Vapid Response Unit. Tired dad. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi
Also, multi-faceted musical human. Perform with Scritti Politti, Cardiacs, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint, others. More info at rhodri.biz
Neurodivergent (ADHD), I pretend to be an SFF writer, but I wish I had more time to write. I like boardgames, and video games, and tech stuff former SWE.
Scotland, but originally from the “Middle East”.
He/Him
Scottish SFFH Author | Shirley Jackson Award & BFA Finalist | Latest: LIMELIGHT, Shortwave, DARK CRESCENT, Luna Press | Words in Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, & more | Rep: Michael Mungiello InkWell, Film/TV: Sean Berard https://linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
Award-winning Scottish science fiction & fantasy writer. Podcastle, Strange Horizons, Shoreline of Infinity, ParSec, Best of British SF anthology. More: emfaulds.com
#scruffyGarden
Runs @bibliotta.bsky.social
Can't get DMs, sorry
(she/her) SFF writer based in Lanark, Scotland. Her first novel, THE OUTCAST MAGE, combines a coming-of-age narrative with thrilling magic and found family. Out now from Orbit UK/US in hardback, paperback, ebook and audiobook.
SFFH Author/Critic. BSFA & British Fantasy Award Winner. Shoreline of Infinity columnist. GSFWC. #SGSAH funded. #StrathLife
Queer Neurodivergent Human with Chronic Illness.
Stories and more: https://linktr.ee/ruthejbooth
Writes sci-fi stories in Edinburgh. Founder of Edinburgh SFF writing community: https://edinburghsff.com - Software engineer by day. Personal site: https://shellbryson.com
Spy/SF author - Winner of McDermid Debut Award 2025 and Bloody Scotland Debut Prize. A RELUCTANT SPY and SOLITARY AGENTS from @headlinebooks.bsky.social TV - Carnival Films Rep: @harryillingworth.bsky.social | https://www.davidgoodman.net/links/
SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
ESFF is an open writing community for Science Fiction and Fantasy writers in Scotland. Events, resources & support, writing sessions, critique + more.
Web & city map for writers:
https://EdinburghSFF.com
Discord:
https://EdinburghSFF.com/community
Est. 1986, GSFWC is a critique workshop for writers of fantastical literature based in Scotland.
Official website, anthologies and more: https://linktr.ee/gsfwc
Sapphic Scottish specfic duo E&M. Fungi fanatics, lurcher lovers, gin guzzlers.
The Needfire NOW OUT out with Solaris Books!
Repped by John Baker @ BLM.
https://linktr.ee/mkhardy
🏴 Fantasy & Weird Fiction🖋️ FATHOMFOLK and TIDEBORN out now 🌊 HARBOUR OF HUNGRY GHOSTS 2026 👻BFA nominated 🦊 she/her rep Alex Cochran
https://linktr.ee/elizachan
SFF author; EXTREMOPHILE & THE ROTSTORM trilogy out now with HoZ books/Ad Astra; PhD in epigenetics; ᛉᚷᛏᚫ; www.ianthegreen.com; https://geni.us/extremophile
Words and music. Glasgow, Scotland
he/him https://linktr.ee/neilwilliamson
📚 Latest thing: Blood In The Bricks
https://bit.ly/3IJxwKs
📚 Next thing: The Packet
http://bit.ly/46sS6am
Author of FOUL DAYS and MONSTROUS NIGHTS 🐉 Archaeologist ⛏ Immigrant 🇧🇬🏴 (She/her)
Kinky Clown Film Lady 😈🤡💅🎞️
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Patreon.com/shelbiedimond
shelbiedimond.com
Bestselling author.
"Provocative and surprisingly tender." — The New York Times
Rep: Greyhound Lit (UK) + UTA (US + film/tv)
www.nicholasbinge.com
also: @nickbrucker.bsky.social
Scottish fantasy author. Archaeology & history fiend. The Maleficent Seven and The Last Shield out now from Angry Robot Books, represented by Ed Wilson at Johnson & Alcock. www.cameronjohnston.net
Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Kavya & Saltire Awards SL | THE SALT ORACLE out now https://geni.us/saltorac | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her 🏴
http://linktr.ee/raine_clouds
Stories in F&SF, Strange Horizons, Apex, Shimmer, BCS.
