Free tickets are still available for our online launch, taking place this Thursday at 6pm! www.eventbrite.com/e/online-boo...

Slightly updated programme for the upcoming @sfetudesecossaises.bsky.social conference at @univ-larochelle.fr on "Scotland and the Coast/L'Ecosse et le Littoral" now available. And registration is still open! apps.univ-lr.fr/cgi-bin/WebO...

This is SICK. Students in Gaza who got places/scholarships at UK universities in unimaginable circumstances are being BLOCKED from Visas by UK Home Office refusal to recognise there is NOWHERE in Gaza for them to get biometrics done BECAUSE THE CENTRES WERE BOMBED -The Times, today archive.is/678If

The latest issue of NORTHWORDS NOW is available free online – poems, short stories, articles & book reviews, in English, Gaelic & Scots New writing, fresh from Scotland and the wider North Sgrìobhadh ùr à Alba agus an Àird a Tuath www.northwordsnow.co.uk/Issue46

Chuffed to have a handful of poems in the latest issue of Northwords Now www.northwordsnow.co.uk/Issue46?fbcl...

WRITERS! New Writing Scotland seeks a new co-editor for English- & Scots-language work. Applicants should be currently based in Scotland & have a strong publishing record, with a focus on prose. Post is up to 3 years: stipend £1500 per issue. #writers #writing Pls RT 👇 asls.org.uk/new-writing-...

‘Our three quotations brought the number of women’s quotes from one to four (out of 29). The only woman previously represented was the socialist and mill-worker Mary Brooksbank.’ Kathleen Jamie on having her work added to Edinburgh’s Canongate Wall, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

My article on Stevenson and Scott, “'Scott’s Voyage in the Lighthouse Yacht' and Intertextual Transmission" has been published in Connotations www.connotations.de/article/lesl...

We now have a poster and a provisional programme for the SFEE conference in La Rochelle in October on "Scotland and the Coast" sfee.fr/congres2025/

CFP: (Un)natural Stevenson Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science and gender, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Aula Baratto, 11-12 May 2026 Organizers: Lucio De Capitani & Alessandro Cabiati docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Merci à @nathalieduclos.bsky.social, @vincentlatour.bsky.social et à toute l’équipe organisatrice pour un magnifique congrès de la SAES à Toulouse !

I see that Philippe Labro has died. I once tried to sell one of his books to a second-hand book dealer. He refused it on the basis that Labro’s writing style was too “lisse” and I honestly think that’s the most cutting literary criticism I have ever witnessed.

Spotted a lovely typo in an academic article today — wonton disregard

Looking forward to this

Lea Sinoimeri and myself are pleased to share with you the CFP for the conference "Flux and Flow in Irish and Scottish Literatures (late-19th century to present)" in Boulogne-sur-Mer (ULCO), 9-10 April 2026. Please share and join! hlli.univ-littoral.fr/wp-content/u...

Spain, you could do the funniest thing right now...

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie 74°4 Le Matin

Communiqué de la @saesfrance.org sur la réforme de la formation et du recrutement des enseignants. Cette réforme s’articule autour d’un concours positionné en L3, ce qui de facto réduit la formation disciplinaire des futurs enseignants de langues à 4 semestres acquis saesfrance.org/communique-d...

Etudes Ecossaises n° 24 / 2025 “L’Écosse, 30 ans après Trainspotting. Scotland 30 Years after Trainspotting” ed. by Davis Leishman is out. journals.openedition.org/etudesecossa...

Massive political happenings in France today and the country’s most popular radio stations, France Inter and France Info, are on ……. strike

It looks as if the farmhouse Kenneth White lived in when he wrote Lettres de Gourgounel is up for sale. www.solid-immo.com/309-mas-ceve...

There are some places left on Donny’s Wednesday evening, 10-week Zoom poetry course. For more info contact him at [email protected]

Poetry classes on Zoom with poet and teacher, Donny O’Rourke recommence on the 9th of April. Prompts, feedback from a hugely knowledgeable and supportive tutor and group. Contact Donny on this email if you want more info: [email protected] .

Hello AirPods - I see you over there in Berne, Switzerland. Enjoy your new life, sorry for losing you at Schipol.

The keynote speakers at the @sfetudesecossaises.bsky.social conference in La Rochelle (15-17 October 2025) will be @kathleenjamie.bsky.social and @profmurdoch.bsky.social Just a few days left to get your paper proposals in on "Scotland and the Coast / l'Ecosse et le Littoral"! sfee.fr/congres2025/

Claude Malhuret telling it exactly as it is

How I think I look when I'm teaching/How I actually look:

Wasn’t there a plan at one time to make a film of Alan Warner’s Dead Man Walking? Maybe with a screenplay by Irvine Welsh? Does anyone know if that’s still in the works?

I started this thread jealous of whoever the lucky bastard was who got to translate this book and have ended it feeling that none of us as lucky, we are all the losers when it comes to AI and translation

France is having it's "ding-dong the witch is dead" moment www.humanite.fr/politique/ex...

Le film numéro 1 du box office l’année de tes 10 ans représente ce que sera ton année 2025. 🐴

“Don’t make him look like a martyr, okay?” NYPD:

Looking forward to this

Cranes incoming (at Lac Arjuzanx in the Landes)

For all the crazy #MenInLove and any women nuts enough to up with them.

Le comité d'organisation du prochain Congrès de la SAES, que j'ai l'honneur de présider, vous invite à venir à Toulouse du 5 au 7 juin prochains: save the dates! congres2025.saesfrance.org

Morvern Callar is almost 30 years old (yikes!). As Alan Warner says in this podcast, “the years have gone in the blink of an eye” podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/b...

The National Library of Scotland has a deep secret. #LocalHistory #atchives 📚🗃️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CFP Alert! I'm very pleased to be co-organising the 24th International Congress of the French Society for Scottish Studies (SFEE) which will be held from 15th – 17th October 2025 at the University of La Rochelle on the theme of "Scotland and the Coast" sfee.fr/congres2020/

To whom it may concern, ceci est mon kit de démarrage #ESR en études anglophones. Partages, suggestions d'ajouts et candidatures spontanées sont les bienvenues ! go.bsky.app/Fq9mosp

Views of Bordeaux from the top of the MECA building this afternoon

Giving this #scotlit starter pack another punt for all the new followers. Hello there :) go.bsky.app/SeyRqwU

Since there didn’t seem to be one, I made a Scottish Literature starter pack. Tell me who’s missing go.bsky.app/SeyRqwU

Writing Scottishness: Literature & the Shaping of Scottish National Identities 14 essays on the literary manifestations of Scottishness – examining political, religious & cultural complexities that have shaped Scottish writing & performance, past & present Preorder now! asls.org.uk/publications...

For the Stevensonians among you, here’s a link to Richard Dury’s latest RLS newsletter. A cracker: drive.google.com/file/d/1TEe6...

Is there a Scottish literature starter pack?

Came across this in a French guidebook to Edinburgh. Can’t argue with that.

Very chuffed to be in such great company in this bumper issue of Poetry Scotland with a poem entitled “Bordelaise”

This evening’s tipple. I mean, we could almost call this working.