Scottish Literature (Scholars and Writers)
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@paulmalgrati.bsky.social
@peterkravitz.bsky.social
Couples, individual & trauma psychotherapist in Edinburgh. Climate grief, poetry relief. Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing. (And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)
@paulinemackay.bsky.social
Head of Subject for Scottish Literature & Director of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow. Co-I Museums in the Metaverse (IUK). Burns/Bawdry/Cultural Heritage/XR.
@azjackson.bsky.social
Writer, editor of poetry, including Poetry Scotland and Whaleback City Press. Knee-deep in assorted poetry-related malarkey including New Boots & Pantisocracies, the Otwituaries, Double Dactyl of the Week, Project Abeona and more.
@pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social
Hybrid sci-art ex-astronomer now-author. Writes fiction, poems, essays, reviews. Latest two are 'Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)' from Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF, and 'Night Vision' from Broken Sleep Books. https://www.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk
@domenicodr.bsky.social
PhD researcher in Modern and Contemporary Queer Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow 🏳️🌈 he/she/they https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/domenicodirosa/
@aowensarchive.bsky.social
Opening 2025, a new public resource dedicated to the Scottish writer Agnes Owens. This archive is housed within agrayarchive.bsky.social
@agrayarchive.bsky.social
Scottish Charity SC052417 caring for Gray’s studio & visual/literary material. Education & New Commissions. Inclusive Community. Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social
@insuhi.bsky.social
We are internationally renowned for our innovative undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research programmes in Culture and Heritage, Orkney and Shetland Studies, Highlands and Islands Literature, Scottish Heritage, Viking Studies and Island Studies.
@gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social
Writer in Brighton • Debut novel GREATER SINS coming March '25 from Doubleday (UK) linktr.ee/gabriellegriffiths
@creativeethnology.bsky.social
Undisciplined academic, glass bead gamer, culinary artist, and place wisdom seeker - make of that what you will ☀️🏴💭🎈🌈
@maireadnc.bsky.social
Irish, Gaeilgeoir, writer, academic, interested in folklore, nature and environmental humanities. Love reading, playing the piano, Tai ‘Chi
@pomuirch.bsky.social
Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean
@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
@danalai6.bsky.social
PhD Student Simon Fraser University English Novels and non-fiction, 1800 to c.1850. #ecocriticism #ScottishLit #Romanticism #nineteenthcentury Reviews Editor: @StudiesinHogg.bsky.social Check out @lyoninmourning.bsky.social
@peterurpeth.bsky.social
Writer | poet | development editor | pianist | improviser | Journalist | peterurpeth.com | peterurpeth.bandcamp.com | poetry collection - The 4000 Nights of New York in 1988 peterurpeth.com/4000nights | Cockney living in the Outer Hebrides
@dr-ron.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Scot Lit, Uni of Glasgow & Associate Director, Centre for Robert Burns Studies. Editor of stuff. Eater of Crisps. 🇪🇺🏴
@michellenic.bsky.social
Leòdhasach. Gaelic Professor and Dean for Impact and Engagement at University of Aberdeen. Interested in languages and cats.
@monikaszuba.bsky.social
literary scholar environmental humanities Associate Professor at the University of Gdańsk Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society fellow 2023/4 Author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World (2019) and Landscape Poetics (2023)
@stephenpstewart.bsky.social
Journalist, author, communications. Currently researching PTSD and the media. Phenomenology, hermeneutics, autoethnography. 📚📖
@janealexander.bsky.social
Author, The Flicker Against the Light, A User's Guide to Make-Believe, The Last Treasure Hunt. https://linktr.ee/janealexander. Teach CW @ UoE. She/her. janealexander@net
@sarahdunnigan.bsky.social
hopeful gardener. trainee therapist. mamma of dogs and cats. teaches & writes about Scottish lit - children's, medieval, women's, fairy tales, folklore 🌿 she/her
@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
@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
@brookmyre.bsky.social
Author. One half of Ambrose Parry. One sixth of Fun Lovin' Crime Writers.
