Ellen Forkin
I’m a chronically ill artist, writer and poet living in beautiful Orkney with a passion for folklore, myth and magic. Visit my website: www.ellenforkin.co.uk
@abeaumontbooks.bsky.social
🦉Folkloric books, folk music, gothic meanders 📚Indie Press 2025 Distinguished Favourite 🦌 Folk horror obsessed 🐉British Fantasy Soc London Event Org 🌊Books @brigidsgatepress
@rachellshaw.bsky.social
Comms for Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, writer, illustrator, explorer of the nearby wild with a slightly obsessive interest in pangolins
@concordmoose.bsky.social
Disabled Poets Prize 2024 ‘Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed’ https://bit.ly/3X1A8aQ ‘Skin the Rabbit’ out @The Braag 26/3/25. Writes about rivers, absurdity & time +Arts Council £. Half poet, half tutor, half clown. Sheffield. www.susiewilsonpoet.com
@medhawrites.bsky.social
Poet, editor and translator between Edinburgh, London and Delhi. SciencesPo/ UoE. TEDx speaker, New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). Ed-at-large at Pen and Anvil Press, MA. My book ‘Afterbody’ is out soon through Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh.
@foundationswift.bsky.social
Advancing the craft, creativity and wellbeing of women poets in the UK
@poetrybusiness.bsky.social
Smith|Doorstop Books • New Poets List • International Book & Pamphlet Competition • New Poets Prize • Writer Development Agency https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/
@esloudon.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, former charity consultant. MA for 25 years, now back in UK. A STRANGER IN BAGHDAD (AUC) 2024 SIBF award Best International Fiction. For published poetry see www.elizabethloudon.com. Trustee @waywardprods.bksy.social.
@garvansam.bsky.social
Poet. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
@stephendelaney.bsky.social
Writer, editor, human. Words in New World Writing, @BendingGenres, Euphony, @TahomaReview, The Believer, and elsewhere. 💙 #foreignlit #frogs
@newadultprize.bsky.social
A new book prize celebrating the new adult fiction space and its readers🔮 Entries open on April 30th
@scooterwriter.bsky.social
Co-Directs National Flash Fiction Day. Author of NIFs ‘Finding a Way' (Ad Hoc Fiction), ‘An Inheritance' (V.Press), ‘A Tricky Dance’ (Alien Buddha Press), William Prichard & Co’ (Arroyo Seco Press). dianesimmons.co.uk
@rwilliamparmenter.com
Indie-author | Poet | Artist | Dad | Atheist | Humanist | I say ‘awesome’ a lot | he/him ; 💛🩵🩷💜💙🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ https://lnk.bio/rwilliamparmenter
@dvpit.bsky.social
pitch event for creators from marginalized communities. Now hosted on Bluesky! https://dvpit.carrd.co/
@inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks https://inkfishmag.com
@elsewhen.press
A small independent publisher specialising in Speculative Fiction, based in the South East of England, established in 2011. Posts here will be by Peter, Editorial Director and general factotum. #SFF
@jwtba.bsky.social
Q&A interviews with the Author - Book Recommendations - Book Reviews - Future Reads https://linktr.ee/jwt_bookadventures
@weeknightwriters.bsky.social
We host virtual events for authors! Find out more at https://ko-fi.com/weeknightwriters
@tapsalteerie.bsky.social
An independent poetry publishing house based in rural Aberdeenshire | www.tapsalteerie.co.uk | join the Scottish poetry Discord: discord.gg/9bC6Gp2ZJM | & check out our imprint Stewed Rhubarb Press: https://stewedrhubarb.org/
@authorandie.bsky.social
Indie author of eco-fantasy with a touch of romance. The Laughter of the Sun series. 1. 🐳 The Mermaid's Wrath 2. 🐝 The Sorrow of Bees 3. 🐻❄️ Coming this summer! Find links at https://andieholman.com
@lemonjellypress.bsky.social
Independent publisher of fiction, poetry, and children’s books. Championing joyful creativity and fresh voices from the Isle of Wight and beyond
@akairondragon.ca
🇨🇦 Adult dark scifantasy author, currently working on the All Our Sins Saga, the first stories of the Akrodaxis. Crocheter. Knitter. Artist. Gamer. She/her. Visit me at akairondragon.ca
@fionamossman.bsky.social
she/her 📖 Writer | Librarian 📍 Edinburgh | Burntisland | Cairngorms Gleefully geeky. Writes SFF short stories, among other word-things. Loves books, mountains, words, fantastic worlds, my cat Mishka & more. 💗💜💙 Find me at https://www.fionamossman.com
@anna-orridge.bsky.social
Climate crisis, books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. Shabby w/o the chic. Eco-horror novella PHENGARIS out with @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social, May 2025 Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
@brethertonwords.bsky.social
Storyteller, publisher, Homo sapiens (but none the wiser.) Bone Lines soon followed by book 2. Rather likes Taking Liberties and Breaking Through. www.breakthroughbookcollective.com
@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
@milliethepoet.bsky.social
Poet/childless/dyspraxic/owned by cats.Sheffield, England. Debut pamphlet 'Imprint' out now from https://fawnpress.co.uk/ (as Kathryn Millington)
@thedodgemag.bsky.social
Literary magazine est. 1979, reimagined 2021. Translations & environmental writing. Human, animal, nature connections. https://www.thedodgemag.com/ SUBS OPEN IN FICTION, POETRY, CNF, TRANSLATION, AND ART!
