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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Without further delay, we are so excited to announce that Crossroads is now available for purchase on the University of Stirling online shop! 💚 Paperback: shop.stir.ac.uk/product-cata... eBook: shop.stir.ac.uk/product-cata...

Crossroads sits on a lectern where authors gave readings of their work.

Photo credit to John Morton Photography who can be found on Instagram.

Editorial Lead Cora smiles at the camera while Project Manager José and Marketing and Sales Manager Chloe have a conversation.

Photo credit to John Morton Photography who can be found on Instagram.

Crossroads leans up against a table as an attendee reads from it.

Photo credit to John Morton Photography who can be found on Instagram.

Marketing and Sales Assistant Molly and their partner, Matthew enjoying the event.

Photo credit to John Morton Photography who can be found on Instagram.

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Thank you to all of you who came to our launch event! For those of you who couldn't make it, why not check out some of these fantastic shots? Captured by John Morton Photography, a change of pace from the student's usual music and concert work. #Photography #Launch #Booksky 📚💙

Image of the printed edition of "Crossroads" sat next to empty prosecco glasses and a thoroughly enjoyed cupcake.

Author Shani reads an excerpt from their piece "Do you remember?"

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Today's the day! Last chance to book a ticket for this evening's launch party at Albert Halls🎉 Would love to see you there!

Join us: June 4th 5.00-7.00pm. Albert Halls, Stirling. A night of reading's and author q+a's. Dresscode encouraged but not enforced: Come in green or on theme!

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

🎤Meet the voices behind the stories! Ahead of our upcoming launch this Tuesday, we're introducing some of the talented authors behind Crossroads ✨ #booksky #books #author #reader #anthology 💙📚

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🎉You are invited to a magical evening of readings and author panels as Stryvling Press prepares for the release of our 8th anthology 📖 Come along to the Albert Halls on June 4th to celebrate the talented team behind this year’s title! Tickets linked in bio/replies ✨ #booklaunch

Join us for 'Crossroads' Book Launch:

June 4th
5.00-7.00pm.

Albert Halls, Stirling

For a night of readings and author q&a’s.

Dress code:
Come in green or on theme! (So anything mystical, magical or mythical!)

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Something whimsical this way comes…✨ You can’t crack open Crossroads just yet but you can feast your eyes on our fantastic cover 😍📚💙 #booksky #books #bookcover #scotland #anthology #toberead

Image features book cover for Crossroads: A creative writing anthology from the students at the University of Stirling.

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

✨ Something stirs at the crossroads… ✨ The cover of our 2025 anthology is almost here. Join us on May 16th for the grand reveal! #CrossroadsAnthology #CoverReveal #StryvlingPress

Crossroads Cover Reveal, coming May 16th

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

We've been releasing stunning covers for over seven years and our next cover reveal is just around the corner... stay tuned! 📚💙 #booksky #cover #bookcover #art

Seven years of stunning covers and one more about to drop. Shows the previous book covers we have designed.

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Project Manager José recently appeared on The Ringwood Publishing Podcast. Check it out for a behind the scenes glimpse into the creative process at Stryvling Press, as well as some thoughts on the contemporary publishing climate. Scan the link in the image below to listen on Spotify!🎧#Booksky 📚💙

Project Manager Jose discusses Stryvling Press and the wider publishing climate with Ringwood Publishing Podcast. Listen now to hear about:
-The first screenplay to be featured in a Stryvling Press anthology
-Rejection and the publishing process
-The endurance of the written word, in particular the fantasy genre
And more!

S5E6 of The Ringwood Publishing Podcast.

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Choose your own adventure - Crossroads edition!✨🫧 The characters in this anthology face a lot of choices and now it’s your turn to make some. What path will you take? 📚💙Can't choose? Don't worry, Crossroads features these paths and more! #booksky #fantasy

Would you rather? Crossroads Edition. Swipe to choose your path!

Travel back to the dinosaur age or take a trip to talk to the stars?

Find a book of ancient magic spells or encounter a UFO and spot an alien?

