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interest. The classifications are:

ACADEMIC RESOURCES [back to top]

LITERARY ORGANISATIONS & EVENTS [back to top]

PUBLISHERS IN SCOTLAND [back to top]

  • Acair Books – Stornoway-based publisher producing Gaelic children’s books, Gaelic and bilingual books for adults, and English only books on related Gaelic and Highland topics
  • Argyll Publishing
    – an independent publisher based on the shores of Loch Fyne. Co-producer of the
    quarterly Scottish Review of Books
  • Barrington Stoke – an award-
    winning publisher specialising exclusively in books for reluctant, disenchanted and
    under-confident readers
  • Birlinn Ltd – Scottish classics, humour, local
    interest, Gaelic, West Coast and academic books. Also includes John Donald,
    Polygon and Tuckwell Press imprints.
  • Black and White Publishing
    – fiction, sport, cookery, general non-fiction and memoirs
  • Blasted Heath – a digital publisher based in Glasgow, offering “fascinating characters, gripping stories, deadly writing”
  • Calder Wood Press – an independent (unsubsidised) publisher specialising in poetry
  • Canongate Books – one of Scotland’s most innovative and exciting publishers; imprints include Canongate Classics, Payback Press and Rebel Inc.
    • Canongate Classics – all 108 titles in the Canongate Classics series, available as eBooks and print-on-demand
  • Capercaillie Books –
    Capercaillie Books was established in 2001 with the primary objective of publishing
    literary and illustrative works in an imaginative and stimulating way for
    today’s readers
  • Carcanet Press – although based in
    Manchester, Carcanet publish a wide range of Scottish classic and contemporary
    poetry
  • Cargo Publishing – a Glasgow-based company dedicated to publishing new fiction at affordable prices
  • Cualann Press – Cualann Press’s
    main interest at present is in making important Scottish historical documents and
    accounts freely available through general publication
  • Council House Publishing – a small independent publishing house based on Skye, producing a small number of high-quality titles each year.
  • Edinburgh University Press – academic titles on language, literature and a wide range of other topics
  • Fidra Books – a small, independent publisher specialising in rescuing neglected children’s books
  • Floris Books – Floris Books publish
    a wide variety of titles, including reprints of the Kelpies series of
    Scottish children’s fiction
  • Freight – a Glasgow-based design and publishing company, producing a number of acclaimed anthologies of new Scottish writing

  • GKB Enterprises     – a not-for-profit company publishing Scottish poetry, fiction
    and historical memoirs, and promoting important but little-known aspects of
    Scottish life and culture, past and present
  • Glowworm Books –
    children’s publishers and schools book distributors
  • HappenStance Press
    – a poetry chapbook imprint, based in Fife
  • Itchy-Coo – publishing books for children in Scots
  • Kennedy and Boyd – Kennedy and Boyd republish numerous classics of Scottish literature which are unavailable elsewhere
  • Kettillonia – a new
    publishing venture, aiming to put original, adventurous, neglected and rare writing
    into print, published as pamphlets
  • Kohl Publishing – an innovative Scottish book publisher based in Glasgow
  • Koo Press – Koo Press is
    an independent small press based in Aberdeen and is primarily a publisher of poetry
    chapbooks
  • Luath Press Ltd – committed to publishing well-written books worth reading
  • Mainstream Publishing – general non-fiction titles
  • Merlin Press – produces excellent Scots
    materials for classroom use
  • Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd – a wide range of titles
    including the 11/9 imprint
  • New Voices Press – the publishing arm of the Federation of Writers (Scotland)
  • Palimpsest eClassics Collection – ebook bundles containing some of the finest Scottish literary classics
  • Perjink Press – part publisher, part design-and-print agency, producing pamphlets of poetry and short fiction
  • Polwarth Publishing – Polwarth Publishing is a lean, focused venture with serious writers and authors
  • The Saltire Society – aiming to
    preserve all that is best in Scottish tradition, and encouraging new developments
    which will strengthen and enrich the country’s cultural life
  • Sandstone Press – publishing contemporary fiction and non-fiction
  • Saraband – an independent Glasgow-based publisher of fiction and non-fiction
  • Scottish Children’s Press – books written for, about and even by Scottish children, in Scots, English and Gaelic
  • Scottish Cultural Press
    – Scottish literature, poetry, history, traditions, Scots language
  • Scottish Plays – Brown, Son &
    Ferguson Ltd have been publishing Scottish drama for nearly 100 years. Their website
    allows users to order scripts, from one-act plays to full-length productions
  • Scottish Text Society
    – publishing important texts from Scotland’s rich literary history, with special
    emphasis on the medieval and Renaissance period
  • Shetland
    Publishing Company     – producing books on Shetland and publishing works by
    Shetland writers
  • Spotlight Publications –
    scripts for plays and pantomimes
  • Steve Savage Publishers Ltd –
    founded in 2001 with the acquisition of the Gordon Wright Ltd list, Steve Savage
    Publishers intend to develop a strong commitment to Scottish writing
  • Strident Publishing – publishers of fiction for children and adults, based in Glasgow
  • Tapsalteerie – an independent publisher of Scottish poetry pamphlets based in Aberdeenshire
  • ThunderPoint Publishing – publishing new literature, from established and first-time authors alike
  • Two Ravens Press – an independent publisher of contemporary British and international literature based in the north-west Highlands of Scotland
  • Vagabond Voices – an innovative literary publisher based in Glasgow

