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Bold Types Scottish Women’s Creative Writing Competition 2023

Be bold and submit your short stories and poems to our annual writing competition. We’re following Book Week Scotland’s theme – ADVENTURE. Feel free to interpret the theme in any way you like and we can’t wait to be enthralled by your entries!

From ‘Mother House’ to ‘Role Play’, placement student Viki explores the work of artist Pamela So

As part of our ‘GWL Origins: Pre-internet Community Building’ exhibition GWL recreated a vinyl window text site from Pam So’s ‘Mother House’ (1998) exhibited in the prior Trongate space of […]

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Moving the Image / Moviendo la Imagen: Representing, Reframing and Reclaiming 

Call for Collaborators Artists Emily Beaney and Ana García Jácome are seeking expressions of interest from disabled women with a creative practice to contribute to an online collaborative project. The […]

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Student placement Viki Matejova shares her feminist snailhood at GWL

Coming to the end of my placement at the library as part of my MSc in Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde, I would like to share my experience as a […]

Summer Programme 2023: Events At A Glance

Our Summer 2023 Programme is now available and you can pick up your copy of the beautiful printed brochure at GWL or take a look on our online events calendar. We have Large […]

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Summer Programme 2023 Out Now

Our Summer 2023 Programme is now available and you can pick up your copy of the beautiful printed brochure at GWL, take a look on our online events calendar, or download a pdf programme to […]

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Enter our Calm Slam Poetry Competition

Calling all unheard poets! Submit your poem to our Open the Door 2023 Calm Slam competition!

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Spring 2023 Programme Out Now

Our Spring 2023 Programme is now available and you can pick up your copy of the beautiful printed brochure at GWL, take a look on our online events calendar, or download a pdf programme to find out all about events and projects happening this season.

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Spring Programme 2023: Events At A Glance

February – June 2023 We’re delighted to be launching our new programme! This Spring we are celebrating the creative ways these voices have been projected using a multitude of art […]

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A tree for life

On Wednesday 26th October 2022 we planted a rowan tree (Sorbus aucuparia) near Glasgow Women’s Library, on a little mound of ground near our garden.