Please repost if you agree that the BBC is institutionally biased in favour of Nigel Farage.

Slowing coming down to earth after performing at the #AyeWrite2025 #GlasgowsBookFestival with FedFolk and at the launch of #Postboxmagazine

I'm reading at the launch of Postbox Magazine Issue 12 on Friday as part of #AyeWrite2025 at the Mitchell Library Tickets www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/post...

I've got my tickets for #AyeWrite2025 have you? Going to see #GraemeMacreaBurnet, #JeanetteWinterson, FedFolk@AyeWrite #FederationofWriters and then performing myself, at the #PostboxMagazine launch. Roll on November

This Is Fascism

I'm appearing at Aye Write (yipee) on Friday 7th of Nov at the Mitchell Library. It would be lovely to see some of you there #sheilawakefield #maxmulgrew #catherineogston #ayewrite www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/post...

@cbcreative.bsky.social The room is lit by candles held in a wild array of candlesticks. A black finger of smoke escapes, adding to the ethereal haze of joints and cigarettes. The decoration is blood red, midnight blue; stars and crescent moons; gold, dangling on wrists and ears. Chanting. #WriteCBC

We are deeply saddened by & condemn the attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue. Acts of violence have no place in our society. Politicians & the media must ensure their actions in the following days don't stoke division further. We must focus on the humanity that connects us all.

Interesting opportunity

Edinburgh Book Festival fun - Joseph O'Connor then Ruth Jones being interviewed by Val McDermid

Can you give blood?

And we are OPEN for submissions for Issue Ten! Submissions will be open from JUNE 1st - JUNE 14th. We are accepting fiction and non-fiction between 800-4000 words.

Fiction Editor for Hire Alongside my writing I am also an editor (Beech Editorial Services). While a lot of my business comes from students, I have been critiquing fiction for years in my writers group. It's an area that I am interested in getting more work in, but I needed more training. So, in…

Yipee

Meta and the AI threat The Society of Authors have made today a day of protest against the theft of intellectual property (ie authors' words) by tech companies who are using work without the authors' permission and without any payment to the authors to train their AI. So today, I'm asking Meta to…

Some great railway staff asked about my placard and wished us luck! #DoTheWriteThing @societyofauthors.bsky.social

‘I’ll be asking META to #DoTheWriteThing on Thursday 3 April’.

Scottish Association of Writers (the Aftermath) It's over a week now since the wonderful SAW conference (at the Westerwood Hotel). As with anything new, there is a bit of adjustment, and a bit of imposter syndrome (although I heard the term so often that I began to wonder if there is anyone who…

I made a Starter Pack of Bluesky accounts for Scotland’s publishing industry. This is a wide-ranging list covering publishers, literary agents, publishing services, and publishing, writing and other literature support agencies. Msg me to be included. go.bsky.app/3niPF4E

@peterurpeth.bsky.social Hi Peter, I would love to be added to get your publisher list packs. Ta

Scottish Association of Writers 2025 Conference Really excited to be heading off to the Scottish Association of Writers 2025 Conference. A whole weekend in the company of lovely writers can only be a good thing. I'm looking forward to meeting my fellow judges and hearing from the keynote speaker,…

Wow

Elizabeth Warren, who helped to create the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, likened Elon Musk’s attack on the agency to a bank robber disarming the alarms as he steps into the lobby.

I've signed. Have you?

Full members of the Federation of Writers (Scotland)

Wishing you all peace and joy in 2025

Want to listen to some great short stories from the #FederationofWritersScotand Scroll down my Scriever page to watch www.federationofwriters.scot/colette-scri...

Happy National Short Story Day - here's a gift from the Federation of Writers (Scotland) to all short story lovers

Happy National Short Story Day. Here's a selection from the Federation of Writers (Scotland) www.federationofwriters.scot/colette-scri...

Looking forward to reading at this today and passing my Scriever shield on to the next recipient

Glad Radio You can hear me reading my short story All Inclusive via the Glad Radio website. I recorded it a while ago, so it's nice to see it finally live.

Just attended my first virtual writing hour with #FaberAcademy #Faberalumi Really benefited from the discipline of a focused hour.

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