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Dedicated mostly to works of Scottish writer Agnes Owens®
celebrating Centenary Year 2026 (updates to follow) Posts by John Crosbie (Her Son)
celebrating Centenary Year 2026 (updates to follow) Posts by John Crosbie (Her Son)
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In the coming weeks, this page will be changing name. It will become the Agnes Owens Literary Estate with a refreshed bio as the Bluesky social media presence for that entity.
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The Agnes Owens Archive opens January 2026, celebrating one of Scotland’s most distinctive literary voices. Marking her centenary, a programme of events and free guided tours will be announced soon. #AgnesOwens
December 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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🔥 2026 Residencies 🔥 @kirstininnes.bsky.social & @heatherparry.bsky.social named Writers-in-Residence at the Alasdair Gray & @aowensarchive.bsky.social Chosen from 130+ applicants, they’ll spend 8 months creating new work inspired by overlooked voices, supported by @creativescots.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 6:53 AM
🔥 2026 Residencies 🔥 @kirstininnes.bsky.social & @heatherparry.bsky.social named Writers-in-Residence at the Alasdair Gray & @aowensarchive.bsky.social Chosen from 130+ applicants, they’ll spend 8 months creating new work inspired by overlooked voices, supported by @creativescots.bsky.social
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Delighted to announce that @ronanhession.bsky.social will be chatting to James Naughtie on the BBC Radio 4 Book Club
On January 4th at pm.
Marvelmoose!
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@foylesforbooks.bsky.social
@waterstones.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
On January 4th at pm.
Marvelmoose!
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@foylesforbooks.bsky.social
@waterstones.bsky.social
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BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub, Rónán Hession
Rónán Hession takes questions on his debut novel, Leonard and Hungry Paul.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Delighted to announce that @ronanhession.bsky.social will be chatting to James Naughtie on the BBC Radio 4 Book Club
On January 4th at pm.
Marvelmoose!
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@foylesforbooks.bsky.social
@waterstones.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
On January 4th at pm.
Marvelmoose!
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@foylesforbooks.bsky.social
@waterstones.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Translated this Spanish Review of Agnes Owens -,A Working Mother. tanaltoelsilencio.blogspot.com?m=1
December 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Translated this Spanish Review of Agnes Owens -,A Working Mother. tanaltoelsilencio.blogspot.com?m=1
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L'article "Agnes Owens and the Parliament of Insignificant Lives" de Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon vient de paraître dans le numéro 50(1) de la revue "Studies in Scottish Literature"
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November 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
L'article "Agnes Owens and the Parliament of Insignificant Lives" de Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon vient de paraître dans le numéro 50(1) de la revue "Studies in Scottish Literature"
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Deadline this Thursday, 04.12.25 at 5pm! thealasdairgrayarchive.org/wp-content/u...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Deadline this Thursday, 04.12.25 at 5pm! thealasdairgrayarchive.org/wp-content/u...
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On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we share Tareq al-Karmy’s poem Not Only Rivers, translated by Alasdair Gray for A Bird Is Not a Stone, featuring translations of both established & emerging Palestinian poets translated by 24 Scottish writers.
November 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we share Tareq al-Karmy’s poem Not Only Rivers, translated by Alasdair Gray for A Bird Is Not a Stone, featuring translations of both established & emerging Palestinian poets translated by 24 Scottish writers.
Due to to forecast of more snow today, this event has now been rescheduled for Wednesday 26th.November, next week.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Due to to forecast of more snow today, this event has now been rescheduled for Wednesday 26th.November, next week.
Discover what happens when it's the secretary who has the affair; read the brilliantly irreverent Agnes Owens.
There are countless novels dedicated to the dissatisfaction of the office worker and their ever-present need to find a lustful escape during working hours—think of 'The Devil'
There are countless novels dedicated to the dissatisfaction of the office worker and their ever-present need to find a lustful escape during working hours—think of 'The Devil'
Descubran qué ocurre cuando es la secretaria la que tiene la aventura, lean a la incorrectísima y genial Agnes Owens
Descubran qué ocurre cuando es la secretaria la que tiene la aventura, lean a la incorrectísima y genial Agnes Owens
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November 13, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Discover what happens when it's the secretary who has the affair; read the brilliantly irreverent Agnes Owens.
There are countless novels dedicated to the dissatisfaction of the office worker and their ever-present need to find a lustful escape during working hours—think of 'The Devil'
There are countless novels dedicated to the dissatisfaction of the office worker and their ever-present need to find a lustful escape during working hours—think of 'The Devil'
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L'article "Agnes Owens and the Parliament of Insignificant Lives " de Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon vient de paraître dans le numéro 50.1 de la revue "Studies in Scottish Literature"
scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/is...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
L'article "Agnes Owens and the Parliament of Insignificant Lives " de Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon vient de paraître dans le numéro 50.1 de la revue "Studies in Scottish Literature"
scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/is...
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Brilliant, looking forward to receiving my copy .
