Scottish Greens candidate for Holyrood 2026 - #2 for the Edinburgh and Lothians East regional list & local candidate for Edinburgh North Eastern & Leith
Promoted by Dave Owen on behalf of Kate Nevens, both at 19b Graham Street, Ed, EH6 5QN
Edinburgh Branch of the SGP | We are the voice fighting for a greener and fairer Scotland at Holyrood and in the City Chambers 💚 | Join us https://greens.scot
Promoted by David Owen, Scottish Green Party, 19b Graham Street, Edinburgh EH6 5QN.
Hobbies of a grandma. Wardrobe of a toddler on acid.
Tyne and Esk Writers is an organisation that champions creative writing in groups across Midlothian and East Lothian.
tyneandeskwriters.org.uk
Poetry and other bits of writing | Pit Lullabies with Bloodaxe Books and The Quick and Liffey Swim with Dedalus Press | Essays in Tolka, The Stinging Fly and The Dublin Review | Poetry editor at Banshee | New Arcana forthcoming Sept 25 from Bloodaxe Books.
Poet and former translator, living in Edinburgh, publishing here and there.
Winner of National Poetry Competition 2024. Debut collection Rope of Sand Pindrop Press (2023). Pamphlets Vital Capacity (Broken Sleep, 2022) and A Dovetail of Breath (Rack Press, 2020). Corrupted Poetry projects.
https://fionalarkinpoetry.wordpress.com
Research Associate in English Literature @unipotsdam.bsky.social
Principal Investigator DFG Project 'Decorative Materialities'
• the fin de siècle • literature and material culture • textiles • decorative arts • environmental humanities
Research project on spoken word poetry & literary history in the UK and Ireland.
Based at @univie.ac.at and collaborating with @applesandsnakes.bsky.social.
Wine lover, cake maker, translator, editor
Turkish poetry translator
Poetry/writing/& zine-ing
Cymraes (west-Welsh) She/Her
Caroline Stockford
https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/human-rights/wtwt/
Poetry translations: https://estoniacordfrock.wordpress.com/
Lecturer, UEA Medical School, #DisabilityStudies, #MedHums
Associate Editor, @bmj.com Medical Humanities journal
Research/writing on:
the figure of the disabled child, shame and stigma in health and illness, lived experience and memoir culture.
She/her
Your translation library 📚
https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk
Bitch 😎 lover 😽 child 👼 mother 🦾 sinner 👹 saint 🎅 sometimes feel ashamed 🧚♂️
Please consider donating to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund —> https://www.pcrf.net
Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets
Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Cardiff based Poet, Writer, Academic 'Octopus Mind' (Seren Books) - a Guardian Best Poetry Book of 2023 https://linktr.ee/createdtoread Teach creative writing, writing on/around ekphrasis, neurodiversity, creativity, climate crisis, art
Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival 21-23 November 2025
Festival, open mic, workshops, podcasts, and more.
https://pushtheboatout.org/
Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre, London
Writer, organiser, working with uncertainty | 'How We Are Translated' (2021), 'The Nerves & Their Endings' (2022) | ella/hon/she
The solo indie gamedev behind Isles & Tiles, Governor of the West, and other titles.
Historian (Berlin/Flensburg) 🏳️🌈 he/him
First book: global / German / queer history, memory studies. Present project: mobility / Europeanization.
Grufti 🦦 Nerd & 🩰.
Born in Montréal / Tiohtià:ke
Posts in Eng/Dt/Fr probably all with typos.
Poet, Wife, Mom, LongCovid/MECFS. Looking to connect and learning to advocate. EIC, Poetry @epistemiclit.Bsky.social, @nimblewitlit.bsky.social. Micropoetry chapbook Lift the Mask available widely. www.kristinhoulihan.com
Artist working in performance , video & participation
Author (THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy; THE WOLF AND HIS KING) and medievalist specialising in the Ulster Cycle. #1 fan of Láeg mac Ríangabra.
🏳️🌈 they/them | siad/iad
📍Cambridge, UK
♿
https://finnlongman.com
Queer writer of odd things. 10th book, "It's Time", a hybrid chronomemoir, out now. Permissioner, founder of Unbox Your Words. She/they 🏳️🌈 www.taniahershman.com; https://taniahershman.substack.com/; https://www.instagram.com/tania_hershman_writes
Teaching Fellow in Translation Studies at University of Edinburgh, PhD Translation Studies (2023), Translator (EN/FR-DE)
Forward Prize, Pushcart & BOTN nominated Poet, Author, Educator, Performing Artist. Co-Editor @thewingedmoon substack magazine. Lover of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, tomes, trees, all things purple.INFJ.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/saraswatinagpal
Poet and children's author. My books include The Big Day, Wain and Once I Carried Three Crows.
Also a creative writing teacher, story teller, knitter, mum of two and a carer for my disabled son.
