Freya Hellier
I make radio & podcasts about music, society, sex + culture, ex
@bbcradio3. Scottish, parent, crap pianist, hopeful accordionist.
Producing some of Screenshot on BBC Radio 4, Menopause Unmuted, + Everything Jazz
https://linktr.ee/freyahellier
@hiddendoorarts.bsky.social
11-15 June @ The Paper Factory, Edinburgh. Transforming forgotten and disused spaces with visual art, music, performances and more #HiddenDoorFestival
@lovesanimation.bsky.social
Celebrating 15 years of the UK's longest-running film festival celebrating Japanese animation. November 1st - 18th 2024! Glasgow: 1st - 3rd Nov | Edinburgh: 4th - 10th Nov
@tagsfest.co.uk
Tabletop & Graphic Storytelling Festival 🏷️ 25/26 October 2025 ✉️ hello@tagsfest.co.uk 📍 Fruitmarket, Edinburgh 🏴 Run by @evegwood.com & @affablebrian.bsky.social
@juliefowlis.bsky.social
Singer, musician, voice artist, composer. Gàidhlig/Gaelic. Singer on Disney Pixar’s ‘Brave’. TV/radio presenter and creative collaborator. Love the Scottish outdoors and sport. www.juliefowlis.com / Facebook / Instagram
@leughleabhar.bsky.social
Chaidh Comhairle nan Leabhraichean a stèidheachadh gus leughadh, sgrìobhadh agus litreachas na Gàidhlig a leudachadh. Mailing list: http://eepurl.com/dixsDj
@wilsonmcleod.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of Gaelic, University of Edinburgh Dùn Èideann
@dundeeculture.bsky.social
🏴❤️ Showcasing Dundee to the world by promoting cultural news, stories & events fae oor bonnie wee city! #DundeeForEveryone
@govanstones.bsky.social
Stunning Viking-Age sculpture collection from early medieval Strathclyde, held in A-listed Govan Old, and surrounded by our 1,500-year-old churchyard ⏰️ Open 7 days, 11am to 4pm 🎟 Entry is FREE!
@glasgowprintstudio.bsky.social
Promoting contemporary and innovative printmaking.
@whatsonglasgow.bsky.social
Your essential guide to what's on in Glasgow and beyond www.whatsonglasgow.co.uk Add your event for free at www.whatsonnetwork.co.uk
@iamloudpro.bsky.social
Scotland's premiere spoken word organisation Loud Poets: Best Regular UK Spoken Word Night 2023 iamloud.co / https://linktr.ee/IAmLoudPro
@pacetheatre.com
We make theatre for young people and families and run the UK's largest youth theatre. To donate £10 text PACE to 70191. We're building a new theatre venue for Paisley! Find out more at http://exchangetheatre.org
@jennybrownrigg.bsky.social
Curator and writer living in Glasgow, Scotland. Exhibitions Director at The Glasgow School of Art. Board member Glasgow Sculpture Studios and Pier Arts Centre. On GSA UCU committee. she/her www.jennybrownrigg.com
@samwd22.bsky.social
Indigenous Nacken (Scottish Traveller) 'artivist' Pro-Romani/Traveller rights. Makes Nacken Chaetrie (our traditional material culture). Anti-fascist. Writer/poet. Neurodivergent. Disabled. Cat and craft-daft. Engaged 💍 All views are my own.
@dialectographer.bsky.social
Artist-illustrator, teacher. Words and Pictures from the edges of this and that. Off 'The Shows'/post-industrial nomad mostly located in Glasgow, Scotland. Find me at: www.dialectograms.com, www.recollective.org.uk and https://preferredfictions.substack.co
@neilwilliamson.bsky.social
Words and music. Glasgow, Scotland he/him https://linktr.ee/neilwilliamson 📚 Latest thing: The Packet (part 3) in ParSec #13 https://tinyurl.com/3hah8dsc 📚 Next thing: The Cold Case in Absolute Zero anthology
@hutchingsmusic.bsky.social
Composer, climate campaigner, dad. Main site: https://hutchingsmusic.co.uk Songs trying to save the world: http://choirsforclimate.com Listen: http://soundcloud.com/hutchingsmusic Videos: http://youtube.com/@choirsforclimate he/they, Edinburgh
@cruckcottage.bsky.social
Historic cottage museum in the village of Torthorwald, near Dumfries. Last remaining example in the south of Scotland of a once common building type, now cared for by volunteers. We explore rural history, folklore, and traditions. www.cruckcottage.com
@wedale-bookshop.bsky.social
Welcoming and inclusive #ScottishBorders independent #bookshop near #Galashiels and #Lauder, #Scotland 🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Open in historic Stow (rhymes with wow!) in the Gala Valley Wed-Sun 10-4.30. www.wedalebooks.scot https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/Weda
@lighthousebks.bsky.social
Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space. Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
@kanaratron.bsky.social
Indie Developer/Director @ Polygon Treehouse (Mythwrecked & Röki) • BAFTA Breakthrough 2021 • BAFTA Games & The Game Awards nominee • 2 x BAFTA Juror • Industry speaker • He/him Dundee (Scotland)
@anotherplacepress.bsky.social
Small independent publisher showcasing contemporary photography which explores our relationship with 'place' - Run by @iainsarjeant.bsky.social https://anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/
@lhlew.bsky.social
Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Anti-racist, pro-trans, pro-housing, adoption-critical, Gàidhlig learner, BSL learner, musician, Trekkie, dysthymic, bleeding-heart cynic. She/her.