Fly like a magpie or run like a leopard?

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

In March some of our team attended the Vice-Chancellor's Fund Award Ceremony. Thank you to the fund for supporting this year's project and for inviting us to the ceremony- it was fantastic to celebrate with the other hard-working and inspiring recipients. #StirAlumni #Indiepublisher #Studentled

Image features the text 'Vice-Chancellor's Fund Award Ceremony- thank you for your support!' it is accompanied by a collage of images:
Image 1- Project management team Jose and Racheal with the Vice-Chancellor
Image 2- Backdrop of the event
Image 3- Our certificate for received support from the Vice-Chancellor's Fund
Image 4- A group photo of recipients holding their certificates

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

✨Fun Friday Feature✨ We’re flipping through the pages of our past anthologies and pulling out some of our favourite lines! Swipe through this thread and enjoy a mini literary journey with Stryvling Press. Let us know which quote stands out to you! #BookSky #IndiePublisher #SmallPress #Quote

Like the quote? Read the book!
Inklings, Circling the Point, Time and Tide, Solas, Pharos, In the Flesh, Sonder.
Swipe to find out which of our previous titles you should read based on the quote that captures your attention!

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Exciting news! 🎉 We are thrilled to unveil the title of our upcoming release from Stryvling Press: Crossroads. A stunning new anthology themed around all things folklore, memory, and fantasy.📚💙 Stay tuned for more details, this is just the beginning! 🌱 #Crossroads #BookSky #Writer #Reader

Our beloved characters stand in a place of contemplation, caught between the past and the future, between this world and the Other, wondering where the roads before them will lead…

Stryvling 2025 welcomes you to the space between.

[Graphic of a person standing in front of two paths.]

Stryvling Press introduces to you our 2025 title.

Crossroads

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

CALLING ALL BOOK LOVERS NEAR STIRLING 📚: We will be holding a raffle in the atrium at Stirling Uni on Thursday 3rd April from 1pm-4pm. Come along to try your luck at winning a beautiful, book-lover hamper. Not feeling lucky? Stop by and chat to some of our team instead 💚 — #Booksky

Win a book bundle! Thursday 3rd April, 1pm-4pm. Atrium, University of Stirling.

£3 a strip of £2 strips for £5. (Cash only)

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Check out our new #Bluesky banner on our profile, created by the incredibly-talented designer and artist @leahyeah.bsky.social 😍 #artist #design

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Are you a lover of playlists curated to your current read? Check out Stryvling Press on Spotify where you can find a playlist for each of our previous releases. COMING SOON: 2025 Title Playlist- 5x more songs and artists than before! 📚🎵 #BookSky #Music #Playlists #Reading

Image contains a QR code for our Spotify account. Our page can also be found by searching 'Stryvling Press' on Spotify.

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

By the way, we're on Instagram! Make sure to follow us there for more updates and behind the scenes of our current work-in-progress. 💙📚 #BookSky #Instagram #Reels

Image features a screenshot of Stryvling Press's Instagram account and their latest reel.

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Last day of our meet the team posts- say hello to our Business and Administration team! A terrific team of two making sure our books are available for sale and working towards ensuring the future success of the press. Check out this thread to get to know them!📚💙 #Booksky #Admin #Business

Meet the Team: Business and Administration

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Day 5 of our meet the team posts and we're introducing the Marketing and Sales team, aka the people promoting Stryvling Press! Take a look at this thread to get to know the team behind the social media and suspense-building this year 💙📚 #Booksky #Marketing #Sales

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Day 4 of our meet the team posts and it's time to introduce our dedicated Design and Layout team! Check out this thread to get to know them 💙📚 #Booksky #Publisher #Design #Art

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Day 3 of our meet the team posts!📚💙 Get to know our persistently-great production team! #Booksky #Production #Meettheteam

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Day 2 of our meet the team posts! Check out this thread to get to know our excellent Editorial team 📚💙 They are tasked with the job of finetuning the content that will go into our next title. #Booksky #Books #Editor #Editorial

