Just after The Incomers contract was signed I was given the advice that I should try to sell as many … 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.
Work Life Balance – Fife
Tayport – The beginning of the Fife Coastal Walk It seemed like madness to go on holiday a week after … More
The Incomers First Outing
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of appearing at the Glasgow Aye Write Book Festival. I previewed my … More
Sponsorship for Writers
Why have one book launch when you can have three? Because I can’t stay in one place for long I … More
Writers who holiday
– never switch off. I remember in one early creative writing class a full time writer told me he never … More
Aye Write!
The 2012 Aye Write Book Festival Programme is out today and I am on page 11. My event will … More