Proud to be represented by Children's Books North Agency.
Poet, (Five collections, Red Squirrel Press) editor, occasional translator, blogs about place, plants, poetry, woke indy grandmother. https://linktr.ee/Burnedthumb. Scouse, Scottish and Woke AF #placeplantspoetry
Reader.
Bilingual (Spanish/English) author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈
He/él
I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
Poet & Tr | ‘The Naming of Names’ (Smith|Doorstop 2024) | ‘Out of Sri Lanka’ (Bloodaxe 2023)| Ledbury Critic | Trustee Modern Poetry in Translation
Giving the best contemporary poems from Africa, Asia and Latin America a new life in the English language.
Books | Events | Workshops | Podcasts
https://www.poetrytranslation.org/
We believe the arts make life better, and everyone should have opportunities to experience and take part in them. 🎶💃🎭🎨✍️📸🎥🧵🏛️
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A Feminist Leader and Co-Director at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social | PhD Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow, studying Suffrage material culture | Runner | Views are mine | She/Her
Former Poetry Festival Director @poetry on the road
I'm following the example of many others by moving here from the other place. I'm a retired festival director, interested in poetry and bookish news, and I enjoy riding my racing bike in Southern France.
Lecturer in English Literature. Interests - women writers walking in rural spaces. Currently co-editing The Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine - co-organiser @placeperiodical.bsky.social
teaches some lit things @ Uni Potsdam; reads (and should be writing) about archives and (Assam) tea. also on priyamgoswami.com
✍️Literary & creative translator (French, Spanish, Catalan > English)
🌏Procrastinator, dreamer, traveller, animal lover, anywhere person.
cmctranslations.com
linktr.ee/anywhereperson
Translator from French and Italian - literature, music, history, arts
My novel, Skin Hunger, is coming in 2026. In the meantime, my latest poetry books are Openwork & Limestone (2022) & Light-carved Passages (2024). Prairie-raised author of Seeking Shade (stories 2020), Tower (novella 2018) etc.
www.francesboyle.com
Editor, writer and translator. Dark Night: Poems & Selected Prose of John of the Cross (Penguin Classics, 2026)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462137/dark-night-by-cross-st-john-of-the/9780241699294
marthasprackland.co.uk
Artist, walker, lecturer, library-lover, urban forager, drawing every day. Co-editor Lines of Desire at Living Maps, co-founder walking artists network
Literary translator from Spanish, bookworm, cat lover...
https://ruthdonnellytranslates.co.uk/
British Lit and Cult at Uni of Hamburg | DACH Victorianist | Mobility Studies | the long 19th century
poet, medievalist, calligrapher, illuminator, archer, indifferent seamstress. Some say fey.
Poet, bellringer. The Mouth of Eulalie currently out from Blue Diode Press https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/the-mouth-of-eulalie-by-annie-brechin-isbn-9781915108012
“writer” & “academic” (poetry, poetics, archives, gender, failure) // British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ St Andrews // co-director Network for New York School Studies // Houghton Library Visiting Fellow, Harvard // she/her // 🧂 // linktr.ee/rosacampbell
Lanky left armer | UKC/UCL History grad | Arts & culture fundraiser 💸🎨 📚
Probably rambling about music or #ncfc (to even fewer people than on Twitter of yesteryear)
Proofreader & copyeditor for Simon & Schuster and Canongate
Editor of commercial fiction and memoir
Book sales and publishing consultation
Freelancing as Dark Sky Pages, based in Wigtown – Scotland's National Book Town 📖📚🌠🌌
Poet, painter, translator (mainly from modern Greek & German). Originally from Boston, Lincolnshire, I now live in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.
https://wisdomsbottompress.wordpress.com/peter-j-king
🇵🇸 Sunrise and figs stan account
Literature Lover | Freelance Writer | #AmReading Storm's Edge by Peter Marshall
Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
modernpoetryintranslation.com
Book workers organising in solidarity with Palestine, and against fossil fuels ✊📖🍉
fossilfreebooks.org
linktr.ee/fossilfreebooks
opencollective.com/fossil-free-books
Template letter: https://bit.ly/4kDo2O4
Content producer @ the BBC, writer @ Epic Games and more, voice actor w/ home studio @ The Economist and more!
h.raymondcox@gmail.com for work enquiries
Writer/ Poet/ educator/ artist/ feminist/
Host + Curator of @coupletseries.bsky.social in NYC since 2011
Curator/creator of #staybrave substack
Repped by Annie DeWitt
https://linktr.ee/leahumansky
Spoken Word Artist & Producer, Former MC of Lost in Leith presents: Spoken word & Music. Instagram:@livinginasunbeam
she/her
Translator GER-EN-FR, programmer @writerscentre.bsky.social , Borges disciple and ex-academic by day — sewist, knitter, gardener by night
https://rebeccadewaldtranslation.wordpress.com/
Also kalewatercottage.co.uk
Translator of Czech, Slovak, German & French into English. Literary translator of genre & other fiction, & occasional non-fiction. European, wordsmith, word nerd, foodie, reader, yogi & chocoholic. Childless not by choice. New Glaswegian. She/her. 🦔
Cohost of Maintenance Phase. Author of two books. In a documentary called Your Fat Friend. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
Independent publisher of contemporary poetry since 2008, home of Under the Radar magazine. Made in the Midlands.
