Karen Campbell
@writerkcampbell.bsky.social
Book writer. Scottish. European. www.karencampbell.scot
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Poverty is a policy area that is highly responsive to policy change. We know what works. In Scotland, where families on a low-income receive £26.70 per child per week, poverty rates have been falling. This contrasts to increase in child poverty everywhere else in UK blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
What Scotland’s policies can teach Westminster about fighting poverty | British Politics and Policy at LSE
The economic choices the Chancellor sets out in the Autumn Statement should be based on evidence of what works and should apply to all those needing support
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Poverty is a policy area that is highly responsive to policy change. We know what works. In Scotland, where families on a low-income receive £26.70 per child per week, poverty rates have been falling. This contrasts to increase in child poverty everywhere else in UK blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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Mark your calendars!
Islay Book Festival 2026 will take place from Thursday 27th - Sunday 30th August. 🎉
We have been busy planning ahead for our next festival after the success of 2025. We can’t wait to share updates with you soon…
📚❤️
Islay Book Festival 2026 will take place from Thursday 27th - Sunday 30th August. 🎉
We have been busy planning ahead for our next festival after the success of 2025. We can’t wait to share updates with you soon…
📚❤️
November 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Mark your calendars!
Islay Book Festival 2026 will take place from Thursday 27th - Sunday 30th August. 🎉
We have been busy planning ahead for our next festival after the success of 2025. We can’t wait to share updates with you soon…
📚❤️
Islay Book Festival 2026 will take place from Thursday 27th - Sunday 30th August. 🎉
We have been busy planning ahead for our next festival after the success of 2025. We can’t wait to share updates with you soon…
📚❤️
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We can't wait to welcome you and author @writerkcampbell.bsky.social to #WishawLib on Tuesday 18 November, 7pm as we continue our #BookWeekScotland activities.
Book a free place now here: culturenl.co.uk/kcBWS
Book a free place now here: culturenl.co.uk/kcBWS
November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We can't wait to welcome you and author @writerkcampbell.bsky.social to #WishawLib on Tuesday 18 November, 7pm as we continue our #BookWeekScotland activities.
Book a free place now here: culturenl.co.uk/kcBWS
Book a free place now here: culturenl.co.uk/kcBWS
Looking forward to this! Come and say hello if you're about 😊
We can't wait to welcome you and author @writerkcampbell.bsky.social to #WishawLib on Tuesday 18 November, 7pm as we continue our #BookWeekScotland activities.
Book a free place now here: culturenl.co.uk/kcBWS
Book a free place now here: culturenl.co.uk/kcBWS
November 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Looking forward to this! Come and say hello if you're about 😊
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ICYMI: Come along to our Scottish Christmas Book Fair!
Announcing the Scottish Christmas Book Fair!
* The perfect occasion for Christmas gift shopping
* All your favourite genres for adults & children
* Chat with Scotland’s indie publishers & meet their authors
See below for who'll be there!
www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...
* The perfect occasion for Christmas gift shopping
* All your favourite genres for adults & children
* Chat with Scotland’s indie publishers & meet their authors
See below for who'll be there!
www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...
November 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
ICYMI: Come along to our Scottish Christmas Book Fair!
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Our #BFLAOpenWeek returns NEXT WEEK (10th – 14th Nov): 5 days of FREE tips, advice and insight on getting published – and more. We can’t wait! For a reminder about what’s on offer, visit our website: blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/bfla-op.... 📚📝
Blake Friedmann Open Week returns! — Blake Friedmann
Our Open Week is back! After an exciting and busy 2025, we’re pleased to be reopening our virtual doors next month with a week (Monday 10th – Friday 14th of November) dedicated to demystifying publish...
blakefriedmann.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Our #BFLAOpenWeek returns NEXT WEEK (10th – 14th Nov): 5 days of FREE tips, advice and insight on getting published – and more. We can’t wait! For a reminder about what’s on offer, visit our website: blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/bfla-op.... 📚📝
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The #RadicalBookFair is as much about community as it is about books - a space for connection, for learning, for taking action.
