Claire Reynolds
@clairereynolds.bsky.social
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DFA Researcher in Creative Writing Books, writing, food & nonsense (not in that order)
Lovely return to our Friday afternoons together for BULB! in the Creative Writing Gardens🌻 Genni Meikleham, Candice Chung & Anthony Vahni Capildeo shared a harmonious melding of the prosaic and the poetic. We’ll be back on Friday 22nd for more! 🌸🌻✌🏻⛅️
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Picture This Scotland
7 days ago
'Your society's broken. So who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No, let's blame the people with no power and no money and immigrants who don't even have a vote yet. Yeah, it must be their fucking fault.' - Iain Banks
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Come join us Friday 8th May for the first BULB! We have Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Candice Chung & Genni Meikleham reading 🙌🏻 POEMS…PICNIC…PROSE…& PALS! 2.30pm in the garden of 5 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12. Hope to see you there! Colin & Claire 🌸✌🏻🍃🌻❤️🍄🟫
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Procrastination in the sun today! Sanding & staining, a stack of protein pancakes for next 4 breakfasts, clean windows & upcoming nap are not getting this book written.
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Leah Broad
24 days ago
**NEW POST** I'm starting a slow listening club on my Substack. It's an invitation to come offline & listen instead. To explain why, this is why classical music is so important to me, and why I think slow, deep, engaged listening is such a powerful thing.
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Come offline, and listen slowly with me
Come offline, and listen slowly with me
https://leahbroad.substack.com/p/im-starting-a-slow-listening-club
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LET THEM EAT BOOKS THE PODCAST
23 days ago
🚙🚗🚙💨💨💨 In our most recent episode we relive recent & not so recent road trips through the lens of car snacks. We discuss writing by Zain Rishi, Jayne Cortez & Bertolt Brecht & Claire shares a piece of work too. Link to listen in bio, but available wherever you listen to your podcasts 🍽️❤️✌🏻
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Sweet potato falafel, Normandy Crème fraîche & Kimchi on flatbread in bed. First Monday off since January ☺️
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BULB! is the delight of new words blossoming in nature, listening to artists perform in the sanctuary of the garden of UofG’s Creative Writing Department at Lilybank Gdns, with food, drink & friends…all welcome…tba another few events later in the summer. Hope to see you there! Claire & Colin 🌸✌🏻🍃🌻❤️
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Tiles in the close of 34 West George St in Glasgow. Going down a rabbit hole to find out more…see ya🪰
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Broken Sleep Books
about 1 month ago
In The Banality of Power, James Byrne anatomises the everyday mechanics of harm, tracing how cruelty becomes procedure, how violence is normalised, and how authority hides in plain sight.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
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First of our new monthly episodes where we interview a writes, lots or literary sorts is out now! 🥰💌❤️🍽️✌🏻
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Finally had time to go see Hamnet yesterday & I’m still caught in a strange, soft gloamin. Can’t stop thinking about it & feel compelled to watch it again. Make up free this time.
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David J Bradley
3 months ago
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
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Association for Scottish Literature
3 months ago
Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), b.
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, 11 Feb. Recently her nature writing & her memoir THE LIVING MOUNTAIN have gained attention—but she was also an important
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novelist. Charlotte Peacock weighs her contribution to Scotland’s literary renaissance 🎂🧵 1/9
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Quiet pioneer: the novels of Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) - The Bottle Imp
Charlotte Peacock on Nan Shepherd's three remarkable novels: The Quarry Wood, The Weatherhouse and A Pass in the Grampians
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/quiet-pioneer-the-novels-of-nan-shepherd-1893-1981/
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Our Valentines gift to you 💌 HONEY!
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3 months ago
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Yes!…or rather Oui! Aside from laughing our little derrières off at the name, I remember it being the best tasting lemonade I’ve ever had.
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Association for Scottish Literature
3 months ago
Let us remember the stillborn: how they cede their places here with such good grace that no one ever speaks of them again… —John Burnside, “A Footnote to Colossians” published in RUIN, BLOSSOM (Penguin, 2024)
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www.penguin.co.uk/books/456120...
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Merriam-Webster
3 months ago
There, there…
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Brock’s Photographic Journey
3 months ago
Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 2023. It’s a dark and rainy day in Portland, Oregon, and I felt the need for some color in my life. I think this fits the bill.
#Photography
#Architecture
#Interior
#Paris
#France
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The Agnes Owens Archive
3 months ago
2026 marks 100 years since the birth of Agnes Owens. A year-long centenary programme will celebrate her life, writing, and legacy through archives, exhibitions, reissues, and public events. Full details via link in bio.
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Creative Writing at NEIU
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What Seamus Heaney Meant to Me, a Kid From Carrickfergus
As an eager, new student at Oxford in the autumn of 1991 I had arrived early at the Examination Schools on High Street to hear Seamus Heaney’s latest lecture as the Professor of Poetry. These lectu…
https://lithub.com/what-seamus-heaney-meant-to-me-a-kid-from-carrickfergus/
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Lawrence Freedman
3 months ago
Once had privilege of listening to Ian McKellen perform at Oxford. Seemed timely then - even more so now.