We have 2 lovely translated Scottish books arrived in the office, courtesy of our @creativescots.bsky.social supported #translationfund: Border, Kapka Kassabova in Catalan from
@comanegra.bsky.social & A Working Mother, Agnes Owens in Spanish from munecainfinita.com
More here shorturl.at/D7hfI
@comanegra.bsky.social & A Working Mother, Agnes Owens in Spanish from munecainfinita.com
More here shorturl.at/D7hfI
October 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Brilliant, looking forward to receiving my copy .
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Dreaming the Daily Darg: Working Lives in Scottish Writing since 1918
Studies in Scottish Literature 50/1, 2025
A special issue exploring work & working life in Scottish writing chiefly of the 20th & 21st centuries – available now on Open Access
#litstudies
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Studies in Scottish Literature 50/1, 2025
A special issue exploring work & working life in Scottish writing chiefly of the 20th & 21st centuries – available now on Open Access
#litstudies
scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/is...
October 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dreaming the Daily Darg: Working Lives in Scottish Writing since 1918
Studies in Scottish Literature 50/1, 2025
A special issue exploring work & working life in Scottish writing chiefly of the 20th & 21st centuries – available now on Open Access
#litstudies
scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/is...
Studies in Scottish Literature 50/1, 2025
A special issue exploring work & working life in Scottish writing chiefly of the 20th & 21st centuries – available now on Open Access
#litstudies
scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/is...
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Next in our timeline: No. 39 – Mavis Belfrage (1996). Originally titled Agnes Belfrage, Gray changed it after input from writer Agnes Owens. His least fantastical work, it explores love and working-class life from the '50s–'90s. #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
September 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Next in our timeline: No. 39 – Mavis Belfrage (1996). Originally titled Agnes Belfrage, Gray changed it after input from writer Agnes Owens. His least fantastical work, it explores love and working-class life from the '50s–'90s. #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
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Began reading this last night. Three authors alloted one third of the book each. Alasdair Gray is one of my favourite writers. I know almost nothing about Agnes Owens and James Kelman, but the Kelman selection so far has been excellent, reminding me somewhat of Beckett ☺️ #booksky
September 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Began reading this last night. Three authors alloted one third of the book each. Alasdair Gray is one of my favourite writers. I know almost nothing about Agnes Owens and James Kelman, but the Kelman selection so far has been excellent, reminding me somewhat of Beckett ☺️ #booksky
Front cover of Saturday Herald. Agnes was born and grew up Milngavie, where generations of mothers family were embedded in the area for years before. She moved to live in Alexandria (The Vale ) in 1964.
August 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Front cover of Saturday Herald. Agnes was born and grew up Milngavie, where generations of mothers family were embedded in the area for years before. She moved to live in Alexandria (The Vale ) in 1964.
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August 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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todays chazza bookshop find so sexy
July 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
todays chazza bookshop find so sexy
In the coming weeks, this page will be changing name. It will become the Agnes Owens Literary Estate with a refreshed bio as the Bluesky social media presence for that entity.
July 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
In the coming weeks, this page will be changing name. It will become the Agnes Owens Literary Estate with a refreshed bio as the Bluesky social media presence for that entity.
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“It didn’t occur to me for about five or six years after leaving school that literature was something I could be involved in. Then I discovered it was possible to write stories myself…”
—an extract from James Kelman on “Elitism & English Literature”, from a book I’m currently typesetting
—an extract from James Kelman on “Elitism & English Literature”, from a book I’m currently typesetting
June 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“It didn’t occur to me for about five or six years after leaving school that literature was something I could be involved in. Then I discovered it was possible to write stories myself…”
—an extract from James Kelman on “Elitism & English Literature”, from a book I’m currently typesetting
—an extract from James Kelman on “Elitism & English Literature”, from a book I’m currently typesetting
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“I don’t write about people that are nice people. They’ve got to be sinners, with a wee touch of goodness here and there, you know.”
Giving “people like that” a voice: a conversation with Agnes Owens (1926–2014) – born #OTD, 24 May
A 🎂 🧵
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Giving “people like that” a voice: a conversation with Agnes Owens (1926–2014) – born #OTD, 24 May
A 🎂 🧵
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Giving “people like that” a Voice
Agnes Owens was born in Milngavie, near Glasgow, in 1926. After a couple of years of gruelling travel, “marching” around the Highlands of Scotland with husband and baby looking for work, pitching t...
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May 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“I don’t write about people that are nice people. They’ve got to be sinners, with a wee touch of goodness here and there, you know.”
Giving “people like that” a voice: a conversation with Agnes Owens (1926–2014) – born #OTD, 24 May
A 🎂 🧵
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Giving “people like that” a voice: a conversation with Agnes Owens (1926–2014) – born #OTD, 24 May
A 🎂 🧵
1/5
journals.openedition.org/etudesecossa...
Young Agnes Striding out with her mother Jessie down Milngavie High Street!
May 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Young Agnes Striding out with her mother Jessie down Milngavie High Street!