@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 🏳️🌈
@zoestrachan.bsky.social
Author, mainly of fiction. Sound art. Professor of Creative & Interdisciplinary Practice at University of Glasgow. Books, cats, coffee.
@orkneyboreray.bsky.social
Our Community farms rare Orkney Boreray sheep for mutton/products & saving the breed Book, The Lost Flock, @chelseagreen orkneyboreray.com ++welfare, nature #agroecology Orkney, Scotland
@mornayoung.bsky.social
Playwright and screenwriter. Resident writer Traverse. Rep: Casarotto.
@krishaddow.bsky.social
✍🏼 Scottish writer. Novel in progress 🎭 Co-Chair, Scottish Society of Playwrights 📚 Short stories in Gutter, New Writing Scotland, et al 📰 Satire column Haud the Bus publishes monthly 📑 Plays, poems, performances archived online 🔜↙️ 🔗 krishaddow.com/links
@vanessabraganza.bsky.social
'The real Robert Langdon' | writer and future civil rights lawyer | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne 2026 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
@rosscrawford.bsky.social
Scriever/writer in Scots/English. Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2024. PhD in Scottish History from University of Glasgow. Works in heritage. He/him. Views ma ain.
@drmdempster.bsky.social
@elizabethelliott.bsky.social
Medieval literature, history of emotion and medievalism. UCU rep. She/her
@lenniesaurus.bsky.social
Aspiring poet, growing problem. My book POYUMS is available to order now. https://linktr.ee/poyums 🏴💙
@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.
@pitest.bsky.social
Fiction: Scottish Book Trust New Writer 2023. SCWBI Undiscovered Voices 2024. Repped by Lucy Juckes at @jennybrownagency.bsky.social https://henrycoles.com Tech: Made mutation testing popular - Java Champion https://pitest.org https://www.arcmutate.com
@dralexjcalder.bsky.social
ECR in Contemporary Writing | teaching at University of Cambridge | co-editing Ali Smith: Critical Essays (Routledge) | literary experimentation; politics and ethics; gender; the maximalist novel | from Caithness, Highland | he/him
@michlsloan.bsky.social
Scottish author based in Dundee. 🏴☀️ Latest book: 'The Edinburgh Skating Club' (Birlinn, 2022) Owned by three dogs and three chickens......🐶🐶🐶🐔🐔🐔
@liztreacher.bsky.social
Author of four novels - Vegan Recipes for New Age Men, The Unravelling, The Wrong Envelope and The Wrong Direction. liztreacher.com
@mdbolsover.bsky.social
#Writer. #amquerying my debut novel. IN FAILURE & IN RUINS—dreams & fragments (Into the Void Press), *1st collection: contra FLUX—moments caught (arrested) whilst in-from movement (Polyversity Press). #BookSky 📚
@alisonirvine.bsky.social
Author Cat Step (Dead Ink) This Road is Red (Luath) Highly Commended in Wigtown Book Fest Anne Brown Essay Prize 2024 Recollective www.recollective.org.uk Concrete Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Cumbernauld Town Centre Rep: Millie Hoskins, United Agents
@feistybluegecko.bsky.social
🦎Scot 🏴, formerly Global Dev professional, now gently unfurling, realising dreams of being a writer, poet and enjoying photographing tiny wonders. Breast Cancer survivor.
@lesleygraham.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in English at the University of Bordeaux, France. 19th C. Scottish literature, RL Stevenson, travel literature, afterlives, literary tourism. Occasional French-English conference interpreter. CV http:////cv.hal.science/lesley-graham
@jenbitespeople.bsky.social
In Edinburgh. Director, playwright, librettist, acting coach & dramaturg. Possible revenant. Prone to biting. Site: www.jenmcgregor.com.
