Louise Welsh @louisewelsh00 Twitter profile

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Louise Welsh

11 months

Cover reveal! Jim Brennan, son of a Glasgow hard man is a University Vice Principal tipped for the top job, but his father's past is about to catch up with Jim. A tale of organised crime, corruption & moral compromise @canongatebooks @UofGlasgow @UofGWriting @Kinhead @uofgenglit

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Louise Welsh

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5 years

'Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation'. #AlasdairGray was a man of talent, a kind person and a true original. His legacy will live on.

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Louise Welsh

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4 years

Grateful for the peace & quiet of Kelvingrove Park this morning. Met a street cleaner who said he & his colleagues lifted approx 35 tons of litter from here over the weekend. The park is so pristine that today their work is invisible. Thank you cleansing dept @glasgowlife

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Louise Welsh

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5 years

20years ago I found this desk sitting on the street. Nine books later it's waiting on its next customer.

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Louise Welsh

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2 years

Happy to report the age old pagan tradition of drawing cock & balls on the bonnets of frosty cars is still alive in Woodlands Glasgow. PS. It isn't me!

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Louise Welsh

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5 years

Is there a doctor in the house? I am very proud to present Dr Zoe Strachan!

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Louise Welsh

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5 years

Writing a novel is not as enjoyable as reading a novel

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Louise Welsh

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1 year

. @NicolaSturgeon has been a wonderful advocate for reading & literacy. We've been fortunate to have a First Minister who champions books & who reads so widely. Guessing she's not going to step into the top job @edbookfest but IMO it could be a good fit 👠👠📚

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Louise Welsh

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6 years

This is something to celebrate. In many universities new buildings are named after rich donors. @UofGlasgow are honoring James McCune Smith, 1st African American to receive a medical degree.

University of Glasgow

@UofGlasgow

6 years

We are delighted to announce that our new Learning & Teaching Hub will be named after UofG graduate James McCune Smith. In 1837, McCune Smith was the first African American to receive a medical degree. Find out more ➡️ #BlackHistoryMonth #TeamUofG 💘

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Louise Welsh

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3 years

This is why I always get my keys cut & my shoes mended at Timpsons

James Timpson

@JamesTCobbler

3 years

Instead of making offenders wear high viz jackets in chain gangs, how about helping them get a real job instead? In my shops we employ lots of ex offenders and they wear a shirt and tie. Same people, different approach, a much better outcome.

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Louise Welsh

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6 years

I don't normally post photos of toilets, but Rothesay's Victorian gents is spectacular

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Louise Welsh

@louisewelsh00

3 years

How happy am I? Very 😁❤️❤️❤️

Canongate

@canongatebooks

3 years

We're thrilled to be publishing @louisewelsh00 's new novel! Set 20 years after The Cutting Room, The Second Cut is a stylish story of post-pandemic Glasgow, featuring macabre gay auctioneer Rilke carefully walking the tightrope between saint and sinner.

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Louise Welsh

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2 years

Privilege to give the ovations for two new Honorary Drs of @UofGlasgow @SirGeoffPalmer & @CeeGraham1 Two heroes of mine who have helped to change the social & political landscape of Scotland for the better @UofGWriting @UofGCritStudies @crer_scotland

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Louise Welsh

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2 years

I detest everything the tories stand for

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Louise Welsh

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5 years

Unicorns come in different shapes and guises #Glasgow

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Louise Welsh

@louisewelsh00

1 year

To the Dogs, my new novel, a campus based thriller, will be published by @canongatebooks Feb 2024! Colleagues @UofGWriting @UofGlasgow should not be nervous!

Canongate nabs 'nail-biting’ stand-alone thriller by Welsh

Canongate has nabbed To the Dogs, a "nail-biting" standalone thriller by Louise Welsh.

www.thebookseller.com

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Louise Welsh

@louisewelsh00

1 year

Wrote my 1st novel during Keep the Clause campaign 20yrs ago. Writing my 11th while more folk than I would have anticipated are willing to support a prospective leader who believes LGBTQ+ people are not entitled to equality. Plus ca change 🏳️‍🌈 Fight for equality continues ✊

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Louise Welsh

@louisewelsh00

1 year

I am truly honored to represent @ScottishPEN as Honorary President. If you are a writer or academic please consider joining us in our campaign for freedom of expression & equality at home & around the world