@constantfollower.bsky.social
Music. Dreamy slow-core(ish) Folk via Last Night From Glasgow, Shimmy Disc & Golden Hum Rec. New Album ‘The Smile You Send Out Returns To You’ out now. Bookings: craig@runwayartists.com https://www.constantfollower.com
@notnixon.com
I’m here to share the stuff that spills out my head, unchecked and probably unwise. notnixon.com
@kirstininnes.bsky.social
Author 📕Fishnet (2015) 📙Scabby Queen (2020) 📗Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches (2021) 📘currently writing The Book Of Risk (novel not self-help manual), a screenplay and a musical. Maw of boys. Quite tired, yes.
@monsgraupius.bsky.social
Scottish musician & musicologist. https://monsgraupius.org/biography • Concert giver. Archive seeker. • Founder, Grieg Society of Scotland. https://griegsocietyscotland.org/blog • Vice-chair, Norwegian Scottish Association.
@metaphrog.bsky.social
John Chalmers + Sandra Marrs aka Metaphrog Author / illustrator of kids graphic novels / comics. Rep’d by United Agents. Scottish + French. Glasgow. Wilomina out Sept 2026 from Scholastic UK https://metaphrog.com
@vavapoetry.bsky.social
Day job☀️ ASN classroom assistant Creative practice✍🏾 Poet [Scots + English] Drag alter ego🕺🏾👑 Uncle Tony vavapoetry@gmail.com
@jennicoutts.bsky.social
British Fantasy Award winner for Best Artist 2022, BFSA Award winner for best artwork in 2024, Art Editor of BFS Horizons, querying SF writer, NHS GP, goblin. Long suffering minion to an elderly rescue cat. Website: Jennicoutts.com Lesbian Asexual 🏳️🌈
@pbennett.bsky.social
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
@nebopeklo.bsky.social
Glasgow based illustrator under the pseudonym Nebo Peklo / Public sector worker 9-5 / Maw 24.7 / #MDANT / Views are my own www.nebo-peklo.co.uk
@neilslorance.com
I'm Neil. I like drawing pictures and comics. Owns famous tortoise. http://ko-fi.com/neilslorance
@mckeever.bsky.social
Scottish Literature, Regionalism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Book History
@valmcdermid.bsky.social
Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
@alisonmurray.bsky.social
Illustrator and author of picture books, big reader, over thinker, dog lover, screen printer, allotment grower, green, she / her http://www.everythingispattern.com
@lunapress.bsky.social
Award Winning Small Press. SFF in Fiction and Academia. Est. 2015. Member of Publishing Scotland. https://www.lunapresspublishing.com
@maisiechanwrites.bsky.social
🏆 Winner of the @JHALAKPRIZE & @BRADFORDBOASE for Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths 🐯 Tiger Warrior author 🔎 Very Merry Murder Club author Screenwriter @bbcwritersroom Scottish Voices. Lit Rep: @chloeseager https://linktr.ee/MaisieChanWrites
@quill.scot
Championing the LGBTQ+ Community in the Scottish Literary Scene https://www.quill.scot/
@marisapmurdoch.bsky.social
Cuban-Sicilian-American in Scotland. Documentary filmmaker and photographer. Exhibitions: Scottish Portrait Prize, Venice Bienniale, ICP NYC, NPG Scotland: You Are Here, Lover of rocks, mother of boys, wee wifey. marisapmurdoch.com Insta 📷 @marisapmurdoch
@belmontcinema.bsky.social
We're building a community-orientated and sustainable future for our Belmont Cinema. Email: info@belmontcinema.co.uk 🎟️
@flemingbaird.bsky.social
Composer. Studied Royal College of Music. PhD in music and linguistics. Arts Festival director. Teaching the MA in Creative Industries at Glasgow University www.flemingbaird.org
@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social
Bride of Art. Presenter: Front Row BBC Radio 4, Newswatch BBC1, Art of Persia BBC4, Broadcasting Press Guild Audio Presenter of the Year 2020. Sarf Londoner, spiritual Berliner,ex-Los Angelena https://samiraahmed.blog/
@graemebwilson.bsky.social
Saxophones, jazz & other improvising https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/graeme-wilson
@lanre-bakare.bsky.social
Culture writer, debut non-fiction WE WERE THERE out 17 April 2025 via The Bodley Head https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/453942/we-were-there-by-bakare-lanre/9781847927477
@pkrugman.bsky.social
@christinalefou.bsky.social
~old hollywood, crime films, boxing, italian cinema, glamour & beauty ~ Sky Arts talking head. Empire Mag contrib editor. Writing: i Newspaper, the Atlantic, Criterion, BBC, Rolling Stone. Forthcoming book SOFIA COPPOLA from Greenfinch/Quercus Nov 2025.