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Charlie Gracie

@charliegracie.bsky.social

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Poet, novelist, short story writer, social worker. Latest book: Belfast to Baillieston (Red Squirrel Press, 2023) www.charliegracie.scot

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Charlie Gracie @charliegracie.bsky.social · May 13

… and yet #Israel is still in @eurovision.tv and still in UEFA competitions.

Charlie Gracie @charliegracie.bsky.social · May 2

What a great night ahead with this double launch from Linda Jackson’s Seahorses Publications
@lindajax.bsky.social
@asls.org.uk
@byleaveswelive.bsky.social

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Charlie Gracie @charliegracie.bsky.social · May 2

What a great night ahead with this double launch from Linda Jackson’s Seahorses Publications
@lindajax.bsky.social
@asls.org.uk
@byleaveswelive.bsky.social

Charlie Gracie @charliegracie.bsky.social · Apr 28

I’m delighted to be part of @paperboatswriters.bsky.social 5.
Thanks to all involved in this excellent, honest project.
@byleaveswelive.bsky.social
@asls.org.uk paperboats.org/2025/04/07/b...

Blades – paperboats

It’s my favourite field, this one above the village, hare-run, rutted with frost and, on the top of the rise, the gean tree

paperboats.org

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Charlie Gracie @charliegracie.bsky.social · Apr 11

This guy got a peerage.
#disUK

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ex-minister Alister Jack who bet on election in line for peerage

Conservative Sir Alister Jack - who bet on the election date - is set to be given a seat in the Lords.

www.bbc.co.uk

Charlie Gracie @charliegracie.bsky.social · Apr 10

Not bad at all, Mairi. Great to see you again.

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · Mar 27

I'm bringing 'The Bone Folder' #poems to #Stirling 'gateway to the Highlands' 💚

Join me & these luminous guest readers @moraganderson.bsky.social @charliegracie.bsky.social & Chris Powici of @paperboatswriters.bsky.social at Central Library Thursday 17 April, 5.30pm. FREE but do book your seat 👇

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Mar 10

Frances Matilda Van de Grift was born #OTD, 10 March, 1840. An author in her own right, in 1880 she married Robert Louis Stevenson. Prof @penfielding.bsky.social explores the dangerous collaboration between them: granting female agency on the page & in life
dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/06/a...

A Dangerous Collaboration - Dangerous Women Project

Penny Fielding explores the dangerous collaboration between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny: granting female agency on the page and in life.

dangerouswomenproject.org

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Charlie Gracie @charliegracie.bsky.social · Feb 24

This Thursday 27th Feb at 5.30pm
Stirling Central Library
Just turn up or call 01786237760 or email
[email protected]
for a free seat.
Songs, readings & open questions.
Linda Jaxson's guests are @charliegracie.bsky.social, Lesley Benzie & Liane McKay.

Charlie Gracie @charliegracie.bsky.social · Feb 8

Surely a great aspiration from @teamlabouruk.bsky.social — but tinkering with the #disUK system isn’t the answer. We need a Basic Income Guarantee scheme to share the wealth, to enable work that fits and to ensure people take greater personal responsibility. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour to ‘fix benefit system to get people back into work’

Pledge to fix broken welfare system follows new evidence that people are worried about returning to work for fear that benefits will be withdrawn