Victoria McNulty
@victoriamcnultygla.bsky.social
Glaswegian writer, educator, and shameless 90s Indie casualty.
Navigating a recent ME/CFS diagnosis.
Navigating a recent ME/CFS diagnosis.
I wrote a substack essay about the Labour Party and the lies we tell ourselves about its history. The disillusionment is real if you think party politics will save us. Do have a read if it's your thing.
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
October 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I wrote a substack essay about the Labour Party and the lies we tell ourselves about its history. The disillusionment is real if you think party politics will save us. Do have a read if it's your thing.
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
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2026 NEW WRITERS AWARDS
Applications for the 2026 New Writers Awards are currently open. The deadline for all applications is Wed 24 Sept 2025.
The awards are free to apply to, all travel expenses are covered and awardees are chosen by a panel of judges.
www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...
Applications for the 2026 New Writers Awards are currently open. The deadline for all applications is Wed 24 Sept 2025.
The awards are free to apply to, all travel expenses are covered and awardees are chosen by a panel of judges.
www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...
Apply for the New Writers Awards
Applications for the New Writers Awards are now open!
www.scottishbooktrust.com
August 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
2026 NEW WRITERS AWARDS
Applications for the 2026 New Writers Awards are currently open. The deadline for all applications is Wed 24 Sept 2025.
The awards are free to apply to, all travel expenses are covered and awardees are chosen by a panel of judges.
www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...
Applications for the 2026 New Writers Awards are currently open. The deadline for all applications is Wed 24 Sept 2025.
The awards are free to apply to, all travel expenses are covered and awardees are chosen by a panel of judges.
www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...
A wee Substack about visiting the Fringe and revisiting the art you love...
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
In A Word: Pleasure.
Like many artists I have a love/ hate affair with The Edinburgh Fringe.
open.substack.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A wee Substack about visiting the Fringe and revisiting the art you love...
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
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#ScottishPoetryEvents
Open Mic at the Scottish Poetry Library!
1pm, 18th, 19th, 20th August
FREE!
All the deets:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-ope...
Open Mic at the Scottish Poetry Library!
1pm, 18th, 19th, 20th August
FREE!
All the deets:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-ope...
Poetry Open Mic at the Scottish Poetry Library
Hosted by the School of Poets, a series of open mic afternoons which are free for artists and audiences alike!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
#ScottishPoetryEvents
Open Mic at the Scottish Poetry Library!
1pm, 18th, 19th, 20th August
FREE!
All the deets:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-ope...
Open Mic at the Scottish Poetry Library!
1pm, 18th, 19th, 20th August
FREE!
All the deets:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-ope...
Took my teen to see Trainspotting at The Fringe today. We absolutely loved it. Totally inspired by immersive theatre, and it's fab how much love there is for the characters and the story. Hoping it's sparked his own Irvine Welsh journey now 💚
August 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Took my teen to see Trainspotting at The Fringe today. We absolutely loved it. Totally inspired by immersive theatre, and it's fab how much love there is for the characters and the story. Hoping it's sparked his own Irvine Welsh journey now 💚
Coming to terms with the fact that I'll probably never return to regular performing so trying new mediums as a way of sharing creativity. I've started a wee free Substack to share some work. Would love to follow/ share with people.
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
Untill Now
I can't put it in more palatable terms.
open.substack.com
August 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Coming to terms with the fact that I'll probably never return to regular performing so trying new mediums as a way of sharing creativity. I've started a wee free Substack to share some work. Would love to follow/ share with people.
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
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Another Palestinian footballer murdered by Israel and FIFA is silent.
August 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Another Palestinian footballer murdered by Israel and FIFA is silent.
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🩵 If you love music and Scotland then you might like SNACK mag’s art prints, featuring classic Glasgow/Edinburgh venues.
They are cracking and if you buy one then my editor will let me out of my crate to have a cup of tea 🩵
They are cracking and if you buy one then my editor will let me out of my crate to have a cup of tea 🩵
Prints
Browse all products in the Prints category from SNACK Mag Shop.
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August 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
🩵 If you love music and Scotland then you might like SNACK mag’s art prints, featuring classic Glasgow/Edinburgh venues.
They are cracking and if you buy one then my editor will let me out of my crate to have a cup of tea 🩵
They are cracking and if you buy one then my editor will let me out of my crate to have a cup of tea 🩵
Comfort watched The Business tonight for the zillionth time. I love how bright and camp this film is. Makes me want to set something in the 80s, and kick about in Sergio Tacchini ❤️
August 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Comfort watched The Business tonight for the zillionth time. I love how bright and camp this film is. Makes me want to set something in the 80s, and kick about in Sergio Tacchini ❤️
Fontaines DC at Exhibition Park, Newcastle. Electric.
July 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Fontaines DC at Exhibition Park, Newcastle. Electric.
Had a glorious time at the preview of this year's #offpagevispo in Glasgow last night. Absolutely buzzing to be exhibiting some visual poetry with such a fabulous group.
April 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Had a glorious time at the preview of this year's #offpagevispo in Glasgow last night. Absolutely buzzing to be exhibiting some visual poetry with such a fabulous group.
Propping their barbarism up with a legacy that is the polar opposite of what they are. More obsolete Tory policies and grovelling to Reform votes.
