by Emma Rose Miller | Dec 8, 2019 | Uncategorised
J. Leslie Mitchell with daughter Rhea, Grassic Gibbon Centre What is feminine writing? What marks a feminine (not to be confused with female which refers to the sex of a writer) text? Though some particularly loud voices in society have not checked their science, we...
by Emma Rose Miller | Nov 25, 2019 | Uncategorised
First Editions, Grassic Gibbon Centre What’s in a name? For writers, names can hold so much meaning. An author must consider how they want to be publicly and professionally known to their readers. They must consider how the author name will look on a book cover and...
by Emma Rose Miller | Oct 30, 2019 | Uncategorised
Close, No. 80 High Street, from Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow by Thomas Annan (1868/71), Scottish National Portrait Gallery In the Thirteenth Disciple, Malcolm Maudsley asks “What are we going to do about it? What’s our job to help its beginning again in this...
by Emma Rose Miller | Sep 25, 2019 | Uncategorised
Literary Lights Please click on the above link to access information about the Grassic Gibbon Centre’s Literary Lights Competition and to read Jane Morris’ winning short story “Nine Tails”. In July of 2019, the Grassic Gibbon Centre celebrated...
by Emma Rose Miller | Aug 24, 2019 | Uncategorised
The death of James Leslie Mitchell in his early thirties was a major loss to Scottish literature. Hugh MacDiarmid in the the introduction to Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon by Ian S. Munro, vii. Grave at St. Ternan’s Church, Arbuthnott On February 7, 1935, when...
by Emma Rose Miller | Jul 23, 2019 | Uncategorised
A child’s drawing, most likely Rhea’s, in Mitchell’s notebook. Mitchell Literary Estate, NLS. Life, we might say, is universally preoccupied with creating. We reproduce, we build, we write, we paint, we grow. As a species, we have created systems of...
