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THE DR GAVIN WALLACE FELLOWSHIP An annual award for a writer based in Scotland Submission deadline: 17 June 2013 The annual Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship has been created to enable a writer based in Scotland to develop their craft, and to produce a work of quality. The Fellowship will carry a stipend of £20,000 for one year.

 

THE BOTTLE IMP Issue 13, May 2013 The latest edition of our free online ezine, The Bottle Imp, is now available. Issue 13 takes a look at outside perceptions of Scotland and the Scots, containing articles such as Wattie Goes to Hollwood: Scott, Scotland and Film; ‘Shetland’ and the Intriguing Disappearance of the North-Boat; The Scottish Bagpipe: Political and Religious Symbolism in English Literature and Satire; and much more.

 

REPRESENTING AYRSHIRE: JOHN GALT AND HIS SUCCESSORS ASLS Annual Conference 2013 8 June 2013, Ayr Campus, University of the West of Scotland, Ayr John Galt’s native Ayrshire is a place of geographical contrasts, and it has been affected by the major historical movements of modern Scotland, from the Reformation to post-industrialism. It is no surprise, then, that Ayrshire has proved a fruitful setting for a wide variety of popular and literary novelists: what is surprising, perhaps, is that this conference is the first one devoted to those numerous writers who represent Ayrshire.

 

RETHINKING GEORGE MacDONALD Contexts and Contemporaries ASLS Occasional Papers series 17 Edited by Christopher MacLachlan, John Patrick Pazdziora & Ginger Stelle George MacDonald is the acknowledged forefather of later fantasy writers such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. This collection of sixteen essays examines MacDonald’s place in the Victorian literary scene, his engagement with his contemporaries and his interactions with the social, political, and theological movements of his age.

 

FABLES Robert Louis Stevenson Introduction by William Gray Published after Stevenson’s death, these strange little stories offer what the author called “tail foremost moralities”. Peculiar and provocative, graceful, funny, sometimes eerie, and always beautiful, Stevenson’s Fables are true masterpieces of art, wit, and style. FREE EBOOK EDITIONS

 

TRADITIONAL TALES ASLS Annual Volume 41 by Allan Cunningham; edited by Tim Killick Traditional Tales is a selection of folk stories steeped in the traditions and popular literature of southern Scotland and northern England. Mixing the natural and supernatural, they blur the distinction between the oral traditions of the distant past and emerging ideas of literature and modernity.

Last updated 15 May 2013