RESOURCES FOR WRITERS [back to top]

  • Agent Hunter – a comprehensive, subscription-based database of UK literary agents
  • The Arvon Foundation – residential writing
    courses throughout the UK (Moniack Mhor in Scotland)
  • Ask About Writing
    – a comprehensive resource site for writers of all abilities
  • The Barcelona Review – an
    international review of contemporary fiction, with a strong Scottish presence
  • beaplaywright.com – learn the art of playwriting at Live Theatre, Newcastle
  • Borders Writers Forum – dedicated to contemporary writing from the Scottish Borders
  • Chapman – publishes new work by
    well-known and up-and-coming Scottish and international writers. Four issues per year
  • The Dark Horse
    – a Scottish-American poetry magazine
  • Edinburgh Review
    – combines essays and review articles on Scottish politics, thought and society
    with new fiction and poetry
  • Edwin Morgan
    Centre for Creative Writing     – courses and degrees in creative writing run
    jointly by the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde
  • Federation of Writers (Scotland) – supporting writers by making the whole process much easier to negotiate, from starting to write to publication
  • Fraser Ross Associates – literary agency
  • From Glasgow to Saturn – the University of Glasgow’s online literary magazine, based in the University of Glasgow Creative Writing Programme
  • The Glasgow Review – launched in 2008 to “challenge the establishment in literature, art and politics and to offer a radical platform for new writers, thinkers and artists to express their ideas for a more informed and fair world.”
  • GSFWC – the Glasgow Science Fiction Writers’ Circle
  • Gutter Magazine – publishing fiction and poetry from writers born or living in Scotland
  • Help! I need a publisher! – invaluable information and advice for aspiring writers from Nicola Morgan, Chair of the Society of Authors in Scotland
  • Intangible.org – web-based
    not-for-profit publisher. Features the work of several Scots, including Leila
    Aboulela, Duncan McLean and Andrew McNeill
  • Jenny Brown Associates – literary agency
  • Literary Dundee – publishing New Writing Dundee
  • The McKernan Agency – literary agency and consultancy
  • New Linear Perspectives – a literary arts and culture journal, published in Scotland but written by contributors from across the globe
  • Northwords Now – giving a voice to new writing from the Highlands
  • Octavius – a literary magazine for students in Scotland
  • ONE Magazine – a literary and arts magazine, available both in print and
    online.
  • Poetry Scotland –
    the other half of the Poetry Scotland broadsheet magazine, publishing new
    poetry from Scottish and international poets
  • Pushing Out The Boat – North East Scotland’s own prestigious magazine of new writing and visual art
  • Robin Jenkins Literary Award – a national writing award for new writing based on Scotland’s cultural and environmental heritage
  • Scottish Association of Writers – promoting and encouraging the art and craft of writing in all its forms
  • Scottish Poetry Pamphlets
    – a website supporting and encouraging the publication of poetry pamphlets. Lists
    of publishers and available pamphlets are also provided
  • Scottish Writers’ Centre – a social arena where writers can meet and share ideas and experiences and a facility providing basic services for writers
  • Shore Poets – Scotland’s leading platform for live poetry
  • Shoreline of Infinity – a new SF magazine from Scotland
  • The Short Story –
    the campaign to celebrate the short story. Everything you want to know: reading
    them, writing them, listening to them; competitions, workshops, projects; plus an
    extensive bibliography and more
  • Society of Children’s
    Book Writers and Illustrators Scotland     – the Scottish branch of the SCBWI, an
    international organisation offering a variety of services to people who write,
    illustrate, or share a vital interest in children’s literature
  • The Society of Authors in
    Scotland     – the Scottish branch of the SoA, a non-profit making organisation set
    up in 1884 to protect the rights and further the interests of authors.
  • University of Stirling Creative Writing programme – offering workshop-based undergraduate classes and newly launched MLitt and PhD programmes
  • Valve – a Glasgow-based journal of poetry and short fiction
  • Variant – an artist-run
    magazine of cross-currents in culture.
  • The Word Cloud – an online writers’ community where you can post work, get critiques, exchange ideas, ask questions, and much more
  • The Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook – the best single source of information on publishers and agents in the UK
  • Writers’ Workshop – the UK’s largest editorial agency, offering a wide range of services
  • WriterWords – support, advice,
    interviews and articles for writers in the UK
  • The Writing Room – a range of editorial and literary services to writers, from experienced editor-turned-literary agent Maggie McKernan

