Ewan Downie
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Theatre-maker, writer, dad; joint artistic director of
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I am very proud indeed to have my short story The Other Mara in issue 7 of the fantastic Thin Skin Magazine... !
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18 days ago
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19 days ago
Whether you've gone out and done your bit for democracy, or that's another day at the office done with, you deserve a reward. So here's our Ewan Downie's new story, 'The Other Mara', as a wee treat for you. Check it out on Thin Skin at the link below.
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The Other Mara - Thin Skin
I keep dreaming about the other girl. She is looking down into the water, and Iām looking up at her through the silvered surface. She is wearing a white slip that reflects the moon. She reaches for me...
https://thin-skin.com/shortstory/the-other-mara/
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle
21 days ago
Check out the latest issue of Strange Horizons for a brand new poem from our Ewan Downie! Just a heads up that 'Beetles' is not one for entomophobes.
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Beetles
in dark / some thing / moves some / thing moves / in dark
https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/beetles/
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I am so proud to have my poem 'beetles' in the current edition of the awesome
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18 days ago
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20 days ago
E.M. Faulds is back with 'To Stave Off the Void', part of the new anthology Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity -- subjects very close to our hearts! Preorders are available now from the link below.
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New project: extracting all the books from my kindle, breaking the DRM so I can access them elsewhere, and exiting the Amazon ecosystem.
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about 2 months ago
Our Ewan Downie's on a roll! Check out 'Semele', the latest story in his ongoing exploration of the Dionysus myth, in the new issue of Carmina Magazine.
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Semele by Ewan Downie | Carmina Magazine | March 2026
https://carminamagazine.com/issues-main/2026/issues/march-2026/semele.html
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Now this is a POEM
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Shitty Boyfriend
Your voice rang toward me over the phone: it was like living out in the country near the Illinois river, and the sound of a train passing or a gunshotā¦
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about 2 months ago
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Company of Wolves
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Applications now OPEN for our 2026 Theatre-Maker Placement programme! Company of Wolves are offering a rare opportunity for 2 early career artists to be embedded in the operations of one of Scotlandās foremost contemporary performance companies. INFO HERE:
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NEW OPPORTUNITY: Theatre-Maker Placements 2026
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https://companyofwolves.org/news/theatre-maker-placements-2026
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Thanks so much for coming to the show!
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, Iāve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/04/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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āWe lack the language that would let us prize the arduous, the uncomfortable, the slow and wandering, the unpredictable, the vulnerable or risky, the intimate, the embodied.ā
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What technology takes from us ā and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out ā but itās going to takeā¦
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My first published story is in the Autumn/Winter edition of the awesome Frigg Magazine:
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Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry, Issue 65, Winter 2025-2026 | Front Page
Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry, Fall/Winter 2025-26, Issue 65. Writers: Shane Allison, Ewan Downie, Kathy Fish, Adelaide Gifford, Samuel Goldsmith, Kim Magowan, Jasmine Melchor, Michael Meyer...
https://friggmagazine.com/
3 months ago
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āThe most important phase of creation looks like nothing is happening. Weāre systematically destroying our capacity for it.ā
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7 Short Lessons from Gabriel GarcĆa MĆ”rquez
Learn from a rare & timeless conversation between friends | + 7 Writing Exercises
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3 months ago
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I just joined the @quitgpt boycott. OpenAI's president was the biggest donor in Trump's Super PAC's year-end report. It's time to quit. Join us:
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QuitGPT ā OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest Donors
Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.
https://quitgpt.org/
3 months ago
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I can't think of anything that would annoy Trump more: I just signed a
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petition: Help Minneapolis Get a Nobel Peace Prize. Sign here:
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Help Minneapolis Get a Nobel Peace Prize
Students protest against ICE during a walkout at the University of Minnesota, on January 26, 2026 (Brandon Bell / Getty Images) The editors of The Nation are formally nominating the city of Minneapo...
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/support-the-nomination-of-the-city-of-minneapolis-and-its-people-for-the-2026-nobel-peace-prize?source=bluesky&
3 months ago
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New
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album just dropped! Can't wait to listen. Please come to Glasgow when you tour...
3 months ago
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āthe tyranny of the quantifiableā
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What technology takes from us ā and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out ā but itās going to takeā¦
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3 months ago
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle
4 months ago
#Scotland
Our Ewan Downie is on the road with The Bacchae! Kicking off in Glasgow (Citizen's Theatre, 4-7 March) and Edinburgh (Festival Studio, 9-10 March), he'll be on tour from Orkney to Aberdeen and more. Full dates and ticket links in the post below.
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Working on a new version of Aeschylus's Agamemnon last week my main thought is: this could go badly wrong. But I quite like being a little scared of my collaborators.
4 months ago
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I started reading 2666 by Roberto Bolano. To my surprise, given that it is supposed to be a great work of literature, I am thoroughly enjoying it.
