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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Apr 25

A really fun and varied show.

Sherry Morris 💙🇺🇦💛 @uksherka.bsky.social · Apr 25

The link to my spoken-word show featuring Scottish Highland writers is now on the @highlandhradio.bsky.social website: www.hhr.scot/show/hhr-sho...
The April episode features @ruralunease.bsky.social & @veewalker.bsky.social (BBC Short Story Award finalist) + a fab tale from Keely O’Shaughnessy.

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Sherry Morris 💙🇺🇦💛 @uksherka.bsky.social · Apr 18

It's Friday! The day to catch Sherry's Shorts on @highlandhradio.bsky.social at 12 noon UK time--featuring short stories with a connection to the Scottish Highlands. Listen anytime via the Mixcloud link⬇️ Thanks to @ruralunease.bsky.social @veewalker.bsky.social & Keely O'Shaughnessy for fab stories.

Sherry Morris 💙🇺🇦💛 @uksherka.bsky.social · Apr 13

The April episode of Sherry’s Shorts with
@highlandhradio.bsky.social is now available!
Featuring fantastic stories from Highland writers @veewalker.bsky.social &
@ruralunease.bsky.social as well as Keely O'Shaughnessy. Here's the link to listen: www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

Sherry's Shorts - April 2025

www.mixcloud.com

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Sherry Morris 💙🇺🇦💛 @uksherka.bsky.social · Apr 13

The April episode of Sherry’s Shorts with
@highlandhradio.bsky.social is now available!
Featuring fantastic stories from Highland writers @veewalker.bsky.social &
@ruralunease.bsky.social as well as Keely O'Shaughnessy. Here's the link to listen: www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

Sherry's Shorts - April 2025

www.mixcloud.com

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Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social · Feb 21

Still some copies of my collection Things Grown Distant available from @confingopublishing. Here's my favourite review: manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/t...

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Apr 13

So... my funny short story Front Page News, based on a real incident, is set in Fortrose on the Black Isle in the early 2000s. One character mentioned is real, but which? It's the second story read, about 15 minutes in, free here - thanks again, Sherry! 👇

www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Apr 13

Thanks Sherry, my pleasure to participate.

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 31

That'll do, Black Isle. That'll do. ☀️ #BlueSky

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 31

I couldn't possibly comment... maybe he only keeps her alive so long as she is useful to him 🤣🤣🤣

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 29

I've kept my account but flagged that I have moved elsewhere. Twitter was all bots by the time I jumped ship!

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 29

I used to dread the dentist but as I have aged the fear has diminished and the gratitude increased. Nothing they do to you now is half as bad as the pain of toothache or an abscess. Thank God for dentists!

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 29

J'ai même un petit AirBnb pour la visite si ça vous intérèsse... airbnb.com/h/chanonrybolthole. J'accueil pas mal d'écrivains et de français 😊

Guest suite in Highland · ★4.96 · 2 bedrooms · 2 beds · 1 bath

The Chanonry Bolthole sleeps 3 with breakfast 😎

airbnb.com

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 28

Oh là là, oui alrs ça vaut le coup! Si jamais vous vous trouvez en visite dans les Highlands nous avons souvent des repas ou des promenades avec des d'autres enfants.

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 28

La Franco-Scottish Society est très active à Edimbourg ainsi que l'Institut Français franco-scottish.org.uk/branches/edi.... Notre CFH fait des activités un peu plus sociales et moins académiques que la FSS mais ils font des trucs chouettes aussi! 🇲🇫 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Edinburgh Branch – The Franco Scottish Society

franco-scottish.org.uk

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 28

Great #scotwriterpitch2025 entertainment here today, thanks and welcome to all new followers... and 👏👏👏 to @peterurpeth.bsky.social and team 🙏

A courageous step into the unknown: statue perched on the seawall at Antibes near the Picasso Museum

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 28

Vous êtes française ou francophone? Je gerais autrefois le Club Francophile des Highlands, la ci-devant Franco Scottish Society 🇲🇫

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 28

Good! Always intriguing.

Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 28

Imposter syndrome gets us all from time to time. Just keep writing! Good luck! 📚

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 28

Hope it's been good overall? I've been combining it with some overdue editing so a bit intermittent this time.

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 28

I'd read this!

Betty McCann @bettymccann.bsky.social · Mar 28

After her best friend’s suicide, Leah stops pretending. She drinks to forget and wakes up in strangers’ beds with no memory of how she got there. Glasgow doesn’t care. Her eerie new neighbour does though. He moved in the day her friend died and knows things he really shouldn’t.
#scotwriterpitch2025

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iowwriter.bsky.social @iowwriter.bsky.social · Mar 28

One young woman put to death, another trying to keep her alive

#scotwriterpitch2025

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 28

And finally... still 1919. Joe is the only son of Mary and Henry. They are my paternal grandparents. But Joe is not my father. 📚 Anyone fancy a long, immersive, escapist read about two real families, one of them Indian/Irish and royal, the other Canadian/British - and my own? #scotwriterpitch2025

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · Mar 28

Writers!
Keep them pitches coming!
Publishers & Agents!
Follow the hashtag #scotwriterpitch2025 for some very good book ideas!

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 28

What time does it end, Peter?

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 28

This one makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck, always a good sign!

Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · Mar 28

I am just reluctant to spend more time on social media than I already do... it eats into my writing and editing time!

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