“The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake.” —Haruki Murakami buff.ly/2GS509A

A 6.30am start Glasgow Women's Library and the sun is shining for our early morning performance of HAKOTO by Reiko Goto Collins in our #PeaceArbour for Glasgow International Moving, relevant, poignant. I felt quite emotional.

Breakfast & writing graft Piece Glasgow Eurocentral (didn’t know you were here!) while my husband is rehabbing in the gym🥊 Precious wee hour to myself

All welcome!

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Recommend this constantly to all the youngsters I work with. First time seeing our generation and culture properly in film and a perfect cautionary tale…

The Buenos Aires Vase, one mile across, flickering with unsleeping silent flames, its marble carved in vine-leaves mixed with names, shirtless ones and desaparecidos… —Edwin Morgan, “Not the Burrell Collection” in “Sonnets From Scotland” CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, Carcanet Press 2020

Love archives? Louise Welsh and I need a research assistant for an intersectional local history project in association with our friends Woodlands Community PT over 14 weeks, so would suit a doctoral researcher... jobs.ac.uk/job/DIT752/res…

🥳PUBLISHED TODAY!🥳 DON’T. EVEN. ASK. TOO. HOT. New Writing Scotland 42 Ed. Kirstin Innes & Chris Powici Gaelic ed. Niall O'Gallagher Cover: Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design THE BEST new writing in English, Scots, & Gaelic – available from all good bookshops (& the evil one) asls.org.uk/publications/b…

BULB! Is back for one last summer soirée before we hibernate til Spring 🌱 FRIDAY 16th AUGUST 6.30pm GARDEN of 5 LILYBANK GARDENS G12 POETRY 🌻 PROSE 🌻DRINKS EVERYONE WELCOME xoxo

Deadline soon. If you're adept with archives, interested in local & marginalised histories, able to interact with a range of communities, please consider applying. 2days per wk, in-person, 14 wks. Could be a good fit for a doctoral researcher jobs.ac.uk/job/DIT752/res… @uofgwriting

Registration is open! Join me online for the Introduction to Creative Nonfiction short course if you'd like to learn more about life writing, memoir, and autofiction: gla.ac.uk/study/short/co…

B U L B ! 💡 Garden of 5 Lilybank Gdns, 6.30pm Friday 16th August 🌱 Poetry…Prose…Piggies in a Blanket Be there or be 🔲

Speakeasy with an open door. Tried entering via the toilet of the place nxt door. Flushed lavatories expecting a door to open. Shouted passwords into loo. Told a woman she had toilet paper stuck to her stiletto. She took me by the hand to the speakeasy-which-isn’t-a-speakeasy

Join Dr Elizabeth Reeder for her online Year of Writing for both fiction and non-fiction writers ✨ Season One of Companions in the Wild will start on 18th September and you can book season by season or for the whole year! Read more about the course here: buff.ly/3Al2Ydb

T O M O R R O W ! 6 . 3 0 P M 5 L I L Y B A N K G D N S A L L W E L C O M E P O E T R Y P R O S E G O O D T I M E G U A R A N T E E 🪻 🌸 🍎 🌻 🪴 🍏 🌺 🍃 🍓

Psyched (& psyching myself up!) for a homecoming of sorts at Dalkeith Palace Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Show Part 2, opening on Friday. A68 is a collab between three Dalkeith artists David Faithfull, Jane Hyslop and myself. Come see our box of tricks! dalkeithcountrypark.co.uk/event/visual-a…

Amazing new Podcast by Louise Welsh and Jude Barber Can’t wait for the next one!

A Scottish weather awareness warning. Brought to you by BULB! 💡🌱

Poetry from one of our favourite Bulb! contributors, Tamsyn Challenger 🫶🏻✨✨✨