Edinburgh scenes

Nice afternoon in Linlithgow today

Registration now open for SGSAH Summer School 2026 🚀 18–19 June (online) + 24–25 June (Glasgow) For arts & humanities PhDs in Scotland, including our Doctoral Research Showcase (open to all) Explore the programme & book soon—spaces limited! padlet.com/sgsah/sgsah-...

Alan Sharp (1934–2013) is remembered as a screenwriter, but his writing career began with the award-winning – & taboo-breaking – novel A GREEN TREE IN GEDDE. Still controversial, it is nevertheless “a flagship of 1960s Scottish prose”. Preorder the new edition now! 💙📚 asls.org.uk/publications...

Good exhibition on Brutal Scotland at Trongate 103.

Good exhibition on Brutal Scotland at Trongate 103.

Admiring the local silver birch

Admiring the local silver birch

Endings

Some good news!: New Carnegie Masters Grants to support fair access to postgraduate study in Scotland carnegie-trust.org/new-carnegie...

Please share this advert for the Dr David Summers Master of Research (MRes) Studentship in Scottish Literature @edinburghnapier.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 May 2026. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Please share this advert for the Dr David Summers Master of Research (MRes) Studentship in Scottish Literature @edinburghnapier.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 May 2026. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

THE EDINBURGH COMPANION TO ALASDAIR GRAY AND THE ARTS, published by @edinburghup.bsky.social, is now available to pre-order at discount.

Just signed a contract to co-edit, with Juliet Shields, THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE SCOTTISH NOVEL. We have a great set of contributors and I'm looking forward to seeing the volume develop.

My story in the @heraldscotland.bsky.social On how poet Kenneth White, who left his house in France to the local council on the proviso they use it for writers residencies, has had his legacy overturne www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2... Petition against the move www.change.org/p/non-%C3%A0...

Very exciting to see copies of our book landing with peeps now. I've seen at least 3 people say they're reading it on the way to LBF and given how bleak some of it gets, I apologise. But hopefully it's something to chat about in the one hour long queues for coffee?! www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...

Into the blue

Into the blue

Coming soon! The 404 Ink Bursary for small presses and accompanying crowdfunder will launch in mid-March. This will give away at least £3,000 to small presses - we hope to raise more to pay it forward to even more people.

Grateful to the Royal Society of Edinburgh for further support for my project to produce the first scholarly edition of Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Hugh MacDiarmid's book, SCOTTISH SCENE, to be published by @asls.org.uk rse.org.uk/rse-awards-p...

Very pleased to see this wee book on restless adventurer Robert Louis Stevenson out in the world. Thanks to Reaktion Books for all their support along the way. reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/robert-... #RLS @asls.org.uk @iassl.bsky.social

The February sun goes down on the Union Canal, Edinburgh. The light is returning...

Call for Papers: 'Scotland and the In-Between', the annual Société française d’études écossaises (French Society for Scottish Studies) conference (Université de Lorraine, 12-14 Nov 2026). Proposals for papers in French or English are due 28th April. More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6338

James Leslie Mitchell was born today in 1901. If you've not been, get yourself to the Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre in Arbuthnott. It's a small community-run museum and café where you can view some fab Gibbon paraphernalia, have a gander at some books, and get a lovely homemade lunch.

James Leslie Mitchell was born today in 1901. If you've not been, get yourself to the Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre in Arbuthnott. It's a small community-run museum and café where you can view some fab Gibbon paraphernalia, have a gander at some books, and get a lovely homemade lunch.

James Leslie Mitchell (1901–1935), better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was born on this day, 13 Feb. Author of SUNSET SONG – & many other titles from historical to science fiction – he is one of the most important Scottish writers of the 20th century. A 🎂 🧵 … 💙📚 1/10 digital.nls.uk/learning/sun...

Thanks to funding from the Scottish government, ASL is offering free class sets of Donald S. Murray’s play SEQUAMUR – a set text for Higher English – to secondary schools in Scotland. See our website for details: @educationscotland.bsky.social @qualifications.gov.scot asls.org.uk/publications...

Thank you @theguardian.com for publishing this piece on my mother and Alzheimer’s:

Sounds of Spring. Goldfinch party.

please spread the word!

Hello snow moon 🌕

Hello snow moon 🌕

It is publication today for Late Heaney I am told, although I imagine it’ll be a while before I see it between ice storms and the broad Atlantic. I thought I’d share a few thoughts about it, as it’s a different kind of book for me in form and style. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

2026 is Agnes Owens’ centenary year, & Polygon will publish 7 new editions of her novels & short stories in collaboration with the Agnes Owens Archive – also launching this year. These new editions will be introduced by some of Scotland’s finest contemporary writers. 💙📚 birlinn.co.uk/2026/01/08/p...

This talk on "Scottish Women Writers in Children's Literature" from the fab Sarah Dunnigan and Lois Burke will be great. National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, 19 March 2026, 5:30PM to 6:30PM. Tickets free, but booking required. www.nls.uk/whats-on/sco...

This talk on "Scottish Women Writers in Children's Literature" from the fab Sarah Dunnigan and Lois Burke will be great. National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, 19 March 2026, 5:30PM to 6:30PM. Tickets free, but booking required. www.nls.uk/whats-on/sco...

Moon atop Barclay Church. Happy back to work day 🥶

This time of year the light seems keen to come north again. Tay Estuary at Buddon Ness. #Scotland

Happy birthday Alasdair Gray, born on this day in 1934. My chapter, '"The matter of Scotland": Alasdair Gray and Hugh MacDiarmid', features in the forthcoming EDINBURGH COMPANION TO ALASDAIR GRAY AND THE ARTS, out next year. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...

Happy birthday Alasdair Gray, born on this day in 1934. My chapter, '"The matter of Scotland": Alasdair Gray and Hugh MacDiarmid', features in the forthcoming EDINBURGH COMPANION TO ALASDAIR GRAY AND THE ARTS, out next year. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...

Free to stream: East German adaption of Stevenson's Kidnapped @scottlyall.bsky.social www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/de/online/st...

Five years of editing SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW with the fab @rhonabrown.bsky.social and more exciting issues to come in 2026. The latest bumper issue is out now. Get yours by joining @asls.org.uk here: share.google/P8K28t8SNfWU...

Submitted the last major edit of my book, An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. I'm looking forward to An Injury To All being published in October 2026!

My review of William K. Malcolm's new biography of Lewis Grassic Gibbon is out now in SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW and is available to download on Project MUSE. muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/arti...

The relative calm before Storm Bram tonight on Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh #Edinburgh #StormBram #Weather