A Place to Think, a Place to Be

I suppose it all began when I was a child. The earliest holidays I can remember were to places like Cullercoats and Dunbar on the east coast. Later on we went to Girvan and Dunoon in the west, but it was always to the coast we went on holiday. Somewhere there’s a small black and white photo of me being hurled in a pushchair to Cullercoats beach. I can still remember the long journey we […]

Literature in Scotland: A Different Approach

Starting this new blog I’ve been reflecting on an old one back in 2009 in which I outlined my thoughts on how the future of literature in Scotland should be taken forward. What follows are the views I sent to the Literature Working Group set up that year by the then Scottish Government Culture Minister Michael Russell to make recommendations about a new approach to public funding of writers and publishers in Scotland. The Working […]