From the British Fantasy Society:
Celebrating the release of her latest historical fantasy witchlit novel, Daughters of Nicnevin – out today through Flame Tree Publishing – BFS Chair Shona Kinsella walks us through the genesis of the book.
https://britishfantasysociety.org/from-pen-to-print-shona-kinsella-on-daughters-of-nicnevin/
#fantasy #books #booklaunch #witchlit #witches #scottishwriters #scottish
"Scottish Literature of the South Seas" is an essay collection ed. by Richard J. Hill & Allison E. Francis, examining the relationship & affinities between #ScottishWriters including & beyond #RLStevenson to the #Pacific
#ScottishLiterature #ScottishStudies #PacificStudies #PostcolonialStudies
Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! The famous creator of #SherlockHolmes would have turned 166 today!
#BOTD #ArthurConanDoyle #ScottishWriters #VictorianLiterature #EnglishLiterature
Original photo via Wikimedia Commons (edited), part of George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress
A brilliant thread about the brilliant #MurielSpark #WomenWriters #ScottishWriters
From: @scotlit
https://mastodon.scot/@scotlit/113928718446468106
Attached: 1 image THAT PROMETHEAN SPARK THE BOTTLE IMP – Muriel Spark Special Issue “With a writing career that included biography, criticism, drama and short fiction as well as novels, Muriel Spark was never one to do things by halves…” Muriel Spark was born #OTD, 1 Feb, 1918. A 🎂🧵 … @bookstodon@a.gup.pe 1/9 https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/that-promethian-spark/ #Scottish #Literature #MurielSpark #20thCentury #WomenWriters
Running errands and chores today to get them out of the way so I can relax tomorrow (birthday).
Paused for a wee break in the lovely Turkish café, & finally started Genevieve Jagger's Fragile Animals from 404Ink , which has been on the slopes of my TBR mountain for too long ...
#books #livres #queer #fantasy #AmReading #bookstodon #GenevieveJagger #FragileAnimals #404Ink #ScottishLiterature #ScottishWriters
TOMORROW! Catch Lindz McLeod at Writing the Occult. Lindz has 2 climate change novellas on the way: We, The Drowning through Android Press, and Sunbathers through Redone Books. Keep an eye out for them, and maybe join us, too? writingtheoccult.carrd.co
#writersofmastodon #climatefiction #ecohorror #horror #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateemergency #climate #environment #writers #queerwriters #scottishwriters
I really wanted to include climate fiction at Writing the Occult: Connections to Land, & am so happy Lindz McLeod put her hand up to join us. She'll join our climate fiction panel to share how she creates her urgent, literary, speculative works. More Scottish representation!🧵⬇️
#writersofmastodon #climatefiction #ecofiction #climateemergency #climatecrisis #writingevents #scottishwriters #queerwriters
Another Writing the Occult speaker, you ask? Here's a bloody legend of the SFFH scene: the British Fantasy Society Chair herself, Shona Kinsella!
Shona's latest book, The Heart of Winter, is steeped in the Celtic myths of Brigit and the Cailleach - the goddesses of spring and winter. 🧵⬇️
#writersofmastodon #fantasy #celticmythology #scottishwriters
"Scottish Literature of the South Seas" is an essay collection ed. by Richard J. Hill & Allison E. Francis, examining the relationship & affinities between #ScottishWriters including & beyond #RLStevenson to the #Pacific
#ScottishLiterature #ScottishStudies #PacificStudies #PostcolonialStudies
Find them both in our catalogue:
"Scotland and China" https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1912326728
"Scottish Literature of the South Seas" https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1916531776
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