The George Mackay Brown Fellowship

22/09/2025

THE GEORGE MACKAY BROWN FELLOWSHIP WILL NO LONGER OPERATE AS AN ORGANISATION. THIS PAGE WILL BE KEPT AS AN ARCHIVE OF PAST ACTIVITIES.
But if you are interested in creative writing in Orkney, past, present and future, look out for our new group, WRITING ORKNEY, which will be starting soon.

21/02/2025

Final instalment of Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums available today. Now you can hear the whole book, whenever you want, wherever you get your podcasts...!

Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums This is the audio version o Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, the book written bae Orkney Voices and published by the George Mackay Brown Fellowship for the centenary o George Mackay Brown in 2021 Orcadians don’t aal spaek the same. Aal the perishes and islands hiv...

14/02/2025

Episode 3...!

Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums This is the audio version o Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, the book written bae Orkney Voices and published by the George Mackay Brown Fellowship for the centenary o George Mackay Brown in 2021 Orcadians don’t aal spaek the same. Aal the perishes and islands hiv...

14/02/2025

Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums This is the audio version o Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, the book written bae Orkney Voices and published by the George Mackay Brown Fellowship for the centenary o George Mackay Brown in 2021 Orcadians don’t aal spaek the same. Aal the perishes and islands hiv...

12/02/2025

The second episode of Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums is available today. Click the link below, or listen wherever you get your podcasts...

Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums This is the audio version o Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, the book written bae Orkney Voices and published by the George Mackay Brown Fellowship for the centenary o George Mackay Brown in 2021 Orcadians don’t aal spaek the same. Aal the perishes and islands hiv...

10/02/2025

Today we launch the audio version of Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, first published in book form to mark the centenary of George Mackay Brown. You can hear it at the link below and wherever you listen to your podcasts. It will come out in six episodes this week and next, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and thereafter all episodes will continue to be available on the podcast platforms.

Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums This is the audio version o Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, the book written bae Orkney Voices and published by the George Mackay Brown Fellowship for the centenary o George Mackay Brown in 2021 Orcadians don’t aal spaek the same. Aal the perishes and islands hiv...

05/12/2024

Paperboats Zine no. 4 out now

The urge to explore and celebrate all the kinds of lives of Planet Earth is stronger than ever, but the environmental and ecological crisis demands we also lift our eyes, and our voices, to species extinction and habitat loss, to what is happening to the forests and hills, the rivers and seas, our s...

05/12/2024

Paperboats Zine number 4 out now

The urge to explore and celebrate all the kinds of lives of Planet Earth is stronger than ever, but the environmental and ecological crisis demands we also lift our eyes, and our voices, to species extinction and habitat loss, to what is happening to the forests and hills, the rivers and seas, our s...

02/11/2024

The George Mackay Brown Fellowship is in the process of changing its name to Writing Orkney - a name that more accurately reflects what we are about. We aim to:
- encourage and support creative writing by Orkney writers present and future
- publish writing set in or about Orkney, arising from the work of fostering new writing
- celebrate Orkney’s past writers in various ways