Mandy's books on kindle

Added on 07 January 2012

The Last Bear is now available as an e-book in Kindle format on Amazon, here. It's delightfully paradoxical that a story of life here 1000 years ago is being read using state of the art digital technology. Paper Trails has been available in paper-free format here since the Kindle store opened. ...

A forest of tweets

Added on 01 December 2011

A forest of tweets As part of the second phase of the A-B-Tree project, Mandy is tweeting daily (as @cybercrofter) for the first 18 days of December. She is sharing titbits of fact and folklore about each of the species in the Gaelic tree alphabet, one tree per day, in alphabetical order. She start...

Writing retreat September 2012

Added on 18 November 2011

Creative writing retreat on Tanera Mor Mandy will be leading a writing retreat on the glorious Tanera Mor, 1-7 September 2012. For more details see here.

A-B-Tree

Added on 07 October 2011

A-B-Tree is going well Mandy is busy with the A-B-Tree project, celebrating the ancient link between words and the woods as part of the International Year of Forests. So far she has led creative writing events in the woods with three primary schools, with primary and secondary children from Shetland...

Creative writing retreat

Added on 09 September 2011

Small but beautiful retreat on the Summer Isles Mandy has been running a creative retreat on Tanera Mor, the largest of the Summer Isles, off the north west coast of Scotland. It was an intimate gathering of 5 writers, but all the more creative for that. Her blog about it is here. Blessed with good ...

A-B-Tree secures funding

Added on 15 August 2011

A-B-Tree project secures funding Mandy will be running a Scotland-wide creative writing project from September to November to celebrate the International Year of Forests. The project, called A-B-Tree (or in Gaelic, A-B-Craobh), will celebrate the association between each letter of the Gaelic alphabe...