WRITERS IN SCOTLAND [back to top]

  • Leila Aboulela – the website of the author of Coloured Lights, The Translator, Minaret, Lyrics Alley and others
  • Iain Banks – the official
    website of Iain Banks (aka Iain M Banks)
  • J. M. Barrie – A.N.O.N: the homepage of
    the J.M. Barrie Society, celebrating the works of the author of Peter Pan,
    and providing a community for Barrie scholars and enthusiasts
  • Julie Bertagna
    – homepage of the author of The Spark Gap,
    Soundtrack and others
  • Alan Bissett – homepage of the
    author of The Incredible Adam Spark, Boyracers, Death of a Ladies’ Man and others
  • Bookspotting – download a free app, for iOS and Android, and discover a world of Scottish books, locations, settings, and characters
  • Theresa Breslin – homepage of the
    author of The Death or Glory Boys, Kezzie and others
  • Christopher Brookmyre – the homepage
    of the author of “tartan noir” such as Quite Ugly One Morning, Country of
    the Blind     and A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away
  • George Mackay Brown – an
    extensive website with reviews, a complete bibliography, extracts and critical
    material
  • The John Buchan Society –
    biography, bibliography, and extracts from the John Buchan Journal
  • The Official Robert Burns website – a
    huge database containing texts, links and more
  • National Burns Collection
    – a website allowing visitors to explore Scotland’s national collection of
    treasures associated with Robert Burns
  • John Byrne
    – website of the artist and playwright, author of The Slab Boys trilogy, Tutti-Frutti, and others
  • Gerry Cambridge –
    homepage of the poet, essayist and editor of Dark Horse magazine
  • S. R. Crockett – The Galloway Raiders: a website devoted to the life and work of Samuel Rutherford Crockett
  • Andrew Crumey – homepage of the author of Music, in a Foreign Language, Pfitz, Mr Mee, Sputnik Caledonia and others
  • The Cunninghame Graham Society – a society dedicated to the political and literary achievements of Robert Bontine (R.B.) Cunninghame Graham
  • Ivor Cutler
    – a website devoted to this resolutely unclassifiable poet, playwright, composer,
    comedian, actor, musician, and children’s writer
  • William Dalrymple – the website of the writer and historian, and winner of the 2002 Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his outstanding contribution to travel literature
  • Des Dillon – the website of the author of Me and Ma Gal, Duck, The Big Q and others, now also a stand-up comedian
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
    – lots of information on Conan Doyle, as part of a much larger Sherlock Holmes site
  • Stewart Conn – homepage of the poet and playwright, and first Edinburgh Makar (2002–2005)
  • Andrew Drummond – homepage of the author of An Abridged History, A Handbook of Volapük, Elephantina, Novgorod the Great and others
  • Carol Ann Duffy
    – an on-line revision guide for use by students and teachers

