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‘Social’ dancing
If you attended a Scottish high school any time after 1940, you very probably took part in mandatory Scottish country dancing, or social dancing, lessons as part of the P.E. curriculum. You’ll probably remember the experience, even if you couldn’t talk me through a Dashing White Sergeant off the top of your head. While your teachers…
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Me, in August.
Lots of writing things happening this month. 1. Woman’s Hour I’m going to be featured on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour on Monday 6th August. They’re running a week-long series where they focus on a different young/Scottish/woman/writer every day, and I’m Ms Monday. They commissioned a new short story from me, and there should be…
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City ghosts
UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: My (g)Host City story is now available to download from Amazon and Bandcamp, and the whole album is available on iTunes. The writers get most of the money from downloads. Just throwing that out there, casual, like. Very quick update, squeezed in between crazy-busy schedule, to let anyone who happens to…
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Australia is a foreign country.
This post was brought to you by a double-shot coffee and the matchsticks propping up each of my eyelids, because jetlag is playing some pretty wicked tricks on me. My office-mates are away this week, so I’m working from cafes as it’s less easy to fall asleep on the tables when other people are watching.…
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Deathmatches and downloads
Two little things to do with Cargo Publishing. First off, they’ve just pioneered the e-book/ print on demand service, launching two excellent books by Innes-approved writers. You can download Simon Sylvester‘s 140 Characters, a collection of Twitter-sized flash fiction, here, and a playscript/audio version of Alan Bissett‘s The Moira Monologues here (I thiiiink you can…
Kirstin Innes 