Class Rules: the Truth about Scottish Schools' & 'A Scottish Journey' | Fond of FOI, motorbikes, La Gomera, and all things education
www.jamesmcenaney.co.uk