Spring Giveaway - We Are Imperfect But We Are Free

Added by Mandy Haggith at 19:24 on 10 April 2025

Anyone who buys any book from my website in April 2025, as long as stocks last, will get a free copy of my first novel, The Last Bear, or the pamphlet of paired poems and artworks, Trees Meet Sea. The book copies have slight scuff marks on the covers and the pamphlets have a bit of rust on their sta...

Cover reveal!

Added by Mandy Haggith at 14:24 on 21 February 2025

The brilliant people at Wildfire, the publisher of my forthcoming book, The Lost Elms, have produced the most beautiful cover for it. The past couple of years of work on the book is coming to fruition, and it will be published in July this year. Elms have played a significant role in my life and the...

Events

Added by Mandy Haggith at 15:30 on 09 February 2025

I haven't been to Edinburgh for absolutely ages, and in February I'll be there twice. The first time will be on Saturday 22 February, for an event in memory of Patrick Geddes, whose most famous words are 'By leaves we live', which is the theme of the event, run by the Scottish Storytelling Centre. T...

Reviews of Briny

Added by Mandy Haggith at 15:10 on 01 December 2024

My most recent poetry book, Briny, seems to be filling a need in people's lives for poetry about the sea. It's always lovely when people get in touch to tell me what they have found in my book. The most exciting response so far, was when the artist Claire Crombie found my poem 'Song of the Barnacle'...

The Elm Project Continues

Added by Mandy Haggith at 17:57 on 14 November 2024

I'm delighted that the Assynt Elm Project has been successful in getting some more funding (thanks to Scottish Forestry and Woodland Trust Scotland), so we'll be having some more public elm-related events locally on 28 November in Culag Woods and on 14 December at Glencanisp: see the Culag Woods web...

Happy Endings

Added by Mandy Haggith at 17:50 on 13 September 2024

Tired of the doom and gloom about climate change and apocalyptic thinking about environmental disasters? Me too. So I will be leading a workshop at Velocity Cafe in Inverness on Monday 16 September, 6.30-8pm, about writing happy endings into our stories. Because we all need some lightness... More de...