Writer, cat lady, John Ruskin obsessive, wrote a novel about medieval mystics. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
Professor of Creative Pedagogies | Poet | Game Designer | Slow AI
#SciComm #HigherEd #Poetry #GenAI
https://theslowai.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/sam.illingworth
poet, teacher, PhD student. Wild swimmer. Editor at Yaffle/Yaffle's Nest
Living, working and writing in The Yorkshire Dales
Scotland-based, poetry and fiction. Published in Dreich magazine.
Novelist and documentary filmmaker. Also writing a PhD.
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/
writer in Scotland. likes being outside
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.
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
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.
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
literary catgirl | author of Deliver Me, Gag Reflex, Nudes, & Animals Eat Each Other | phd candidate at university of glasgow | editor @thecreativeindependent.com 🌀
“i’m the bigger dog only for now.” —peter christopher
🐇linktr.ee/ellenash
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
Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Writer querying my first novel and writing another, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own. Shetlander in Aberdeen. https://linktr.ee/tooriekep
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.
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)
Bae: @pegasusunder.bsky.social
www.lindzmcleod.co.uk
Journalist, author, filmmaker and broadcaster. Writer at Large with @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Made in Ireland, found in Scotland
MDANT🎖️
AKA ‘the kind of strutting cosmopolitan socialist who’s made for Bluesky’
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
Books featuring Governor Finn Black, ex-Royal Marine and prison governor. Fictional character documented by Tony C. Scott, a member of the Crime Writers' Association and former prison governor.
www.prisoncrime.club #prisoncrimeclub #author
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 📖
playwright, director, highlander / messages from the deep (they/them)
represented by Brennan Artists, IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship 2026
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
In Edinburgh. Director, playwright, librettist, acting coach & dramaturg. Possible revenant. Prone to biting. Site: www.jenmcgregor.com.
Author. Scottish historical fiction and eco- adventures for kids. 2x Young Quills Winner. 🎭 Teacher, ✝️, 🏴 🇩🇪, Highlands.
www.barbarahenderson.co.uk
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.
Scots language poet 🏴
Author of "Contermacious Temerity" and "Rede Wi Yer Hert" from Dreich Publications. Next collection coming 2026 with Drunk Muse Press.
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
(I don't use Bluesky for DMs)
I do things with wool & words. She/her. Tired. 🏴🇩🇰🏳️🌈
These are all my personal views and do not represent anyone else. Find my stuff at kariebookish.net
Edinburgh based osteopath under the spell of the sensuous. Writer of biographical stories with courage and freedom at heart. Nature lover. https://linktr.ee/mmonro276 If you fill my feed with reposted political rants I will unfollow.
Literary Agent and Director at LBA Books
💙📚Writer and Glasweigan chancer. 📖A BAD BAD PLACE Agents:
Euan Thorneycroft & Oli Munsen @AMHeath
Editor: Finn Cotton Transworld Penguin
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!)
ᴅᴀʀᴋ ʏᴀ ꜰᴀɴᴛᴀꜱʏ & ꜱᴄɪ-ꜰɪ. ᴍᴏʀᴀʟʟʏ ɢʀᴇʏ ɢɪʀʟꜱ. ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴛᴀᴋᴇꜱ. ɴᴏ ᴍᴇʀᴄʏ.
ᴀᴜᴛʜᴏʀ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍɪʀʀᴏʀᴅᴏᴍ ʟᴇɢᴇɴᴅꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴜɪɴᴇᴅ ꜱᴋʏᴇ ᴛʀɪʟᴏɢʏ.
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.
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.
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
Historian. Cartoonist. Atheist. Scot. Author of 'The Second Disruption,' 'Evansville in WW2’, 'The Cartoons of KK Knecht' and 'Lost Evansville" and wrote the documentary ’Evansville at War.’ He/Him🏳️🌈
Writer, crime fiction/fantasy junkie, vintage rock chick & gamer, slow runner and book fiend. UofG MLitt grad.
Novelist, screenwriter, freelance dev editor. Crime/thriller/sff/horror. General miscreant. Dad of cats. Scottish. Latest Book: THE FRIDAY GIRL (as R.D. McLean)
https://www.russeldmcleanbooks.com
Scottish fiction writer.
The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay and The Paris Peacemakers available now.
Represented by Jenny Brown Associates.
Scriever/Braidcaster in Scots, English, an a wheen ither leids forbye.
Writer/Broadcaster in English, Scots and a few other languages as well. Passionate about Scottish independence, my wife, my weans and grandweans. Oh, and Scotland & Dundee United.
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
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
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
Hyperlocal aesthete, spiritual atheist, professional dilettante
https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall
writer of historical fiction and fantasy; lover of nature, folklore and food; singer, mum, PhD; Polish in Scotland
Author of Tarbloch Book Club Series. #Psychologicalthriller writer #amquerying
grandmother, gardener, orienteer and qigong teacher. #shouldknowbetter
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Join our online Book Club seahorsebookstore.com
Editor | Creative Mentor | RTT | flowmagic.org
Neurosparkly Writer & Editor
Query: MG Urban Fantasy 🐙
Exhausted academic, second class.