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Day 1 of our meet the team posts! Check out this thread to get to know our positively-brilliant Project Management team! 📚💙 An iconic duo, if we do say so ourselves 😏 #Booksky #Books #Meettheteam

Image features a green moon and the text 'Meet the Team: Project Management'

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy International Women's Day from the team at Stryvling Press! We'd love to know some of your favourite feminist reads!📚💙#InternationalWomensDay #Womenwhowrite #Booksky #WomensDay

Image features the text "International Women's Day 2025" and is accompanied by nine book covers, listed below:
- A Room of One's Own-Virginia Woolf
- Gender Trouble, Judith Butler
- Sister, Outsider-Audre Lorde
- Invisible Women-Caroline Criado Perez
-The Heart of a Woman-Maya Angelou
-Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982-Cho Nam-Joo
-The Second Sex- Simone de Beauvoir
-Girl, Woman, Other- Bernadine Evaristo
-The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Happy World Book Day from all of us here at Stryvling Press!📚💙 What is everyone reading today? We'd love to hear! #BookSky #WorldBookDay #Books #BlueskyBooks #Bookcommunity #Booklovers

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Like people-watching out a café window, Sonder invites the reader to contemplate the connective human experience. Published just last year, each page of our seventh anthology is a glimpse into another existence, a reminder that every passing stranger carries a story of their own. 💙📚 #BookSky

Image features the book "Sonder" on a yellow bed. Image has been reposted from Facebook.

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Calling all fans of the gothic, grisly and macabre! 🖤 Read as fears and nightmares corporealise, spurting their innards onto the page in a beautifully grotesque ink blot. In the Flesh, our sixth anthology, is all at once a wonder and a wicked vision to behold. #BookSky💙📚

Image features the book 'In the Flesh' held in front of campus loch.

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

March is here and Spring is in sight. Why not let Solas guide you through the change of seasons? Themed around renewal and enlightenment, our fifth anthology is the perfect read as Winter thaws and Spring blooms. What's your favourite part of this time of year? Ours is reading outside! 📚💙 #BookSky

Image features the book "Solas" held in front of daffodils. Image has been reposted from Instagram.

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

“Like a Pharos itself, this collection is a beacon of brilliant writing.” -Heather McDaid, founder of 404 Ink. Created during the pandemic, Pharos - like its namesake - cast a light during dark times, as creative writing alumni were guided ‘home’ to write once more for Stryvling Press. 📚💙 #BookSky

Image features the book "Pharos" settled on a rock on the shore of a beach. In the background, a person can be seen walking close to the sea. (Image has been reposted from Instagram.)

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Feel like escaping into a good book and losing track of time? We may have the perfect fit for you! 📚💙 Check out Time and Tide, our third anthology, published in 2020. It's not only a fab read but how stunning is that cover? We think it would look great on your bookshelf!😜 #BookSky #BlueSkyBooks

Image features the book "Time and Tide" next to a sweet treat/cake, a flowering (fake?) plant, some eyeglasses, and some strawberries.

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Throwback to a snowy day in 2019- right around the time we published our second anthology! ❄️ Circling the Point is all about frustration, focus, and fortitude- fickle mistresses brought to life by 13 brilliant writers. Available in both paperback and eBook. 📚✨ #BookSky #IndieAuthors

Image features the book "Circling the Point" held over snowy ground. Image has been reposted from Instagram.

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We're feeling nostalgic over here at Stryvling press! 📚💙 In 2018, Inklings was published. 16 incredible authors- a variety of themes across poetry and short fiction—there’s something for everyone. Looking for your next read? Find the Inklings eBook for just 99p on our site! (Link in bio) #throwback

Image features the book "Inklings" in front of a tree with pink flowers. (Image has been reposted from Stryvling's Instagram.)

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Stryvling Press @stryvlingpress.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

(1/4) Stryvling Press is officially on Bluesky! ✨🦢 But who are we? Take a peek at this thread to find out!

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