Repped by Caro Clarke
A Million Points of Light out now https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GMRMJTRC?source_code=ASSORAP0511160007
https://clhellisenlanding.carrd.co/
They/them, Scotland + S. Africa
Scottish writer/editor. Queer AF. Terrible workaholic.
PhD student in Creative Writing. Cinema Worms podcast co-host. She/they
Repped: @lzats.bsky.social (literary) Kim Yau at Echo Lake (film/TV)
Bae: @pegasusunder.bsky.social
www.lindzmcleod.co.uk
a peaceful place | BFA short story finalist | Best of British Sci-Fi '21 | she/her | they/them is fine too | account is a placeholder as don't do socials |
Writer. Listener. Reader.
Explorer. Gallus. Remote.
He/Him. GSFWC. WGB.
Glasgow.
Devourer of Words.
Destroyer of Words.
I want to be a stranger.
Become a shape changer.
(banner by Andrew Morrison)
https://linktr.ee/remotecore
Scottish fantasy and horror author. Chair of the British Fantasy Society. Avid Reader. Vaguely gothic. She/her www.shonakinsella.com
Scottish fantasy author of Carpet Diem as well as The Eidyn Saga from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. The Damned King OUT NOW. He/Him. Rep by @canonizer.bsky.social #Edinburgh, @afc.co.uk and @scottishgreens.org
Author support at: TheWriteAdvice.co.uk
Author, editor, ghostwriter. Page Turner Award finalist. AH Glasgow 2024 Presents (WorldCon). BFS Event Co-ordinator. SoA and CIEP member. All things SFFH.
She/her: Writer, Greens councillor, trans person, living with fibromyalgia
My novella, Unexploded Remnants, is available wherever you can buy Tor.com books
Activism thro art
Satirist
Punk af
ND disabled queer trans writer of transgressive satirical fiction.
Subversive. Politically left. Community focused. DIY.
An angry rebel.
Scottish fantasy writer. She/her. Books, cats, more books. SFF, language, history, Twin Peaks, BSG, Star Trek. Co-founder @edinburghsff; member @gsfwc. Latest story is in Gallus anthology.
🏴 Ringo-nominated writer of comics + game history books. AI 🚫
Killtopia | BPM | Hello Darkness | Boom! Studios | Titan Comics | Bitmap Books | Agent: Watson Little
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davecookcomics
All my links: https://linktr.ee/davecook
From shipyards to retired IT journalist (Practical PC, PC Advisor, PC World, AOL, etc.) and author. Prostate cancer but doing okay. Howay #nufc Academy!
#ActuallyAutistic German translator/writer/conlanger, student of Medical Humanities
https://linktr.ee/gregory.lawrence
Debut novelette "Malice in Chains" available here: http://shorturl.at/mrAO4
Award Winning Small Press. SFF in Fiction and Academia. Est. 2015. Member of Publishing Scotland. https://www.lunapresspublishing.com
Wee sweary Scottish writer, living in Canada, with 30+ novels and 300+ short stories in genre presses over the past 30+ years. Mostly at williammeikle.com ... mostly.
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE - AMISTAD - 2027
writer & psychiatrist M.D. (she/her)
zkabraham.com
Scottish New Writers Award (Callan Gordon); RLF Reading Round Lector
Rep C. L. Geisler
Cinema Worms podcast co-host!
❤️ @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
Short, rumpled Scotsman. Has a terrible pain in all the diodes down his left hand side.
Not on social media as much as he used to be but if he is, it will be occasional writing and a lot of stupid bollocks.
He/Him
https://munchkinstein.co.uk
World's #2 Shadow the Hedgehog fan. Heather for queer scottish literary SFFH, Hex for love stories and online ephemera.
I like watching horror movies, reading history books, playing video games and knitting.
https://heathervalentinewriting.com/
Adventure LGBT fantasy writer✨🔮 VAMPIRES IN PARK CIRCUS now available!
bi witch | 🏴
BEGONE TERFS
https://lukebelcourt.com
🏳️🌈 author and activist in 🏴
Software engineer, TTRPG GM, and author of dark fantasy books
(he/they)
💜💗💙
https://linktr.ee/tgraywrites
Writer in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Books. Food. Dogs.
https://linktr.ee/russjoneswrites
JMS PhD scholar at University of Glasgow, and still figuring that out. Multi-nerd comprising history bits, gaming, writing and a few toys too.