Scottish PEN

@ScottishPEN

1 year

The Board of Scottish PEN is delighted to announce that Louise Welsh ( @louisewelsh00 ) has agreed to represent Scottish PEN in a new role as Honorary President. Find out more here:

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Louise Welsh

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6 years

I am honoured & really touched by this

SALTIRE SOCIETY

@Saltire_Society

6 years

Congratulation to Louise Welsh for winning the Special First Book Anniversary Prize. She won the first book award in 2002 with her debut novel The Cutting Room, she then went on to write 7 further novels. #SaltireLiterary #Inspiringwriter

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Louise Welsh

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5 years

A wonderful day. People at the back of @UofGlasgow chapel stood on chairs to get a better look. Alasdair insisted on signing everyone's books which took well over an hour. He read from his translation of Dante & the 300+ audience were silent.

UofG CreativeWriting

@UofGWriting

5 years

When Alasdair Gray was our guest for #CreativeConversations the chapel was packed with a rapt audience and he had us all laughing with delight. He’ll be sorely missed.

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Louise Welsh

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3 years

I've always thought that this photo would make a fabulous cover / poster for Macbeth @stuart_macrae @glasgow_hill

Francisco Rabal

@RabalFrancesco

3 years

Michael Peto, Dundee, 1959

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Louise Welsh

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5 years

Looking towards Arran 10.05pm

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Louise Welsh

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3 years

Gleefully Dabbles

#WOMENSART

@womensart1

3 years

1933 newspaper article on artist Frida Kahlo #WomensArt

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Louise Welsh

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1 year

Honoured and excited to be a New Fellow

Royal Society of Edinburgh

@RoyalSocEd

1 year

📚 New Fellow 2023: @louisewelsh00 . Prof of Creative Writing @UofGCritStudies , award-winning author of 9 novels, including The Cutting Room, The Plague Times Trilogy & The Second Cut. Plus she has a ten-year practice in opera with composer @stuart_macrae

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Louise Welsh

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2 years

A wonderful time in conversation with our 1st Minister last night @edbookfest If you missed it & would like to tune in, check out their pay-what-you-can online programme. Thanks @writer_suzy for this lovely photo

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Louise Welsh

@louisewelsh00

3 years

In Celtic mythology the white stag is a messenger from the otherworld who appears when a taboo has been broken, in Christianity it's representative of Christ It is revered throughout world mythology, often leading pursuers to higher spiritual realisations

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Louise Welsh

@louisewelsh00

6 years

I am honoured to be joining the board of @citizenstheatre

Citizens Theatre

@citizenstheatre

6 years

We're thrilled to welcome author @louisewelsh00 to our board. Read on to find out more about her connection to and love of the Citz 🎉

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Louise Welsh

@louisewelsh00

3 years

Libraries are palaces of working class learning. They're places where people study, meet their community, access Internet, inform themselves, write books, poetry & songs, study local history, join reading groups, meet authors & much more. Please reverse this decision @GlasgowCC

Save Whiteinch Library

@SaveWhiteinch

3 years

@louisewelsh00 please give a shout-out/re-tweet to our campaign to save Whiteinch Library. This is a community based library in west Glasgow. Glasgow Council have announced our closure without consultation.

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Louise Welsh

@louisewelsh00

4 years

Be a Greggs not a Weatherspoons #COVID ー19

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Louise Welsh

@louisewelsh00

3 years

Outdoor coffee in the sun and the snow again at Glasgow cathedral 🌞🌨️❄️

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Louise Welsh

@louisewelsh00

4 months

Gutted at this news. Culture, reading, libraries are central to health, well-being & equality of opportunity. After 20 excellent years Scotland’s biggest city #Glasgow will be without its flagship book festivals @CreativeScots

Aye Write

@AyeWrite

4 months

Unfortunately our 2024 funding application for Aye Write and Wee Write was not successful so the festivals will not take place this year. While this is disappointing, we will be organising pop up events throughout the year. Keep an eye out for more at

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Louise Welsh

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2 years

Very excited #TheSecondCut is hitting the shelves next Thursday, 27th January - pre-orders available! Thanks @canongatebooks @Canongate_Art @Kinhead Rilke returns after twenty years, no older & certainly no wiser

