The amazing fifth installment of Who Owns The Clyde?

The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis

Midway through my weekly ‘big clean’ (house not self) and reminiscing about Wednesday’s lobster feast & wondering if ‘Wednesday lobster feasts’ weren’t a thing, I could probably hire a much needed lovely cleaner.
Then realising my friend bought my lunch, and I still can’t hire a cleaner.

Hey Bluesky it’s been a minute.
Well a big long year of a minute.
(I tend never to write the word minute as I can’t spell & second guessing is my life blood…’min-ate, mine-newt? min-ate, mine-newt?’ three times like a spell before I remember they’re both spelled minute).

Autumn on Campus 🍂🍁🍂🍁
Day of writing, Creative Conversations in the Uni Chapel, pasta at Little Italy (most important part) & dusk walk up to professors’ Sq.

Imagine going to a ‘Design your own Sleep Demon’ workshop
Imagine being in a almost trance like state, being guided towards your own sleep demon & finding out it’s 🥁🥁🥁
YOU!

I got shortlisted for The Bridport Prize in ⚡️Flash Fiction⚡️ Thanks @bridportprize.bsky.social
My first attempt at such a lean piece of FF & I wrote it on my phone just before the competition closed, just to see if I could. Turns out I could 🫶🏻

Jubilant, joyous evening at Glasgow Women’s Library celebrating #Herland Our Lives in Protest👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Poetry, comedy, song, dance, activism!
Women cheering other women on so loudly & with so much love. Just beautiful🫶🏻

Is it bad that the only commentary I want to hear is Jerry hall’s

Self-consciously ate a yoghurt in public.
Suddenly wondered if I would be chewing it. Can’t stop thinking about it.

I hope you enjoy my story, ‘Full Moon For a Dying Light,’ with a nod to the town where I have lived for the last quarter century. 🙏

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Having a duvet day.
Reading Irenosen Okojie’s short story collection, Speaking Gigantular.
Totally matching my fever dream energy.
Such a trip.

Going for brunch with besties/cousins
Someone’s going to drink to much & cry
I’ve decided it’s not going to be me
Please, baby Jesus, don’t let it be me🙏🏼

Thank you Sunshine
Thank you Alanis
Thank you Sancerre & codine
Thank you lie-ins
Thank you dog-child
Thank you, thank you Shamshad Khan

What’s up with the world not delivering me coconut & pandan, with mango & calamansi soft serve until the age of 43?

Scottish Covid Vaccination helpline…if we assault them with acid jazz hold music 70% of callers will hang up.
Bagpipes were too obvious.
Proclaimers too expensive.

Illustrating Myths & Folktales
5 Sep, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh – tickets by donation

Join illustrator Jordan Hunter to discover more about creating convincing characters, landscapes, & supernatural beings inspired by Scottish myth & folklore

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Eddie’s 3pm sun puddle has been stolen by Autumn 🍂🍂🍂

Well. This is nice.