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4 months ago
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Cory Doctorow: How AI is ensh*ttifying the web | Part Two of the Prospect Podcast interview
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Cory Doctorow: How AI is ensh*ttifying the web | Part Two of the Prospect Podcast interview
Looking for part one? Click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9XRREj1DSo On this episode of the Prospect Podcast, our hosts Ellen Halliday and Alona Ferber are joined by journalist, techā¦
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Long, but excellent... The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. | Aaron Bastani Meets Cory Doctorow
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The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. | Aaron Bastani Meets Cory Doctorow
Did you know that the standard of Google searches has actually gotten worse over recent years? Once you think about it, it makes sense. Highly effective search means fewer searches overall. And fewerā¦
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
Here's CE Lord OBE's take on this morning's High Court's Hampstead Ponds decision.
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Hampstead Heath Ponds: A clear Judgment. A clear voice from London. And a clear path forward.
This morningās High Court judgment refusing the judicial review application brought by Sex Matters against the City of London Corporation is an important moment for common sense, good governance, aā¦
https://celord.com/2026/01/29/hampstead-heath-ponds-a-clear-judgment-a-clear-voice-from-london-and-a-clear-path-forward/
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Somehow, reading George Saunders' words always makes me feel calmer and more able to listen. āalso start weightlifting, build a machine-gun turret ā¦ā
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āāHow do you really tell the truth about this moment?ā: George Saunders on ghosts, mortality and Trumpās America
The Lincoln in the Bardo author is back with another metaphysical tale. He discusses Buddhism, partisan politics and the terrifying flight that changed his life
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4 months ago
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The Guardian
4 months ago
Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this | Marina Hyde
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Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this | Marina Hyde
Truly, I am the countryās biggest fan. But in the spirit of free speech its leaders apparently love, hereās a few things the rest of the world needs them to know, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle
4 months ago
The
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Awards longlist is out - and the GSFWC are all over it! Christopher Caldwell, Jenni Coutts, E.M. Faulds and Neil Williamson are all up for awards this year. Incoming..
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Vote for the BSFA Awards
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Thoroughly recommend
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's excellent threads reporting from the ground of resistance in Minneapolis.
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4 months ago
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Listening to a parent trying to teach their 6 year old to play Monopoly: 6 y.o. "I don't want to go to jail. I don't like that. Can we change the rules of this game?" I hope so, kid, I hope so.
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Margaret Killjoy
4 months ago
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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Elon Musk is a white supremacist. Case closed.
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Board of Peace - Season 1
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Excellent Cory Doctorow essay: AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
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4 months ago
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Company of Wolves
5 months ago
⨠Happy New Year everyone! ⨠Weāre exciting to start a new year with our 14th edition Winter Training workshops. Both Glasgow workshops are now SOLD OUT with limited slots available for our EDINBURGH EDITION. š
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Good seat to be behind at GFT (for the Muppets Christmas Carol)
5 months ago
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Another amazing poem by Tadeusz Rozewicz. Full disclosure: I may be reading a book by Tadeusz Rozewicz. This may surprise no-one.
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By Tadeusz Rozewicz. Now that's a poet.
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RIP Tom Stoppard - the first modern playwright whose work I loved. āThere was rage and pain and iron in himā: Patrick Marber on the great hits ā and fond smokes ā he had with Tom Stoppard
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āThere was rage and pain and iron in himā: Patrick Marber on the great hits ā and fond smokes ā he had with Tom Stoppard
The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws ā and the last four cigarettes they smokedā¦
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6 months ago
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This is very cool: Sujet SupposƩ Savoir
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Sujet SupposƩ Savoir
Download the descriptive transcript. One sign reads caution and one sign reads office straight ahead and one sign reads customer parking. Voice-Over: Canese Jarboe. Descriptive Transcript: Caneseā¦
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6 months ago
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So proud to be bringing this show to the new Citz studio in March! The Bacchae | Citizens Theatre
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The Bacchae | Citizens Theatre
A Company of Wolves Production
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6 months ago
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I am currently reading Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh and Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme and it feels like my head is being melted in two entirely different directions.
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6 months ago
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āāOur greatest natural hazard is flooding, and we donāt prepare people for it.ā ā
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Flooded and forgotten: the UKās waters are rising and weāre being kept in the dark | John Harris
Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall ā these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris
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6 months ago
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Things I didn't know before I had kids 12: When the children start taping food to the floor and furniture, it is time for the playdate to be over.
7 months ago
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Company of Wolves
7 months ago
THE BACCHAE IS GOING ON TOUR! We're hitting the road across Scotland in 2026, starting at Citizens Theatre and reaching Aberdeen, Dumfries & Galloway, Edinburgh, Melrose, Peebles, Stirling, and Orkney, plus more dates to come! Check out our website for info!
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1/6 IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN FOLKS! Announcing.......WINTER TRAINING 2026 Winter Training is your creative kick-start to the new year --- based in Company of Wolvesā rigorous and playful body-centred training, and years of investigation into non-hierarchical creation
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So proud to have been involved in Close, the Citizens' Young Company show about the legendary Close Theatre. On until Saturday. Close | Citizens Theatre
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Close | Citizens Theatre
Young Co. takes you on a journey back to the legendary Close Theatre as we look at the heritage of the Citizens Theatre.
https://citz.co.uk/whats-on/close/
8 months ago
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Drinking the
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Foreign Extra Stout I've been saving. Crikey that's a good beer.
8 months ago
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Listening to Dubnobasswithmyheadman by
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One of my favourite albums of the 90s So many memories Mostly wasted
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8 months ago
Here's a thing that's probably right up your StraĆe, you big mad oddball.x
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