Congratulations to Martin MacInnes, whose novel IN ASCENSION has won the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year
“IN ASCENSION shows us, in the words of one judge, ‘Vistas between the cellular and the cosmic’. It’s an intense trip.”
—Dr Andrew M. Butler, Chair of Judges
Peewits quiffed like Elvis reel from rocks,
their sheen of feathers like blue suede
the breeze buffs in the midday air…
—Donald S. Murray, “An Incomplete History of Rock Music in the Hebrides”
Published in The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry, Edinburgh University Press 2005
“In 1990, the UK Crime Writers’ Association issued a list titled ‘The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time.’ Number one on the list was THE DAUGHTER OF TIME by Josephine Tey. It was a good call then, it’d still be a good call now.”
Josephine Tey (1896–1952) was born #OTD, 25 July
#Scottish #literature #crimefiction #womenwriters #20thcentury
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https://crimereads.com/josephine-tey-a-crime-readers-guide-to-the-classics/
DON’T. EVEN. ASK. TOO. HOT.
New Writing Scotland 42
Ed. Kirstin Innes & Chris Powici
Gaelic ed. Niall O’Gallagher
Cover: Red Axe Design
Supported by Creative Scotland
🚨 NOW EXISTING IN THE REAL WORLD 🚨
Available to preorder from all good (& evil) bookshops!
#Scottish #literature #shortstories #poetry #writingcommunity
The Battle of Harlaw was fought #OTD, 24 July, 1411. Before the #battle the Clan Donald bard Lachlann Mòr MacMhuirich composed this brosnachadh or incitement to battle – a tour-de-force of #Gaelic composition. Each line contains 2 describing words, & each successive pair of lines all begin with the same letter while retaining the 7-syllable format of each line. The poet works through the entire Gaelic alphabet in sequence.
#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #history
https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/inverurie/battleofharlaw/index.html
“Detailed introductions by Bowman […] plus forewords by Michael Boyd & Ian Brown, provide the reader with an understanding of the Scottish political, social & theatrical context into which these trailblazing translations appeared. […] It’s the dazzling use of Scots that makes these texts so compelling.”
Josephine Murray reviews MICHEL TREMBLAY: PLAYS IN SCOTS, translated by Martin Bowman & Bill Findlay
#Scottish #Scots #Scotslanguage #theatre #drama #Quebec #Quebecois
CFP: Women’s Letters in Early Modern Scotland
1 November 2024
Cowane's Hospital Trust, Stirling
This workshop aims to bring together researchers, archivists, curators, & heritage institutions to develop a new community working with women’s letters in Early Modern Scotland
#Scottish #literature #history #women #womenwriters #letters #EarlyModern #Scots #Gaelic
The 2024 HeadRead Literary Festival, featuring top authors from all over the world, took place in Tallinn earlier this year. In this video, #Scottish #poet Robin Robertson speaks to #Estonian #writer Jan Kaus
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#literature #Scotland #Estonia
https://news.err.ee/1609392448/headread-2024-in-conversation-with-scottish-poet-robin-robertson
Readings: Irish Diaspora & Scottish Literature
11 Aug, Glasgow – free
The Federation of Writers (Scotland) presents Scriever – Colette Coen & Makar – Marcas Mac an Tuairneir for an afternoon of readings from the Irish diaspora. With Charlie Gracie & Mairi Murphy
#Scottish #literature #Irish #diaspora
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/readings-irish-diaspora-and-scottish-literature-tickets-940483119327
CFP: New Perspectives on Walking Women in Anglophone Literatures & Cultures
28–29 March 2025
Hamburg, Germany
This conference aims to assess current trends in scholarship on walking women, to identify its blind spots, & to develop new perspectives on women walkers by deliberately looking at forms, contexts, media, & periods that have received less or no attention so far.
Deadline for abstracts: 7 Oct
“Facing two ways, the poem is part elegy, part praise song. I felt after reading it as if I’d just been walking over that sunlit ground, as if Jamie had spread the moor under the poem, with the sky arching above it.”
—Carol Rumens discusses Kathleen Jamie’s poem “Moor”, published in CAIRN (Sort Of Books, 2024)
#Scottish #literature #poetry #poem #naturewriting #environment #ecology
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/22/poem-of-the-week-moor-by-kathleen-jamie
Damien Walter discusses the Culture of Iain M Banks with SF author Ken MacLeod. Ken & Iain met in school as teenagers & were lifelong friends
#Scottish #literature #scifi #sciencefiction #TheCulture #IainBanks #IainMBanks
https://damiengwalter.com/2024/07/21/ken-macleod-on-the-culture-of-iain-m-banks/