So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!
So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!
November 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The #RadicalBookFair is as much about community as it is about books - a space for connection, for learning, for taking action.
So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!
So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!
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"As for the monarchy, it will end not with a bang but a whimper. Giuffre’s book, with all its harrowing details, is one more wave battering against its cliff face, eroding the public’s faith." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
'From beyond the grave, Virginia Giuffre has proved not even princes are untouchable'
Virginia Giuffre has proved that not even princes are untouchable. From beyond the grave, she is doing her best to ensure nobody else is ever…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"As for the monarchy, it will end not with a bang but a whimper. Giuffre’s book, with all its harrowing details, is one more wave battering against its cliff face, eroding the public’s faith." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
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Just over a week to go until my talk at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow as part of the brilliant Aye Write festival - if you fancy hearing about my adventures in search of Scotland's ancient past, come along! Tickets available here: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-...
#RomanSiteSaturday #AyeWrite
#RomanSiteSaturday #AyeWrite
The Road to Mons Gaupius: Alan Montgomery - Glasgow Life
Aye Write 2025 presents The Road to Mons Gaupius: Alan Montgomery
www.glasgowlife.org.uk
November 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Just over a week to go until my talk at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow as part of the brilliant Aye Write festival - if you fancy hearing about my adventures in search of Scotland's ancient past, come along! Tickets available here: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-...
#RomanSiteSaturday #AyeWrite
#RomanSiteSaturday #AyeWrite
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And just like that we're officially counting down to Christmas! Our Christmas elves have been busy getting out Christmas cards, advent calendars, advent books, decorations & of course gorgeous gifts! Tis the season to shop local! #shoplocal #christmasiscoming #adventcalendar
November 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
And just like that we're officially counting down to Christmas! Our Christmas elves have been busy getting out Christmas cards, advent calendars, advent books, decorations & of course gorgeous gifts! Tis the season to shop local! #shoplocal #christmasiscoming #adventcalendar
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Bella is supported only by its readers. We don’t have corporate backers and we don’t take advertising, so we rely entirely on your support. Please support independent Scottish journalism:
bellacaledonia.org.uk/donate
bellacaledonia.org.uk/donate
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Bella is supported only by its readers. We don’t have corporate backers and we don’t take advertising, so we rely entirely on your support. Please support independent Scottish journalism:
bellacaledonia.org.uk/donate
bellacaledonia.org.uk/donate
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2 weeks to go, and the seats are nearly all gone!
Join us in @gleeclubglasgow.bsky.social on the 13th November for our Nae Borders comedy fundraiser.
Book your tickets now before there's none left!
🎟 booking.glee.co.uk/22899
Join us in @gleeclubglasgow.bsky.social on the 13th November for our Nae Borders comedy fundraiser.
Book your tickets now before there's none left!
🎟 booking.glee.co.uk/22899
October 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
2 weeks to go, and the seats are nearly all gone!
Join us in @gleeclubglasgow.bsky.social on the 13th November for our Nae Borders comedy fundraiser.
Book your tickets now before there's none left!
🎟 booking.glee.co.uk/22899
Join us in @gleeclubglasgow.bsky.social on the 13th November for our Nae Borders comedy fundraiser.
Book your tickets now before there's none left!
🎟 booking.glee.co.uk/22899
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Our CEO Sabir spoke with BBC Radio Scotland about the UK Government’s proposal to move people seeking asylum to disused military barracks in Inverness.
He highlighted that this is yet another short-term measure for a system that urgently needs long-term, humane reform.
He highlighted that this is yet another short-term measure for a system that urgently needs long-term, humane reform.
October 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Our CEO Sabir spoke with BBC Radio Scotland about the UK Government’s proposal to move people seeking asylum to disused military barracks in Inverness.
He highlighted that this is yet another short-term measure for a system that urgently needs long-term, humane reform.
He highlighted that this is yet another short-term measure for a system that urgently needs long-term, humane reform.
