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Galloway bound

Posted September 9, 2010 2:38 pm by Andrew Martin | Permalink

wigtown-from-kirkinner-500No sooner are the marquees dismantled at the Edinburgh Book Festival than attention turns to Wigtown, Scotland’s only Book Town, and home of a prestigious poetry prize. As usual an impressive array of busy writers have been lured down to Galloway, many of them Scottish – this year we have the strong line-up of Alasdair Gray,Andrew Greig,Jackie Kay,Iain M. Banks,Ronald Frame, James Robertson, and John Byrne as well as locals Liz Niven and Hugh McMillan and the more unexpected Barbara Dickson and Andy Goram with their autobiographies. Wigtown Book Festival runs from 24 September to 3 October.(© Photograph – Angus Bremner)

Categories: Alasdair Gray Andrew Greig Hugh McMillan Iain Banks Jackie Kay James Robertson Liz Niven Ronald Frame Scottish fiction Wigtown Book Festival

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In the event of a fire

Posted October 19, 2009 4:12 pm by Andrew Martin | Permalink

Just arrived here at NLS is In the event of a fire aka >New Writing Scotland 27. This year the novelist and now playwright Alan Bisset and the Scots poet Liz Niven have put together the annual anthology of poetry and short stories from the Association of Scottish Literary Studies. As usual the volume is packed full of pieces, from writers new as well as familiar. Among the interesting names I noted were Catherine Czerkawska best known for her fine Traverse play Wormwood, the Scots poet Nancy Somerville, the actress Gerda Stevenson and the Gaelic poet and novelist in English Christopher Whyte. I’m looking forward to digging into this deceptively slim volume. Meanwhile we have Alan Bisset coming to NLS in on 3 December. More information and how to book can be found at our listing of Events.

Categories: Catherine Czerkawska Christopher Whyte Gerda Stevenson Liz Niven Nancy Somerville

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