@hugemcm.bsky.social
Poet, writer, books @LuathPress. Lives rural Dumfries and Galloway. Edits for Poets’ Republic and Drunk Muse Press
@juliemcneillwrites.bsky.social
Poet We Are Scottish Football @LuathPress A Most Unsuitable Game @TippermuirBooks Mission Dyslexia @JKPBooks Storyteller @C-ChangeScotland Editor @ The Poets’ Republic Magazine & Drunk Muse Press Gaffer @TheHampdenCollection Poet @SMFC 🐼⚽️
@roslynpotter.bsky.social
Scottish Lit PhD (SGSAH) and GTA at UofGlasgow // early modern women’s writing, song culture & medicine 📜 she/her 🎶 aspiring broadcaster 📻 https://bio.site/roslynpotter
@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
@eleanorthom.bsky.social
#Author of Connective Tissue (Taproot, 2023) and The Tin-Kin (Duckworth, 2009). Carer and swim mum #writingcommunity #jewishcommunity 📚💦🏊🏻♀️🐋🎗️ www.eleanorthom.com
@elainewhiteford.bsky.social
Author of Scottish historical fiction. The Rescue Sisters is out now. Also underwater photographer. https://www.elainewhiteford.com
@kovesi.bsky.social
Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures. Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
@cleoocy.bsky.social
AHRC PhD at Stirling/Glasgow/Edinburgh. I work on Scottish Romanticism broadly & Scottish novels in relation to ‘improvement’ specifically, 1800-37. Keen on intertextuality, canonicity, moral philosophy & reading history. BARS ECR Officer. AFHEA. She/her.
@spstrande.bsky.social
18C & 19C Scots ballads. Macpherson, Burns, Scott, & Child. R. Browning. Text theory, Book History. Semiotics. Lib.Soc. Feminist. There’s a photo of me somewhere in my posts. Also on Mastodon:@spstrande.mastodon.online
@kateai.bsky.social
Medievalist. Older Scots researcher at the University of Edinburgh. Memory, Identity, Emotion
@juliaditter.bsky.social
C19 Periodical Press & Energy Infrastructures at Uni Konstanz | Scottish Literature, EnvHums | Membership Secretary & Publicity Officer BACLS | she/her
@albertkirkjr.bsky.social
Scriever, Gomerel. Scriever an Furthsetter o pish watter: a scots zine. A micht dicht ma posts noo an agane. #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #Scots #ScotsPoetry #ScotsScrievin #Gaidhlig #Independence #Scotland #ScottishIndependence #Music #Zines #ScottishZines
@mucklewriting.bsky.social
Spikks Doric. Avid scribbler o wirds. https://linktr.ee/jogilbert
@helenboden.bsky.social
Poet & Independent Literature Professional. A Landscape To Figure In (Red Squirrel Press). Best Scottish Poems 2022. ND. She / they. helenbodenliteraryarts.com
@aoifelyall.bsky.social
Poet, editor, mentor, teacher. The Day Before (Bloodaxe Books) out 22nd February 2024
@samueltongue.bsky.social
Poet, Editor (samueltongue.com) and Co-Director of Kalewater Cottage Creative Retreat kalewatercottage.co.uk
@tooriekep.bsky.social
Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Writer querying my first novel, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own. Shetlander in Aberdeen. #amwriting #amquerying https://linktr.ee/tooriekep
@burnedthumb.bsky.social
Poet, (Four collections, Red Squirrel Press) editor, occasional translator, blogs about place, plants, poetry, woke lefty grandmother. https://linktr.ee/Burnedthumb. Scouse, Scottish and Woke AF #placeplantspoetry
@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
@martocon.bsky.social
Playwright | Poet | Performer | Participation 🏴 Scots and Gaelic 📍Glasgow Woke Sandwich www.martinoconnor.info
@elusiveword.bsky.social
Ootlin. Scotland→Mexico City→Berlin. Translator. Senior editor @charcopress elusiveword.com
@penfielding.bsky.social
Edinburgh Literature Prof. Scottish writing, spy novels, cocktails, music.
@kirstypattison.bsky.social
PhD student at UofG. Researcher in Esoteric practice in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland. | Theology of Magic | Esotericism & Mysticism | Scottish History | Magic in Scottish literature. Lover of cats, fine wines and heavy metal.
@breerob-kirk.bsky.social
Musician and musicologist obsessed with 18th-century singers.