Writer, editor, gardener--sometimes even in that order.
Queer. He/thon, but mainly just cause thon's a guid Scots pronoun fur aebdy, whitever thur gender.
Contact: hal AT halduncan DOT com
Neuroscientist turned science fiction, fantasy, romance #writer. Stories in Analog, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, Utopia SF. Latest novel: THE MISFIT & THE BEAST, YA romance about first love & high school theater. Based in Edinburgh. verabrook.com. she/her
Author of #1 Best Ongoing Story on Royal Road
The Elf Who Would Become A Dragon is free to read rrtewwbad.ljamberfantasy.com
Queer Irish author living in Scotland. I write fantasy fiction for adults using accessible language.
www.ljamberfantasy.com
L.M. Douglas is a Scottish author 🏴 based in Edinburgh. Writing her epic fantasy series ‘Chronicles of the Endless war’ - #secretscribes member & owns a pub with her fella!
International bestselling author of The Book of Doors from Transworld Books (UK) and Wm Morrow (USA). Human servant to two Skye terriers. Living near Edinburgh, Scotland. Agent: @harryillingworth.bsky.social
Yup, same one from the bird app.
Professor of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh | Research in second language learning, instruction, replication | Associate editor, SSLA | T1D
https://kmcmanusuk.github.io
Associate Professor at VUW. Research: reading, vocabulary, mental lexicon, bilingualism, education
Western Mass, college writing and applied linguistics
Please don't follow unless you're an academic.
Personal Views.
Associate Professor at Nanzan University
南山大学-国際教養学部
Conversation Analysis, TBLT, Motivation & Engagement,
Language Assessment, Music Enthusiast, Aging punk living in Mattersville
professor of linguistics and TESOL, research on L2 speech (she/her)
Psycholinguist, professor of L2 education, former EuroSLA president.
language & cognitive scientist at @mcgill.ca; co-founder of @wicscanada.bsky.social; Editor of @cjep.bsky.social; she/her
Associate Professor of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, specializing in language assessment. Associate Editor at Language Learning journal (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679922). Views own. https://isbell.github.io/
We are an independent publisher based in Bristol, UK. We publish titles on applied linguistics, multilingualism, second language acquisition, language education and translation. We also like bunnies and cake.
https://www.multilingual-matters.com
Director of MOSAIC research at the University of Birmingham | Borders, CVE, surveillance and multilingualism | Security, Citizenship Testing, Race and Language
Professor of Applied Linguistics at Lancaster University
Language Testing Practitioner and Researcher
Linguist, PhD (language proficiency, semantic knowledge), university lecturer, Tampere University, Finland
Researchportal.tuni.fi/en/persons/maija-tervola
Chair of the Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) Linguistics.fi
Amateur translator LT>FI
Mieskeit; Historical Lexicography & the Emoluments Clause (CUP '25); lexicographer; linguist; Edgeworth; #18thc; #CUNY; #NJ; down the shore; serial commas
Language teaching, teacher education, classroom interaction, #EMCA. Works at Mälardalen University, Sweden. Father of two multilingual kids. Writes in English, Turkish, Swedish. Editor-in-chief: Classroom Discourse (T&F) https://olcaysert.net/about
Prof of languages and linguistics, Director of programme design, LCS Uni of Leeds | Autistic, LGBTQ, adoptive parent | L2 phon, language education, 日本語, español
Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at Centre for Language and Cognition @rug.nl - Heritage language education, translanguaging, critical approaches
Full Professor (Catedrático) in English Studies at Universidad de León, Spain. Researches Virtual Exchange, Blended Mobility & English medium Instruction.
Applied Linguist | Researcher | Educator
Head of Research & Learning Design @Linguineo https://linguineo.com
Executive board member calico.org
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa alumna
| I'd rather be outside | ⛰️ 🥾 🌊
linguist researching language-cognition interactions and multilingualism; decision-making; linguistic relativity | musician and keen rock n roller | views own
Applied linguist, first alto
Professor of Applied Linguistics, Swansea University | Prifysgol Abertawe. Lexical processing, language acquisition, applying lexical research methods to novel contexts.