https://ninearchespress.com/
Loud co-host @TheThirst 🍿 The Writing Life 📚 Fresh Blood 🩸 Editor @outsider_zine. Constant reader. Shy writer. she/her. Views my own.
https://linktr.ee/stephxmckenna
The NUJ chapel for the Guardian and the Observer. Thank you for your support.
Please follow and share 🙏
https://www.nuj.org.uk/resource/guardian-observer-journalists-strike-nuj-hardship-fund.html
Also on: X | Instagram | Facebook | Threads
With careful eye I scan the bluesky stream / For metered posts that match my rhyming scheme
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The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, poetry, and art with a modern sense of place. Based at Amherst College, we highlight writers and work from around the world.
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
National Poet of Wales @litwales 💚 ENQUIRIES: hanan-issa@outlook.com✨I don’t read work-related DM’s✨ All views my own. Rep’d by Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency
British, mostly Scottish, poet in education + community projects / The Poetry Wire online courses / 3rd collection HIGH NOWHERE from IDP / out walking / plagued by the cat / www.jeanatkin.com
Writer & Musician | Gàidheal | PhD in love and gender in medieval Gaelic | TTRPGs, video games, too many books
✏️ in Gutter, STEALL, New Writing Scotland, amongst others
Love nature, writing, arts & crafts, music, community, books, #SciComm, play & growing. Editor Ciadish.co.uk (for chronically ill and #disabled [CIAD] writers & the readers who love their books). Co-founder CripCoop.co.uk mutual support network #CripCoop
Not here much 🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Poet & NYT bestselling author.
Next book: A SUIT OR A SUITCASE: POEMS (March 24, 2026)
Host of @slowdownshow.org
Writer fae the Black Isle.
Poet | Architect | Creative Writing facilitator at Wordbox | AuDHD
🏆 Arts Council Literature Bursary 2021
🏆 iYeats International Poetry Competition 2019
🏆 Poetry Business 2018 Laureate's Prize
www.thisiswordbox.com
https://linktr.ee/wordbox
Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Academic | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
Poet and non-fiction writer. Latest poetry collection "All The Men I Never Married" won the 2022 Forward Prize. Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Substack: https://shorturl.at/Ea3sI
Poet. I love moss, mudlarking and broken things. Proud to be Northern, non-binary and neurodivergent.
The largest bookshop of its kind in the UK. Devoted entirely to poetry since 1979
Find us online or in person in heart of Hay on Wye the worlds first Booktown
Poet & performer. Battery Rocks (Seren 2024). 'dance as if' out with Verve Sept 25. Winner of Keats-Shelley Prize, Arthur Welton Award & Saboteur Award. Swimmer & walker. Loves dance & art. Vegan. PhD - Goldsmiths. Also on insta.
www.katrinanaomi.co.uk
poet & author: latest books ‘Mrs Death Misses Death' 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' 'With Love, Grief and Fury' & ‘Springfield Road’
Substack:
https://salenagodden.substack
Links:
https://www.salenagodden.co.uk
Stand-up poet. Radio 4’s The Verb regular. Northern, neurodivergent writer of Northernness and Neurodivergence. “On Sycamore Gap” & “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras” (Harper North). “Bigger on the Inside” (Smokestack).
Poet, activist, teacher, retired mother
Poet, digital salonniere. Host of The Poetic Licence (Patreon) - monthly prompts, famous poet interviews, a creative community. Memoir, BOATER out now with HarperNorth. https://linktr.ee/BoaterJoBell
At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Publisher. Always independent.
https://canongate.co.uk
A guerrilla public library service, reaching the parts other libraries have yet to reach. 14 countries, 500+ locations worldwide: Come Join Before We Travel on! @librarian #TIPL @theitinerantpoetrylibrary
Aphantastic poet, even if I say so myself. Northern Writers’ Award winner & co-host of York poetry night, Rise Up! Recent words in Rialto Poetry, Oxford Poetry, The London Magazine & PN Review. Also: https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poets/nicky-kippax/
Poet, teacher and co-host of Rise Up!
Northern Writers’ Award: Debut Poet.
York, UK
Some words: https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/scorpion 🦂
Poet, accountant, dancer. Debut collection MORE THAN WEEDS out with Nine Arches Press. https://linktr.ee/lkiew
poet, artist, gardener, translator
he/him
impaired energy (ME)
ACE-Funded
