The worldwide impact of Scottish literature – from the golden age of poetry in the Middle Ages to the cult of Trainspotting – will be illuminated across the globe with the revival of a massive digital ...

This mammoth tome may be impressive in scope, but with its hyperbole and snide asides it feels like a missed opportunity, writes Stuart Kelly Do we need another history of Scottish Literature? In my ...

Colin Kidd receives funding from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. He is affiliated with These Islands and Scotland in Union. Gerard Carruthers does not work for, consult, own ...

Chuck a body bag in any Scottish city or rugged rural landscape and you’ll likely hit a celebrated crime writer. There are so many they ...

The publication of James Macpherson’s Ossianic poetry was a pivotal event in the development of the English-language literatures of Scotland and Ireland. In addition to being the works that virtually ...

On Saturday 13th May 2017 BBC Writersroom celebrated Scottish script-writing and some of the great writers that have come from Scotland in our second Scottish Writers' Festival. When I saw The Moff - ...

Screen Scotland, BBC Drama Commissioning and BBC Writersroom would like to announce the Scottish Drama Writers’ Programme 2021. The programme has partnered Scottish based writers with Independent ...

A new literature body should be established to promote Scottish writing and writers overseas, a major new report has found. Creative Scotland's review of Scotland's literature and publishing sector, ...