Listen to this on BBC Sounds and you will hear Jan Patience Art & Communications giving a heads up on great news about Agnes Owens in the year of her centenary 2026!

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Great to be part of the audience to ask a question of this great Author!

Happy Hogmanay! ✨ Today is also Jeff Torrington’s birthday(1935–2008), the Glaswegian author of Swing Hammer Swing!, a landmark novel & winner of the 1992 Whitbread Book of the Year. His friends included Gray & @aowensarchive.bsky.social seen here in The Kelvingrove Eight
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SOME PHILOSOPHERS IN THE SUN; John Steinbeck's Novel "Cannery Row" Is a Tale of Lovable Bums in Monterey CANNERY ROW. By John Steinbeck. 208 pp. New York: The Viking Press. $2. Cannery Row' www.nytimes.com/1944/12/31/a...

For the Record The writer Agnes Owens is known as Agnes Owens . Thank you.

So Proud x

🔥 2026 Residencies 🔥 @kirstininnes.bsky.social & @heatherparry.bsky.social named Writers-in-Residence at the Alasdair Gray & @aowensarchive.bsky.social Chosen from 130+ applicants, they’ll spend 8 months creating new work inspired by overlooked voices, supported by @creativescots.bsky.social

Great news. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2570902...

Delighted to announce that @ronanhession.bsky.social will be chatting to James Naughtie on the BBC Radio 4 Book Club On January 4th at pm. Marvelmoose! @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Translated this Spanish Review of Agnes Owens -,A Working Mother. tanaltoelsilencio.blogspot.com?m=1

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...

Deadline this Thursday, 04.12.25 at 5pm! thealasdairgrayarchive.org/wp-content/u...

On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we share Tareq al-Karmy’s poem Not Only Rivers, translated by Alasdair Gray for A Bird Is Not a Stone, featuring translations of both established & emerging Palestinian poets translated by 24 Scottish writers.

Due to to forecast of more snow today, this event has now been rescheduled for Wednesday 26th.November, next week.

Discover what happens when it's the secretary who has the affair; read the brilliantly irreverent Agnes Owens. There are countless novels dedicated to the dissatisfaction of the office worker and their ever-present need to find a lustful escape during working hours—think of 'The Devil'

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...

Brilliant, looking forward to receiving my copy .

Dreaming the Daily Darg: Working Lives in Scottish Writing since 1918 Studies in Scottish Literature 50/1, 2025 A special issue exploring work & working life in Scottish writing chiefly of the 20th & 21st centuries – available now on Open Access #litstudies scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/is...

Next in our timeline: No. 39 – Mavis Belfrage (1996). Originally titled Agnes Belfrage, Gray changed it after input from writer Agnes Owens. His least fantastical work, it explores love and working-class life from the '50s–'90s. #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive

Began reading this last night. Three authors alloted one third of the book each. Alasdair Gray is one of my favourite writers. I know almost nothing about Agnes Owens and James Kelman, but the Kelman selection so far has been excellent, reminding me somewhat of Beckett ☺️ #booksky

Front cover of Saturday Herald. Agnes was born and grew up Milngavie, where generations of mothers family were embedded in the area for years before. She moved to live in Alexandria (The Vale ) in 1964.

todays chazza bookshop find so sexy

In the coming weeks, this page will be changing name. It will become the Agnes Owens Literary Estate with a refreshed bio as the Bluesky social media presence for that entity.

“It didn’t occur to me for about five or six years after leaving school that literature was something I could be involved in. Then I discovered it was possible to write stories myself…” —an extract from James Kelman on “Elitism & English Literature”, from a book I’m currently typesetting

“I don’t write about people that are nice people. They’ve got to be sinners, with a wee touch of goodness here and there, you know.” Giving “people like that” a voice: a conversation with Agnes Owens (1926–2014) – born #OTD, 24 May A 🎂 🧵 1/5 journals.openedition.org/etudesecossa...

Old Tawny

Young Agnes Striding out with her mother Jessie down Milngavie High Street!

Happy birthday Agnes ❤️ Deeply honoured to be working with Agnes’s family to bring her work to wider attention in 2026 to coincide with her centenary via her archive (housed within @agrayarchive.bsky.social) ❤️

www.arvon.org/writing-cour... This was a fascinating live webcast !

Have now secured the backing of my old 3rd Kilmarnock Boys’ Brigade company. This book cannot fail…😉📚

Just brilliant and great about the interview!

@penamerica.bsky.social ’s latest report highlights rising threats to writers, not just in authoritarian states, but in democracies too. PEN International echoes the call to protect writers everywhere. Read via The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Young Agnes shopping in Milngavie

Great choice.

Another lovely afternoon recording John's memories of his mum, Agnes Owens. Huge thank you, John, for providing such rich and valuable insights!

Spent the afternoon in sunny Balloch, recording an oral history interview with Doreen Hopwood, a friend of Agnes Owens for many decades. Thank you to Doreen for sharing her memories with me, as well as bringing some fab materials that will make an excellent addition to @aowensarchive.bsky.social !

Our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social honoured to meet so many of Agnes Owens friends & family today whilst discussing her work & plans for sharing via the @aowensarchive.bsky.social at Alexandria Library for #internationalwomensday

For #InternationalWomensDay we celebrate Agnes Owens whose darkly comic stories of everyday working-class life brought a satirical edge to the wealth of post-industrial urban Scottish fiction produced at the end of the 20th cent, can’t wait to open @aowensarchive.bsky.social later this year!

In honour of International Women’s Day I listened to my favourite bad a*s 90’s women, Alanis Morrisette, Sinéad O’Connor, and Sheryl Crow- love them. Had it been a day of reading? Then hands down, Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, and Agnes Owens. Here’s to great women and their contributions💪🏻

Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social , is delighted to be giving a talk on Agnes Owens tomorrow for #internationalwomensday She will be discussing her work & plans to bring it to wider attention via the opening in 2025 of @aowensarchive.bsky.social supported by her family ❤️

I don't know who needs to hear this, but your day job doesn't define you as a writer! 💫 Many famous authors had day jobs while writing their breakout novels. Stephen King worked two jobs while writing Carrie, Agnes Owens was a cleaner, Janice Galloway was a teacher, Douglas Adams was a body guard.

Just watched the BBC Doc- Girl in the River. Heartbreaking !