Agnes Owens Literary Estate

Agnes Owens at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.

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
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Terrific article , never knew such a folk festival on my doorstep. Agnes Owens , the Scottish author squatted in a derelict building with her husband Sam and gave birth to her son Bil back in 1950.

New publications by our members: Lejla Mulalić has co-authored the volume 'A Country of Their Own: Writing Scotland as a Woman' (University of Sarajevo Press), which discusses Rona Munro, Liz Lochhead, Sharman Macdonald, Agnes Owens, and Kathleen Jamie. 🔓 Read in open access: tinyurl.com/4v2knp4y

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Long overdue- great news.

This is great news - congratulations to all. Long overdue

This great to hear, congrats to all.

This is great news.

From today’s Strathspey Herald-Agnes Owens is back in the Highlands.

Allan Massie, 1938-2026 Father died this afternoon.

We've lost the great Allan Massie. An absolute giant of Scottish literature and journalism, and an inspirational, kind and generous man, too. I think his son @alexmassie.bsky.social is only sporadically on Bluesky, but he has written a beautiful obituary. alexmassie.substack.com/p/allan-mass...

2026 marks 100 years since the birth of Agnes Owens. A year-long centenary programme will celebrate her life, writing, and legacy through archives, exhibitions, reissues, and public events. Full details via link in bio.

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Agnes Owens’ writing was championed by Kelman and Gray but she remained mysteriously un-celebrated. “One publisher said people don’t want that kind of writing… about poor people.”

Agnes Owens, as seen through objects in the Glasgow @womenslibrary.bsky.social
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Glasgow's troubled Centre for Contemporary Arts to permanently close The announcement comes just a year after it secured £3.4m in funding from arts body Creative Scotland.

Shit news. An historic venue for launching many great and upcoming artists and writers including Agnes Owens.

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Acquired this book at last ! @peterkravitz.bsky.social

I was at (Catacombe dei Cappuccini, a macabre, necropolis beneath the monastery. Has approximately 9,000 mummified bodies & skeletons,& 1,600 visible mummies in their finest attire, lining the walls in niches or lying in open coffins.

Relatives of the dead visit and wash & comb their hair.

Two very different British novellas by David Lodge and Agnes Owens

Home Truths by David Lodge (1999) French title : Les quatre vérités. Translated by Suzanne V. Mayoux. Bad Attitude by Agnes Owens (2003) Not available in French. I have read several David Lodge who was very popular in France. The…

Annual Review 2023 to 2024 | National Library of Scotland The National Library of Scotland's Annual Review for 2023 to 2024. Learn about our acquisitions for that year, projects we worked on, and our partnership work.

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Gray Day 2026: Reimagined Glasgow, 45 years of Lanark. Beyond our 25 Feb evening event at Oran Mor we have a WIDER PROGRAMME… enjoy a P7 schools competition, free clay workshop at AGA, archive talk with @aowensarchive.bsky.social at Kelvingrove, & an online interactive exhibition.

thi wurd hour – Monday 2nd Feb 2026 - thi wurd thi wurd hour, creative writing fiction class. Improvised writing with prompts. Online, 2nd Feb 2026, 7-8pm (GMT). £5. thi-wurd.com

thi wurd hour: Improvising New Writing. Online. Monday 2nd Feb 2026, 7-8pm (GMT). All writers welcome. Read about it here: www.thi-wurd.com/thi-wurd-hou...

Brilliant, Dani. Great tribute to an outstanding writer. Let’s hope the centenary celebrations bring Agnes Owens to a much wider audience. A Working Mother is a work of art.

Great piece by @danigaravelli.bsky.social
It is without hyperbole to say that as a writer of short stories Agnes Owens is equal to Flannery O’Connor. And her novellas sit right next to those of Rachel Ingalls.

“She was so good at evoking the claustrophobia and darkness and poverty of economics but plenitude of mind."
An excellent piece on Agnes Owens, by @danigaravelli.bsky.social. Dani has also written the introduction to a new edition of Gentlemen Of The West, which will be published by Polygon in May.

Yes I was there and it was a poor venue, went Glasgow Concert Hall last night to a gig which was great, if only Emmylou Harris had been there .

Have always remembered that you @peteralanross, were one of the first of very few mentions on the BBC to speak well of her and work the day after she died, and thank you for doing so .

Great article - thank you @danigaravelli.bsky.social 👍

Thanks David, yes , when I read it back it was . emotional and I am chuffed- good to put in a word for @thiwurd.bsky.social as well.

Great article on recognising Agnes Owens !