Thanks! Will properly digest later.

Likely going to Paris this summer. Any non-obvious art/museum tips gratefully received.

Dr David Summers Master of Research (MRes) Studentship in Scottish Literature at Edinburgh Napier University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Dr David Summers Master of Research (MRes) Studentship in Scottish Literature at Edinburgh Napier University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Please share this advert for the Dr David Summers Master of Research (MRes) Studentship in Scottish Literature @edinburghnapier.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 May 2026.

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The Dr David Summers Trust covers fees up to the cost of £5000 for a student to undertake an MRes project in any aspect of Scottish Literature. Please contact me directly if interested.

Dr David Summers Master of Research (MRes) Studentship in Scottish Literature at Edinburgh Napier University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Dr David Summers Master of Research (MRes) Studentship in Scottish Literature at Edinburgh Napier University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Please share this advert for the Dr David Summers Master of Research (MRes) Studentship in Scottish Literature @edinburghnapier.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 May 2026.

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I have a chapter in this volume comparing the work and ideas of Alasdair Gray and Hugh MacDiarmid.

THE EDINBURGH COMPANION TO ALASDAIR GRAY AND THE ARTS, published by @edinburghup.bsky.social, is now available to pre-order at discount.

This is the correct way to do it

Just signed a contract to co-edit, with Juliet Shields, THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE SCOTTISH NOVEL. We have a great set of contributors and I'm looking forward to seeing the volume develop.

My story in the @heraldscotland.bsky.social
On how poet Kenneth White, who left his house in France to the local council on the proviso they use it for writers residencies, has had his legacy overturne

www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

Petition against the move
www.change.org/p/non-%C3%A0...

Photo of someone holding a copy of Publisher Not Found

A copy of Publisher Not Found with caption "happy to have received my pre order from the wonderful 404 Ink. Feels like this will be a galvanising read ahead of LBF'

Very exciting to see copies of our book landing with peeps now. I've seen at least 3 people say they're reading it on the way to LBF and given how bleak some of it gets, I apologise. But hopefully it's something to chat about in the one hour long queues for coffee?!

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Into the blue

Into the blue

Coming soon! The 404 Ink Bursary for small presses and accompanying crowdfunder will launch in mid-March. This will give away at least £3,000 to small presses - we hope to raise more to pay it forward to even more people.

RSE awards provide over £856K boost to Scotland’s research sector We are pleased to announce that 91 exceptional research projects were selected at the latest Research Awards open call.

Grateful to the Royal Society of Edinburgh for further support for my project to produce the first scholarly edition of Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Hugh MacDiarmid's book, SCOTTISH SCENE, to be published by @asls.org.uk

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Image of writer Robert Louis Stevenson on cover of Critical Lives biography by Glenda Norquay

Very pleased to see this wee book on restless adventurer Robert Louis Stevenson out in the world.
Thanks to Reaktion Books for all their support along the way. reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/robert-...

#RLS @asls.org.uk @iassl.bsky.social

Very much a middle-class Jewish boyhood. Interesting book.

I assume you'll have read David Daiches's memoir, TWO WORLDS?

Thanks! Interesting on several levels (and not least because this website doesn't promote the local).

Union Canal, Edinburgh

The February sun goes down on the Union Canal, Edinburgh. The light is returning...

Call for Papers: 'Scotland and the In-Between', the annual Société française d’études écossaises (French Society for Scottish Studies) conference (Université de Lorraine, 12-14 Nov 2026).

Proposals for papers in French or English are due 28th April.

More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6338

The Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre

James Leslie Mitchell was born today in 1901. If you've not been, get yourself to the Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre in Arbuthnott. It's a small community-run museum and café where you can view some fab Gibbon paraphernalia, have a gander at some books, and get a lovely homemade lunch.

The Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre

James Leslie Mitchell was born today in 1901. If you've not been, get yourself to the Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre in Arbuthnott. It's a small community-run museum and café where you can view some fab Gibbon paraphernalia, have a gander at some books, and get a lovely homemade lunch.

A black-and-white photograph in profile of James Leslie Mitchell, also known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, c. 1920–1930, by an unknown photographer. A young man, with short, trimmed, swept-back hair and a slightly pensive expression.

James Leslie Mitchell (1901–1935), better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was born on this day, 13 Feb. Author of SUNSET SONG – & many other titles from historical to science fiction – he is one of the most important Scottish writers of the 20th century.
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Sequamur Edited and introduced by Michelle Macleod with additional material and editorial assistance from Emma Dymock and Laurence Cavanagh. Thanks to Scottish Government funding, free class sets of Sequamur…

Thanks to funding from the Scottish government, ASL is offering free class sets of Donald S. Murray’s play SEQUAMUR – a set text for Higher English – to secondary schools in Scotland. See our website for details:
@educationscotland.bsky.social @qualifications.gov.scot
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Thank you @theguardian.com for publishing this piece on my mother and Alzheimer’s:

Sounds of Spring. Goldfinch party.