Dr Alice Piotrowska

With Frankfurt Book Fair almost upon us, what better time to share our gorgeous new Autumn/Winter New Books Scotland catalogue 🍂❄️ This beauty's jam-packed with the best new and upcoming Scottish books - dive in and discover your next favourite today 👇 publishingscotland.org/wp-content/upl…

this is very cool and casts an interesting light on the visual culture of political mags of the period (I'm guessing early 70s)

Publishing Scotland has announced its Environmental Sustainability Plan. Some incredibly important work, outlining practical steps to make the Scottish publishing sector more sustainable:

Our Translation Fund helps to get Scottish writers into many different languages - deadline 12 Aug. Tell all your international publishing friends! #translationfund @CreativeScots publishingscotland.org/what-we-do/tra…

📢Calling all publishing hopefuls! Come work with us - we're a nice bunch. 😊👋 ➡️Apply by this Fri 12th July at 5pm. @PublishScotland @stirpublishing @EdNapierPublish @SYPScotland #jobsinpublishing

@MisraSonali @FionaFNoble @ClaireSquires @KathyRanks @stirpublishing Amazing! Congratulations, Sonali! 🎉

Let me re-introduce myself as DR Sonali Misra – passed my viva with *no corrections*! Grateful to Prof Anamik Saha, Dr Gemma Robinson and @FionaFNoble for the engaging dialogue and my supervisors @ClaireSquires @KathyRanks for their guidance and support! @stirpublishing #PhDone

TODAY!!! Our #NapierPublish students have worked so hard & are looking forward to seeing you! 4.30pm in B2 (there will be signs/guides) for the formal celebrations & in Merchiston Library from 5.30pm! @EdNapLib @EdinburghNapier #publishingshowcase

Our Publishing Showcase is this Thursday! Join us to celebrate the past and future of MSc Publishing 🎉 RSVP here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/publishing-s…

@MariaVBooks @bookyvikki Thanks, Maria!

My final project before leaving Publishing Scotland involved making good use of those 15GB of scanned archives... Happy 50 years to the organisation that helped shape Scottish publishing into what it is today. See some highlights below!

(And thanks to @sgsah for funding that summer in the @dundeeuni archive...!)

Now for the winner of Book of the Year: Début Fiction (sponsored by @spotifyuk) is IN MEMORIAM by Alice Winn (@vikingbooksuk). Congratulations! “A really exceptional book that people will be reading for decades”, declared one judge. #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards

Blown away to have not one but TWO titles on the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize longlist! THE REMAINS (by @Margo_Glantz /tr. @ellen_c_jones) and OF CATTLE AND MEN (Ana Paula Maia/tr. @ZAPTranslations ). Congrats to the rest of the longlist, and 🙏 to the @OxfortdCCT team!

One for the diary!

details below about Napier’s MSc Publishing Showcase happening at the end of the month. we’d love to see many people from the Scottish scene there!

The Publishing Showcase is now open for booking! Join us for an awards ceremony and drinks reception on Thursday 30 May, from 4:30 pm to late. Publishers, authors, booksellers, academics, Publishing alumni – we’d love to see you there! RSVP here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/publishing-s…

Save the date!

The Scottish Book Trade Conference 2024 in partnership with @BAbooksellers is open for booking; publishers, bookshops, and others working in our brilliant industry, this day is for you! Join us in Edinburgh on 16 May. #scotbookconf tickettailor.com/events/publish…

We've extended our application deadline for our 2024/25 committee! 📣 Join us if you'd like to be involved in some great events that we have planned for our next term!! 📚🎟️ thesyp.org.uk/volunteer/join…

✍️Krakow literary residency programme is open to writers and translators connected to #CitiesofLit! 🇵🇱 Deadline: 31 May Full Details: bit.ly/3w2Oxst