It’s not often that one author is made up of five different writers, but that’s how it is with Gill Merton, when Gilmerton Community Centre’s long-running creative writing came together to write the novel, Entitled.

The month of March began with a writerly bang - the Writers Ink Retreat described in last month's blog - and the same spirit has continued into April. Like buses or bad news or triplets, my writing successes (and failures!) are coming in threes.

Two ‘invisible’ women

One luxury hotel

A reunion full of strangers…

An average pitch for an average psychological thriller, you might think?But the true story is much more interesting.

As a writer, sharing your work publicly is an act of courage.  But there's courage and then there's courage, and watching events unfold in Ukraine is a stark reminder of that.

Published on Thursday 13th January 2022, by Birlinn, this is Edinburgh One City Trust's anthology to help raise awareness and tackle poverty discrimination across the city.