Charlie Gracie Website

WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF CHARLIE GRACIE

Charlie Gracie is a poet and writer, originally from Baillieston, Glasgow and now living on the edge of the Trossachs.

You can see what Charlie is up to. You can buy his novel, To Live With What You Are, and his poetry collection, Good Morning.

You’ll also learn where to catch up with him at events and what is floating his boat currently about other people’s writing. Get in touch…

“Charlie Gracie’s poems are quiet and clear, in love with nature and all of the possibilities of being human and alive. As refreshing as a cool drink of Scottish water on a warm summer’s day.” Alan Bissett

Events

Big Lit 2019: beauty, humour & silence What a few days Big Lit 2019 was! 1st to 5th of May. Everything I went to was interesting: some things enlightened me, others blew me away. Henry Bell’s autobiography of John McLean is set to lift this hero of Scotland further into folks’ hearts and minds. Karin Fernald‘s depiction of the ...
Charlie Gracie at Baillieston Library Charlie Gracie at Baillieston Library (photo montage by Isabel Addie) Baillieston Library welcomed Charlie Gracie with the excellent poet Finola Scott on 7th March for a launch event for Charlie’s novel, To Live With What You Are. A crowd of thirty people – writers, library users, members of the local book group, friends ...

Writing

Book review: The Scottish Book of the Dead by Gavin Broom This book takes you into the guts of a fractured family in the aftermath of a death.
Charlie shortlisted for Bridport and Cambridge short story prizes & appreciation to Donal McLaughlin I’ve gone back to writing short stories this year and put a couple forward for prizes. I was fortunate enough to be shortlisted for both ...
To Live With What You Are: first novel and a whole lot more for 2018 The first novel from Charlie Gracie, To Live With What You Are, will be published later this year by Postbox Press: their first Scottish novel. It’s ...

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6 days ago

Excellent afternoon today with the U3A (university of the third age) poetry group in Callander. What an amazing, interesting bunch of people. I shared some of my own poems and those of others I love reading. Folks really loved what I shared from Stuart B Campbell, Mark Williams and Chrys Salt. Stuart’s ‘The Burning’ had the place in shocked hush; Mark’s ‘At the Fish Museum’ in laughter; Chrys’s ‘listen’ in awe. . ... See MoreSee Less

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7 days ago

Received my copy this morning. I’m delighted to have two poems in the latest publication by the wonderful Linda Jaxson. Glasgow:Justice / Just Is. Great to be in the company of loads of great writers. Thanks Linda. ... See MoreSee Less

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