“Trick or treat!” chirped the gaudy superhero when she opened the front door.
She was startled. No one had called at Halloween for years.
“An a-apple?” she stammered.
“Lovely, thank you” floated in a calm voice from the shadows. ”I’m Tom, just moved into number six. Nice to meet you.
#writecbc
05.06.2025 14:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Scotland's Next Generation Young Makars 2025
The poetry library seeks submissions for its young makars' mentoring scheme.
Our young makars' mentoring programme for poets living in Scotland aged 16 to 25 years is open for applications.
There is a £500 bursary for 3 sessions.
We welcome applications from poets working in Scottish Gaelic, Scots & the Spoken Word form.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/scotlands-ne...
15.04.2025 09:07 — 👍 15 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 2
Sitting between ‘52 Ways to Walk’ and walking memoirs, this NF title explores why we walk and the wonder of this everyday activity. Stories from Scotland and beyond reveal the social, physical and environmental factors that impact all our walking experiences
#scotwriterpitch2025
28.03.2025 18:12 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How do I find my way in a new city? Why is walking along a beach so satisfying? How do I keep going on a long hike? Why does walking help me think? For all walkers this NF book asks why we walk and reveals the social, physical and environmental complexities of our walking habits
#scotwriterpitch2025
28.03.2025 14:19 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#scotwriterpitch2025
‘Walking habits’ treks through Oslo’s icy streets, along Northumberland’s epic beaches and over Scotland’s misty mountains. It is a NF book for all walkers which reveals the social, physical and environmental complexities of this everyday activity and asks why we walk
28.03.2025 09:10 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Only two more sleeps! Looking forward to this pitch event
26.03.2025 11:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Self-Pub Hub (Indie Book Review Site)
Accepting book submissions now!
https://book-shelfie.com/submit-book/
Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it.
Author of The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley and A Woman of Opinion (Penguin, 2022, 2024). Trying to do a few small good things to lighten the grim 2020s
Reader. Writer. Gardener.
The Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl out now!
A joyous romp of fun, romance, friendship, self-discovery, persistence & gardening.
Website: www.jonipage.com
On Kaurna Country, Australia.
Aberdeen's youth-led cross-arts literary festival based at the University of Aberdeen. Find out more at www.waywordfestival.com
Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Author of an eclectic mix of fiction. Favourite genres are Thriller, Crime, Supernatural.
#ClimateChange #Renewables #Ecosocialism #Think32 #ElinorOstrom #Commons #Gaza #UCU #Rojava #transrights #Marx #DrWho #Wiltshire #CorneliusCardew #GaeilgeGachLá
Writer, animation producer, scicomms consultant. Currently writing about medical malpractice.
Books:
Learning To Think (Penguin)
The Cost of Trust (Harper Collins)
Tim Minchin's Storm (Orion)
Editor at Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn. I acquire and edit literary fiction and poetry.
The Hard Times: Prison Diaries: A book about crime, punishment, rehabilitation, greed, and putting a newspaper to bed before the editorial team gets locked up: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Times-Prison-Diaries-ebook/dp/B0DPVH8HFF/
🇨🇦Vancouver Island-based creator 🇨🇦| ASMR & nature walks | Exploring the world one quiet moment at a time
Not political just a person hiking with my dog
We all die in the end live life to the fullest
place to support
https://linktr.ee/SecretTrailsASMR
Author, editor, translator 🇲🇫 to 🇬🇧, genealogist, gardener, forager and cook. Occasionally wins prizes for some of the above.
💙📚Writer and Glasweigan chancer. 📖A BAD BAD PLACE (publishing Feb 2025) Agents:
Euan Thorneycroft & Oli Munsen @AMHeath
Editor: Finn Cotton Transworld Penguin
Writer & Expressive Writing Facilitator | rep'd Caro Clarke @portobelloliterary | Top 40 in Parenting Substack Bestseller | John Byrne Award Winner 2023 | Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awards 2025 panellist | Arvon Advanced Writing Programme 2026
Edinburgh based osteopath under the spell of the sensuous. Writer of biographical stories with courage and freedom at heart. Nature lover. https://linktr.ee/mmonro276 If you fill my feed with reposted political rants I will unfollow.
Journalist and author, runner and walker, writing about movement, mind and place. Cairngorms, Scotland. The Guardian | BBC Countryfile | Runner's World. Formerly @SamMurphyRuns Website: www.sampyrah.com Substack: https://timeonfeet.substack.com/
Author of Tarbloch Book Club Series. #Psychologicalthriller writer #amquerying
grandmother, gardener, orienteer and qigong teacher. #shouldknowbetter