“New Writing Scotland remains the most accurate barometer of new trends in Scottish writing”
Simon Hall, The Herald
New Writing Scotland is an annual volume publishing poetry and prose from both emerging and established writers. Every piece appears here in print for the first time, and has been drawn from a wide cross-section of Scottish culture and society. Click here for details of how to submit your work to New Writing Scotland.
Available individually or on subscription.
New Writing Scotland 40 will be published in summer 2022. We are currently closed to submissions.
Break in Case of Silence
New Writing Scotland 39 – 2021
ed. Rachelle Atalla, Marjorie Lotfi,
and Maggie Rabatski
The Last Good Year
New Writing Scotland 38 – 2020
ed. Rachelle Atalla & Samuel Tongue
Sound of an Iceberg
New Writing Scotland 37 – 2019
ed. Susie Maguire & Samuel Tongue
With Their Best Clothes On
New Writing Scotland 36 – 2018
ed. Susie Maguire & Samuel Tongue
She Said He Said I Said
New Writing Scotland 35 – 2017
ed. Diana Hendry & Susie Maguire
Talking About Lobsters
New Writing Scotland 34 – 2016
ed. Gerry Cambridge & Diana Hendry
The Rooftop Busker
New Writing Scotland 33 – 2015
ed. Gerry Cambridge & Diana Hendry
Songs of Other Places
New Writing Scotland 32 – 2014
ed. Gerry Cambridge & Zoë Strachan
Black Middens
New Writing Scotland 31 – 2013
ed. Carl MacDougall & Zoë Strachan
A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening
New Writing Scotland 30 – 2012
ed. Carl MacDougall & Zoë Strachan
The Flight of the Turtle
New Writing Scotland 29 – 2011
ed. Alan Bissett & Carl MacDougall
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