In a bid to shake up the study texts for English courses, the SQA has told teachers they can drop Shakespeare in favour of Scottish poets and writers, even though the Bard of Avon is credited with ...

Professor Lindsay Paterson talks to our Writer at Large about the decline and fall of the once great Scottish school ...

Carl MacDougall, Edwin Morgan, Liz Lochhead and Iain Banks explore Scottish writing ... to the power of place and landscape in Scottish literature. 1. Read good poetry, the best, modern or ...

Caroline McCracken-Flesher teaches the British nineteenth-century, the novel wherever it is to be found, Scottish literature and culture, the postcolonial, literary theory, British comedy, the ...

Dominic Hinde, author of A Utopia Like Any Other, said the events were "critical to the vitality and impact of Scottish writers". He said they were key to cultural life and should be seen as a ...