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Louise Welsh

@louisewelsh00

7 years

. @guardian have been looking into my head. @johnmurrays

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Louise Welsh

@louisewelsh00

1 year

Huge honour & privilege to become @RoyalSocEd fellow alongside @UofGArts colleagues @DeirdreHeddon & Prof Catherine Steel yesterday @UofGlasgow @uofgenglit @UofGCritStudies

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Louise Welsh

@louisewelsh00

1 year

Relieved not to have Kate Forbes as 1st Minister but dismayed how many folk were willing to set aside #LGBTQ equality #electionresults2023

Ballot Box Scotland

@BallotBoxScot

1 year

SNP Leadership Election 1st Prefs: Humza Yousaf: 24336 (48.2%) Kate Forbes: 20559 (40.7%) Ash Regan: 5599 (11.1%) 2nd Round (/ excl DKs): Yousaf: 26032 (51.6% / 52.1%) Forbes: 23890 (47.3% / 47.9%) Didn't Transfer: 572 (1.1%) Humza Yousaf elected as new SNP Leader

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Louise Welsh

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5 months

Perhaps my favourite #Clyde painting is Atkinson Grimshaw's, Glasgow Saturday Night. We know that architecture but the street is very different today. Imagine it revived #WhoOwnstheClyde #Glasgow @TheEmpireCafe

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Louise Welsh

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5 years

So there are two Christmas trees still up in windows in my stamping ground. Should I call Police Scotland in case there's a wee skeleton in a paper hat sitting in front of the TV?

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Louise Welsh

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2 years

Channeling my inner Elvis for my @DARIAHeu keynote #DARIAH2022 @LucyandYak

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2 years

One of the nice things about packing up is the random photos you find. We love photo booths

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Louise Welsh

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3 years

A treat to visit @GlasgowLib for a quick bit of socially distanced filming with @cbrookmyre & @DameDeniseMina in advance of @AyeWrite Early bird tickets on sale now! £40 for 60+ events featuring over 100 authors. Or you can buy a tix for our event c.£5 E-see you there? 📚

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Louise Welsh

@louisewelsh00

5 years

Ambition achieved, landed on the beach at Barra. First Twin Otter flight, not scary at all (look at our faces) @zoestrachan

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Louise Welsh

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1 year

I am having a lovely week. Excited & honored to be one of 91 new Fellows joining @RoyalSocEd

Royal Society of Edinburgh

@RoyalSocEd

1 year

New Fellows day! 🎉 We're proud to announce the 91 new names joining our Fellowship:

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Louise Welsh

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2 years

Very much looking forward to chatting about The Second Cut with @NicolaSturgeon @edbookfest Join us if you can. In-person or online @UofGWriting @canongatebooks

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Louise Welsh

@louisewelsh00

3 years

It is big & it is clever

Eleanor Abraham

@EBAeditorial

3 years

So proud.

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Louise Welsh

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4 years

Back @UofGlasgow for a few hours on essential business & made a point of visiting this memorial plaque now installed in a prominent place in the cloisters @UofGWriting @TheEmpireCafe @crer_scotland @SirGeoffPalmer @JackieKayPoet

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Louise Welsh

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3 years

Advance copies of my actual new book arrived today! It won't be released into the wild until the end of January, but you can order advance copies from your bookseller. Cheers to @canongatebooks @Canongate_Art @Kinhead #TheSecondCut 🥂

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Louise Welsh

@louisewelsh00

5 years

Still buzzing from graduation day @UofGWriting @UofGCritStudies So many of our students & distinguished colleagues were the first in their families to graduate from university including me & Dr Strachan. Wonder if this is esp. true at #lifechanging #worldchanging @UofGlasgow

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Louise Welsh

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6 years

Extremely honoured to have been inducted into the Royal Society of Literature (I signed with Byron's pen) @RSLiterature @UofGlasgow @johnmurrays @RCWLitAgency

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Louise Welsh

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5 years

Privileged to have been at the unveiling of this plaque which will stand in the heart of @UofGlasgow An emotional morning @JackieKayPoet @SirGeoffPalmer @DrStephenMullen @FlagUpScotJam @JudeBarber1 @CllrGrahamC @grahamfagen @TheEmpireCafe

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4 years

There's a reason I do radio & a reason I'm not a poet but here's my lockdown poem ♥️☮️

