Lindsay Johnstone

Lindsay Johnstone is a Substack Bestselling life writer, literary critic and expressive writing facilitator based in Glasgow. She is the author of one memoir and is currently working on her next narrative non-fiction title and her first novel. Her work explores mental health, midlife, parenting and caring. She is represented by Caro Clarke at Portobello Literary.
She won the John Byrne Award in 2023 for an extract from her memoir, was shortlisted for the Writing Award at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival in 2022 and has been selected as one of the non-fiction writers on Arvon's inaugural Advanced Writing Programme for 2024-26. Her writing has been published by Motherlore Magazine, London Lit Lab and Hillcrest Journal. Her author interviews and reviews of memoir and poetry are published by Glasgow Review of Books and she is a judge on Scottish Book Trust's New Writers Award 2025.