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LET THEM EAT BOOKS THE PODCAST
3 months ago
Our most lenticular episode to date is out now, LENTIL SOUP 🥣 We discuss poetry by both Zharad & Maria Sledmere, & an extract from a short story by David Toulmin. Link in bio to listen, but available wherever you listen to your podcasts 🍽️❤️✌🏻 What’s your secret to a good bowl of lentil soup?🧐
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LET THEM EAT BOOKS THE PODCAST
3 months ago
Et voilà! Overnight oats topped with port stewed rhubarb. Made again as I forgot to photograph the pots we had when recording on Sunday morning. Love how you can see the layer of honey through the oats. Returned to bed to eat it, looking at the sky on this gorgeous sunny morning & lazing around.
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Please give the latest episode of my podcast with Colin Herd a listen! We have such fun making them & hope our love of all thing food & literary comes across in the shows🍽️📚 Also - please give us a follow we’re new to Bluesky
@letthemeatbooks.bsky.social
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4 months ago
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Sonia Sulaiman
4 months ago
I did another illustration today. In a lot of Palestinian folktales, the heroine who is on an adventure will spend the night in a palm tree. I wanted to be less realistic with this one.
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Brian Groom
4 months ago
Glaswegian attracts a puzzled gaze by taking his haggis for a walk on Robert Burns' birthday, 25th January 1967 (photo: Keystone).
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The amazing fifth installment of Who Owns The Clyde?
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over 1 year ago
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Kit de Waal
over 1 year ago
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
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Discoveries 2025
Calling all unpublished women writers! The Women’s Prize Trust, Audible, the Curtis Brown literary agency and Curtis Brown Creative have partnered to run the Discoveries novel-writing development prog...
https://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/discoveries-2025
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Midway through my weekly ‘big clean’ (house not self) and reminiscing about Wednesday’s lobster feast & wondering if ‘Wednesday lobster feasts’ weren’t a thing, I could probably hire a much needed lovely cleaner. Then realising my friend bought my lunch, and I still can’t hire a cleaner.
over 1 year ago
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Hey Bluesky it’s been a minute. Well a big long year of a minute. (I tend never to write the word minute as I can’t spell & second guessing is my life blood…’min-ate, mine-newt? min-ate, mine-newt?’ three times like a spell before I remember they’re both spelled minute).
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Autumn on Campus 🍂🍁🍂🍁 Day of writing, Creative Conversations in the Uni Chapel, pasta at Little Italy (most important part) & dusk walk up to professors’ Sq.
over 2 years ago
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Imagine going to a ‘Design your own Sleep Demon’ workshop Imagine being in a almost trance like state, being guided towards your own sleep demon & finding out it’s 🥁🥁🥁 YOU!
over 2 years ago
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I got shortlisted for The Bridport Prize in ⚡️Flash Fiction⚡️ Thanks
@bridportprize.bsky.social
My first attempt at such a lean piece of FF & I wrote it on my phone just before the competition closed, just to see if I could. Turns out I could 🫶🏻
over 2 years ago
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Jubilant, joyous evening at Glasgow Women’s Library celebrating #Herland Our Lives in Protest👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Poetry, comedy, song, dance, activism! Women cheering other women on so loudly & with so much love. Just beautiful🫶🏻
over 2 years ago
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Emma Jacobs
over 2 years ago
Is it bad that the only commentary I want to hear is Jerry hall’s
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Self-consciously ate a yoghurt in public. Suddenly wondered if I would be chewing it. Can’t stop thinking about it.
over 2 years ago
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Julia Ruth Smith
over 2 years ago
I hope you enjoy my story, ‘Full Moon For a Dying Light,’ with a nod to the town where I have lived for the last quarter century. 🙏
themolotovcocktail.com/vol-14/vol-1...
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The Molotov Cocktail
Full Moon For a Dying Light by Julia Ruth Smith I wake to the moon curled up cat-like and the sound of my girl being hit by a freight train. I told her it would never work. I told her again and again....
https://themolotovcocktail.com/vol-14/vol-14-issue-3/full-moon/
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Having a duvet day. Reading Irenosen Okojie’s short story collection, Speaking Gigantular. Totally matching my fever dream energy. Such a trip.
over 2 years ago
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Going for brunch with besties/cousins Someone’s going to drink to much & cry I’ve decided it’s not going to be me Please, baby Jesus, don’t let it be me🙏🏼
over 2 years ago
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Thank you Sunshine Thank you Alanis Thank you Sancerre & codine Thank you lie-ins Thank you dog-child Thank you, thank you Shamshad Khan
over 2 years ago
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What’s up with the world not delivering me coconut & pandan, with mango & calamansi soft serve until the age of 43?
over 2 years ago
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Scottish Covid Vaccination helpline…if we assault them with acid jazz hold music 70% of callers will hang up. Bagpipes were too obvious. Proclaimers too expensive.
over 2 years ago
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Association for Scottish Literature
over 2 years ago
Illustrating Myths & Folktales 5 Sep, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh – tickets by donation Join illustrator Jordan Hunter to discover more about creating convincing characters, landscapes, & supernatural beings inspired by Scottish myth & folklore
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/illustrati...
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Illustrating Myths and Folktales
Explore and create illustrations with illustrator and graphic designer Jordan Hunter, inspired by Scottish myth and folklore.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/illustrating-myths-and-folktales-tickets-638104125617
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Eddie’s 3pm sun puddle has been stolen by Autumn 🍂🍂🍂
over 2 years ago
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Well. This is nice.
over 2 years ago
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