#scottishwriters — Public Fediverse posts

Revering both cats and the work of Muriel Spark (there are many parallels…), and when I saw its cover, I couldn’t pass up on James Bailey’s new biography of the writer, Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark.

Great to visit the Portobello Bookshop today, too, maybe my favourite independent bookshop within easy reach of home.

#MurielSpark #LikeACatLovesABird #TheNineLivesOfMurielSpark #JamesBailey #PortobelloBookshop #Biography #ScottishWriters #Books #Bookstodon #AlwaysJudgeABookByTheCover @bookstodon

From the British Fantasy Society:

Celebrating the release of her latest historical fantasy witchlit novel, Daughters of Nicnevin – out today through Flame Tree Publishing – BFS Chair Shona Kinsella walks us through the genesis of the book.

https://britishfantasysociety.org/from-pen-to-print-shona-kinsella-on-daughters-of-nicnevin/

#fantasy #books #booklaunch #witchlit #witches #scottishwriters #scottish

"The International Companion to Scottish Children's Literature", ed.s Maureen A. Farrell & Robert A. Davis, asks what is distinctly #Scottish in #ChildrensLiterature by #ScottishWriters - from #PeterPan or #TreasureIsland to recent works, incl plays & poetry 🏴
#ScottishLiterature #LiteraryStudies

"Scottish Literature of the South Seas" is an essay collection ed. by Richard J. Hill & Allison E. Francis, examining the relationship & affinities between #ScottishWriters including & beyond #RLStevenson to the #Pacific

#ScottishLiterature #ScottishStudies #PacificStudies #PostcolonialStudies

2 new books on Scottish Literature🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
The essay collection "Scotland and China", edited by Li Li & John Corbett, analyses the literary cross-currents betw Scotland & #China - how did #ScottishWriters construct China in their texts & how was translated Scottish lit received in China?

Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! The famous creator of #SherlockHolmes would have turned 166 today!

#BOTD #ArthurConanDoyle #ScottishWriters #VictorianLiterature #EnglishLiterature

Original photo via Wikimedia Commons (edited), part of George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress

A brilliant thread about the brilliant #MurielSpark #WomenWriters #ScottishWriters

From: @scotlit
https://mastodon.scot/@scotlit/113928718446468106

Running errands and chores today to get them out of the way so I can relax tomorrow (birthday).

Paused for a wee break in the lovely Turkish café, & finally started Genevieve Jagger's Fragile Animals from 404Ink , which has been on the slopes of my TBR mountain for too long ...

#books #livres #queer #fantasy #AmReading #bookstodon #GenevieveJagger #FragileAnimals #404Ink #ScottishLiterature #ScottishWriters

I really wanted to include climate fiction at Writing the Occult: Connections to Land, & am so happy Lindz McLeod put her hand up to join us. She'll join our climate fiction panel to share how she creates her urgent, literary, speculative works. More Scottish representation!🧵⬇️

#writersofmastodon #climatefiction #ecofiction #climateemergency #climatecrisis #writingevents #scottishwriters #queerwriters

Another Writing the Occult speaker, you ask? Here's a bloody legend of the SFFH scene: the British Fantasy Society Chair herself, Shona Kinsella!

Shona's latest book, The Heart of Winter, is steeped in the Celtic myths of Brigit and the Cailleach - the goddesses of spring and winter. 🧵⬇️

#writersofmastodon #fantasy #celticmythology #scottishwriters

@CurlyParakeet but you can let a year or two go by then read them all again! Pure class & wonderful AI characters #ScienceFiction #SciFi #IainMBanks #Books #Bookstodon #ScottishWriters

1st publication of 2023! And look at this fab illustration by L. M. Cole!! Thanks so much to L.M. Cole and Jared Povada of Bulb Culture Collective for publishing 'Scroll / Dive' - this piece was first published by Ellipsis Zine @Ellipsiszine
https://bulbculture.wixsite.com/my-site/post/scroll-dive-by-f-e-clark

#writing #WritingCommunity #LitMag #ScottishWriters #flashfiction #ProsePoetry

Looking for #SFFH books by #ScottishWriters this #StAndrewsDay?

Fi's Bibliofiles has you covered:

https://fisbibliofiles.com/2022/11/29/read-scottish-st-andrews-day-edition/

#Reading #bookstadon #ScienceFiction #FantasyBook

@fionaswriting so nice to meet new folk that we may have missed on the bird site this is a much more conducive and positive way to experience all things #scottishtravel #ScottishWords #Scottishwriters #DisabilityEquality and #independenceforscotland