Moira McPartlin

Author

Moira McPartlin has four novels published by Fledgling Press. Her latest novel, Before Now: Memoir of a Toerag, was written entirely in the Fife dialect and was published by her own imprint, Trilleachan Press. In 2021 she became a writing fellow at Hawthornden Castle. During that same period, she was appointed the 2022 Scriever for The Federation of Writers (Scotland) and has recently been selected for the 2024 Bridges Award residency at Cove Park, Argyll. Moira’s short prose and poetry has been published widely in anthologies and literary magazines. She is an active member of Scottish PEN’s Writers in Exile Committee.

My Speaker Sessions

Wednesday 27 November 2024

12:10

A Thing So Delicate: The Hidden Voices of Scotland's Mass Concrete Viaduct

12:10 - 12:35 Engineering & Culture
  • A Thing So Delicate is a hybrid, high-concept project that tells the stories of Scotland’s major mass concrete viaducts built at the height of the Victorian railway mania (1880 -1904).
  • The project is a collaboration between author, Moira McPartlin and her husband, civil engineer and photographer, Colin Baird.
  • Moira and Colin travelled through Scotland recording their adventures to find these delicate creatures, who have carried railways over a century of progress into modern day Scotland.
  • In this presentation Moira and Colin will share their adventures using photographs, historical facts and a small sample of the fiction and poetry each viaduct inspired.

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