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#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
New Writing Scotland Submission Manager
New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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Be sure to join us in St Peter's tonight as we sit down with @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social to talk all about her new novel Love & Other Poisons - a tale bursting with scandal and intrigue that spans decades... following the mysterious figure of Madeleine Smith. Tickets available on the door!
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Be sure to join us in St Peter's tonight as we sit down with @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social to talk all about her new novel Love & Other Poisons - a tale bursting with scandal and intrigue that spans decades... following the mysterious figure of Madeleine Smith. Tickets available on the door!
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#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
New Writing Scotland Submission Manager
New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...
nws.submittable.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
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That will be a vote winner in Scotland not!
October 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
That will be a vote winner in Scotland not!
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My annual shout out to anyone who notices a physical change & decides to wait. Gonnae no dae that! A lump that appeared in 2016 was a sign of Lymphoma. I got it treated within months and today I got the all clear once again at Ninewells. Tak tent an it’s tint. Deal with it and get rid of it!
October 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My annual shout out to anyone who notices a physical change & decides to wait. Gonnae no dae that! A lump that appeared in 2016 was a sign of Lymphoma. I got it treated within months and today I got the all clear once again at Ninewells. Tak tent an it’s tint. Deal with it and get rid of it!
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Join us for Alasdair & Others, launching with writer Willy Maley in conversation with @rodgeglass.bsky.social at the ARC, University of Glasgow — 18 Nov 2025, 4–6pm. Booking via Eventbrite. #alasdairgray #uofg
October 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Join us for Alasdair & Others, launching with writer Willy Maley in conversation with @rodgeglass.bsky.social at the ARC, University of Glasgow — 18 Nov 2025, 4–6pm. Booking via Eventbrite. #alasdairgray #uofg
Great to see this article about #saltires in @thebookseller.com www.thebookseller.com/news/scotlan...
www.thebookseller.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Great to see this article about #saltires in @thebookseller.com www.thebookseller.com/news/scotlan...
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Last year we helped more than 10,700 people rebuild their lives in safety. Thanks for helping us build a better future with refugees in Scotland.
This World #StatsDay, take a look at our year in numbers to see how we’re making a difference together scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/impact/
This World #StatsDay, take a look at our year in numbers to see how we’re making a difference together scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/impact/
October 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Last year we helped more than 10,700 people rebuild their lives in safety. Thanks for helping us build a better future with refugees in Scotland.
This World #StatsDay, take a look at our year in numbers to see how we’re making a difference together scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/impact/
This World #StatsDay, take a look at our year in numbers to see how we’re making a difference together scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/impact/
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Jenni Fagan and @writerkcampbell.bsky.social on this list. Will be reading both of these! And LOTS more I’d like to read too. 📚
Some good things on the Saltire Awards shortlist - Muckle Flugga looks tempting - any thoughts?
www.thesaltires.org.uk
www.thesaltires.org.uk
www.thesaltires.org.uk
October 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Jenni Fagan and @writerkcampbell.bsky.social on this list. Will be reading both of these! And LOTS more I’d like to read too. 📚
Woohoo 🎉🎉. Very happy writer here! 😁
UPDATE: We are delighted to announce that @writerkcampbell.bsky.social’s ‘beautiful, uplifting’ THIS BRIGHT LIFE has advanced to the shortlist for the 2025 Scotland’s National Book Awards!
Congratulations Karen!
Read more: blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/karen-c...
Congratulations Karen!
Read more: blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/karen-c...
October 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Woohoo 🎉🎉. Very happy writer here! 😁
Over the moon that This Bright Life has made it onto the 2025 Saltire National Book Awards shortlist!!! 😁 Popping a cork right now! @blakefriedmann.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk www.thesaltires.org.uk
www.thesaltires.org.uk
October 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Over the moon that This Bright Life has made it onto the 2025 Saltire National Book Awards shortlist!!! 😁 Popping a cork right now! @blakefriedmann.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk www.thesaltires.org.uk