The Alasdair Gray Archive
Scottish Charity SC052417 caring for Gray’s studio & visual/literary material. Education & New Commissions. Inclusive Community. Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social
@oliverklangmead.bsky.social
CALYPSO out now from Titan Books // Lecturer at Lancaster
@joannanadin.bsky.social
Professor of writing books, Sunday Times bestseller, Essex Girl. Autistic. Never knowingly underdressed. She/her. Here for ALL the witches. And the pigeons. https://joannanadin.com/ https://instagram.com/jonadin
@zdmarriott.bsky.social
Novelist, RLF Fellow, PhD Candidate at the Open University. Working class autistic spoonie. Aro/ace. She/they. Very proud to be represented by @agentkateshaw.bsky.social. THE MOONLIT MAZE is coming from @headlinebooks.bsky.social 2025! No dms pls.
@ginablaxill.bsky.social
YA author of twisty thrillers. Classic crime enthusiast, coffee drinker and cat parent. Not as dark as my books! Latest: LOVE YOU TO DEATH (Scholastic, 2023). Essex Libraries Author in Residence 2024.
@whyiwrite.bsky.social
Author of Remembered and Curdle Creek, former editor at John Murray, Academic at Cambridge Uni, event host and podcaster. I also write kidlit, short scripts, nonfiction essays, poems
@nessharbour.bsky.social
Author. 📚♿️PhD. Academic. Programme Leader BA Creative Writing. Uni of Winchester. SoA. Always looking for the positive in a complicated life
@judithheneghan.bsky.social
Novels SNEGUROCHKA and also BIRDEYE (Salt), rep Lutyens & Rubinstein, leads MA Creative Writing at Winchester Uni, mentor for Jericho Writers, mother of tall ones, out for a walk.
@taniahershman.bsky.social
Queer writer of odd things: stories/poems/hybrids. New hybrid CNF book coming 2025. Permissioner, founder of Unbox Your Words. She/they 🏳️🌈 www.taniahershman.com; https://taniahershman.substack.com/; https://www.instagram.com/tania_hershman_writes
@sambeckbessinger.bsky.social
Novelist, creative writing lecturer & aspiring bog witch. FEMME FERAL (my perimenopausal werewolf novel) is out summer 2026 🐺 www.sambeckbessinger.com She/her 🏳️🌈🇿🇦🇬🇧
@emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social
Writes fiction & non-fiction, teaches, blogs @ This Itch of Writing https://linktr.ee/emmadarwinwriter
@lilydunn.bsky.social
Sins of My Father ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Guardian Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Academic. Memoir lover. #lifewriting Co-founder @londonlitlab.bsky.social Find me here: https://lilydunn.substack.com/
@drlornagibb.bsky.social
Writer, Fiction & Non-fiction. Associate Professor Stirling. Rep'd by Peter Straus at RCW. New book 2025 Rare Tongues - Secret Stories of Hidden Languages (Atlantic & Princeton). Also a novelist. Once a dancer, medievalist, phonologist..
@gitaralleigh.bsky.social
Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doctor. Kids: The Destiny of Minou Moonshine 🐘 The Voyage of Sam Singh 🦜 @zephyrbooks.bsky.social Poetry: Siren 🧜🏽♀️ @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social A Terrible Thing 🧝🏽♀️ (Bad Betty Press) https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
@chennessybooks.bsky.social
Writer, book critic, creative writing facilitator. Latest book: IN THE MOVIE OF HER LIFE (short stories, Doire Press, 2025). Website: http://www.clairehennessy.com/ Blog: https://clairehennessy.substack.com/ Workshops: https://www.clairehennessy.com/store
@shelleyharris.bsky.social
Writer (JUBILEE and VIGILANTE, W&N), Creative Writing lecturer at the University of Reading. Dogs, food and various forms of anguish.
@catherinespooner.bsky.social
Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her
@lucyenglish.bsky.social
Spoken word poet, novelist, poetry filmmaker. Professor of Creative Enterprise, co-director of Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival. Loves trees. https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0034P8U64 https://canceralleyproject.com https://thebookofhours.org
@kkwiltshire.bsky.social
Reader in Creative Writing, love reading, love writing! Programme Leader for Creative Writing and convenor for the Fiction Writer’s Network research group at EHU, former British Academy Innovation Fellow - but views all my own.
@jlimburg.bsky.social
Writer, poet, creative writing lecturer, autistic, Jewish, likes cats. Latest book Letters to my Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood.