  • Douglas Dunn     – an on-line study guide to the poetry of Douglas Dunn
  • Dorothy Dunnett – a
    website devoted to the works of Dorothy Dunnett, author of the Lymond
    Chronicles    , The House of Niccolo and others
  • Margaret Elphinstone – homepage
    of the author of The Sea Road, Hy Brasil and others
  • Jenni Fagan – website of the poet and author of The Panopticon, The Dead Queen of Bohemia, and others
  • Matthew Fitt – poet and novelist, and expert in the field of Scots language education
  • Catherine Forde – homepage of the author of The Drowning Pond, Fat Boy Swim, Firestarter, SKARRS and others
  • Ronald Frame – homepage of the author of The Lantern Bearers and others
  • Janice Galloway –
    interviews, articles, essays and texts on Janice Galloway and her works
  • Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James
    Leslie Mitchell) – homepage of the Grassic Gibbon Centre
  • Magi Gibson – homepage of poet and children’s writer Magi Gibson
  • W.S.
    Graham     – a brief introduction to the work of William Sydney Graham, best known
    for his poem ‘The Nightfishing’
  • Alasdair Gray –
    the official website of Alasdair Gray
  • Neil M Gunn
    – information and links on Neil Gunn
  • Jane Harris – homepage of the author of The Observations, Gillespie and I and others
  • Diana Hendry – homepage of the poet and author of books for children
  • Frances Mary Hendry –
    homepage of the author of Quest for a Kelpie, Quest for a Maid,
    Chandra and others
  • The Robert Henryson Society – information on Robert Henryson, the late medieval poet and author of The Testament of Cresseid
  • W.N. Herbert – the
    homepage of the poet W.N. (William) Herbert
  • John Herdman – the
    homepage of the author of Imelda and Other Stories, Ghostwriting,
    The Sinister Cabaret and others
  • Laura Hird – the homepage of the author
    of Nail & Other Stories, Born Free and more
  • James Hogg Society – information and links on James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd
  • The Hume Society – an international
    organization supporting scholarship on all aspects of David Hume’s thoughts and
    writings
  • A. B. Jackson – homepage of the
    Glasgow-based poet Andrew Buchanan Jackson, author of the collection Fire
    Stations
  • Robert Alan Jamieson – homepage of the poet and author of Da Happie Laand and others
  • Quinin Jardine – homepage of the author of the Bob Skinner crime series and others

  • Robin Jenkins     – an in-depth textual analysis of four extracts from Robin
    Jenkins’ The Cone-Gatherers for Higher Still, looking at themes, characters,
    style and structure
  • Paul Johnston – homepage of the
    author of Body Politic and the Quint Dalrymple novels
  • A L Kennedy – the author’s own website
  • Tom Leonard – includes audio of the
    author reading his poem “The Six O’Clock News”
  • David Lindsay – dedicated to the author of the classic fantasy novel A Voyage to Arcturus
  • Douglas Lindsay – a site devoted to
    the decidedly unusual series of Barney Thomson crime stories
  • Joan Lingard – a site dedicated to
    the author of The Twelfth Day of July, Across the Barricades, Tug
    of War    , Lizzie’s Leaving and many others
  • Douglas Lipton –
    homepage of this contemporary Dumfries-based poet
  • Christine De Luca – homepage of this Shetland (and Shetlandic) poet
  • Peter McCarey – The
    Syllabary    , the website of poet and author Peter McCarey
  • Karen McCombie – homepage of the
    author of the Ally’s World novels
  • Val McDermid – homepage of the author of
    A Place of Execution and others
  • George MacDonald – a website
    dedicated to the 19th-century poet, clergyman and author of children’s stories such
    as At the Back of the North Wind and The Princess and the Goblin
  • Alan MacGillivray – the
    homepage of Alan MacGillivray, the poet and literary scholar
  • Matt McGinn – a celebration
    of the life and work of this singer, songwriter, poet and novelist, perhaps best
    known for Coorie Doon
  • William Topaz McGonagall
    – homepage of the William Topaz McGonagall Appreciation Society, celebrating a
    unique talent
  • William McIlvanney – featuring writing by the award-winning author and journalist: “a haphazard record of experience, feeling and thought”
  • Bernard MacLaverty – the author’s
    official website
  • Sorley MacLean / Somhairle MacGill-Eain – Sorley MacLean Online, a website created by the Sorley MacLean Trust providing a comprehensive range of material on MacLean’s life and work
  • Ken MacLeod – The Early Days of a Better Nation, the blog of the author of The Fall Revolution series, the Engines of Light series, and others
  • Kevin MacNeil –
    homepage of this award-winning writer in English and Gaelic, the author of Love
    and Zen in the Outer Hebrides    , Be Wise Be Otherwise, The Stornoway
    Way    , A Method Actor’s Guide to Jekyll and Hyde and others
  • Susie Maguire – homepage of the author of Furthermore, The Short Hello and others
  • Peter
    Manson     – Freebase Accordion, homepage of Glasgow poet Peter Manson
  • Scott
    Martin     – homepage of the author of Ploughman, winner of the Millennium
    Poem for Scotland competition
  • metaphrog – homepage of the Franco-Scottish duo, most noted for the Louis series of graphic novels
  • Martin Millar – homepage
    of the author of The Good Fairies of New York, Love and Peace with Melody
    Paradise    , Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me and others (including the
    Thraxas novels, published under the name of Martin Scott)
  • Denise Mina – homepage of the author of The Field of Blood, The Dead Hour, The End of the Wasp Season and others, as well as several issues of Hellblazer
  • Edwin Morgan – a website dedicated
    to Edwin Morgan, containing a mass of information on one of Scotland’s greatest
    poets
  • Nicola Morgan – homepage of the author of Fleshmarket, Deathwatch and others
  • Edwin Muir – information and links on Edwin Muir
  • Neil Munro – information and links on Neil Munro, best-known as the author of the Para Handy tales
  • Bud Neill – a website dedicated
    to the comic-strip Wild West hero, Lobey Dosser
  • Liz Niven – homepage of this author and
    poet, writing in Scots and English
  • Margaret Oliphant – website devoted to the life and works of Margaret Oliphant, author of Kirsteen, Miss Marjoribanks, A Beleaguered City and others
  • Janet Paisley – homepage
    of this poet, playwright and author, writing in Scots and English, creator of
    Alien Crop, Not For Glory, White Rose Rebel and others
  • Don Paterson – website of the poet and author of the collections Rain, Landing Light and others
  • Sheenagh Pugh – homepage for this Shetland-based author and poet
  • Ian Rankin – the official site for the
    Inspector Rebus novels and their author
  • James Robertson – a website devoted to The Testament of Gideon Mack
  • J K Rowling – the official website of the author of the Harry Potter novels
  • Suhayl Saadi – homepage of the author of The Burning Mirror, Psychoraag, Joseph’s Box and others
  • Andrew Murray Scott – homepage of the author of The Big J, The Mushroom Club, Tumulus (winner of the 1999 Dundee Book Prize) and others
  • Manda Scott – homepage of the author of the “Boudica” series, the “Kellen Stewart” crime fiction, Rome: The Coming of the King and others
  • Martin Scott – see
    Martin Millar, above
  • Sir Walter Scott – the Walter Scott Digital Archive, built around the extensive Corson Collection of material held in Edinburgh University Library
  • Sir Walter Scott – Great Scott!: download this free booklet, full of wise and witty quotes from Scott’s writing, and ideas for places to visit and books to read