@kateashley.bsky.social
@anndra.bsky.social
Gael, writer, translator, communist, mapgame obsessive. Glasgow-based He/him/e
@dringebirnie.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at the Strathclyde Institute of Education; Gaelic, the teaching and learning of (minority) languages - exploring language use in the social linguistic soundscape Council of Europe ACFC Member for the Netherlands
@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
@ruralunease.bsky.social
Berlin-based Scottish writer. Words in New Flash Fiction Review, Vestal Review, Trampset and elsewhere. Featured in Best Small Fictions 2024. My pen name came to me in a dream. You can find a selection of my writing here: https://linktr.ee/ruralunease
@profchander.bsky.social
@ianrankin1.bsky.social
Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
@ginorgym.bsky.social
Living two lives! 😇Full time carer 🎓Post grad student (MPhil) at Uni of Glasgow looking at the work of Edwin Muir, his life writing & time in Glasgow. Gin drinker, avid reader, self confessed Scottish Literature geek Older than I look but not wiser 🤪
@murrayp.bsky.social
Pro Vice-Principal University of Glasgow, personal views and evidence-based professional judgements only. 'You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass'-John Buchan
@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/
@emilyhay.bsky.social
PhD researcher looking at the textual legacy of Mary Queen of Scots at University of Glasgow 👩🏼🦰 📝 SGSAH Digital Curator 2024-2025 🖥️ She/her https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/emilyhay/#
@poncarova.bsky.social
petrajohanaponcarova.com | Marie Curie Fellow, U of Glasgow erskine.glasgow.ac.uk | secretary scotlit-iassl.org | editor Litteraria Pragensia litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz & SCROLL brill.com/SCRL | Gàidhlig aig glasgowreviewofbooks.com
@matthewcreasy.bsky.social
Academic at the University of Glasgow, working on / teaching James Joyce, Children’s Literature, Stevenson, Decadence. Parent. Cat Owner. Fool.
@scotunipress.bsky.social
SUP is a fully open access and not-for-profit university press coordinated through SCURL and managed by 19 university libraries across Scotland and Northern Ireland. https://sup.ac.uk
@johnglenday.bsky.social
Writer. Poetry. https://www.johnglenday.com https://www.northseapoets.com
@maydinger.bsky.social
Nationalism, EU politics, culture & identities, feminism & Pol Comms | PhD in #indyref, #Scottish media, politics & literature | PDRA @BournemouthUni #AcademicSky
@samlwalton.bsky.social
Professor of Modern Literature 📚 wrote 'Everybody Needs Beauty' & 'The Living World' 🏳️🌈 she/her
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
'The Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies', Leverhulme Trust-funded project at University of Glasgow PI Prof Rhona Brown.
@crfirvine.bsky.social
Poet, Academic, President past and present at St Andrews School of English, Oxford Faculty of English, and St Leonard’s College at St Andrews. Interested in Late Style, and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature. Sins my own, unless footnoted.
@vickymackenzie.bsky.social
Writer, cat lady, John Ruskin obsessive, wrote a novel about medieval mystics. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/ Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
@portyliterary.bsky.social
A literary agency based in Edinburgh. https://linktr.ee/portobelloliterary
@profdanielcook.bsky.social
Associate Dean & Professor, University of Dundee (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
@sarasheridan.bsky.social
Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan
@timothycbaker.bsky.social
Lectures on Scottish and contemporary literature, writes about animals, tries to be hopeful. He/they. Currently trying to open a cinema in Aberdeen.
@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.
@curioustravellers.bsky.social
‘Curious Travellers 2: Digital Editions of Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Wales and Scotland’. An AHRC-funded research project (CAWCS, University of Glasgow, Natural History Museum London) Histories of Enlightenment Travel https://curioustravellers.ac.uk/en/
@pjrobichaud.bsky.social
Literature, myth, folklore • Pan: the Great God's Modern Return (2021) • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany (2026) • Poems in The South Shore Review & The Ekphrastic Review • Professor of English • CDN in CT 🇨🇦 • /|\
@bryonycoombs.bsky.social
Art Historian I Medieval and Early Modern, PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS Renaissance Teaching Fellow, Edinburgh Uni Franco-Scottish cultural connections: art, architecture and material culture. https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs https://bryonycoombs.com