@folklorelibrary.bsky.social
Registered Charity No: 1203418. Patron: Michael Rosen Preserving traditional heritage and folklore materials for the future, and delivering these through open access. Focus on at-risk heritage and archives. Online at www.folklorelibrary.com
@nualaoconnor.bsky.social
Writer. Irish. Autistic. Latest book: Menagerie (poetry). https://nualaoconnor.com/
@franmoldaschl.bsky.social
https://buymeacoffee.com/franmoldaschl Kelpies Prize for Writing Winner Mature #archaeology student Children's book reviewer Neurodivergent inquisitivenewt.com @northodoxpress.bsky.social (Any pronouns)🏳️🌈
@judehwriter2.bsky.social
Founder Bath Flash Award, directs AdHocFiction + Flash Fiction Festival Flash collection Clearly Defined Clouds out now s/l Bridport x 4, s/l SmokeLong Mikey x2, Best Microfictions x2 Pushcart nominated
@thefictiondesk.com
We’ve been publishing anthologies of new short fiction since 2010. Based in Scotland.
@proppencil.bsky.social
Short Fiction Journal | Competitions | Workshops https://thepropellingpencil.com/ Editor in Charge: @nivenaudrey.bsky.social
@horrorculturist.bsky.social
Spammers get blocked. | Gothic gardener. 🇨🇦. Goth, goblincore, dark art, horror, Halloween, poisonous plants. Nyctophile. Autistic murder hornet. Genderqueer. Pan. They/them. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
@saraharveypatrick.bsky.social
Draws comics, analyzes data, walks a cat on a leash like a samurai
@lauraswriting.bsky.social
Poet, writing tutor, former Stirling Makar. Lapsed parachutist with a chronic low-boredom threshold. ‘Truth Lies’ - Red Squirrel Press ‘Endless Blue’ - Stewed Rhubarb Press ‘Wellspring’ - Figment Books ‘Magpie Mind’ - Figment Books figmentcreativity.com
@shetlandlibrary.bsky.social
Free, fun, informative and educational - public and school library services for Shetland. Further north than Orkney. 01595 743868 shetlandlibrary@shetland.gov.uk
@davidcflanagan.bsky.social
Writer. Film & TV fixer. Bad surfer & skater. Gym rat. Mountain lover. Author of the Uncle Pete adventure stories, and surf/skate memoir, Board.
@vikkerr.bsky.social
Team Manager (Libraries & Archives) at Orkney Islands Council. Love books and old, stoory documents 🙂 Views all my own.
@ragnasislands.bsky.social
A project researching the place-names of Orkney & Fair Isle built around a new translation of The Saga of the Earls of Orkney by @judithjesch.bsky.social Find us at https://shorturl.at/ouzL0
@haridraws.bsky.social
Hopeless forest romantic, Scotland. ♿ 🏳️⚧️ (they) Award-winning author/ illustrator of queer historical romance & fantasy. Makes gamebooks (like INTO THE TOWER) and graphic novels (I SHALL NEVER FALL IN LOVE, out now) https://linktr.ee/haridraws
@natlibscot.bsky.social
Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it.
@theweeowl.bsky.social
I'm a Scottish artist, painting and drawing nature: landscape, birds, insects, animals and flowers. You will find my work at 'The Wee Owl Art' on Etsy. Here's a link to my shop and more: https://linktr.ee/The.Wee.Owl.Studio