  • Iain Crichton Smith     – focusing on the skills needed to evaluate a novel for Higher
    Still, using Iain Crichton Smith’s Consider the Lilies as an example text
  • Alexander McCall
    Smith     – homepage of the author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and
    other titles featuring Precious Ramotswe, “the Miss Marple of Botswana”
  • William Soutar – the William Soutar
    website, containing a short biography, and text and audio files of some of his poems
  • Muriel Spark – the
    National Library of Scotland’s Muriel Spark archive, containing a massive range
    of material: manuscripts, diaries, notebooks, press cuttings and more
  • Alan Spence – homepage of the poet and author of Its Colours They Are Fine, The Magic Flute, Stone Garden, Way To Go, The Pure Land and others
  • Kenneth C. Steven – homepage of the poet, translator and chidren’s author
  • Gerda Stevenson – homepage of the author, poet, dramatist, actor, etc., author of Federer vs. Murray, If This Were Real, and others
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
    – information and links on Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Linda Strachan – homepage of the author of the Hamish McHaggis books for young children, and young adult novels such as Spider and Dead Boy Talking
  • Zoe Strachan – homepage of the author of Negative Space, Spin Cycle and others
  • Charles Stross –
    homepage of the author of Singularity Sky, Iron Sunrise,
    Accelerando, Halting State, The Atrocity Archive and others
  • Dee Sunshine – Scottish writer and artist; the website also contains its own Writers’ Resources section
  • Chiew-Siah Tei – website of the author of Little Hut of Leaping Fishes and others
  • Nigel Tranter – a website devoted
    to the late Nigel Tranter, author of over 130 novels and historical works
  • Alexander Trocchi – texts by
    and about the author of Young Adam and Cain’s Book
  • Claire-Marie Watson – homepage
    of the author of the 2002 Dundee Book Prize-winner, I am Grissel Jaffray
  • Irvine Welsh – the
    homepage of the author of Trainspotting, Marabou Stork Nightmares,
    Ecstasy, Porno and others
  • Louise Welsh – the homepage of the author of The Cutting Room, The Bullet Trick, Naming the Bones and others

If you have trouble connecting to any of these sites from this page,
or if you would like to recommend a link, please contact Duncan Jones.

 

Last updated 11 December 2015.