Our Mixing The Colours project presents a Story Café Special in Inverness sharing short stories and poems from our anthology of the same name. For the first time women’s writing […]
Film screening of the documentary FtF: Female to Femme shown with a selection of shorts examining a variety of perspectives, including trans, genderqueer, and working class femme experiences.
The Library will be closed to the public all day on Tuesday 29th September for staff training. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Our warm and welcoming Story Café is the perfect way to relax over lunchtime. Bring along a bite to eat, grab a cuppa, and enjoy listening to wonderful short stories, novel extracts and poems by women writers from around the world. Join us for this special event as part of Banned Books Week Scotland.
Sectarian identities in Scotland and Northern Ireland
In our recent anthology of women’s creative writing, Mixing The Colours, Glasgow Women’s Library explores sectarian identities in Scotland through stories and poems. This event places us in discussion with Paul Burgess from Northern Ireland who is similarly interested in sectarian identities, both in his recent novel White Church, Black Mountain, and his most recent academic work The Contested identities of Ulster Protestants.
This friendly group highlights the history and achievements of local women in West Dunbartonshire. There are lots of new skills to learn and interesting projects and activities to get involved in, including a recently created Memory Box and the development of a publication about women’s lives in West Dunbartonshire.
Our fun and fear-free poetry writing workshop for women only will help prepare you for submitting to Bold Types: Scottish Women's Creative Writing Competition.
Mill Girls on Tour is a unique production - a show that intertwines poetry, theatre and music – comic and tragic, always dramatic and shimmering with glamour.
A led ride starting and ending at GWL, this 5 mile loop is for cyclists of all ages (16+) and abilities, and a great way to discover how women have used cycling to change the world, and how cycling has changed women’s lives.
For the Mackintosh Festival take a walk within Garnethill’s confined boundaries as we spotlight the women who pioneered European art movements, designed banners for suffragette processions, created the first women’s library in Scotland and made Garnethill the most exciting cultural and multicultural hotspot in Glasgow.
