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What a great pic! So delighted that Sinéad has written the foreword to the new edition.

Shot in the neck. Running to her father for safety. Five years old.

You’re all coming to Skye on yer August summer holidays right? And coinciding it with our inaugural Festival of Words 📚 🎶💞? Ft: Jackie Kay Hollie McNish Greg McHugh Graeme Macrae Burnet Kirstin Innes Withered Hand kathryn williams & heaps more. 🎫 : seall.co.uk/the-seall-fest…

Shame none of them considered cyber: that after-dinner-speaker-for-rich-wanks market is going to be flooded.

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 Supported by Creative Scotland 🚨OUT 29 JULY – PREORDER NOW🚨 The best new short fiction & poetry in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots! asls.org.uk/publications/b…

Kirstin Innes Niall O'Gallagher Mark Mechan, Red Axe Design Creative Scotland “Here is writing that is not afraid to get up close, to name the things that scare us, but that also reawakens us to the grace of love, the call of place and community, the thrill of music, the consolation of art…” —Editors’ introduction to NWS42 asls.org.uk/publications/b…

3 years since the brilliant The Poisonous Euros Atmosphere Fan died. I can’t buy her a drink, so I’ve made a donation to Trans Aid Cymru 🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 They provide Mutual Aid in Wales including Dawn’s hometown in Newport Please join me if you miss her too (or share a good memory ❤️) 💷opencollective.com/transaidcymru/…

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 Supported by Creative Scotland 🚨OUT 29 JULY – PREORDER NOW🚨 The best new short fiction & poetry in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots! asls.org.uk/publications/b…

The craziest thing about this Trump drama is that the Lancet Medical Journal has just estimated that at least 186,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since October 7.

A first Festival of Words is a glorious thing. On Skye, in August, with this lush bunch in tow, even more so. That’s Jackie Kay Hollie McNish Greg McHugh Graeme Macrae Burnet & heaps more. Any help spreading the word would be stupendously appreciated 🙏 🎟️ seall.co.uk/event/seall-fe…

right. so. we made the mistake of looking in the drawer where my mother keeps her curtain hooks

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 Supported by Creative Scotland 🚨 PUBLISHING 29 JULY 🚨 Available to preorder from all good bookshops (& the evil one too) asls.org.uk/publications/b…

Is your wee one starting P1 at the end of the holidays? Have a listen together, of 'Ivor and the Alien' by @KirstinInnes. It's about a special wee boy who thinks he might have a special new classmate... bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f…

Dear white people. Respectfully, please have a word with those other white people who are beginning to make me feel unwanted in the country of my birth. Don't be silent.

Looking forward to Tidelines Book Festival with the brilliant and fellow Airdrieonian ✨Lentil Pentil✨ on 21st century Scots! 29 Sept 7pm Harbour Arts Centre Irvine Get along! tidelinesbookfestival.com/book-tickets/g…

Bustling thread full of events from the best wee book festival in Ayrshire...

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“No, the times are not subtle. But the many, varied ways the writers in this book approach them are, & with that subtlety comes space for tenderness, gentleness & the tiny moments of everyday interaction that make us human” —read the Editors’ introduction: asls.org.uk/publications/b…

One day to go until Dougie Donnelly opens our packed 2024 festival! Join Graeme Armstrong ✨Lentil Pentil✨ Lin Anderson David Swindle Billy Kay Adam Sharp Victoria MacKenzie Niall O'Gallagher and many more in Irvine this weekend! Full programme here: tidelinesbookfestival.com/book-tickets/

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 now from all good bookshops (& the evil one) asls.org.uk/publications/b…