@bookwormvaught.bsky.social
Author of many books, Creative Writing & English teacher, Curae prize, campaigner, mum of 3 lads. Rep. @keslupo Maass Agency, NYC Wilts, Wales, Southern US https://linktr.ee/bookwormvaught?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=00043ddf-6cad-43e1-8c8a-d89
@lucysweetman.bsky.social
Writer, lecturer, something else. Meet me here for writing, HE, politics, culture and sport. Life, then. Now writing @ https://lucy-sweetman-writing.ghost.io/
@rebeccatamas.bsky.social
🌿 Poet & nonfiction writer. ‘Strangers: Essays on the Human & Nonhuman’ w/Makina Books. 'WITCH' w/Penned in the Margins. (https://makinabooks.com/product/strangers/)
@jonathangibbs.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St Georges, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
@erinvincent.bsky.social
Author of Grief Girl (Penguin Random House US/Pan Macmillan Aus) / PhD Candidate www.erinvincent.com
@writercrow.bsky.social
Writer of books, lecturer of creative writing, sometime Guardian/Bookseller/Stylist journalist. The Illumination of Ursula Flight + Badly Behaved Women.
@huwlewisjones.bsky.social
Author and Expedition Leader. Books: The Writer’s Map, Explorers Sketchbooks, Swallowed by a Whale, Bad Apple, Blue Badger, Clive Penguin, Are Wolves Afraid of the Dark? etc. Teach by day, write by night, icebergs in my holidays. 🐧📚❄️
@robertsheppard.bsky.social
Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
@jencalleja.bsky.social
Writer of FAIR / GOBLINHOOD / VEHICLE / DUST SUCKER, translator of German-lang lit, publisher of Maltese lit at Praspar Press. Tutor, Granta Writers’ Workshop. Hastings, UK. www.jencalleja.com
@bethunderdown.bsky.social
Novelist with Penguin Viking, creative writing teacher with the University of Manchester and Faber Academy. Hiking, gardening, crochet, coeliac disease: old-person stuff.
@jenbowden12.bsky.social
Journalist | Writer repped by @liverpoollit @brendo_ed | Editor | Northern Voices podcast | Dr of Northern stories | #TeamHorn | Pityakker linktr.ee/jenbowden12
@chrisbogle.bsky.social
Practice PhD candidate in fine art @ Northumbria Uni Writer | Filmmaker | Dad with #ADHD Reimagining a post capitalist road novel as auto-text. Interests: class transgression, speculation, rebellious AF research www.chrisbogle.com
@meganbradbury.bsky.social
Writer, editor, creative writing mentor, tutor @ National Centre for Writing. EVERYONE IS WATCHING / Picador / Neri Pozza / Czarna Owca / Elsinore. Repped by Sophie Lambert. www.meganbradbury.com.
@anitasethi.bsky.social
🌾writer ✍🏽walker👣 talker🎤 Judge, Orwell Prize 2025 Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for #Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje. FRGS. Mancunian 🐝 anitasethi.com
@afterdinnerconversation.com
Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers. Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
@theorkneynews.bsky.social
An online independent media from the islands of Orkney. Not for profit company. https://theorkneynews.scot/
@nybooks.com
‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
@rosswilcockmedia.bsky.social
Gay/ disabled Scottish poet, writer and activist. 🏳️🌈🏴 open mics 2 times a month. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
@glasgowprintstudio.bsky.social
Promoting contemporary and innovative printmaking.
@unistirarchives.bsky.social
News, events and activities related to the collections held in the University of Stirling Archives. Find out more at: https://libguides.stir.ac.uk/archives
@scotsarchives.bsky.social
We provide leadership for the archives and records management sector in Scotland. Lead. Inform. Inspire. Website: https://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/
@claireogalla.bsky.social
Bookshelves and teapot always brimming over...📚☕️ producer @bbcscotlearn/@bbcbitesize and mum to two amazing wee people. Normally found by the sea. 🌊
@imaginedspaces.bsky.social
We see writing as making & thinking, & thinking as a means of making writing. We value exchanges, initiating conversations with artists and writers & people from all walks of life to explore what it means to be alive today. Website: imaginedspaces.org
@backlisted.bsky.social
John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson.bsky.social and Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social giving new life to old books every fortnight. Bookshop.org Indie Champion 2023. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
@kevwilliamson.bsky.social
Writer, author, poetry, editor, publisher. Founder of Rebel Inc. Co-founder of Bella Caledonia. Co-founder of Neu! Reekie! Co-founder of Push The Boat Out international poetry festival. MDANT. Love poetry, books, chess, volcanoes, Hibs. Citizen of Leith