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Should Women be Paid for Housework?

Stella RobertsonJune 10, 2021October 1, 2021

By Stella Robertson I was around eight when I first began noticing the way most of the grown women in my life behaved. As I sat in my cousin's...

Creative Writing Crime Current Discrimination Employment Features Glasgow Interviews Lifestyle Scotland

The Cost of Online Sex Work

Stella RobertsonJune 10, 2021

By Stella Robertson ‘Sex Work’. Ten years ago hearing those words would leave you with thoughts of dingy street corners, perverse men, and women who may have no other...

Creative Writing Features

Elderly and Illness

Carmen ConwayJune 9, 2021

By Carmen Conway In cases of emergency, we are advised to dial 999 but for elderly people this can cause more problems. Have you ever had trouble getting medical...

Creative Writing Poetry

Powerful poem from student coming to terms with her feelings about being left behind by a loved one

Valentina ServeraMay 16, 2018

And you left All of the sudden you were gone And with you, All my childhood memories, my dreams And a bit of myself as well. We grew up...

Creative Writing Monologues

How many ways can you leave something behind? – Heartfelt monologue of student trying to find her best solution

Emma ArthursMay 15, 2018May 15, 2018

It’s gone dark again, this red sky. My wrists are heavy. Rainwater has mixed with colours and at some point transferred to the walls. They are telling their story with...

Creative Writing Entertainment Satire

Glaswegian man that identifies as a car gears up for national rally later this month

Kieran TopperMay 3, 2018

Jack Gray, 18, is due to participate in the next round of the ARR Craib MSA Scottish Rally Championships, with this round set to be hosted in Dumfries Having come...

Creative Writing Monologues

‘Inside the Mind of a Sleep-Deprived Creative’ by Emma Arthurs

Emma ArthursMarch 21, 2018March 21, 2018

Suffering from writer's block? Try staying awake for two days. Student Emma Arthurs has written a monologue during a sleep-deprived period where she tried to stay awake to get enough...

Creative Writing Features Monologues

The Gaff by Lauren Vallely

Lauren VallelyMarch 21, 2018April 18, 2018

And suddenly I am fourteen again. Sitting on a leather couch watching Lacoste tracksuits snort what looks to me like soap powder. Adidas is in the corner crying cause the...

Creative Writing Monologues

“I’m not a fan of school but I appreciate what it can do for a person” – Kieran Topper looks back on his school years and how they shaped him into the person he is today.

Kieran TopperOctober 25, 2017October 26, 2017

In this piece, Kieran reflects back on the more pivotal years of school-life, meant to turn you from fresh-faced kid to hardened teenager. How well does the system achieve this?...

Creative Writing Monologues

‘Your bones, you said, were your strength’ – student Emma Arthurs heartfelt monologue on how to find hope in your darkest moment

Emma ArthursOctober 23, 2017

In this piece, Emma reflects on a friendship from when she was seventeen with a girl suffering from anorexia nervosa after a chance meeting years later in the city center....