Tyne & Esk Writers
Tyne and Esk Writers is an organisation that champions creative writing in groups across Midlothian and East Lothian.
tyneandeskwriters.org.uk
@lozzawriting.bsky.social
Writer, Edinburgh. Editor: @frazzledlitmag BOTN nominated 2024. On all socials same name. Writing for children: @lozzakidwriting Website: https://lauracooneywriting.wixsite.com/website Editing: www.kofi.com/lozzawriting
@dianewallace42.bsky.social
Diane Wallace Author & Storyteller ✍️📚 Published author of three books, crafting compelling narratives that inspire and captivate. Connect with me: https://authordianewallace.weebly.com/
@poetrywithlinda.bsky.social
poetry, nature, writing, reading, art, culture, languages, photography, travelling 🎨🖌️🖼️ Let's also be friends on Substack:@poetrywithlinda
@lairnscots.bsky.social
The Scots Language Centre's education account. DM/Email [email protected] to enquire about support/resources, or to let us know of a project/resource.
@paperboatswriters.bsky.social
Paperboats is a collective of writers focussed on nature and environment in a time of climate and ecological breakdown. Scotland based and global in outlook, and write to affirm the astonishing life of this planet and how its future may yet be shaped.
@eleanorthom.bsky.social
#Author of Connective Tissue (Taproot, 2023) and The Tin-Kin (Duckworth, 2009). Carer and swim mum #writingcommunity #jewishcommunity 📚💦🏊🏻♀️🐋🎗️ www.eleanorthom.com
@feoswald.bsky.social
Poet, lover of words and flowers, retired academic. “We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
@dougjohnstone.bsky.social
Writer & musician. 18th novel Living is a Problem out now. Album Crow Hill out now. Drummer for Fun Lovin' Crime Writers. www.dougjohnstone.com
@mollymurray.bsky.social
🇺🇸 in 🏴 Join our online Book Club & Writing Club seahorsebookstore.com Creative Mentor | RTT | Write books with focus and flow | flowmagic.org Neurosparkly Writer & Editor Query: MG Urban Fantasy 🐙 Query: 🏴🇺🇸 Romantasy
@susanmcoon.bsky.social
Author of Tarbloch Book Club Series. #Psychologicalthriller writer #amquerying grandmother, gardener, orienteer and qigong teacher. #shouldknowbetter
@annapread.bsky.social
writer of historical fiction and fantasy; lover of nature, folklore and food; singer, mum, PhD; Polish in Scotland
@marym276.bsky.social
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.
@kariebookish.bsky.social
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
@linanderson.bsky.social
A free spirit. Also crime writer & co-founder of the @BloodyScotland international crime writing festival. Twitter: Lin_Anderson Instagram: LinAndersonWriter Threads: LinAndersonWriter
@rhonabrown.bsky.social
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
@scottlyall.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Modern and Scottish Literature at Edinburgh Napier University. Writes about Scottish interwar literary revival and modernism. Co-edits 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸. https://www.napier.ac.uk/people/scott-lyall
@keeksmc.bsky.social
Scots language poet 🏴 Author of "Contermacious Temerity" and "Rede Wi Yer Hert" from Dreich Publications.
@taylor-strickland.bsky.social
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
@kateblackadder.bsky.social
Writer (novel Stella’s Christmas Wish plus short stories, magazine serials, occasional flash fiction) and reader (in many genres). Toast-and-marmite eater. Member of Romantic Novelists Association and Edinburgh Writers’ Club.
@billykayscot.bsky.social
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.
@florajowriter.bsky.social
Scottish fiction writer. The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay and The Paris Peacemakers available now. Represented by Jenny Brown Associates.
@russeldmclean.bsky.social
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
@sandrakohls.bsky.social
Writer, crime fiction/fantasy junkie, vintage rock chick & gamer, slow runner and book fiend. UofG MLitt grad.
@mlb-write.bsky.social
A Poet, Writer & Chairperson of the charity organisation 'Fife Writes' who loves libraries, museums, bookshops plus reading and walking her dog in the beautiful Fife countryside. 🐾🥰🐾
@macltoons.bsky.social
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🏳️🌈
@the-wee-pencil.bsky.social
https://theweepencil.wordpress.com/ ; writer of children's books; self-publisher; studier of Diploma in CBT; sails Rita; walks Gubbins & Mavis; scone gobbler; drawn in Yorkshire; coloured in by Scotland; Ayrshire; #lufc; driftwood clockmaker; teacher
@esquiver.bsky.social
US diplomat (ret); US-German dual citizen; Jew. Enthusiastic Edinburgher; Crumhornist; Quidnunc. Freelance journalist and writer of fiction/plays. #edfringe reviewer 2025! Mordant, feminist, and generally oblique. Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut.
@latraynor.bsky.social
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.
@rozmaclaren.bsky.social
Author of The Mirrordom Legends series. January, my YA sci-fi novel, is out now.
@thenarrativecraft.bsky.social
Querying a YA genderqueer fantasy novel 🌈Developmental editor & coach, workshop facilitator, copy editor 🏳️🌈🎉📚 Writes & edits: Fiction & cultural anthropology. Lives in Polbeth.
@eviewriter.bsky.social
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!)
@jamesdempseyauthor.bsky.social
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.
@ianrankin1.bsky.social
Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
@jenbitespeople.bsky.social
In Edinburgh. Director, playwright, librettist, acting coach & dramaturg. Possible revenant. Prone to biting. Site: www.jenmcgregor.com.
@louisamacdougall.bsky.social
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
@sarasheridan.bsky.social
Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan
@franapunk.bsky.social
💙📚Writer and Glasweigan chancer. 📖A BAD BAD PLACE. Agents: Euan Thorneycroft & Oli Munsen @AMHeath Editor: Finn Cotton Transworld Penguin
@stephenwattpoet.bsky.social
Poetry Editor for Nutmeg Magazine. Winner of inaugural Liverpool Poetry Prize (Open category). Author of 5 poetry collections. Editor of 2 punk poetry collections for the Joe Strummer Foundation and Buzzcocks.
@jmacr.bsky.social
playwright, director, highlander / messages from the deep represented by Brennan Artists
@bettymccann.bsky.social
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 📖
@govfinnblack.bsky.social
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 living in the Cairngorms. www.prisoncrime.club #prisoncrimeclub #author
@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
@neilmackay.bsky.social
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’
@lindzmcleod.bsky.social
Scottish writer/editor. Queer AF. Terrible workaholic. PhD student in Creative Writing. President of the Edinburgh Writers' Club. Repped: @lzats.bsky.social (literary) Kim Yau at Echo Lake (film/TV) Bae: @pegasusunder.bsky.social www.lindzmcleod.co.uk
@alecfinlay.bsky.social
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.
@lyndseycroal.bsky.social
Scottish SFFH Author, words in Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, & more | BFA Finalist | Latest book: LIMELIGHT, Shortwave | Next: DARK CRESCENT, Luna Press | Lit Rep: Michael Mungiello InkWell, Film/TV: Sean Berard, Untitled Ent. https://linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
@saderotica.bsky.social
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