Friendly reminder that the Labour Party was not the party of work but the party of WORKING PEOPLE (including those who find themselves unable to do so)
Friendly reminder that the Labour Party was not the party of work but the party of WORKING PEOPLE (including those who find themselves unable to do so)
Labour is a psychopathic government that’s just as bad as the Tories
It’s brutalised the old and the poor. Now it’s targeting the disabled.
All the while it grovels to the powerful, with no sign of taxing the super-rich.
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
It’s brutalised the old and the poor. Now it’s targeting the disabled.
All the while it grovels to the powerful, with no sign of taxing the super-rich.
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
Neil Mackay: Labour is a psychopathic government that’s just as bad as the Tories
Unfortunately, I’ve met far too many psychopaths throughout my life. Not more than cops, prison officers or psychiatric staff, but far in excess…
www.heraldscotland.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Propping their barbarism up with a legacy that is the polar opposite of what they are. More obsolete Tory policies and grovelling to Reform votes.
Friendly reminder that the Labour Party was not the party of work but the party of WORKING PEOPLE (including those who find themselves unable to do so)
Friendly reminder that the Labour Party was not the party of work but the party of WORKING PEOPLE (including those who find themselves unable to do so)
Definitely memories of picking the red ash out of grazed knees 💚
⚽️ Childhood pitches
What are your memories of the parks and pitches you grew up playing on?
📕 Issue 35 includes a wonderful piece by Gary Sutherland on the games he played in the village of Hopeman on the Moray coast
Illustration by Mark Waters
🛒 Order: bit.ly/3CBPHPf
Full contents: bit.ly/3EuIBwg
What are your memories of the parks and pitches you grew up playing on?
📕 Issue 35 includes a wonderful piece by Gary Sutherland on the games he played in the village of Hopeman on the Moray coast
Illustration by Mark Waters
🛒 Order: bit.ly/3CBPHPf
Full contents: bit.ly/3EuIBwg
March 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Definitely memories of picking the red ash out of grazed knees 💚
Delighted to be reading at Versaye this month. It's such a fabulous night, with loads of great writers already signed up. Pop along if it's your thing.
March 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Delighted to be reading at Versaye this month. It's such a fabulous night, with loads of great writers already signed up. Pop along if it's your thing.
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With a media owned by billionaires and oligarchs and with your timelines flooded with propaganda, we need independent media more than ever. Help us get to £10k and develop Scotland's longest-running alternative media project:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/backing-be...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/backing-be...
February 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
With a media owned by billionaires and oligarchs and with your timelines flooded with propaganda, we need independent media more than ever. Help us get to £10k and develop Scotland's longest-running alternative media project:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/backing-be...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/backing-be...
Excited to be taking part in this panel as part of Paisley Book Festival this year. Looking forward to chatting and sharing new work. Check out their website for the full programme!
February 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Excited to be taking part in this panel as part of Paisley Book Festival this year. Looking forward to chatting and sharing new work. Check out their website for the full programme!
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@byleaveswelive.bsky.social asked Janette Ayachi, @victoriamcnultygla.bsky.social, @susibriggsauthor.bsky.social & Morag Anderson to write new poems reflecting on Robert Burns. Giving voices to the women in Burns’s life & work was a common theme
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/the-trysting...
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/the-trysting...
The Trysting Thorns
Creative responses by women to the life and work of Robert Burns For Burns Night, we commissioned Janette Ayachi, Victoria McNulty, Susi Briggs and Morag Anderson to write new poems reflecting on Robe...
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
January 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
@byleaveswelive.bsky.social asked Janette Ayachi, @victoriamcnultygla.bsky.social, @susibriggsauthor.bsky.social & Morag Anderson to write new poems reflecting on Robert Burns. Giving voices to the women in Burns’s life & work was a common theme
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/the-trysting...
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/the-trysting...
Have really steered away from political posting for a while, feeling that it's often counter productive. But the gist of recent events, to me anyway, feels so heavy in the knowledge of a failure to construct a meaningful, compassionate and effective opposition 1/
January 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Have really steered away from political posting for a while, feeling that it's often counter productive. But the gist of recent events, to me anyway, feels so heavy in the knowledge of a failure to construct a meaningful, compassionate and effective opposition 1/
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#OtD 26 Nov 1938 a football team of Basque boys who were Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War played a friendly match in Pontypridd, Wales. Tickets to the game were sold to raise funds to support the children workingclasshistory.com/2018...
November 26, 2024 at 10:19 PM
#OtD 26 Nov 1938 a football team of Basque boys who were Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War played a friendly match in Pontypridd, Wales. Tickets to the game were sold to raise funds to support the children workingclasshistory.com/2018...
Intae this. So aye, not perfect but still love these albums...
November 19, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Intae this. So aye, not perfect but still love these albums...
Reposted by Victoria McNulty
Nutmeg Magazine Issue 34 will be out next month. As always, it features some of the best football poetry across the country, but if you would like your work to be considered for Issue 35 in March, submit now!
info@nutmegmagazine.co.uk
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Nutmeg Magazine. The Scottish football periodical
Nutmeg is a high-class home for quality articles about Scottish football’s past, present and future
www.nutmegmagazine.co.uk
November 17, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Nutmeg Magazine Issue 34 will be out next month. As always, it features some of the best football poetry across the country, but if you would like your work to be considered for Issue 35 in March, submit now!
info@nutmegmagazine.co.uk
40 lines + under
www.nutmegmagazine.co.uk/product/issu...
info@nutmegmagazine.co.uk
40 lines + under
www.nutmegmagazine.co.uk/product/issu...