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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.
Book Blog Tour and Blitz
Star of Hope, the third novel in my Sun Song Trilogy was published in February. As usual there was … More
Music and Storytelling: Celtic Connections
The month of January is a long, dark month, but in Scotland we have Celtic Connections, festival of world music, to brighten … More
A Writer’s To Do List
Like many workers I returned to my desk on the 7th of January a couple of kilos heavier and with … More
52 Dates for Writers
52 Dates for Writers by Claire Wingfield I first heard of going on a writer’s date from an early creative … More
Life Long Learning
I left school early with less qualifications than my parents and teachers expected, but not me. I never enjoyed the … More
