Carl MacDougall, Edwin Morgan, Liz Lochhead and Iain Banks explore Scottish writing, its heritage and major influences in a landmark series. Carl was born in Glasgow but spent his childhood in ...

She is author of Disappearing Men: Gender Disorientation in Scottish Fiction 1979-1999 (Rodopi, 2008) and has previously published on the subject of gender and sexuality in contemporary Scottish ...

For the past two decades, Scottish cities have appointed their own makars and in 2004 the first national poet was appointed. Mr Mackay is eager to encourage new writing. But he said: "I have got ...

Novelist Sir Ian Rankin has been announced as the first ever guest programmer for Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing festival ... was set up by a group of Scottish crime writers in ...

Anderson and Gray are also the masterminds behind the recent Bloody Scotland, the first festival dedicated to crime writing in Scotland. ‘The grand dame of Scottish crime fiction’ is one ...