Toscaig Harbour The wild weather has given me the perfect excuse to stoke up the fire, coorie-in and settle down … 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.
Who said lists were easy?
Fifty First Timer No.1 Attend a Stirling Albion home game. What better way to begin my list of first time … More
Happy New Year
This dignified old tree lives in the field overlooking my house. Isn’t it splendid? Happy New Year This time of … More
man’s inhumanity to animals
Roe Deer Living in the countryside is idyllic, (most of the time), but it sometime divulges its grim side. Yesterday … More
Tunes of the Earth
Plain White Ts – Hey There Delilah The guitar tune I aim to conquer before the New Year. Wish me … More
Reads and Rants
Another troublesome bear – Rupert Gillian GibbonsThank goodness sense has prevailed and the Sudanese Government have released the British schoolteacher … More
