The Association for Scottish
Literary Studies

NEWS The First Men on Mercury, by Edwin Morgan, has been adapted into comic-strip form for the ASLS by the Glasgow-based comics duo metaphrog. To mark National Poetry Day 2009, more than 30,000 copies have been distributed to all Secondary school pupils in the poet’s home city. See the finished article here! Understanding Grammar in Scotland Today, by John Corbett and Christian Kay, is now available. The programme for the 2009 ASLS Schools Conference is now online. In the Event of Fire: New Writing Scotland 27, edited by Alan Bissett and Liz Niven, is now available. The programme for the 2009 ASLS Schools Conference is now online. Issue five of The Bottle Imp, our free Scottish Studies ezine produced in association with the Scottish Writing Exhibition, is now available. Crossing the Highland Line: Cross-Currents in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Writing, edited by Christopher MacLachlan, is now available. What is Scottish Literature?, a brief introduction by Alan Riach, is available for free download as a PDF. Issue four of the International Journal of Scottish Literature, our free online peer-reviewed journal, is now available. Alan Bissett, author of Boyracers and The Incredible Adam Spark, will join Liz Niven as co-editor of New Writing Scotland 27, to be published in 2009. Many thanks to our outgoing editor, Brian Whittingham, for all his hard work on the last three issues. Scottish People’s Theatre: Plays by Glasgow Unity Writers, edited by Bill Findlay, is now available. Scottish Plays for Schools, co-published by ASLS and Hodder Gibson, is now available. ASLS has moved! As from 1 March 2007, we are now based in the Department of Scottish Literature, 7 University Gardens, University of Glasgow. Many thanks to Glasgow’s Scottish Literature department for providing us with accommodation, and many thanks to the Scottish History department for looking after us so well for so long. ASLS in USA A selection of ASLS titles are now available in the USA and Canada from the Chicago-based Independent Publishers Group. Click here to see the list of titles available. Retrieving and Renewing: Edwin Morgan, the current Scottish Makar, has written a poem for ASLS, entitled ‘Retrieving and Renewing’: click HERE to see it.

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The Association for Scottish Literary Studies aims to promote the study, teaching and writing of Scottish literature, and to further the study of the languages of Scotland.

To these ends, ASLS publishes a variety of materials:
 

	The ASLS Annual Volumes series: works of Scottish literature which have either been neglected or which merit a fresh presentation to a modern audience. Browse the ASLS Annual Volume series Find out how to receive a new Annual Volume each year as an ASLS member
	New Writing Scotland, an annual anthology of new poetry, drama and short fiction, in English, Scots and Gaelic – click here for information on how to submit your work for consideration. Browse back issues of New Writing Scotland Find out how to receive a new edition of New Writing Scotland each year as an ASLS member
	The journal Scottish Literary Review, containing literary studies, criticism and in-depth reviews of books. Browse back issues of Scottish Literary Review Find out how to receive two issues of Scottish Literary Review each year as an ASLS member
	The journal Scottish Language, publishing scholarly studies of the languages of Scotland, past and present. Browse back issues of Scottish Language Find out how to receive a new issue of Scottish Language each year as an ASLS member
	The International Journal of Scottish Literature is a peer-reviewed online journal which aims to develop and circulate international perspectives on Scottish writing. Read the latest issue of the IJSL
	The ASLS newsletter ScotLit, which carries short articles, features and news. Browse back issues of ScotLit Find out how to receive two issues of ScotLit each year as an ASLS member
	The Bottle Imp is a free online ezine for scholars and students of Scottish literature, produced by ASLS in conjunction with the Scottish Writing Exhibition. Uncork The Bottle Imp.
	Scotnotes: a series of study guides on Scottish authors and poets (24 books to date and still growing). Browse the ASLS Scotnotes series Find out how to receive two Scotnotes each year as part of the ASLS Schools Subscription package
	Teaching Notes: advice and support from teachers of English on how to use Scottish texts in the classroom. Download ASLS Teaching Notes Find out how to receive two sets of Teaching Notes each year as part of the ASLS Schools Subscription package
	Audio CDs: poems read by their authors, with informed commentary from leading academics. Browse the range of ASLS Audio CDs
	Occasional Papers: scholarly essays on a range of subjects related to Scottish literature and language. Browse the ASLS Occasional Papers series
	Treasure Islands: a guide to Scottish fiction for young readers aged 10–14: a collection of 160 short reviews of the best Scottish children’s fiction, with information on themes, content, age range and reading level. Learn more Browse on-line updates to Treasure Islands.

