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I like books. Wrote ‘The Year of Reading Dangerously’. Now writing ‘Inventory: An Unreliable Guide to My Record Collection’, available weekly via Backlisted patreon.com/backlisted. I don’t only like books. No DM please.
Representative for Texas House District 134 (Houston, Bellaire, Southside Place, and West University).
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The Self-Pub Hub (Indie Book Site)
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Founder of the Bylines Network.
Founder of Scientists for EU.
Lover of science, Europe and humanity. 🙌
The poetry magazine with a different editor every issue. Join #TheMix
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Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social.
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Festival of Poetry & Spoken Word ✨#Brum and online✨ Online Multi-press Poetry-only Bookshop @vervepoetryshop✨
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Editor, writer and translator. Dark Night: Poems & Selected Prose of John of the Cross (Penguin Classics, 2026)
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Poet & performer. Battery Rocks (Seren 2024). 'dance as if' out with Verve Sept 25. Winner of Keats-Shelley Prize, Arthur Welton Award & Saboteur Award. Swimmer & walker. Loves dance & art. Vegan. PhD - Goldsmiths. Also on insta.
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Poetry and other bits of writing | Pit Lullabies with Bloodaxe Books and The Quick and Liffey Swim with Dedalus Press | Essays in Tolka, The Stinging Fly and The Dublin Review | Poetry editor at Banshee | New Arcana forthcoming Sept 25 from Bloodaxe Books.
Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018
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Poet, activist, teacher, retired mother
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE (The New Press) available now; award-winning journo based in London; bylines at The Nation, In These Times, LARB, and elsewhere.
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Tennis Lessons (2020)
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Forthcoming: to pieces (2026)
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Scottish-based literary agency representing literary fiction, non-fiction, crime fiction & writing for children.
Let’s see if this is any better. Literary Agent at the North Lit Agency, based in Edinburgh.
A UK literary agency based in the North/Scotland.
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Independent publisher, committed to publishing well written books worth reading.
SUP is a fully open access and not-for-profit university press coordinated through SCURL and managed by 20 university libraries across Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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A non-profit independent literary and arts publisher based in Scotland.
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Scotland-based publisher of comics, graphic novels and gamebooks. Founded by @simonbirks.com and @mariellewrites.bsky.social Links at https://linktr.ee/bluefoxcomics
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Online review journal | Writing from Glasgow to the world | ISSN 2053-0560 | Enquiries to glasgowreview@gmail.com
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
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.
Trade assoc & charity supporting book publishing.
Foillseachadh Alba in Gaelic.
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Stories that stay with you. Gothic, horror and dark fiction books.
Publisher of books that tell real stories about real football. Multi-award-nominated podcast & blog @magicspongers. Site: https://halcyonpublishing.co.uk/
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.
Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
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A literary agency based in Edinburgh.
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Portobello Book Festival is a volunteer run festival, taking place over the first weekend of October.
Award Winning Small Press. SFF in Fiction and Academia. Est. 2015. Member of Publishing Scotland. https://www.lunapresspublishing.com
We are publishing Ceitidh Chaimbeul • Mohammed Moussa • Luca Serra
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
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Award-winning publisher of outstanding Latin American literature. Edinburgh.
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Creative Publishing Services
Book design, picture research & rights.
Currently learning Norwegian.
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Melrose, Scottish Borders 🏴
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A queer micro press focused on intersectional, LGBTQIA+ stories and authors. Based in Scotland.
Submissions: closed.
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Indie bookshop and publishing company in Wigtown, Scotland's National Booktown.
Books to live by, learn from and love. Publishing from Edinburgh and London. An imprint of Bonnier Books UK.
Growing a love of reading for 25 years. Great authors, great stories, no barriers: leading publisher of dyslexia-friendly books.
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Acair publish award-winning books in Gaelic and in English. Tha Acair a' foillseachadh ann an Gàidhlig agus Beurla!
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Le taic bho Bhòrd na Gàidhlig.
Reading Minds - a literary festival with a difference! Join us for a weekend of wellbeing through books on the West coast of Scotland 🏴
Cheerleader for Books and Beatles.
