Congratulations to Dundee's Taylor Dyson on being appointed as this year's Scots Scriever, hosted by the National Library of Scotland.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2512612...

#writingcommunity #authorsky #writesky #author #amwriting

It’s #LiftToTheSky Monday.

Today’s not about you. Tag a poet, press, or creative you admire. One post. One selfless act.

Use the hashtag #LiftToTheSky and check the feed — it’s the best way to find and support each other.

Let’s make generosity visible.

If this goes on I'm going to have closed sessions where selected people only can come into a secure house, be searched for phones and other devices, and only then be allowed to unfold and read a sheet of paper with one poem on it.... Book theft must be stopped. #AI #meta #booktheft

If the UK government agrees to a wholesale undoing of copyright, to excuse Meta's massive theft of books, art, movies etc as 'data', then the creative industries and all of us working in them are finished. All viewers and readers will get in future is unoriginal, derivative slop. #MetaBookThieves

META has used pirated versions of my books and those of pretty much every author I know to train its artificial intelligence software. We need the government to step in and ensure that META will #DoTheWriteThing

If you want to help, there’s a petition you can sign… www.change.org/p/protect-au...?

That’s a wrap for #scotwriterpitch2025
A huge thank you to all our BSky pioneers! To everyone who pitched / read / liked / shared today. I think we’ve found our new home here on Bluesky! Good luck to all who pitched, and keep an eye on those DMs! My thanks to partners - ASLA and HIE.

As Dundee is a city of creativity and design our Humanities team is launching a brand-new Taught Postgraduate course this September: Writing for the Creative Economies (MLitt, part time). For more information and to apply visit: www.dundee.ac.uk/postgraduate....

Spread the word, mes amis!

Wee update from me. A few more followers - hello, ty for the follows! 👋. I'm immersed in research for my work in progress (fiction), doing a remote cooperative long-form writing course, mentoring someone & ofc still being a carer to my disabled son. I should be a juggler. 🤹

This is what happens when you mess with writers. They write angry poetry.

Also, they galvanise, protest, and sign petitions.

Sign here.
chng.it/6C6xhs6Gjq

#MetaBookthieves

@societyofauthors.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇

Hello,

Please do spread the word about our novella prize, judged by Ali Smith. We're publishing 3 of the first year's shortlist, so odds are better than most prizes.

weatherglassbooks.com/novella-priz...

Just starting to build up the lists again that I had over on Twitter

bsky.app/profile/bigb...

Wrote a creepy solstice piece to share at a writing ceilidh later this week. Hope they like it!

Writing isn't the same since it was as highly commercialised as it is today. What do you think? I think it has suffered in many ways. I also see this in music and art. Kudos to those creating away from fame & fortune, not even thinking about sales or success.

Are there any good writing /writer starter packs?

Hello :)