Charlie Gracie
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Charlie Gracie
@charliegracie.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, short story writer, social worker.
Latest book: Belfast to Baillieston (Red Squirrel Press, 2023) www.charliegracie.scot
… and yet #Israel is still in @eurovision.tv and still in UEFA competitions.
May 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
What a great night ahead with this double launch from Linda Jackson’s Seahorses Publications
@lindajax.bsky.social
@asls.org.uk
@byleaveswelive.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 6:34 AM
What a great night ahead with this double launch from Linda Jackson’s Seahorses Publications
@lindajax.bsky.social
@asls.org.uk
@byleaveswelive.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I’m delighted to be part of @paperboatswriters.bsky.social 5.
Thanks to all involved in this excellent, honest project.
@byleaveswelive.bsky.social
@asls.org.uk paperboats.org/2025/04/07/b...
Blades – paperboats
It’s my favourite field, this one above the village, hare-run, rutted with frost and, on the top of the rise, the gean tree
paperboats.org
April 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Reposted by Charlie Gracie
I'm bringing 'The Bone Folder' #poems to #Stirling 'gateway to the Highlands' 💚

Join me & these luminous guest readers @moraganderson.bsky.social @charliegracie.bsky.social & Chris Powici of @paperboatswriters.bsky.social at Central Library Thursday 17 April, 5.30pm. FREE but do book your seat 👇
March 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Reposted by Charlie Gracie
Frances Matilda Van de Grift was born #OTD, 10 March, 1840. An author in her own right, in 1880 she married Robert Louis Stevenson. Prof @penfielding.bsky.social explores the dangerous collaboration between them: granting female agency on the page & in life
dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/06/a...
A Dangerous Collaboration - Dangerous Women Project
Penny Fielding explores the dangerous collaboration between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny: granting female agency on the page and in life.
dangerouswomenproject.org
March 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This Thursday 27th Feb at 5.30pm
Stirling Central Library
Just turn up or call 01786237760 or email
Centrallibrary@stirling.gov.uk
for a free seat.
Songs, readings & open questions.
Linda Jaxson's guests are @charliegracie.bsky.social, Lesley Benzie & Liane McKay.
February 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Surely a great aspiration from @teamlabouruk.bsky.social — but tinkering with the #disUK system isn’t the answer. We need a Basic Income Guarantee scheme to share the wealth, to enable work that fits and to ensure people take greater personal responsibility. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour to ‘fix benefit system to get people back into work’
Pledge to fix broken welfare system follows new evidence that people are worried about returning to work for fear that benefits will be withdrawn
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM