The Wallace Monument, Stirling I plucked this superb image off the web. I hope the owner doesn’t mind. There are … 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, reading and music
The Black Cab Sessions Check out the website. One singer, one song, one black cab, that’s the theme. BCS are … More
National No Music Day
I wonder how this little lady is coping with National No Music Day. Better than me I hope. Today is … More
A wild holiday
Callakille, Applecross Callakille is the remote croft situated about seven miles north of the village of Applecross, Ross-shire. The house, … More
What a performance
Sigur Rós Venus as a Boy One of the best books I have read this year is Venus as a … More
Winter Crops
I live with the hope that my crops next year will surpass the fine specimines I admired in a Paris … More