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2 years

I have sent an email with a misplaced apostrophe

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3 years

#HAPPYNEWYEAR from @zoestrachan Minnie the Cat & me! Bring on #2022NewYear 🔔

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Louise Welsh

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6 months

Thanks to everyone who helped me launch To the Dogs @WaterstonesGla yesterday, especially the brilliant booksellers and @canongatebooks Photo courtesy of @JudeBarber1 Tunnocks courtesy of @ByClaireWilson Edinburgh launch tomorrow Chaired by the brilliant @valmcdermid @PortyBooks

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6 years

Sappho, Born c. 630 BCE Died c. 570 BCE

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5 years

I'm getting the shivers. Make no mistake, our votes count this Thursday. A vote for the Tories is a vote for racism

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5 years

EU migrants have been able to “treat the UK as if it’s part of their own country” for too long, Boris Johnson said yesterday as he reprised the core message of Vote Leave’s 2016 EU referendum campaign.

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3 years

As a small child I used to worry about what I would do when I had read all the books in the library

National Library of Scotland

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3 years

So if you read one printed book* a day it would take you over 19,000 years to read through our printed collections.

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4 years

The unbearable closeness of joggers

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4 years

I love Glasgow but can't help wishing I was here right now

PictureThis Scotland

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Seilebost beach, Isle of Harris. (2009) Pic: iknow-scotland.

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4 years

Afternoon constitutional along some #Glasgow wynds (you know I'm ignoring a lot of bins, right?)

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3 years

. @devisridhar has been a voice of informed reason throughout #COVID #VaccinatetheWorld 🌍🌎🌏

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3 years

“India is a sign of things to come.” Professor Devi Sridhar of Edinburgh University tells @jackielongc4 that the deadly Covid wave in India should be a “real warning to the world”.

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3 years

Really pleased The Cutting Room is joining @canongatebooks Canons

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4 years

Nice day working on a wee project @zoestrachan & me are making with one of our favourite places @wcdtgarden More soon 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺♥️♥️♥️

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3 years

Well done to the people of #Pollockshields #Glasgow standing in solidarity with their neighbours

Police Scotland

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3 years

Updated statement on Kenmure Street, Glasgow

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4 years

Thank you to whoever is putting these up around #Glasgow

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3 years

The arts are not a luxury

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3 years

I am in a mixed marriage

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7 years

A wee bit about my writing day. Louise Welsh: ‘I work best when I reach a mild degree of boredom'

Louise Welsh: ‘I work best when I reach a mild degree of boredom'

Libraries, silence and lots of tea – the novelist on the tricks she uses to free her imagination

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

Birthday party #Covid style. My bubbled sister & Dad sharing birthday cake in Edinburgh & @zoestrachan & me sharing ours in Glasgow. Trusting it won't be too long before we're all together again 🤞🎂

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6 years

A privilege to discuss @MurielSpark100 & the joy of reading with our First Minister @NicolaSturgeon today at Fudan University #Shanghai #FMChina18 @natlibscot @UofGlasgow @UofGWriting @CreativeScots

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4 years

Who brought down the entire Christmas tree in the middle of the night? Minnie's not bovvered 😅

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6 years

Wonderful flight over Ben Nevis to Stornoway #faclan @FlyLoganair

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2 years

First picnic of 2022 - chocolate cake, coffee Dad @zoestrachan & me!

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4 years

Feeling sad for the @AyeWrite team who put their hearts & souls into this festival, as well as the readers, writers, publishers & booksellers who will be disappointed not to be taking part. A hard decision but the right one.

Aye Write

@AyeWrite

4 years

In the last 24 hours it has become clear we can no longer deliver anything like the festival we had promised and in the interests of our audience, authors, publishers, volunteers and staff we have taken the decision not to carry on with this year’s festival at this time. 1/2

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2 years

Excited to be on @BloodyScotland #McIlvanney Prize List alongside @ambroseparry @LiamMcIlvanney & @AlanJParks Thanks @canongatebooks @Kinhead for your support 😀

Bloody Scotland

@BloodyScotland

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We’re delighted to reveal the 2022 McIlvanney Prize finalists! Congrats to: @louisewelsh00 @ambroseparry @LiamMcIlvanney & @AlanJParks Read more here:

