Charlie Gracie Website
November 6, 2015WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF CHARLIE GRACIE
Charlie Gracie is a poet, novelist and short story writer, originally from Baillieston, Glasgow and now living on the edge of the Trossachs.
You can see what Charlie is up to and buy his books.
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 & Projects
- Saint Mungo’s Mirrorball: readers from books in 2024What a joy to have been part of the writers who shared poetry from their collections at Saint Mungo’s Mirrorball Showcases throughout 2024. The team there have a such a strong commitment to poetry. Big thanks!
- Pete Fortune: double launch in DumfriesI was honoured to be reading, with more than a dozen others, at the launch of Pete Fortune’s two latest short story collections: Waving at Strangers in Passing Cars and A Pauper from Irishgait Tannery (both The Compositors’ Setting Stick). The Coach and Horses in Dumfries was the venue. Excellent readings from the man himself and the host of others. Thanks to Robyn and all at the venue. Great place and wonderful words and wonderfully hosted by Hugh McMillan. The books are excellent: contact Pete for copies. As would be expected, the party carried on into some kind of chaos soon the sterrs efter.
WRITING
- Review of Belfast to Baillieston: Glasgow Review of BooksThanks to Glasgow Review of Books for publishing this review of Belfast to Baillieston by the fantastic poet Finola Scott. The book, Finola says, ‘is an honest tapestry of generations of a family.’ click here to read the review.
- Neil Young on Belfast to BailliestonNeil Young is a Belfast poet and publisher, living for many years in Scotland. His published works include: Lagan Voices (Scryfa, 2011), The Parting Glass (Tapsalteerie, 2016), Jimmy Cagney’s Long-Lost Kid Half-Brother (Black Light Engine Room, 2017), Shrapnel (Poetry Salzburg, 2019) and After the Riot (Nine Pens, Press, 2021). Neil is the founder of The Poets’ Republic magazine and Drunk Muse Press. In his poetry, you enter into a view on a fulsome, often chaotic space: ...
- Belfast to Baillieston – published by Red Squirrel PressBelfast to Baillieston is a family and industrial narrative that takes as its core the life of Jimmy Gracie, the grandfather of Charlie Gracie. This series of poems and short stories illuminates the harshness and the joys in the lives of this working-class family in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries on both sides of the North Channel. The lives in this book are unique in that they are Gracie lives, but they are the lives ...