Read this exclusive extract from Saraid de Silva’s (Saraid) debut novel, Amma, exploring family trauma, post-colonial displacement, and queerness.

Forthcoming from Weatherglass Books:

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'Near the town you lived in, there might have been grasslands and birch trees, neighbouring lakes, mesmeric gardens, and long stretches of canola fields, but amidst all the space, there was not even one single mosque.'

Trigger Notebook, my new piece in @criticalmuslim no. 49

Applications are now open for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2024.

One of the largest literary prizes in the UK, the EMPA aims to support emerging Scottish poets under 30.

Deadline: 31 March.

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very proud to be part of this with all of these beautiful humans. its sold out thank you for but there is a live stream available here lighthousebookshop.com/events/we-are-…
thank you to the amazing Kirstin Innes and Outtatown Keira Brown for make it happen 🤍🤍

Our magazine display is fully stocked for the weekend! 🎉 Browse in the bookshop or on our website here: theportobellobookshop.com/collection-of/…

There used to be an inshore limit on bottom trawling around Scotland to protect at least some of these important habitats. It was removed in 1984 and a lot of people want it back. I wrote about it and some of those people and habitats for Extra Teeth

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“Despite the harm [bottom trawling] is known to do, it is allowed in almost all the UK’s MPAs, designated as sanctuaries to protect rare, threatened or important ocean habitats”

More and more proof of the damage, harder and harder to justify the practice.
theguardian.com/environment/20…

'I blink my eyes a few times... Underneath the summer sun, the water has clarified to a crystal-clear green-blue and everything gleams as if suspended in glass.'

The Limit by Christina Riley is illustrated gorgeously by Yannick Scott in our eighth issue!

extrateeth.co.uk/shop/issueeight

The Kavya Prize 2024 is open for submissions of books written by Scottish authors of colour & published b/w 1 Jan 2022 and 31 Dec 2023. Publishers, March 10th is the deadline! Just a few days to go to submit books - read the submission guidelines below

✨ Exciting news! The Kavya Prize 2024 is open for submissions of books written by Scottish authors of colour & published b/w 1 Jan 2022 and 31 Dec 2023. Publishers, March 10th is the deadline! more info below (Canongate Vagabond Voices Atlantic Books Guillemot Press )✨

Next Monday we're hosting a very practical Society of Authors in Scotland event on How to Run a Writing Workshop.

Kirsty Logan, Marjorie Lotfi and Nadine Aisha Jassat will be sharing their skills and experience on a topic we are rarely taught about! Join us!

www2.societyofauthors.org/event/professi…

'The captain likes my scars. I wonder if he considers them some kind of rite of passage... He follows the puckered pink curves along my chest with two fingers and a smile.'

The v. sexy Quartermaster by Adi Novak (art: Yannick Scott) is in Issue Eight!

extrateeth.co.uk/shop/issueeight

buy a book from their Palestinian Authors list today and The Portobello Bookshop will donate the proceeds ❤️🇵🇸

this is part of indie bookshops raising funds for writers at risk #valentines4palestine

support these bookshops, support Palestinian authors, and support writers who speak out

'An open house is an act of generosity, Elena thought.
It’s a way of sharing one’s innermost self with others.
It’s a way of sharing my art with the world.'

Open House by Ralf Webb is lusciously illustrated by Yannick Scott in Issue Eight! Get your copy

extrateeth.co.uk/shop/issueeight

Can't help but feel sad for this collection. Much love to the literary journals who have put out stories from it (including minor literature[s] , Wild Hunt Books PRISM international (SUBS OPEN) Extra Teeth Gutter and others)

'She hosted a macabre theatre compressed into a student flat.'

Rakyah Assam's story The Mouth of the River tells of a gruesome love—illustrated in gorgeous gross detail by Yannick Scott!

extrateeth.co.uk/shop/issueeight

Picked this up by lindsay littleson from the lovely Atkinson-Pryce Books bookshop in Biggar today. AND they’ve got a section for short story collections, and another section for litmags like Gutter and Extra Teeth
Fabulous bookshop! 📚