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...

Poetry anthology progress

Added on 01 November 2012

Mandy is editing an anthology of tree poems, to be published by Saraband in the autumn of 2013. The selection of poems is now complete, although a few more may be added if exciting discoveries are made between now and publication. The anthology title will be Into the Forest: A Celtic Alphabet of Tr...

Guest Poet at Moniack Mhor

Added on 11 September 2012

Mandy is guest poet tomorrow on an Arvon poetry course at the Moniack Mhor writing centre, led by Scotland's bard, Liz Lochhead, and Glasgow poet Tom Leonard. She will be reading tree poems from her A-B-Tree poetry pamphlet, giving it its first airing. Mandy said, 'I am hugely proud to be i...