The Fantasy Hive @thefantasyhive.bsky.social Award-winning collaborative site
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National Fantasy Fan Federation @fantasyfanfed.bsky.social Official account of the National Fantasy Fan Federation, devoted to science fiction and fantasy. Serving all fen since 1941!
Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference @crsfliverpool.bsky.social CRSF, the speculative fiction conference @liverpooluni.bsky.social✨️
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Kate Nevens (she/her) @katenevens.bsky.social Scottish Green Party MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East region. Contact me on kate.nevens.msp@parliament.scot
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Medical Aid for Palestinians @medicalaidpal.bsky.social 40 years of supporting the health and dignity of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
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Nadia Kiwan @nadiakiwan.bsky.social Francophone Studies; Decolonial Theory; Migration and Critical Border Studies - University of Aberdeen
St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social Department of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews
St Andrews School of English @standrewsenglish.bsky.social School of English at the University of St Andrews
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Universities Scotland @uniscot.bsky.social We represent and promote Scotland’s 19 world-leading universities.
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University of St Andrews @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Scotland's first university. Founded 1413.
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John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Nightfire @tornightfire.bsky.social Books for the living, the dead, and everyone in between 😈🔥
Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social author • palestinian • she/her • rep: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social
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Educators for Peace @educatorsforpeace.bsky.social A network of peace education teachers, lecturers and activists in Scotland.
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University of Stirling @stir.ac.uk The Official Bluesky account for the University of Stirling.
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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social Romance author, romance scholar. Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature & Culture at Deakin (Naarm/Melbourne). My newest rom-com, A Study In Sparkling, is out now.
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Nora Parr @noraehp.bsky.social Arabic, books, Palestine, better than now
Annie Webster @anniewebbo.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF researching stories of displacement in Syria & Scotland at the University of Edinburgh
Tim Gregory @tarjema.bsky.social Translator & language nerd 🗣️ Literary & commercial translation | Let’s talk about what gets lost — and found — in translation 🌐 tarjema.com
Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) @cbrl.bsky.social A learned society working with the countries, peoples and societies of the Levant to advance public education through promoting and disseminating research in the humanities, social sciences and related subjects.
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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
Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
Michaela Králová @michaelakralova.bsky.social PhD in Publishing and Translation @ UCD
Writer. Poet. Actor. Performer. Zine enthusiast.
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Nicola Wilson-Torch @nicolawilsontorch.bsky.social AHRC SGSAH PhD researcher looking at social media and the publishing ecosystem. Also interested in literary history, platform economies and digital culture. Usually found talking about disability awareness, food, books or 00s TV
Open Education at The University of Edinburgh @openededinburgh.bsky.social Open Education and Wikimedian In Residence services at The University of Edinburgh.
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https://information-services.ed.ac.uk/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia
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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social Oxford's English Faculty is the largest in the UK with a distinguished research and teaching record. Account managed by admin team.
Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social Writer, reader, thinker. Founder & director of the Jhalak Prize
Eurozine @eurozine.bsky.social #Eurozine is an online #magazine and #European network linking up more than 100 #culturaljournals and associates in 35 countries.
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Anindya Raychaudhuri (he/him) @dranindyar.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @staenglish, TU Rep @ucustandrews, EDI Lead @sgsah, @ahrcpress/@BBCRadio3 New Gen Thinker, Author @OUPAcademic + @RowmanInternat
Critical Theory, Marxism, empire, medical humanities.
V&A Dundee @vadundee.bsky.social We are Scotland’s design museum, designed for everyone.
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Glasgow Review of Books @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social Online literary journal in English, Gaelic, and Scots | glasgowreviewofbooks.com | Writing from Glasgow to the world
National Museums Scotland @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Stories from Scotland's national collections.
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Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities
Scottish Council on Archives @scotsarchives.bsky.social We provide leadership for the archives and records management sector in Scotland. Lead. Inform. Inspire.
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National Galleries of Scotland @nationalgalleries.bsky.social Three galleries. One world class collection. Discover in Edinburgh here:
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Museums Galleries Scotland @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk We're the national development body for Scotland's museum sector, supporting museums and galleries through funding, advocacy, advice, and events. 🏛️ 
Jane Austen’s House @janeaustenshouse.bsky.social The inspiring Hampshire cottage where Jane Austen lived and wrote her globally beloved novels.
