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Universities Committee for Scottish Literature
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UCSL brings together Scotland’s universities in support of the study of Scottish writing old and new. We award the Ross Roy Prize and the Scottish Literary Studies Prize. https://ucsl-scotland.com/
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Excellent afternoon with @christophersmith.bsky.social engaging on AHRC policy, strategy and outlook in the context of @ukri.org & UK government strategy- hosted by
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Colleagues from across the sector in Scotland really enjoyed themselves !
June 26, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Not long to get your proposals in for the James Kelman 80th birthday conference, in Spring 2027.
Jim was 80 earlier this month.
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June 19, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”. For #GiesAScotsPoemDay @brambrella.bsky.social invited some of the standard-bearers of present-day Scots poetry to compose new work responding to MacDiarmid & his legacy
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Gies a Scots Poem Day 2026
This year’s Gies a Scots Poem Day is something special. 2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle — a foundational work for contemporary poetry in Scots, and a poe...
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June 10, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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CFP: James Kelman at 80 (Spring 2027, Glasgow, deadline 30 June 2026)

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2026 sees Glaswegian writer James Kelman reach his 80th year. In a career lasting over fifty years, Kelman has pioneered a highly distinctive literary practice across genres including the novel, the short story, the essay, and drama. But it is as a writer of fiction that Kelman’s influence looms largest. Kelman’s work in fiction is distinguished for its uncompromising formal stances and for the writer’s insistence on the directly political significance of those stances. As Kelman put it in an early interview, ‘Getting rid of [the] standard third party narrative voice is getting rid of a whole value system. You have to start examining every term’. His work has been hugely influential on generations of artists, and his reception has often been controversial. But his artistic commitments remain determinedly in place, and he continues to write and publish unique work. This international conference sets out to consider the living legacy of Kelman’s writing, especially in the genres of the novel and the short story, and examines and reassesses his ongoing significance in the cultural and political worlds of the twenty-first century. We invite paper proposals on the innovations of Kelman’s fiction and its political significance, focusing on any period or aspect of Kelman’s work. The conference will be held at the University of Glasgow, in the spring of 2027 (exact date to be confirmed). More information to follow.
May 22, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Congratulations to everyone involved in the publication of the works of Agnes Owens. The first of the reissues, including Gentlemen Of The West, are out today - with introductions by Scottish writers and terrific use of Joan Eardley paintings. A beautiful set of books.
May 7, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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Planning
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May 7, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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new Lectureship in Scottish Literature at St Andrews - deadline 16 April www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU707/l...
Lecturer in Scottish Literature - AC2680 at University of St Andrews
An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in Scottish Literature - AC2680 is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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March 17, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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Exciting ScotLit opportunity for someone!
March 17, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Have you nominated a 2024/25 ScotLit academic book yet? Only a few weeks left...
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And for our first post it's a pleasure to announce a brand new prize for outstanding scholarship in our field.

Nominations are now open for the 2026 Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize: ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...
March 4, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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Closing soon! We have to find it!!!
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CFP: 2026 Scottish Literature PG Symposium

(Mis)placing Scottish Literature
8 May 2026, University of Glasgow

Details: ucsl-scotland.com/2026-pg-symp...
Deadline 15 March, student travel bursaries available!
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March 4, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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Kang-Yen Chiu received the 2025 Jack Medal for his chapter 'Translation and Film Adaptation of Ivanhoe in the Modern History of Taiwan,’ published in 'Scotland and China: Literary Encounters' (@scroll-scotlit.bsky.social, @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2025). Read the statement: tinyurl.com/255n2rm6
March 3, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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Sarah Sharp @abdnriiss.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social received the Honourable Mention for the article ‘The Settler Colonial Cotter: Situating “The Cotter’s Saturday Night” in Post-Revolutionary America,’ published in the Burns Chronicle @edinburghup.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/255n2rm6
March 4, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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Our annual Susan Manning Lecture is an exciting one this year. Cedric Tolliver will be speaking on African-American spy novels. Book here: llc.ed.ac.uk/english-lite... @uoe-llc.bsky.social
The Susan Manning Memorial Lecture | English and Scottish Literature | Literatures Languages and Culture
Join us in person for the Susan Manning Memorial Lecture 2026 by Professor Cedric Tolliver (University of Oklahoma), followed by a Q&A and reception.
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March 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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The Caledonian Trans Reveal
4 March @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social & online: free

Writer & performer Harry Josephine Giles looks at transgender figures across genres in modern Scottish literature – with @vavapoetry.bsky.social, @domenicodr.bsky.social & Moth McGowan
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The Caledonian Trans Reveal Scottish Gender Novels in the Literature of Devolution University of Aberdeen
February 17, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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Reminder: nominations close 31 March!
studyscotlit.bsky.social Universities Committee for Scottish Literature @studyscotlit.bsky.social · Dec 6
And for our first post it's a pleasure to announce a brand new prize for outstanding scholarship in our field.

