Jim Leslie, Glengoyne Mashman of some repute, has just completed his third circuit of The Munros, those 283 Scottish mountains over 3,000 feet (914 metres). The picture shows Jim at the top of Ben Lomond, Jim’s final Munro and the one closest to Glengoyne Distillery. Jim (a handy amateur footballer and very decent road cyclist) [...]

As the buzz for the Bloody Scotland Festival and the Short Story Competition builds, we’re absolutely delighted that crime writer Ann Cleeves has been kind enough to provide a short story ‘Hector’s Other Woman’, published here in full for your enjoyment. April is a busy month for Ann as Vera returns to our TV screens [...]

We were thrilled last year when Glengoyne Distillery was used as one of the locations for Ken Loach’s new film ‘The Angel’s Share’, which tells the story of Robbie, a new father and ex-offender from Glasgow, whose trip to a whisky distillery might point him in the direction of a new career. The trailer for [...]

SHORT STORY GUIDE LINES Essentially, when you write a short story, you are creating a tiny universe and inviting other people to spend ten minutes of their life inside it, so make it count. Make your reader (our Competition Judges in this case) want to return to that universe again and again. As someone who [...]