The paid work It has been a while since I last posted a blog but I have a genuine excuse. … 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.
A Well Kept Secret
Gartocharn Farmers Market I heard a rumour that the small village of Gartoharm held a farmers market every Friday. I … More
Goodbye 2008 – Hello 2009
2008 This Christmas, with the economic recession foremost in all our minds, I decided consumable home made goods would be … More
Strange Phenomenon
I don’t know why it happens but it does. After years and weeks of managing to completely avoid the X … More
The result of climate change or the return of winter?
Alpine glow on Bidien Shuish On Friday we drove through scattered snow showers to reach Fort William before the big … More
Happy Thanksgiving
Firecracker Corn Bread Today is Thanksgiving and because I am a global type of person, I decided we should celebrate … More
