So looking forward to this! It's great to hear @radiophrenia.bsky.social on air again! 📻

📢 Creatives in Scotland seeking better working conditions! Hold the government to account & make sure Fair Work principles are implemented by completing this survey. Deadline: 20 April www.surveymonkey.com/r/WV8DNT3

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

Our Tuesday’Writing Fiction’ class begins in 2 weeks. All writers welcome #thiwurd www.thi-wurd.com/product/writ...

Creative Conversations: Greg Thomas 24 Feb @uofglasgow.bsky.social – free @gregchthomas.bsky.social is a poet, artist & writer with a particular interest in concrete & visual poetries. His poetry often deals with environmental crisis & politics of climate change www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-c...

Love the new cover @canongate.co.uk 😍

AFTERWORDS: Muriel Spark “One’s prime is elusive…” —On BBC Sounds: writers @ianrankin1.bsky.social & @zoestrachan.bsky.social discuss Muriel Spark’s life & work with National Library of Scotland curator Colin McIlroy, & Spark’s friend & memoirist, Alan Taylor 7/9 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This lovely book edited by @zoestrachan.bsky.social is an anthology of writing inspired by the Antonine Wall. It is includes prose, poetry and an adapted excerpt from my book 'Walking the Antonine Wall'. Best of all, you can download it free here: eprints.gla.ac.uk/305436/2/305... #RomanSiteSaturday

On air right now @bbcradio4.bsky.social our own DFA writer @uofglasgow.bsky.social and chef @sumayyausmani.bsky.social 😃🥘🍴

Should rivers have rights? Pleased to see Who Owns the Clyde? expanding their citizens' investigation 🌊 @louisewelsh00.bsky.social @judebarber.bsky.social petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Perth station...

A snowy journey to discover the sun shining on Moniack Mhor!

Brilliant news!

I've been very quiet here, but here's a great thing that happened recently: Theatre Studies at the U. of Glasgow has launched a *free* online introduction to playwriting in partnership with Playwrights' Studio, Scotland! www.futurelearn.com/courses/an-i... Do pass on to anybody interested!

Open Book Scots Creative Writing Group 9 Dec, free online The latest free monthly creative writing session via Zoom, led by author Alan McClure. Designed as a gentle introduction to writing in Scots, they are open to beginners & more experienced writers alike www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-book-...

Few things make me happier than model towers...

I do, thank you! They must know I fold page corners...

Excited to announce 3 #AcademicJobs in Humanities at Uni Strathclyde funded through the Charlotte Lythe bequest. I'm new here, so appreciate your help in getting the word out! The jobs are in History, Media and English/Creative Writing. Details below in my first bsky thread (drumroll please...)

The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis

Free tickets here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-c...

Delighted to have a new and seasonal short story on @bbcradio4.bsky.social this Friday, 3.45pm - spot the F Marian McNeill references! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

PLEASE SHARE 🙏 last tour dates of 2024! Our free weekly tours with our Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social are now live and bookable via the email below! Sorcha worked with Alasdair since 2007, has a deep knowledge of the collection, was responsible for saving it after Gray’s death.

Hello! Instead of an intro to me, here's Minnie the cat, who also likes books and coffee.