Daily Mail story with a trans woman in it .... Page after page of compliments and people accepting her as the woman she is. You forget how niche the anti-trans hate is. Even Fail commenters manage to appreciate Nava Mau from #BabyReindeer

Is your writing STUCK? Let me help unstick it. I mentor novelists, memoirists and short story writers, provide in-depth edits on works in progress, and walk you through agent queries and book proposals. Sessions from 10 mins to 1 hour: kirstylogan.bigcartel.com

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Queer Scottish writers! Submissions are open for fiction, nonfiction and memoir for FIERCE SALVAGE, our second queer words anthology to be published 2025 by 404 Ink - full submission details are on our site: queerwordsprojectscotland.com

YESSSSSS I got to talk about one of my all-time favourites, Silence of the Lambs (with one of my favourites, Anna Bogutskaya)

This starts TONIGHT! I can't wait to spend the whole evening diving into my favourite horrors, picking them apart to explore how they work. It's not too late to join us – class starts at 7pm

Loved teaching this course!

Soooooon

Congratulations to the winner and runners-up!

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I LOVE this course and I'm so excited to be teaching it again! Five week of deep-diving into all that is creepy, spooky and weird

This one is exciting: what a line-up! Very glad I'm Chairing this nonfiction panel on writing our own lives and the lives of others feat. Kirsty Logan Len Pennie & Jen Stout Boswell Book Festival on 12/5 @ 15.30. Tix here ↘️↘️↘️
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I LOVE this course – can't wait to get stuck back in again!

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We can't wait to welcome Kirsty Logan, Jen Stout and ✨Lentil Pentil✨ to Boswell Book Festival this year. These three dynamic non-fiction writers will discuss the art of intertwining personal narratives with the lives of others.

1530 Sunday 12 May 2024
Live and Online

We're thrilled to see this round-up of the best new horror books in Stylist Magazine, with nods to Kirsty Logan and featuring Rachel Yoder's NIGHTBITCH, and Layla Martinez's WOODWORM - translated by dream-team Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott and out in May

I’m looking forward to chairing an amazing set of writers: Heather Parry Kirsty Logan Kirstin Innes Rachelle Atalla & Eleanor J Thom on Sunday, attending Callum McSorley & Karen Campbell’s events on Saturday, & probably disgracing myself in the Book Pub Quiz tomorrow night 🙌🏻

This year's lineup for Boswell Book Festival features a stellar cast of Scottish talent including Sally Magnusson, John Niven, Billy Kay, James Naughtie, Donna Ashworth, Kirsty Logan, Len Pennie, Simon Lamb, Rose Reilly and James MacMillan.🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Come and have a blether!
10-12 May

Kirsty Logan did this for me and two other writers at the launch of her collection Things We Say in the Dark. We each read out sections of our short stories - it was an incredibly generous, putting-down-the-ladder thing to do and I hope to do it for others some day!

Are you #writing horror fiction? Then join award-winning author Kirsty Logan for this five-week online course to explore conflict, psyche, theme and meaning, prose and syntax, and consider what we want the next steps in horror fiction to be.

Book now: writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-cou…

'The most effective horror speaks not to the general, but the personal – even the confessional. It’s the result of careful thought and deep honesty about what you really fear.'

Author Kirsty Logan shares five tips for giving your readers the creeps: bit.ly/45NIYtL