I’ve been tagged in The Next Big Thing by fellow writer David Ebsworth (website: www.davidebsworth.com and main blog on Goodreads whose first novel, The … More
Author: Moira Mcpartlin
Moira McPartlin’s debut novel The Incomers, published by Fledgling Press in 2012, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award. Over the next seven years Moira wrote her speculative fiction, Sun Song Trilogy novels (also published by Fledgling Press). The novels, set in 2089, reflect many issues we face today. Moira’s last novel, Before Now: Memoir of a Toerag, is written entirely in the Fife dialect and was published by her own imprint, Trilleachan Press, in May 2021.
In 2021 she became a writing fellow at Hawthornden Castle. In 2022 she was appointed the Scriever for The Federation of Writers (Scotland), and in 2024 was the recipient of a Bridges Award, a residency at Cove Park, Argyll. Her short stories and poetry have been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies.
Moira’s latest publication, A Thing So Delicate: The Hidden Voices of Scotland’s Mass Concrete Viaducts, is a collaboration with her husband, Colin. It is a hybrid about the social history surrounding the building of Scotland’s Victorian mass concrete viaducts. This includes creative nonfiction, prose, poetry, and photography.
Moira is listed on the Scottish Book Trust Live Literature Database.
Writing in 14e Arrondissement
I am now well into my third trip to Paris since August and my second whilst living in an apartment … More
Panic Over
In July I Facebooked this article about Paris – the ultimate cure for writers’ block, not knowing I would find … More
When the wall goes up
I used to be one of those writers who believed writers’ block was a myth. How was it possible to … More
Almost The Most Northerly Bookshop
Loch Croispol Bookshop and Cafe (photo C Baird) A few miles from Cape Wrath, in the north western tip of … More
Wise Children
Wise Children by Angela CarterMy rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the first Angela Carter novel I have read … More
