Morag Smyth
writer and artist
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Flash fiction
I’m very proud to have been awarded the overall annual winner of the Flash fiction bimonthly competition 2025 by the Federation of Scottish Writers. Even more thrilled to have the story read last Thursday in the GoMa. My Glaswegian grandparents would have been thrilled! Thank you to all at the Fed especially Ellie Ness and
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Federation of Scottish Writers
Here are the details for the FSW 2024 Anthology I’m very proud to have a poem about my four Glaswegian grandparents, Voices I Still Hear, included in this anthology and to have been able to attend the wonderful launch In Edinburgh.
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Olive Carleton Smyth
This sensitive portrait of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (the Glasgow Four) was painted by my Grandfather’s cousin, Olive Carleton Smyth (1882 – 1949). To my surprise I found this exhibited during my recent visit to the rebuilt Mackintosh House at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. The chapter on the Glasgow School in A Walk in Deep Time
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Newbold Road
This chapter, page 86, is about my experience of art and design education in the late nineteen sixties, when women were still largely excluded from design education. It has been widely recognised that women have been excluded from many histories, including art history. A key text when I studied art history was Gombrich’s The Story
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The Road to the Isles
The Road to the Isles is a strand that runs through the memoir in five parts. The influence of my time in Scotland is always with me. Here are a few photos from a recent visit to Scotland.
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A Walk in Deep Time
A Walk in Deep Time by Morag Smyth is published on line and print to order. Order from any bookseller or digital provider.
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