Some birds during the daft days (robin, dunnock, great tit, tree creeper). 🪶

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

Puffins galore on the Isle of May today.

A lovely, scorching hot day at RSPB Loch Lomond. 🌞

heh Casey did a tell ye a goat a couple a poems published widizthatmean widayyemean dizthatmeanyegetmoneyfurrit… —William Letford, “It’s aboot the labour” published in BEVEL, @carcanet.bsky.social 2012 #WorldPoetryDay www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

I went to Orkney and visited the grave of George Mackay Brown. I hope you enjoy reading it, as I enjoyed writing it. Please consider sharing, and perhaps even subscribing so that my work will be emailed to you whenever I post. It's free. smallfinds.substack.com/p/small-find...

I had an amazing time performing at the New Writers Awards Showcase last night at @traversetheatre.bsky.social! A special experience. Watch the recorded livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/-igZuWJ... Muckle thanks tae @shanestrachan.bsky.social fur bein sic a generous host and heezin us aw up! 🙏

Join us on YouTube for our New Writers Awards Showcase 2025! Our show kicks off at 19.30, live from the @traversetheatre.bsky.social in Edinburgh. 🖋️🎦 www.youtube.com/live/-igZuWJ...

Introducing the 12 emerging writers selected for our New Writers Award 2025. Thank you to @creativescots.bsky.social, @leughleabhar.bsky.social and the family of Callan Gordon for their invaluable support. www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...

I've had a fantastic year on the New Writers Award programme with @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social and I can't wait for the Showcase this Thursday! 🥳 You can still buy tickets for the show or watch via a livestream on the night. 👇 Hope to see you there!

The other week, my boardgame group played Reiner Knizia's latest tile-laying wonder, Rebirth, set in an optimistic post-apocalyptic Scotland. Great gameplay and lovely pieces made from recycled wood waste instead of the typical plastic. Recommended!

What are the sounds of the world's most famous sights? 🏛️🎧 Just three days left to join our open call for artists to join our first major project of 2025, Sonic Heritage, and reimagine the sounds one of more than 200 UNESCO World Heritage sites. Here's how to join: citiesandmemory.com/heritage/

Was interviewed by Silicon Republic about the use of GenAI for image creation, and its impact on artists. You can read Rebecca Graham's article at the link in their post below 👇

Thoroughly enjoyed this funny, lyrical gem of a book. All of the Darkland Tales have been great but this might be my favourite.

Mysterious creature.

A magic day for climbing up snowy/icy Dumyat! ☀️ Treacherous in places but well worth the effort.

A guid new year tae ane an aw fae us three in Sruighlea. May 2025 be kind tae yeez. ✌️❤️

For me, it doesn't feel like Christmas until I've heard "Jingle Bells (Waffle Soffin Sleigh remix)" by Aylan: youtu.be/kOU6DZbvtWg?... Instantly iconic. 🛷☃️🎅

Tae celebrate the recent release ae Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 + 2 Remastered by @aspyr.com, here's a wee extract fae ma novel manuscript "The Big Hoose". A gemme thit Ah ayewis covetit fae afaur and noo Ah'm auld enough tae play it! 😉

Heid's still birlin (in a guid wiy) efter meetin wae ma writin mentor thenicht. Three new drafts ae the buik in as mony months, and aw gaun in the richt direction wae sum muckle needit support an guidance. It's true whit they say, the SBT New Writers Award is a gemme changer fur yer writin!

A couple of my poems, one in English the other in Scots, recently published in a collection from Speculative Books (ed. Laura Bissell). 🇵🇸 Buy the collection here, all proceeds go towards Medical Aid for Palestinians and Operation Olive Branch: www.speculativebooks.net/shop/things-...