Prof Zoe Strachan

So looking forward to this! It's great to hear @radiophrenia.bsky.social on air again! 📻

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Palestinian Scholarship

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

Writing Fiction Online Class Spring Term (Tuesday) - thi wurd Place on the online ‘Writing Fiction’ (Tuesday class), running from Tues 29 Apr - Tues 17 June, 7pm–9.30pm (BST). Details of class. If you purchase a place your name will be added to the class regis...

Our Tuesday’Writing Fiction’ class begins in 2 weeks. All writers welcome #thiwurd
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Creative Conversations: Greg Thomas Poet, author, critic and arts journalist Greg Thomas in Conversation

Creative Conversations: Greg Thomas
24 Feb @uofglasgow.bsky.social – free

@gregchthomas.bsky.social is a poet, artist & writer with a particular interest in concrete & visual poetries. His poetry often deals with environmental crisis & politics of climate change
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-c...

Love the new cover @canongate.co.uk 😍

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Afterwords: Muriel Spark Reflections on the work of Muriel Spark, through archive of the author and new interviews.

AFTERWORDS: Muriel Spark
“One’s prime is elusive…”

—On BBC Sounds: writers @ianrankin1.bsky.social & @zoestrachan.bsky.social discuss Muriel Spark’s life & work with National Library of Scotland curator Colin McIlroy, & Spark’s friend & memoirist, Alan Taylor
7/9
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A hand holding the book All Along the Edge. The cover features a medieval map of Scotland.

This lovely book edited by @zoestrachan.bsky.social is an anthology of writing inspired by the Antonine Wall. It is includes prose, poetry and an adapted excerpt from my book 'Walking the Antonine Wall'. Best of all, you can download it free here: eprints.gla.ac.uk/305436/2/305...
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This thread is the social media content I'm looking for! 🙏

Just heard it!

On air right now @bbcradio4.bsky.social our own DFA writer @uofglasgow.bsky.social and chef @sumayyausmani.bsky.social 😃🥘🍴

Petition: Grant Scottish rivers, including the River Clyde, the legal right to personhood Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to grant the River Clyde, and potentially other rivers in Scotland, the legal right to personhood by: * adopting the Universal Decla...

Should rivers have rights? Pleased to see Who Owns the Clyde? expanding their citizens' investigation 🌊 @louisewelsh00.bsky.social @judebarber.bsky.social
petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...

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We did, thank you! Is it still snowy where you are?

We were a little disappointed not to be completely snowed in!

One strand of Christmas decoration in otherwise bleak station

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Perth station...

Snow falling through train window

Sun on snowy mountains, green valley with trees below

A snowy journey to discover the sun shining on Moniack Mhor!

Brilliant news!

I've been very quiet here, but here's a great thing that happened recently: Theatre Studies at the U. of Glasgow has launched a *free* online introduction to playwriting in partnership with Playwrights' Studio, Scotland! www.futurelearn.com/courses/an-i... Do pass on to anybody interested!

Open Book Scots Creative Writing Group on Zoom Open Book's Scots Creative Writing Group on Zoom

Open Book Scots Creative Writing Group
9 Dec, free online
The latest free monthly creative writing session via Zoom, led by author Alan McClure. Designed as a gentle introduction to writing in Scots, they are open to beginners & more experienced writers alike
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-book-...

Zoe smiling cheekily gripping light up model of Canton tower

Few things make me happier than model towers...

Note from Four Seasons hotel leaving a bookmark on my book in my room for me, hoping that I like it.

I do, thank you! They must know I fold page corners...

Excited to announce 3 #AcademicJobs in Humanities at Uni Strathclyde funded through the Charlotte Lythe bequest. I'm new here, so appreciate your help in getting the word out! The jobs are in History, Media and English/Creative Writing. Details below in my first bsky thread (drumroll please...)

Discoveries 2025 Calling all unpublished women writers! The Women’s Prize Trust, Audible, the Curtis Brown literary agency and Curtis Brown Creative have partnered to run the Discoveries novel-writing development prog...

The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis

Free tickets here!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-c...

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Unsurpassed as a venue.

BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Martinmas Wind 'It was the time of year for memories...' A new short work from Zoe Strachan.

Delighted to have a new and seasonal short story on @bbcradio4.bsky.social this Friday, 3.45pm - spot the F Marian McNeill references!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

PLEASE SHARE 🙏 last tour dates of 2024!

Our free weekly tours with our Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social are now live and bookable via the email below!

Sorcha worked with Alasdair since 2007, has a deep knowledge of the collection, was responsible for saving it after Gray’s death.