Nominations are now open for the 2026 Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize: ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...
February 5, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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CFP: 2026 Scottish Literature PG Symposium

(Mis)placing Scottish Literature
8 May 2026, University of Glasgow

Details: ucsl-scotland.com/2026-pg-symp...
Deadline 15 March, student travel bursaries available!
A poster advertising a PG symposium for Scottish Literature
February 3, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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A curious coincidence? A certain sympathy for the Satanic? Or a testament to the enduring influence of James Hogg’s CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER? Of the 8 devilish novels chosen by Luke Dumas, 3 – including Hogg’s masterpiece – are by Scottish authors…
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The Darkness Within: 8 Novels About the Devil
Lucifer. Beelzebub. The Prince of Darkness. The guy’s got a lot of names—and even more credits. In Christianity, he’s the master of sin and evil. In horror movies, the monstrous voice that speaks t…
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December 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/2 (Autumn/Winter 2025)

The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review is online now via @projectmuse.bsky.social (institutional access required). Print copies will be in the mail to subscribers shortly!
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A dark blue journal cover with white lettering: SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW Autumn | Winter 2025 Journal of the Association for Scottish Literature The cover illustration shows an open book, lying on its back, with four stylised, twisty thistles growing from between its fanned pages. Contents page 1 Editorial Kang-yen Chiu: Resistance to Accommodation: Postcolonial Readings of the Highland Clearances in Iain Crichton Smith’s Consider the Lilies Megan Coyer: ‘By famine, sword, and pestilence’: James Hogg and Cholera in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country Alison Denham: William Thom (1798–1848), Weaver Poet: The London Years Katherine Ferrier: The Literary Gossiping of Susan Ferrier Mao Guihua and Zheng Ronghua: Animal Subjectivity in the Poetry of Robert Burns Under the Animal Turn Scott Hames: Tom Nairn as Essayist: Romantic Negativity and Critical Imagination Sarah Harlan-Haughey: Low Visibility: ‘wickit wedderis’ and the Contest of Knowledge in The Taill of Rauf Coilȝear Kaiyue He: Muriel Spark and the House of the Brontës: Female Authorship and Autonomy Joanna Martin: ‘He in alle thing wele temperite was’: The Emotional Language of The Buik of King Alexander The Conquerour Ian Cameron Robertson: Green Blades Among the Rubble – Posterity’s Judgement on The Minstrel? Angus Sutherland: Hogg and the Ettrick Clearances Annalisa Nicholson: Octonaries upon the Vanitie and Inconstancie of the World, by Esther Inglis; an essay, by Jamie Reid Baxter (review) Trish Reid: Plays in Scots, Volume 1 and Volume 2, by Michel Tremblay (review) Honor Rieley: The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation, 1640–1800, edited by Nicholas Brownlees (review) Désha Osborne: Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons: Romanticism’s Black Geographies, by Katey Castellano (review) Adam Kozaczka: Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions, edited by Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt (review) Zsuzsanna Varga: A modern skót irodalom a 19. század végétől napjainkig [Modern Scottish Literature from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day], by Attila Dósa (review) Lois Burke: The International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature, edited by Maureen A. Farrell and Robert A. Davis (review) Scott Lyall: History of a Revoluter: The Life of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon, by William K. Malcolm (review) Peter Auger: Mary Queen of Scots: The First Biography: With the Life and Times of Its Author, George Con, by Ronald Santangeli (review) Amy Wilcockson: Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century, by Sarah Sharp (review) Hilary Clydesdale: Scottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life, by Juliet Shields (review) Notes on Contributors
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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And for our first post it's a pleasure to announce a brand new prize for outstanding scholarship in our field.

Nominations are now open for the 2026 Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize: ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Hello world! We are belatedly making the move across. Please follow for news on Scottish literary studies - events, publications, awards, etc!
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM