Poetry with Tapsalteerie 5 March @lighthousebks.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Tickets £4 Join Sarah Stewart, @taylor-strickland.bsky.social & Stewart Sanderson for an evening of #poetry & discussion about their new collections from @tapsalteerie.bsky.social lighthousebookshop.com/events/tapsa...

I just finished edits on a novel where a minor character’s name changed half way through and another character was given two different addresses. This is very, very common and doesn’t reflect badly on the writer, who is great. Everyone needs an editor!

Farage was banging on about Turkish barbers, so these lads in Glasgow did this. It's in Dumbarton Road, if you fancy a trim.

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For a chance to win a Buddo Bundle, snap a #BestBuddoSelfie of your best Buddo impression this Feb half-term! 😲 1️⃣Take a selfie during your visit to Stromness Museum. 2️⃣Post it to Insta, FB or BlueSky tagging @stromnessmuseum.bsky.social & using #BestBuddoSelfie 3️⃣You'll be included in the prize draw.

Storm clouds and sunbeams over Loch Arkaig, Scotland for the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Sunlight #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography #landscape

Even more incongruously, perhaps: RLS, roller-skater.

“Stevenson… could write his name on ice as readily as on paper, & could execute the most difficult figures with perfect grace & ease” A loss to #FigureSkating was a gain to literature… Robert Louis Stevenson at Saranac Lake #WinterOlympics #C19 ⛸️ www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/opinion/colu...

CFP The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Fairy Tale 1–2 May, free online Presentations invited on any aspect of #sciencefiction, #fantasy, or #fairytale in the Long #C19 as well as modern reinterpretations of the #C19 in literature & media docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Charles Dickens took the name “Ebenezer Scrooge” from the Edinburgh gravestone of Ebenezer Scroggie, after misreading Scroggie’s occupation – “meal man”, i.e. grain merchant – as “mean man”. Or did he? The story may only date back to 2004… #BookWormSat www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/the-strang...

You might forget the exact sound of her voice or how her face looked when sleeping. You might forget the sound of her quiet weeping curled into the shape of a half moon… —Jackie Kay, “Darling” published in DARLING, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2007 #poem #poetry www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...

Gray Day 2025 marks 45 years of Lanark. Alasdair Gray’s novel, published by @canongate.co.uk, fuses visual art and text: self-designed covers, allegorical panels, Glasgow landscapes, and an eccentric 3-1-2-4 structure—learn more about the familiar faces he used for the book cover 👇🏽

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: I'm Alasdair Gray's only child – we must remember my father's political message

I am excited to announce that I will be giving an illustrated talk about my book The Road to Mons Graupius at the wonderful Innerpeffray Library @innerpeffray.bsky.social on Sunday 15 March. Join me if you can, tickets are available here: innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/shop/shop/ti... #RomanSiteSaturday

A wonderful, beautiful and moving book, I love it; and Alan Warner's analysis is focused, engaged & insightful. #JamesKelman Kieron Smith, Boy.

The Italian equivalent of the dancing Tunnocks teacakes.

One for @unistirarchives.bsky.social

Just had a fantastic interview with Prof Kirsteen McCue in Glasgow about Scottish song culture and folk music and the instrumental role they played in changing the fate (and sound) of Western music, from Beethoven to Bob Dylan. The episode will come out in a few days… 🎼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎶

Looking forward to giving this lecture in Prague on 4 March, part of the work on my Scotland: The Cultural History, in preparation for @yalebooks.bsky.social ualk.ff.cuni.cz/guest-lectur...

Help University of Glasgow researchers celebrate 'The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention’ by completing the survey about your own Burns Supper. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Whenever I see the three doors in a row on W.M. Whyte's 1885 tenements on Queen's Drive in Glasgow, I'm always reminded of the Monty Hall Problem. This problem shows how poor the intuitive human understanding of probabilities actually is. Cont./ #glasgow #probability #montyhallproblem

This makes me so happy!

Alistair Braidwood speaks with @louisewelsh00.bsky.social about her latest Rilke novel, THE CUT UP. They discuss the book’s central character, writing violence, moral ambiguity, representing the senses, the joys of writing about Glasgow, & more 💙📚 #CrimeFiction www.scotswhayhae.com/post/rilke-s...

One of the lamp posts outside Glasgow Cathedral. These feature four symbols, a bird, a bell, a tree and a fish with a ring in its mouth. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #glasgowcathedral #stmungo #streetlight

to hear the Gaelic ann an taigh-mòr air a’ chrìch eadar dà shiorrachd ann an Èirinn far am faighear taic o gach comhairle gus na dìogan a ghlanadh, na claisean a chàradh… —Pàdraig MacAoidh, “Geographical Exclusions Apply” in With Their Best Clothes On: New Writing Scotland 36 #Gaelic #poem #poetry

Book launch: THE DELUSIONS by Jenni Fagan 16 March, Edinburgh. Tickets from £8 Jenni Fagan launches her new novel THE DELUSIONS, a haunting dystopian vision that revolves around afterlife employee Edi’s attempts to be reunited with her deceased son. 💙📚 www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...

“At this novel’s heart—as with all Kelman’s work—is an unfettered inner voice, a living consciousness in motion… Kelman gifts us the consciousness of childhood as an eternal experience” —Alan Warner on James Kelman’s KIERON SMITH, BOY 💙📚 www.productmagazine.co.uk/books/world-...

We're over the book to announce that we'll be bringing three works by James Kelman back into print, starting with Kieron Smith, boy in June 2026 ✨

The Cymera Prize for Speculative Short Fiction is open to any writer living in Scotland or Scottish by birth or inclination, aged at least 14 years. Submissions are open from Monday 12th January 2026 until 8pm BST on Sunday 22nd March 2026. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2026-prize

Check out the cover for #TheDeepAndTheDrowned, the first in a new fantasy trilogy from the author of the #Rotstorm & #Extremophile @ianthegreen.bsky.social#TheDeepAndTheDrowned#Rotstorm#ExtremophileWith an incredible illustration by Marcela Bolivar (@tropicalgloom.bsky.social) and Simon Michele Pre-order now: https://geni.us/TDATDcovrev

Interesting project about house names by Ragnhild Ljosland being discussed on Around #Orkney this morning! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

CfP: 'Scotland and the In-Between,' the annual conference of the French Society for Scottish Studies, will be held at Université de de Lorraine, Nancy, 12-14 November 2026, co-organised by IASSL member Céline Sabiron. Papers may be delivered in French or English. Full CfP: tinyurl.com/5h8v293z

CfP: 2026 Postgraduate Symposium of the @studyscotlit.bsky.social, @glasgow.ac.uk, 8 May 2026. Submissions deadline: 15 March 2026. Hybrid attendance will be an option; PG travel bursaries will be available, courtesy of the Andrew Tannahill Fund. ucsl-scotland.com/2026-pg-symp...

Last tickets! Gray Day 2026 marks 45 years of Lanark. 25 Feb, 7–10pm, Òran Mór, Glasgow. £22+bf. New writing, art, animation & comedy honouring Alasdair Gray.

Gaelic song poetry & British Empire conflicts 1874–1903 11 Feb @glasgow.ac.uk – free Humanities Lecture Series 2025–26: Dr @siminnes.bsky.social #Gaelic #C19 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/humanities...

There seems to be an unproduced play by J.M. Barrie..... And a ripe little Jungian nightmare it is. I feel a project coming on. #Theatre #Thrillers #JMBarrie

Build me a bridge over the stream to my neighbour’s house where he is standing in dungarees in the fresh morning… —Iain Crichton Smith, “Neighbour” published in NEW COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011 #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754960...

This month in Scottish book events, there's the launch of Fife Queer Zine Fest, book launches in Edinburgh and collage and zine workshops in Glasgow 📚

Not sure what Walter Scott would make of Bobby and Robert or indeed me, but I’m thrilled the Two Roberts has been longlisted for his namesake prize. It’s a great list and past winners are among my saints, Hilary Mantel ❤️ Congrats all and thank you judges and readers.

Four crabs from the cold firth alive for a shilling… —Angus Calder, “Crab” published in WAKING IN WAIKATO (diehard, 1997) Angus Calder (1942–2008) – journalist, historian, editor, critic, & poet – was born #OTD, 5 Feb #poem #poetry www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/crab/

Just buzzing to see KICKFLIP on the #ReadForEmpathy list for 2026, from @empathylabuk.bsky.social. Logan & I are so grateful for all the support everyone has given Elliot, and it’s a joy to see a proudly non-binary book on this list, two years after JAMIE waved their own flag from it! 💛🤍💜🖤💜🤍💛

'Woman of the North Sea' - John Bellany (c.1990s)

I'll be talking queerness, art, class, love and Scottishness and all things Two Roberts at Charleston next week. You're very welcome. #booksky www.charleston.org.uk/event/an-eve...

First mentioned in Roman sources over 1,700 years ago as a collective name for troublesome, barbaric peoples, the Picts went on to become the dominant kingdom in northern Britain 💪 On 12 February, explore their southern kingdoms at this online event: www.digitscotland.com/events/east-...

Today, Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon, is further eviscerating the Washington Post, & getting rid of its book pages. Thank you to independent booksellers, like this one⬇️ who care for their staff & communities and go out of their way to support writers, instead of trying to make a fast buck out of them.

January may be out but our #BurnsSupper225 global survey remains open for submissions! Thank you to all who have submitted so far; we’re delighted to have captured 200+ events already spanning 7 continents - but there’s plenty of room for more! Please share widely: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Descriptive Jottings Of London by William Topaz McGonagall 📝📝 📝📝📝 www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45822/...

The Spring #NorthSeaPoets course starts tonight! Missed out on tickets? Want first access to new courses and events? Subscribe for reflections on poetry, poetics and the writing life that complement our online courses and events delivered to your inbox ✉️ northseapoets.substack.com #PoetrySky

Scotland snaps? Yarns from yesteryear? Send them our way. Email your Nutmeg World Cup gallery submissions to [email protected] #WorldCupWednesdays #Scotland #WorldCup

He saw the weather written on the pane as he buckled on his gaiters, shouldering the hammer to walk the lane spooked with his breath, to the pond at the extremity of his acres… —Lorn Macintyre, “Bonspiel” published in Snowball in Summer (Argyll, 2009) #poem #poetry #curling #WinterOlympics 🥌