Bear Witness launch in Glasgow

Added on 01 May 2013

All welcome at the launch of Mandy's new novel, Bear Witness, at Waterstones bookshop, Sauchiehall St, Glasgow, on Thursday 16 May, 6.30pm. BYOB - Bring your own bear!

Poet in Residence at Edinburgh Botanics

Added on 30 April 2013

Mandy has been selected to be Poet in Residence at the Edinburgh Royal Botanical Gardens for the month of July this year. She will be one of four poets who will take part in the Walking With Poets project, one in each of the four Royal Botanical Gardens. Mandy will spend the month celebrating the G...

Bear Witness launch next week

Added on 15 April 2013

Mandy's new novel, Bear Witness, will be launched on Monday 22 April at Glencanisp Lodge near Lochinver at a special Earth Day event (for details see How Wild Can We Go? on the menu to the left or here). The novel is already garnering positive reviews. The Scotsman (see here) describes it as &#...

Live webcast from StAnza

Added on 06 March 2013

On Saturday 9 March 2013, Mandy will be taking part in an event about poetry and the environment, as part of the StAnza Poetry Festival in St Andrews. This debate will be webcast live, so if you can't be there in person, you can still listen and join in. The link is: www.ustream.tv/channel/stan...

You can't beat a retreat!

Added on 15 February 2013

There are places available on two retreat weeks with Mandy in 2013: 2-7 June at Glencanisp Lodge 31 August - 6 September on Tanera Mor These retreat weeks are ideal opportunities to devote some quality time to your writing. Mandy has been leading retreats since 2006 and her loosely structured, fri...

Bear Witness to be published in April

Added on 06 January 2013

Mandy's second novel, Bear Witness, will be published by Saraband, on Earth Day, 22 April 2013. A launch event is being organised at Glencanisp Lodge, Lochinver. Watch this space...