20+ years in the book trade.
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Author of Beatles 101.
Gimme all yer culture!
‘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.
Scotland's leading independent educational publisher, dedicated to making high-quality resources for the Scottish curriculum 📚
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Senior Publicity Manager at Nosy Crow (views my own). General lover of books, cats, tea and Gilmore Girls.
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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:
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Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing.
🖊️ 2026 Festival 5-7 June, in Edinburgh & online. Tickets on Sale 1 March 2026
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Scotland’s International Festival of Crime Writing. Stirling. 12-14th September 2025.
petrajohanaponcarova.com | Research, poetry & translation between Gaelic, Czech & English | Rannsachadh, bàrdachd & eadar-theangachadh eadar Gàidhlig, Seicis & Beurla
The Scottish branch of the Society of Young Publishers, supporting junior and aspiring publishing professionals.
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Director of CILIPS, the professional body for library and information workers in Scotland
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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Imprint of indie publisher Floris Books (@florisbooks.bsky.social).
We specialise in children's books for tots to teens - all with a Scottish twist!
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Note: we do stories, not statues!
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.
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School Communities Manager at Scottish Book Trust. MEd Children’s Literature and Literacies graduate. PGDE primary associate tutor. Qualified primary teacher. She/her
Scottish Book Trust
Regional Outreach Coordinator, Highland
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Former Bookseller; always a reader 📖
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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 📚🏴
Scotland’s membership and development body for professional dance, opera and theatre 💙
Book lover, film watcher, food maker, image taker
flip-flop is my nature
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Iris litreachais Ghàidhlig. A’ brosnachadh sgrìobhadh de gach seòrsa: ficsean, bàrdachd, neo-fhicsean, lèirmheasan.
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Foillsichte le CLÀR.
Thwarted Madcap Heiress. Free-range book festival programmer, editor, writer, interviewer, reviewer, prize judge. Programmer, Wigtown Book Festival 2026. www.wigtownbookfestival.com
Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival 21-23 November 2025
Festival, open mic, workshops, podcasts, and more.
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Literary agent with Fraser Ross Associates, reader, Midlothian Highlands inhabitant, island lover, beach walker, minder of Taggart
We are Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), an ambitious organisation supporting economic and community development across half of Scotland from Shetland to Argyll, and the Outer Hebrides to Moray.
Scotland's premier spoken word organisation, learn more about our work at iamloud.co
Loud Poets: Best Regular UK Spoken Word Night 2023
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Championing the LGBTQ+ Community in the Scottish Literary Scene
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Literary agent with Fraser Ross Associates, book-lover, walker, single cat lady still searching for the right cat.
Writer & musician. 19th novel The Transcendent Tide out now. Tombstoning, The Ossians and Ghost Notes all published in 2026. Album Crow Hill out now. Drummer for Fun Lovin' Crime Writers. www.dougjohnstone.com
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Author of Tarbloch Book Club Series. #Psychologicalthriller writer #amquerying
grandmother, gardener, orienteer and qigong teacher. #shouldknowbetter
writer of historical fiction and fantasy; lover of nature, folklore and food; singer, mum, PhD; Polish in Scotland
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.
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
A free spirit. Also crime writer & co-founder of the @BloodyScotland international crime writing festival.
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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
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Scots language poet 🏴
Author of "Contermacious Temerity" and "Rede Wi Yer Hert" from Dreich Publications. Next collection coming 2026 with Drunk Muse Press.
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
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
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.
Scottish fiction writer.
The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay and The Paris Peacemakers available now.
Represented by Jenny Brown Associates.
Novelist, screenwriter, freelance dev editor. Crime/thriller/sff/horror. General miscreant. Dad of cats. Scottish. Latest Book: THE FRIDAY GIRL (as R.D. McLean)
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Writer, crime fiction/fantasy junkie, vintage rock chick & gamer, slow runner and book fiend. UofG MLitt grad.
A Poet & Writer who loves all things bookish and walking her dog in the beautiful Fife countryside.
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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🏳️🌈
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
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.
