Looking for a Scottish Horror author. Any recommendations?

Join the first READING SCOTLAND session of the semester to dive into Scotland's hidden history with John D. Burns. 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Register via tinyurl.com/ReSco-Burns.
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I wrote another article on Scots for Scottish Book Trust! This time its about how Scots can help open up a new world of multilingualism in your classroom- give it a read! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

'I don’t feel trapped by my past. I feel I can walk right through it if only you’ll allow me to go with a pencil & a pad in my hand.” I interviewed the always-interesting Andrew O'Hagan about Caledonian Road - 'a maze of immoral interconnectedness' - & his 'dissociated' family.

Who's excited for Queen Macbeth? We can't wait to launch this brilliant book into the world with a series of events with Val McDermid. 🎉

Find out more about all of these events on our website, and check back soon for more to be announced!
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Delighted to partner with UofG Careers to offer a funded internship paid Living Wage Scotland standards this summer - ‘Find A Solution’

Link in bio on how to apply!

Deadline 24th April!

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Registration for BARS 2024, 'Romantic Making and Unmaking', is now open for both the in-person elements in Glasgow (23rd-25th July) and the online elements (1st-2nd August). Full details on the conference site: bars.ac.uk/conference2024/.

“... deer in their generations come and go / with their rituals of sedge / and dwarf-willow”

~ ʻBen Dorain: a conversation with a mountainʼ by Garry MacKenzie 🍃

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Many congratulations to Professor Kirsteen McCue, Professor of Scottish Literature and Song Culture University of Glasgow, who has been elected Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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Delighted to announce that we're having a launch event for the Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830 database at the University of Glasgow on Friday 26th April (starts 4pm)! There will be wine! Hope to see you there - details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/books-and-bo….

“My mother’s life was a kind of whisper.” This is an excellent interview with Andrew O’Hagan, by Dani Garavelli, especially the fascinating stuff about his childhood.

One of my favourite George Mackay Brown poems: Weather Bestiary, from his 1977 Selected Poems published by The Hogarth Press.

Happy 20th birthday to SCROLL_Scotlit | Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, published by De Gruyter Brill Literature & Culture. With 34 volumes including both monographs and essay collections, it has become a major force in Scottish studies. brill.com/SCRL

PLEASE, STOP SCROLLING📢

We are delighted to announce that the (Wee) Soutar Festival of Words is back! 📚🥳

From Friday 26 to Sunday 28 April, the festival will bring together a weekend of Scots storytelling, poetry writing, talks & the annual Soutar birthday lecture.

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READING SCOTLAND is back! 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Make sure to join us for a series of amazing talks. 🤗
Find more information here: scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotla…
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Immensely honoured to have work featured in this remarkable series #CEASEFIRE_NOW Alien Buddha Press (open for submissions)
Keep protesting ✊️
Keep talking about #Palestine 🇵🇸
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#StoptheGenocideNow
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸
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Cassette tapes from SPL archives. This was the recording format that was 'killing music' in the 70s & 80s. Did ok for preserving poetry though.

What will you write for Scotland's Stories: Hope?

Tell us about a guiding light, your hope for the world or even a pocket of joy. Maybe you're entering a new dawn or is the best is yet to come?

All entries are published on our website, so get writing!

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