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Congratulations to Dr @zoestrachan on being promoted to Reader @UofGlasgow @UofGWriting 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐

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4 years

Portrait of a marriage

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2 years

All fired up! @Shotsblog @cbrookmyre @ambroseparry @BloodyScotland @stirlingcastle

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4 years

Interesting to hear 19yr old @BBCRadio4 say previous generatns didn't have to worry about Qs of identity. I was born into a country where homosexuality was illegal, equal marriage impossible, discrimination open. Helpful to know your history @LGBTYS @LGBTHM @uofglgbt #Clause28 🏳️‍🌈

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4 years

For absence of doubt let me state that I am not doing #DryJanuary2021

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5 years

It may look like a posh dressing gown but this is my new writing coat courtesy of @zoestrachan Merry Christmas everybody! 🎄⛄🎄☃️

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5 years

Scenes from @UofGWriting @UofGlasgow today. Extremely proud of our new Doctors including Dr @zoestrachan

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2 years

One of the best things on @Twitter imo is @womensart1 so delighted to get my hands on Unravelling Women's Art. Liberty, Peace & Solidarity to all!

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4 years

First Phase One #lockdown visit to my Dad, no hugging but it felt good 💕♥️🌞

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1 year

This is Minnie, I work for her, she's an enemy of literature & soft furnishings, has no student debt, is limited to 4 Dreamies a day but frequently scores more. I fear she would vote @Conservatives but luckily I refuse to drive her to the polling station. Only Tory I've kissed

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Society is fishing from too small a pool. Academia, literature, music, too . . . Peter Capaldi says posh actors are smooth, confident and tedious

Peter Capaldi says posh actors are smooth, confident and tedious

The Doctor Who and Thick of It actor laments the lack of support for emerging talent from working-class backgrounds

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

South Ayrshire looking silvery & magical this evening #AilsaCraig

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4 years

In a world that is falling apart, at last some good news

New York Post

@nypost

4 years

Drinking red wine and eating cheese could reduce cognitive decline🍷🧀

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Gorgeous @lyceumtheatre Remembered yesterday it's where I saw my first Macbeth on a school outing. No idea of cast or director but recall being thrilled. Thrill of theatre has continued to deepen & enhance my life. Funding arts & culture is essential @scotgov @CreativeScots 🎭

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4 years

Working today in a well kent haunt of Glasgow writers & readers. You may know it by its carpets - & no, it isn't Weatherspoons

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2 years

Looking through old photos with my dad this afternoon and found this from back in the days when my main ambition was to be a cowboy 🤠

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6 years

. @zoestrachan shortlisted for #womensawards contribution to arts & culture. Maximum glam @CreativeOceanic @UofGWriting @UofGlasgow

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3 years

Just sent of the final edit of my novel - only the copyedit to go and then done!

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4 years

Once again I am impressed by & proud of @ScottishOpera

Scottish Opera

@ScottishOpera

4 years

During this difficult time, our wardrobe department are working to make hundreds of sets of scrubs which will be distributed by @OfficialFTLOS to frontline NHS workers. Read more:

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A little nerve wracking sending Rilke out into the world again so especially lovely to get this review on the eve of publication @scotsman_arts @canongatebooks

Book review: The Second Cut, by Louise Welsh

Twenty years after he made his debut in The Cutting Room, Louise Welsh’s enigmatic sleuth Rilke is back. It’s been worth the wait, writes Stuart Kelly

www.scotsman.com

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Louise Welsh

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3 years

Greetings from Winnipeg 🥶❄️ #glasgowsnow

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Louise Welsh

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. @JackieKayPoet has been an exceptional Makar. She has risen to the challenges of the role, including this #Covid year with intelligence, verve, grace & talent. She's also written outstanding work. Come the hour come the woman 👏👏👏👏

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We’re celebrating @JackieKayPoet ’s tenure as Scotland's national poet, which comes to an end today after five years. Below are just a few of the highlights and you can discover more here ➡

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Louise Welsh

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All power to @krishgm a passionate, professional & informed journalist whose broadcasts are always top class. He's not the first to forget the mic is still on & won't be the last @Channel4News ✊

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Louise Welsh

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Feeling restored after a week in Lindisfarne where I mainly dressed like a jolly fisherman 🐳