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David Keenan on This is Memorial Device
Author Andrew O'Hagan suggested he wouldn't like anyone who doesn't love it, claiming it 'the sound of young Scotland distilled' – This is Memorial Dev... Read more »| 30 Jan 2017 -
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Australia Day: A New Narrative
As the troubled narrative of Australia Day continues, let's use this opportunity to provide an introduction to five Indigenous writers whose outstanding works are too often marginalised Read more »| 26 Jan 2017 -
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Kapka Kassabova on borders: "A powerful political tool"
Kapka Kassabova captures cold war history and the current refugee crisis on the blurred borders of the Balkan peninsula. The poet and travel writer's beautiful, tragic and universal new book may just be the most important you read in this year of Brexit Read more »| 23 Jan 2017 -
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David Keenan on writing & writers
The Skinny caught up with author David Keenan in a Glasgow bar to discuss his new novel This is Memorial Device, a hugely impressive debut whose subtitl... Read more »| 20 Jan 2017 -
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How to Get Published: Writing groups in the North
If your New Year's resolution is to finally finish your debut novel, publish your work or simply get feedback from others, these writing groups will help you on the way Read more »| 06 Jan 2017 -
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Keith Hutson on debut poetry collection Routines
Our poetry columnist begins 2017 by speaking with emerging poet Keith Hutson about his debut collection of 31 sonnets, Routines, writing habits, influences and resolutions for the new year Read more »| 06 Jan 2017
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Amy Stewart on her Kopp Sisters novels
Lady Cop Makes Trouble picks up the story of the three Kopp sisters after their debut in Girl Waits With Gun. Amy Stewart talks about filling the holes in fa... Read more »| 06 Jan 2017 -
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Poetry Slams, Am-drams & Bellyaches
Competition in art: a flawed concept surely? Scottish Poetry Slam champ Iona Lee argues that two separate beings, two lives of experience with opposite tastes and talents should not be graded or pitted against one another. In art there's no correct answer Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
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Introducing Storyhouse, Chester's new arts centre
Chester's brand-new arts centre, Storyhouse, opens in May 2017. A major renovation and extension of the city's old Odeon building, it houses two state-of-the... Read more »| 20 Dec 2016 -
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Isabel Buchanan on Trials on Death Row in Pakistan
In November, Isabel Buchanan was joint winner of the Saltire Society First Book award for her reflections on the Pakistani death row cases she worked to overturn. Here she discusses finding her feet in a new culture and legal system. Read more »| 07 Dec 2016 -
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Poetry News: Review of 2016
Our monthly poetry column reviews the events of 2016 – including Neu! Reekie! and Flint & Pitch – while offering up some lyrical gift options for Christmas Read more »| 05 Dec 2016 -
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The Skinny Books of 2016
The Skinny books team choose their favourites of 2016, from James Kelman's tale of musical beginnings to the tragic end of musician Ali Eskandarian, working through a somehow life-affirming frozen apocalyse and bitesized, bittersweet Treats Read more »| 02 Dec 2016 -
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A Literary Gift Guide: Challenging the Narrative
This year, while our books gift guide offers little Christmas sparkle it's anything but dull. These are literary suggestions aligned with the issues of our age offering knowledge, which, after a damning 2016, could let in the light Read more »| 23 Nov 2016 -
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Graphic Content: Stef Bradley
Liverpool-based zine maker Stef Bradley makes comics that celebrate the extraordinary everyday. Read more »| 18 Nov 2016 -
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Make Fiction Great Again! 5 Literary Demagogues
You couldn’t write what’s unfolding on the global stage right now. Yet several writers have come close, as evidenced with the characters laid out below. Have a peek, between your fingers, at what could be in store for the human race Read more »| 15 Nov 2016