English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal focusing on Literature, Language and Culture of English-speaking world, eight issues a year, founded in 1919, published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Leena Nammari @leenafalasteeniyeh.bsky.social Palestinian Artist in Scotland
Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social The magazine of international literature since 1984. Order our latest issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities
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Anam Zafar @anamzafar.bsky.social Translator (Arabic/French to English), editor, arts facilitator.
OUT NOW:
~ Fearless and Free - A Memoir by Josephine Baker. Co-trans w/ Sophie Lewis
~ Yoghurt and Jam - A graphic novel by Lena Merhej. Co-trans w/ Nadiyah Abdullatif
www.anamzafar.com
Scottish Storytelling Centre @scotstorycentre.bsky.social Sharing the stories of Scotland and beyond, past, present and future. Home to TRACS with Scottish Storytelling Forum & Traditional Music Forum.
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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social An international community at the heart of the University of Edinburgh bringing together over 3,000 staff and students.
https://llc.ed.ac.uk/
Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social Author of graphic novel HEAVYWEIGHT (William Morrow 2024). Historian, teacher, cartoonist. Mostly drawing comics, doing research. https://solomonbrager.com/
Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social Welcome to the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York #UoY.
8th in UK University Guide
A world top 35 Department
Athena Swan Silver Award
Contemporary Levant @contemplevant.bsky.social A journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant @cbrl.bsky.social; https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ycol20. Looking for archaeology? That’ll be our sister journal, @levant-journal.bsky.social
Safiya 🌙 @safiyacherfi.bsky.social Freelance book editor.
Writes stories: short, literary, historical, sometimes speculative | published in Inner Worlds, LSQ, Gutter and more | Love languages & history
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social associate professor of political science @ city college of new york | your old millennial friend | local politics | palestine | states, nationalism, conflict | maps | music | chocolate | nut butters | canines and other creatures | will strive to listen
Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com Independent music, books, and short stories.
Humans writing things about humans making things.
Web: https://www.turnandwork.com
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Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social Founded in 1966, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is a private, non-profit learned society that brings together scholars, educators and those interested in the study of the region from all over the world. https://linktr.ee/mesa_1966
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
Template letter: https://bit.ly/4kDo2O4
Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow
Leith Books @leithbooks.bsky.social Independent publishing press in Edinburgh | Books since 2017 📚
https://linktr.ee/leithbooks
UCL Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social UCL MA in Publishing and UCL Centre for Publishing | Department of Information Studies, Faculty of Arts & Humanities | Publishing and book cultures research and education | Bloomsbury
Literature and Languages at Stirling @litandlangstirling.bsky.social The division of Literature and Languages at the University of Stirling
Publishing Scotland @publishingscotland.bsky.social Trade assoc & charity supporting book publishing.
Foillseachadh Alba in Gaelic.
https://www.publishingscotland.org/
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.
University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk Changing the world since 1451 🌍 | #TeamUofG #WorldChangingGlasgow https://www.gla.ac.uk/
Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
SGSAH @sgsah.bsky.social The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, based at the University of Glasgow, offers world-leading support for doctoral researchers in the Arts & Humanities across Scotland. 🎓✨
Director: Professor Maria Fusco
susan abulhawa @susanabulhawa.bsky.social writer
Dr. Divya (🔔 offline) @divyampersaud.com I am having a health issue and have to be offline. My posts are scheduled with an app. I verify & host the funds for all the families I post. https://linktr.ee/divyamp 🧿
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com Planetary scientist, earth + space science historian, dancer/choreographer, part-time community radio DJ. (they/she) 🏳️🌈
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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social Maliha Safri. Professor of political economy, I'm living in NYC, inside the belly of the global capitalist beast. Interested in all things related to counter-mapping. Working on economies based in solidarity. (she/her). 
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social Cultural worker/buruh seni. Disabled, from JKT. ANNAH, INFINITE out now ❤️🔥 Also wrote amuk, ULTIMATUM ORANGUTAN, ROPE, INDIGENOUS SPECIES, & I make art.
https://www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infinite/
Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social Writer. Global poetics+politics @SOAS|Books: Strangers (2026) Erasing Palestine (2023)The Persian Prison Poem (2021) Writers & Rebels (2016) 🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
Malaka Shwaikh @mshwaikh.bsky.social Based at the University of St Andrews where I research prisons, hunger strikes, limits of resilience, and decoloniality. Talk with me about sunsets and hikes.
Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
Neil Sadler @neilsadler.bsky.social Associate Professor of Translation Studies, University of Leeds.
Associate Editor at @TargetJournal
Translation, Arabic, narrative, digital media and disinformation
Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social AHRC-funded project which explores what feminist literary translation means in practice in the twenty-first century
https://feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/
@monabaker11.bsky.social @monabaker11.bsky.social 
HarperCollins @harpercollins.bsky.social Publishing great authors since 1817. 📚
Syracuse University Press @syracuseup.bsky.social Syracuse University Press strives to create books that are challenging, creative, beautiful, and affordable.
Poetry Bus Press @poetrybuspress.bsky.social Tiny but mighty indie press specialising in poetry books and magazines. Hyena! by Fran Lock was shortlisted for the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN Heaney Prize. Grab a copy here https://thepoetrybuspress.onlineweb.shop/
Independent Publishers of New England @ipne.org Publishing nonprofit where the cool indies hang and collaborate to "make better books and sell more of them." IPNE.org. Please add to relevant lists. 🙏🏻📖
Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social Small press specializing in horror, sci-fi, contemporary fantasy, zines, poetry, and reprints. Voted best small press by our EIC's mom. We used to be From Beyond Press. agitapublishing.com
Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social Fictive Dream, the online #litmag dedicated to the #shortstory including #translations. Please send your submissions to fictivedream@gmail.com. Website https://fictivedream.com/
Quindrie Press @quindriepress.com 🐉 Multi-award-shortlisted, Eisner- & Ignatz-nominated indie comics publisher
📍 Edinburgh, run by @evegwood.com
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📢 Closing December 2026
Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social Award-winning powerhouse publisher of SF 🚀 Fantasy 🧜♂️ Spec Fic ✨, and Horror 🧟 Part of Profile Books 📚 https://linktr.ee/solarisbooks
Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social Award Winning Small Press. SFF in Fiction and Academia. Est. 2015. Member of Publishing Scotland. https://www.lunapresspublishing.com
Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social An independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world.
plutobooks.com
Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social Publisher of Glass Chapbook Series, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Crucible: An Online Reading Series. Subs always free. Posts by anthonyframe.bsky.social
www.glass-poetry.com
Glass Poets Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/EicS1Aa
Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing luxurious specialty, limited editions and groundbreaking original works in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. Dispatches from the warehouse and other news. http://linktr.ee/subterraneanpress
Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com Cambridge, UK-based indie publisher of horror, gothic and supernatural fiction. EIC: Antonia Rachel Ward.
ghostorchidpress.com
Dingle Literary Festival @dinglelit.bsky.social Arguably the best book festival in the west!
#DingleLit will take place again on November 21st, 22nd & 23rd 2025
Manly Writers' Festival @manlywritersfest.bsky.social Stories Across Manly. A literary festival for readers, writers, and thinkers. March 18-21, 2027. Gayamagal & Garigal Land, Manly (Sydney).
www.manlywritersfestival.org.au
Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social Novelist, essayist, comms professional. Author of THE NIGHT IS NOT FOR YOU (Wildfire Books; Orbit US/Run for It) and BRIDE OF THE SEA (Tin House).
Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social Exploring the Past, Engaging the Present, Imagining the Future. #Palestine #Gaza #Sudan #Congo #Indigenous #Solarpunk #Futurism Art Aya Ghanameh. https://ko-fi.com/baladimagazine
Editor @LaylaAzmiGoushey.bsky.social
“Identity is fluid" - Ruth Ann Skaff
Fatima J. Alharthi @timajamal.bsky.social Fiction writer
falharthi.com
Dr Matthew L Keegan @drkeegan.bsky.social Professor of Arabic Lit, reader of riddles, lecturer of the ostensibly old and obscure. Formerly in the bad place: Lit_as_Adab https://barnard.academia.edu/MatthewKeegan (Opinions expressed here are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.)
Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social Global Literary Theory on @medium.com engages poetics and collective liberation from a multilingual perspective. Home of the Palestine Writers Workshop and Lighthouse Collective. EIC @rrgould.bsky.social. https://medium.com/global-literary-theory
Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com