Workshop News: Reframing Masculinity at Broughton High School
If you could speak to all the men in the world at the same time, what would you tell them? Why do you think people are scared of teenage boys? ...
The Magic of Writing
A blog? I’ve never written a blog in my life. I’ve spent my life avoiding requests like this, as more of a talker than a writer, the words that flood ...
Shop With Purpose
Did you know that over 60% of all ebooks offered on Amazon today are self-published? This equates to almost 4 million titles, (and we thought you were doing well by publishing ...
Words Have Power
“Writing is organised, permanent talking. It is the brave way to express an idea. Talk comes with evasion and deniability and vagueness. Writing though leaves no room to wriggle.” Seth Godin This ...
SPA & Scotland’s Year of Stories
Iain Banks starts The Crow Road with “it was the day my grandmother exploded” and J.M. Barrie’s opener to Peter Pan is “all children, except one, grow up.” It seems Scottish ...
Writing herself into our story – Isobel Wylie Hutchison
Virtual drum roll please … we’re delighted to announce that we’re the recipient of the 2021 Isobel Award (cue wild applause). Carlowrie Castle launched the eponymous award in 2019 to ...
How to be an Author in Eight Words or Less
How many words does it take to tell a story? Four? Own less, live more. Ok, you might think this is more of a mantra than a story, but social media ...
Greetings from our new Board Chair, Valerie Lindsay
In 2016 I got a text from Maxine Sloss, founder of the Super Power Agency, asking me to watch the now famous video ‘Once upon a school’. For those who haven’t seen it, ...
I hope the kids will be alright
During the lockdown, I had the fortune of putting together the creative writing of the young people we worked with during the 2019/20 school year into new publications. Their writing ...