Thank you to Helensburgh Book Festival for a great weekend! Loved doing my workshop at Helensburgh & Lomond Carers Centre where the staff were amazing and the participants of all ages did a fab job writing poetry inspired by art 💖 Thanks also to Scottish Book Trust for supporting!

The votes are in, and the award for the best-behaved audience member at #HelensburghBookFestival goes to Bella the dog!

All the books recommended by our brilliant Helensburgh Book Festival What’s Hot panel and audience - many thanks to Caron Macpherson Susie’s Book Reviews and Fiona from LiveArgyll Libraries 👇👇

Here’s the list of fantastic reads suggested by our What’s Hot panel!

An absolute pleasure!

A wonderful gift from Helensburgh Book Festival too!

Huge thanks to the fab authors & volunteers who made Helensburgh Book Festival 🙏 Cailean Steed Alan Gillespie ✍️ Daniel Sellers Author - Murder on the Clyde Maisie Chan - author/screenwriter Strangely Magical Shane Strachan Karen Campbell Callum McSorley Victoria Bennett 🌼🐝🐺🧙🏼‍♀️ Emily Kate Utter Heather Parry Kirsty Logan Rachelle Atalla Eleanor J Thom

A wee reminder about my upcoming online #shortfiction course.
Dates: Tuesdays 30th Apr to Tues 18th Jun (8 weeks), 6.30-8.30pm, via Zoom, plus detailed feedback on a short story.
Fee: £250. Sign up by 31st March.
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Quickest weekend ever at the second Helensburgh Book Festival. Fantastic events across all the venues JeansBothy HelensburghCommunityHub Helensburgh Carers and a new addition this year The Hill House! Our members at Jean’s Bothy were brilliant chairing, volunteering and participating too

What an amazing weekend of book chat at the Helensburgh Book Festival. Talks, readings, workshops & a community of people with a love of reading! Wonderful! Robin Scott-Elliot Cailean Steed Karen Campbell Emily Kate Utter Eleanor J Thom Rachelle Atalla Susie’s Book Reviews Callum McSorley

Such a lovely welcome from all JeansBothy — thank you for inviting me Helensburgh Book Festival 🌸🩷🧙🏼‍♀️ #allmywildmothers #writing #herbal #magical

Wonderful workshop by Victoria Bennett 🌼🐝🐺🧙🏼‍♀️ at Helensburgh Book Festival in JeansBothy. I love my tea mixture! And completely blown away by the unexpected writing exercise outcome now think I have something new to think about. Thank you for the 'magical' tag when I couldn't speak.

Huge thanks to all Helensburgh Book Festival for a fantastic weekend of wonderful authors and outstanding books - many highlights including Callum McSorley and former Cove Park residents Kirsty Logan and Heather Parry Already looking forward to next year's Festival!

Launch day for the latest JeansBothy creative writing book. Thank you so much Ann. Thank you Helensburgh Book Festival for giving as a slot on the last day!

What a fantastic way to close out Helensburgh Book Festival 2024, with Cailean Steed interviewing Rachelle Atalla and Eleanor J Thom about their novels and journeys to publication!

It’s been a brilliant weekend, hats off to all the organisers and volunteers 📚❤️

Had a greaf time at Reading Minds Helensburgh Book Festival last night. Really fun chat with Robin Scott-Elliot and met some lovely readers and authors!

This is the gorgeous stack of books I read to prep for the two panels I’m chairing at Helensburgh Book Festival today - what a treat! Can’t wait to chat to these amazing authors

Final day of Helensburgh Book Festival today, really looking forward to hearing some more authors speak!

Mr Gillespie living the author dream this weekend, having been invited to the Helensburgh Book Festival to talk about publishing and writing ✍️
Always more than happy to support and guide our pupils with their own creative ambitions ✨
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