Applied linguistics; Teaching & Learning. Senior Lecturer. Forest dweller 🌳🌱
Love: languages, learning, people, the environment, & #MuayThai 🥊
Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿🇵🇭
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Views are mine & other disclaimers apply.
Japan-based TESOL veteran, CLIL program teacher, L2 Reading researcher, student mobility czar, and mini dachshund emotional-support human.
Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University. Ph.D. UCLA. Founder of the Scenario based language assessment research lab: https://www.tc.columbia.edu/sbla-lab/
Former President of ILTA. Fulbright Italy
Associate Professor of Education @ University of Virginia. Bilingualism, Language Policy, & Anti-Oppressive Education.
Lingüista en California. Here for the languaging. he/él
Assoc prof @DeptEdYork. Language processing & acquisition, open research @irisdatabase.bsky.social | @oasisdatabase.bsky.social
Associate Director, Columbia University Language Resource Center
Host of Said & Done, the podcast about languages and the people who speak them: https://linktr.ee/saidanddone
Professor. Teacher educator. Multilingualism on My Mind. Metacognition. Mindsets. Teachers' prof. devel. Motivation. Cornet player. Wanderer. Writer. Curious.
Retired, and a bit tired.
Mother of Matty. Professor of Applied Linguistics, School of Languages, Linguistics & Cultures at the University of Victoria, Canada
Committed to connecting theory, research, and practice
www.lishihhuang.com
Assistant Professor of Linguistics | Brigham Young University
Applied Linguist at Oxford College of Emory University | PhD in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University
corpus linguistics, academic discourse, language attitudes, research methods, CALL
https://sites.google.com/view/tulaydixon/about
PhD, university lecturer, first and second language researcher, user and lover. Reader, writer, mentor, supervisor, teacher, thinker from North Finland.
Assoc Prof, Prince of Songkla University, applied sociolinguist working on language policy, language education. PhD from Lancaster University. Website: www.kristofsavski.org
Currently teaching: elementary Spanish, k-6 world lang methods, and qual research methods
PhD in Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies. Interested in how Spanish language education can perpetuate racism against Spanish speakers. Pronouns: any 🇵🇷 🏳️🌈
University of Leicester PhD Candidate. Language Issues Journal Editorial Board. ESOL Teachers' Wellbeing & Emotional Labour. Championing systems-informed research practice. Co-organiser Language Learning Psychology Community. Likes/Follows/RT ≠ endorsement
Ieithyddiaeth gymhwysol a’r Gymraeg /
Linguística aplicada e a língua galesa /
Applied linguistics and the Welsh language…a’r Wal Goch.
📍Abertawe - Swansea
Asst. Prof. of French Language Teaching at the University of Louvain 🇧🇪
Researching language learning with chatbots/AI and L2 fluency
PhD KU Leuven
Previously at UCentral, Ecuador 🇪🇨
Text linguistics, register variation, corpus linguistics, language and law
Educator, applied linguist, football mom, runner
Assistant professor at Takushoku University in Tokyo. My research interests include ISLA, the roles of output & noticing, Eye-tracking, and TBNA & TBLT for professional athletes.
Professor of Applied Linguistics, University College London, IOE
Internationalisation of higher education, TESOL, EMI, teaching-research nexus
Corpus linguist, CL methodologist, and rock climber. Strong believer in the importance of healthy work-life balance. Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University.
Professor at Hong Kong PolyU and Lancaster University. Advisory Chair Shanghai ISU. Adjunct chair Xi’an JTU. All views are my own.
Reader in Linguistics at Lancaster University｜UKRI Future Leader Fellow｜Fulbright @ NAU｜Associate Editor of IJCL｜Co-Editor of Corpus & Discourse, Elements in CDS｜FRSA
Not simply a Linguist who is interested in the potential of expression and limits to it but studies language when it talks and works mysteriously. Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics. Lecturer@department of English, University of Karachi
Former Postdoc @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Co-founder & co-convener @discore.bsky.social
corpus-assisted discourse studies
youth language, metaphor, crisis discourses
🪄 https://linktr.ee/esranureo
Associate Professor at @UIB.cat 🌊 Member of @BASLAgroup 🔆 #Linguistics 📖, #Bilingualism 🌍 #Psycholinguistics 🧠, #(A)typicalLanguageDevelopment🗣️
