Writers In/From Scotland
Writers in/from Scotland starter pack
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@drlornagibb.bsky.social
@millareed.bsky.social
Writing commercial fiction, rep’d by Shesto Literary. Co host of The Emergency Chicken podcast. Gardening and crafting too. https://linktr.ee/millareed
@vikkipatis.bsky.social
Author of queer dark novels, aka Victoria Hawthorne. Scottish with an English accent. Owned by golden retrievers. Not on Twitter. Views mine. 🏴🏳️🌈🇵🇸 she/her https://linktr.ee/vikkipatis
@liambellwrites.bsky.social
Writer and Senior Lecturer at Stirling Uni. Most recent novels, Man at Sea and The Sleepless. More at liammurraybell.com
@andrewwilsonaw.bsky.social
Biographer - Highsmith, Titanic survivors, Plath, McQueen, working on Marilyn Monroe. Novelist - The Lying Tongue, Agatha Christie as sleuth, and aka E.V. Adamson. Creative writing tutor. Rep: Clare Alexander at Aitken Alexander 🌈
@eleanorthom.bsky.social
#Author of Connective Tissue (Taproot, 2023) and The Tin-Kin (Duckworth, 2009). Carer and swim mum #writingcommunity #jewishcommunity 📚💦🏊🏻♀️🐋🎗️ www.eleanorthom.com
@valbold.bsky.social
Scotland: Literature Song Culture Valentinabold.org FSA Scot, Hon Fellow Edinburgh Uni, Heritage at Scottish Women's Institutes. Convenor Scots Language Centre, Editor journals.ed.ac.uk/index.php/rosc and www.peterlang.com/series/shcs
@zoestrachan.bsky.social
Author, mainly of fiction. Sound art. Professor of Creative & Interdisciplinary Practice at University of Glasgow. Books, cats, coffee.
@anstey.bsky.social
Gnarly. She/her/they #FreePalestine Books. Teaching, writing, running a retreat (WriteSouthWestScotland). And a lot of cooking.
@louisewelsh00.bsky.social
Writer, The Cutting Room, Plague Times Trilogy, To the Dogs & more. Prof Creative Writing, Glasgow University. Hon Prez Scottish PEN. Podcast Who Owns the Clyde. Librettist Anthropocene. Theatre, movies, cats, life 🏳️🌈
@lesleymcdowell.bsky.social
Author of CLAIRMONT @wildfirebooks.bsky.social 'Riveting, a clever portrait of a fascinating woman' Times 'Enthralling' Observer LOVE AND OTHER POISONS due July 2025 Repd by Ian Drury @sheilland.bsky.social ExJoycean Still Glaswegian she/her
@archieislander.bsky.social
variant practice model words sounds images place: stuff https://clarearchibald.com/
@huntingrebels.bsky.social
Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 | Affiliate UofGlasgow History | Lit Agent The Viney Agency https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464 Also: dogs, horses, books
@pressfuturist.bsky.social
Lecturer in Publishing at the University of Stirling. Researcher of smartphone storytelling. Authors of seven books for Amber on Paris, London, Scotland, cemeteries (twice), chess, & dragons. Erstwhile doer of other things. Baritone. Often mediocre. He/Him
@dvbishop.com
Writes Cesare Aldo historical thrillers, set in Renaissance Italy • CARNIVAL OF LIES out 26.05.25 • Buy my books: https://linktr.ee/D.V.Bishop • Free newsletter: https://dvbishop.substack.com • Rep: @jennybrownagency.bsky.social • Ex-Tharg
@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’
@gibbzer.bsky.social
Short Scottish Screenwriter. Fidget. Ne'er do well #MDANT🥉 'Mayflies' 'Elizabeth Is Missing' 'Miss Austen' on BBC and iPlayer now.
@damianbarr.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster. 🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃 He/Him 📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel (Sept 2025). I’m also curating a show about them for Charleston. 📕 Maggie & Me. 📕 You Will Be Safe Here. 📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer. PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc Nature, climate, people. Prof at Cambridge. https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
@drlornagibb.bsky.social
Writer, Fiction & Non-fiction. Associate Professor Stirling. Rep'd by Peter Straus at RCW. New book out 2025 Rare Tongues - Secret Stories of Hidden Languages (Atlantic & Princeton). Also biographer and novelist. Once a phonologist..