Black Women in Our Collections

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Staff and volunteers at GWL have chosen their favourite works in our collection by Black writers, activists and artists.

Free
Event Series Open Book

Open Book

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

These vibrant and thoughtful monthly Open Book creative writing sessions are led by Kathrine Sowerby, a poet and writer based in Glasgow.

Each session focuses on a different theme – such as Home, Grow and Transform, or Garden – and we use poetry and short stories as prompts for your own creative writing.

Event Series Story Café

Story Café

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Rediscover the joy of being read to, as we dip into stories and poems by some of the best women writers around.

This Woman 这个女人

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

This Woman 这个女人 is a documentary film being screened as part of Women Hold Up Half the Sky 薄荷紫云行巡展计划, a touring programme of Chinese cinema coming to Scotland this Autumn.

Event Series Women Making It

Women Making It

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Join us this Autumn for a range of GWL’s bitesize feminist crafting sessions, including clay work, basket weaving, quilling, and much more. 

The Book That Shaped Me

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

A creative workshop exploring your personal connections with books. 

Shona Macnaughton: The Participatory Clinic

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Artist Shona Macnaughton will be hosting a drop-in session to look at materials from women's and LGBTQ health literature in the collection.

Event Series Story Café

Story Café

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Rediscover the joy of being read to, as we dip into stories and poems by some of the best women writers around.