Universities Committee for Scottish Literature

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Shown in this photo are the Fletcher of Saltoun Awardees 2025 with the presenters of their awards, Saltire Society Convenor Susan Garnsworthy (front, 3rd from left), and Dr Scott Hames, Chair of the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature (centre back)

Did you know UCSL has launched a new book prize for excellent scholarship in the field? We announced on Bluesky and would love to see you over there - this account will shortly close ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-liter…

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UCSL is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Ross Roy Prize ucsl-scotland.com/2025/11/24/ros…

Delighted to announce that vol 30 of 'Review of Scottish Culture' is now available online. It's another super issue, ranging through Scotland and across genres, from senior scholars and emerging voices. All free to download. Now open, for new submissions! journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc

Scottish writers! Fancy spending two months in Aotearoa New Zealand next year? Apply for the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies (CISS) Writing Fellowship at the University of Otago. Applications close on 31 October…otago.ac.nz/ciss

Happy birthday James Kelman! Born on 9th of June 1946, Kelman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer & playwright. In his early twenties he began writing stories that were true to his own life & social-cultural experience. Author portraits for Lean Tales with @AOwensArchive

Earlier this month Scottish Lit PhD students held a fantastic PG Symposium on 'New Directions' for the field @StirUni - many congrats to the organisers and speakers! More pics at the link. UCSL is now recruiting new PG reps, so please do get in touch... ucsl-scotland.com/2025/02/13/202…

It was great to present two papers this week at the @UofGCSCS and @studyscotlit PG symposia! Lots of fruitful and forward-looking conversations around the current state of Scottish literature research. Looking forward to seeing these papers published in the near future ✨

Huge thanks to @DaniGaravelli1 for her brilliant piece in @LRB, this was Alasdair’s favourite literary magazine to read so feels very special for the archive to be featured in it, link in bio to read the piece in full👆🏽

It could be an April Fool but, apparently, it’s publication day for this wee book. Thanks to all at @boydellbrewer for bringing this into the world!

DEADLINE EXTENSION: 14 March Still getting fantastic abstracts coming in, so we're staying open for submissions a bit longer! Send in your abstracts and join us for what's shaping up to be a fascinating and diverse day of research presentations and discussion! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚🦌🦐🦛🐁🦒🦔

Sharing the first of two comparative studies of Alasdair Gray and Edwin Morgan’s work from 1967-84, supported by @EdMorganTrust created by @_domenicodr for #lgbtplushistorymonth Sonnets from Scotland is considered the most pivotal poetry collection of the 1980s in Scotland and

For the latest on @project_ERSKINE do join us for this online talk with @poncarova, 24 February 12-1pm. DM for link!

📢Call for Papers! We are delighted to announce that the Centre's Postgraduate Conference will take place on 30 April 2025 (more details to follow). Deadline for submissions: 7 March 2025. Scan the QR code or click the link here for submission details: scotlit-iassl.org/wp-content/upl…

Come chat Scot Lit with @talklessler, me, and other PGRs in Stirling this May! It's promising to be an exciting afternoon of discussion and building connections. Looking forward to receiving your proposals! 🦔🦒🦛🦕🦐🦌🦎🐁

Pleased to announce our 2025 PG Symposium, to be held at @StirUni on 2 May - CFP below! ucsl-scotland.com/2025/02/13/202…

DATE CHANGE 👆🏽FREE ONLINE WEBINAR ⬇️⬆️ 18.03.25 17:00-19:00 (GMT) ‘Colonialism in the work of Alasdair Gray: Beyond ‘Poor Things’ This free webinar will look at Gray’s anticolonial thinking historically within his work and how it changed over course of his creative life