Publishing Lecturer at the University of Stirling. Researcher of smartphone storytelling. Author of books on Paris, London, Scotland, cemeteries, chess, & dragons. Erstwhile doer of other things. Often mediocre. He/Him
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 📚🏴
[she/her]
Schools Co-ordinator with Scottish Book Trust ✏️📚
Former Bookseller; always a reader 📖
I also enjoy coffee, climbing, mountains and cats! 🧗♀️🏔️🐾
Opinions always my own ✨
Scottish Book Trust
Regional Outreach Coordinator, Highland
📚 #ReadingSchools #ReadWriteCount
🍎 Former Primary Teacher
* All views are my own *
School Communities Manager at Scottish Book Trust. MEd Children’s Literature and Literacies graduate. PGDE primary associate tutor. Qualified primary teacher. She/her
Programme Officer - eResources with the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC)
Developing a single digital platform and a national e-resources collection for Scotland's public libraries.
https://scottishlibraries.org/
Imprint of indie publisher Floris Books (@florisbooks.bsky.social).
We specialise in children's books for tots to teens - all with a Scottish twist!
discoverkelpies.co.uk
Note: we do stories, not statues!
Sharing the stories of Scotland and beyond, past, present and future. Home to TRACS with Scottish Storytelling Forum & Traditional Music Forum.
https://linktr.ee/scottishstorytellingcentre
Director of CILIPS, the professional body for library and information workers in Scotland
The Scottish branch of the Society of Young Publishers, supporting junior and aspiring publishing professionals.
https://linktr.ee/SYPScotland
petrajohanaponcarova.com | Research, poetry & translation between Gaelic, Czech & English | Rannsachadh, bàrdachd & eadar-theangachadh eadar Gàidhlig, Seicis & Beurla
Scotland’s International Festival of Crime Writing. Stirling. 12-14th September 2025.
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
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/
https://scotlit-iassl.org | Promoting Scottish literatures globally
Senior Publicity Manager at Nosy Crow (views my own). General lover of books, cats, tea and Gilmore Girls.
Scotland's leading independent educational publisher, dedicated to making high-quality resources for the Scottish curriculum 📚
https://linktr.ee/bright_red_publishing
‘S e Bòrd na Gàidhlig am prìomh bhuidheann poblach le dleastanas Gàidhlig a bhrosnachadh agus a leasachadh.
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Bòrd na Gàidhlig is the principal public body responsible for promoting and developing Gaelic.
Cheerleader for Books and Beatles.
20+ years in the book trade.
Supporting publishers @publishingscotland.bsky.social
Editor @booksfromscotland.bsky.social
Author of Beatles 101.
Gimme all yer culture!
Reading Minds - a literary festival with a difference! Join us for a weekend of wellbeing through books on the West coast of Scotland 🏴
Acair publish award-winning books in Gaelic and in English. Tha Acair a' foillseachadh ann an Gàidhlig agus Beurla!
@acairbooks
Le taic bho Bhòrd na Gàidhlig.
Growing a love of reading for 25 years. Great authors, great stories, no barriers: leading publisher of dyslexia-friendly books.
https://linktr.ee/BarringtonStoke #GoAllIn2026
Books to live by, learn from and love. Publishing from Edinburgh and London. An imprint of Bonnier Books UK.
Indie bookshop and publishing company in Wigtown, Scotland's National Booktown.
A queer micro press focused on intersectional, LGBTQIA+ stories and authors. Based in Scotland.
Submissions: closed.
https://www.knighterrantpress.com/
Creative Publishing Services
Book design, picture research & rights.
Currently learning Norwegian.
www.sharonmcteir.co.uk
Melrose, Scottish Borders 🏴
📚🐈
Award-winning publisher of outstanding Latin American literature. Edinburgh.
charcopress.com
Indie publisher based in Edinburgh. We specialise in beautiful books for children and fascinating non-fiction for adults. Check out our imprint @discoverkelpies.bsky.social
Visit us online - florisbooks.co.uk
Publisher. Always independent.
https://canongate.co.uk
We are publishing Ceitidh Chaimbeul • Mohammed Moussa • Luca Serra
Award Winning Small Press. SFF in Fiction and Academia. Est. 2015. Member of Publishing Scotland. https://www.lunapresspublishing.com
Portobello Book Festival is a volunteer run festival, taking place over the first weekend of October.
A literary agency based in Edinburgh.
https://linktr.ee/portobelloliterary
Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Established on the Island of South Uist, ThunderPoint has its roots in Scotland and is a Publishing Member of Publishing Scotland. We now also have an editorial office in Wales.
Publisher of books that tell real stories about real football. Multi-award-nominated podcast & blog @magicspongers. Site: https://halcyonpublishing.co.uk/
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
linktr.ee/goldenharebooks
Stories that stay with you. Gothic, horror and dark fiction books.
Trade assoc & charity supporting book publishing.
Foillseachadh Alba in Gaelic.
https://www.publishingscotland.org/
Est. 2007 at the University of Glasgow for the development of research, scholarship and teaching in the area of Robert Burns (1759-96).
Winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize, 2023.
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
Online review journal | Writing from Glasgow to the world | ISSN 2053-0560 | Enquiries to glasgowreview@gmail.com
Chaidh Comhairle nan Leabhraichean a stèidheachadh gus leughadh, sgrìobhadh agus litreachas na Gàidhlig a leudachadh.
Mailing list: http://eepurl.com/dixsDj
Advocacy, networking, promoting Scottish & Scotland-based writers of colour, literary events & spaces. scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org
