Happy World Book Day! The exciting news is during her Centenary Year, Agnes Owens books are being republished. birlinn.co.uk/2026/01/08/p...

Bookclub: Alan Cumming on Alasdair Gray’s LANARK Currently available on BBC Sounds: celebrating Alasdair Gray’s 1981 masterpiece LANARK with the actor Alan Cumming, who is the voice of the new audiobook version recently released by @canongate.co.uk 💙📚 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Agnes Owens at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.

L'article "Agnes Owens and the Parliament of Insignificant Lives" de Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon vient de paraître dans le numéro 50.1 de la revue Studies in Scottish Literature scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/is...

New publications by our members: Lejla Mulalić has co-authored the volume 'A Country of Their Own: Writing Scotland as a Woman' (University of Sarajevo Press), which discusses Rona Munro, Liz Lochhead, Sharman Macdonald, Agnes Owens, and Kathleen Jamie. 🔓 Read in open access: tinyurl.com/4v2knp4y

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: I'm Alasdair Gray's only child – we must remember my father's political message

Long overdue- great news.

From today’s Strathspey Herald-Agnes Owens is back in the Highlands.

We've lost the great Allan Massie. An absolute giant of Scottish literature and journalism, and an inspirational, kind and generous man, too. I think his son @alexmassie.bsky.social is only sporadically on Bluesky, but he has written a beautiful obituary. alexmassie.substack.com/p/allan-mass...

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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Agnes Owens’ writing was championed by Kelman and Gray but she remained mysteriously un-celebrated. “One publisher said people don’t want that kind of writing… about poor people.” Agnes Owens, as seen through objects in the Glasgow @womenslibrary.bsky.social womenslibrary.org.uk/exhibition/a...

Shit news. An historic venue for launching many great and upcoming artists and writers including Agnes Owens. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Acquired this book at last ! @peterkravitz.bsky.social

Two very different British novellas by David Lodge and Agnes Owens Home Truths by David Lodge (1999) French title : Les quatre vérités. Translated by Suzanne V. Mayoux. Bad Attitude by Agnes Owens (2003) Not available in French. I have read several David Lodge who was very popular in France. The…

Gray Day 2026: Reimagined Glasgow, 45 years of Lanark. Beyond our 25 Feb evening event at Oran Mor we have a WIDER PROGRAMME… enjoy a P7 schools competition, free clay workshop at AGA, archive talk with @aowensarchive.bsky.social at Kelvingrove, & an online interactive exhibition.

thi wurd hour: Improvising New Writing. Online. Monday 2nd Feb 2026, 7-8pm (GMT). All writers welcome. Read about it here: www.thi-wurd.com/thi-wurd-hou...

Brilliant, Dani. Great tribute to an outstanding writer. Let’s hope the centenary celebrations bring Agnes Owens to a much wider audience. A Working Mother is a work of art.

Great piece by @danigaravelli.bsky.social It is without hyperbole to say that as a writer of short stories Agnes Owens is equal to Flannery O’Connor. And her novellas sit right next to those of Rachel Ingalls.

“She was so good at evoking the claustrophobia and darkness and poverty of economics but plenitude of mind." An excellent piece on Agnes Owens, by @danigaravelli.bsky.social. Dani has also written the introduction to a new edition of Gentlemen Of The West, which will be published by Polygon in May.

Great article on recognising Agnes Owens !

So pleased to share this ! birlinn.co.uk/2026/01/08/p...