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274 words for 274 miles
Tantallon Tir is a welcome new arrival on the Scottish publishing scene and I am delighted to be among the 40 contributors to its debut anthology, 274 miles. 274 is the length in miles of the Scottish mainland: it is also the word limit to which every contributor had to work. Even the busiest reader cannot claim lack of time to delve into this eclectic collection.
u3a Writers' Question Time at Wigtown Book Festival
Margaret Elphinstone will be one of a panel of authors leading a discussion on the craft of writing at an event at the Wigtown Book Festival at 1.30pm on Wednesday 1st October. The event is organised by the Wigtownshire U3A Writers' Group. Tickets are free but a donation is invited. More details are available in the Wigtown Book Festval Programme.
There She Goes at the Wigtown Book Festival
Margaret Elphinstone is one of 17 contributors to There She Goes, a collection of women's writing on the experience of travel edited by Esa Aldegheri which features in the forthcoming Wigtown Book Festival. Margaret Elphinstone is pictured above reading her chapter, Sea Crossings: Time Circles, at the book's launch earlier this year. See the Wigtown Book Festval Programme for more details of the event at 3pm on Friday 3rd October. There She Goes is published by Saraband.
PaperBoats - Earth Day Edition
RESISTANCE
is those who flower in poor soil:
groundsel, self-heal, bittercress, speedwell;
is celandines forcing their way
through cracks in rotten concrete;
Margaret Elphinstone celebrates the resistance of plants against the onslaught of rogue human systems in the latest edition of PaperBoats.
Irish Pages publishes Scottish edition
Irish Pages, a bi-annual journal of contemporary writing, has published a Scottish Edition including a contribution by Margaret Elphinstone: An Ecology of Haunting: Re-forming a Future from Scotland's Past.
Margaret Elphinstone shortlisted for Saltire
Margaret Elphinstone's novella Lost People was shortlisted for the Saltire Literary Awards 2024 in the Fiction Section.
"New Scots" at CatStrand
Margaret chaired a Book Week Scotland event at the CatStrand, New Galloway, celebrating the work of two of the many writers from around the world who have made Scotland their home. Palestinian poet Iyad Hayatleh who grew up in a Syrian refugee camp and Yemeni poet and film-maker Sawsan Al-Areeqe gave readings from their poetry in Arabic and English and spoke movingly of their lives as writers bridging different cultures.