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Schools Conference: 2013

Scott, Hogg, Stevenson and their influence on Scottish literature (James Robertson)

Click here for the ASL Free Publications, including The Devil I am Sure: Three short stories by James Hogg; As It Was Told to Me: Three short stories by Sir Walter Scott; Sins and Follies: Three short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Amateur Emigrant by Robert Louis Stevenson; and Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Click here for the Scotnotes study guides, including James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner; Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Catriona; and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Master of Ballantrae and The Ebb-Tide.

The short stories of Iain Crichton Smith (Carl MacDougall)

Click here to read Edwin Morgan’s article ‘The Contribution of Iain Crichton Smith’, published in ScotLit 23 (2000).

Click here to read Moray Watson’s article ‘The Idea of Island in Gaelic Fiction’, published in The Bottle Imp 21.

Tally’s Blood and the tyranny of love (Professor Ian Brown)

Click here for the ASL Teaching Notes, including the National 5 Teaching Note for Tally’s Blood.

Click here to watch Tally’s Blood, a co-production between ASL and Awkward Stranger.

The new award in Scottish Studies (Pauline Rodger)

The poetry of Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay (Dorothy McMillan)

Click here for the ASL Teaching Notes, including the National 5 Teaching Note for Six Poems by Jackie Kay.

Click here for J P O’Malley’s ‘An Interview with Jackie Kay’, published in The Bottle Imp 15.

The poetry of Norman MacCaig (Professor Alan Riach)

Click here for the Scotnote study guide The Poetry of Norman MacCaig.