ASLS also holds regular Conferences on Scottish language and literature:

• The ASLS Annual Conference, held each May in locations around Scotland;
• The ASLS Schools Conference, held annually on the first Saturday in October;
• The ASLS Languages Conference, held every November.

Some of the papers presented at recent Conferences are available on-line here.

Details on how to submit material for publication to ASLS can be found here.

If you are already involved with Scottish Studies, personally or professionally, please consider adding your name to the Scottish Studies Database. The SSD is a list of scholars currently working in Scottish literature, language, history and culture, listed with their research interests and institution. We hope it will help scholars and students make and maintain professional contact.

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LATEST UPDATES

• The programme for the 2009 ASLS Schools Conference is now online.
• Details of New Writing Scotland 26, entitled Bucket of Frogs, are now available (11 August 2007)
• Scottish People’s Theatre: Plays by Glasgow Unity Writers, edited by Bill Findlay, is now available.
• Details of the 2008 ASLS Annual Conference, “Dramatising Scotland”, to be held in the Netherbow Theatre, Edinburgh, on 31 May 2008, are now on-line (2 November 2007)
• Information on Scottish Plays for Schools, co-published by ASLS and Hodder Gibson, is now available.
• Two new ScotLit articles – Alexander Scott’s War Poems and Salute to an Adventurer – are now available (24 August 2007)
• Information ASLS Annual Volume 35, The Devil to Stage: Five Plays by James Bridie, edited by Gerard Carruthers, is now available (25 June 2007)
• New Teaching Notes on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped added as a downloadable PDF file (16 February 2007)
• Two new Treasure Islands updates have been added – Rosemary Harris’s The Seal-Singing and R E Jackson’s The Wheel of the Finfolk (23 January 2007)
• 2007 Subscription details added (16 January 2007)
• A new Treasure Islands update has been added – Alan Temperley’s Huntress of the Sea (11 December 2006)
• Three new Treasure Islands updates have been added – Mike Nicholson’s Catscape, Geraldine McCaughrean’s Peter Pan in Scarlet, and Stephen Potts’ Tommy Trouble (28 November 2006)
• The text of Christopher MacLachlan’s talk, ‘Further Thoughts on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped’, given at the 2006 ASLS Schools & FE Conference on 7 October, is now available online.
• Two new Treasure Islands updates have been added – H Mortimer Batten’s The Singing Forest and Olivia FitzRoy’s Orders to Poach (6 November 2006)
• Information on the new ASLS Audio CD, 19 Poems of Norman MacCaig, featuring readings by MacCaig with commentary by Edwin Morgan, is now available (16 October 2006)
• Two new Treasure Islands updates have been added – Anne Rundle’s Tamlane and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Black Arrow (18 September 2006)
• Three new Treasure Islands updates have been added – Gill Arbuthnott’s Winterbringers; Charlie Higson’s Silverfin; and Alison Prince’s A Nation Again (29 August 2006)

ASLS Council Members

Vice-presidents: Prof John Corbett, Prof Ian Duncan, Prof Isobel Murray

Jim Alison
William Aitken
Dr Beth Dickson
Dr Morna Fleming
Dr Donna Heddle
David Hutchison
Dr Kirsty MacDonald
Prof Murray Pittock
Dr James Robertson
Dr Paul Scott

Past Presidents: Alan MacGillivray, Dorothy McMillan, Dr David Robb

Editors and Conveners
Dr Eleanor Bell (Co-editor, International Journal of Scottish Literature)
Alan Bissett (Co-editor of New Writing Scotland)
Dr Suzanne Gilbert (Convener of International Committee)
Dr Scott Hames (Co-editor, International Journal of Scottish Literature)
Jim McCall (Convener of Publications Board)
Derrick McClure (Editor of Scottish Language)
Dr Margery Palmer McCulloch (Co-editor of Scottish Studies Review)
Liz Niven (Co-editor of New Writing Scotland)
Dr Sarah Dunnigan (Co-editor of Scottish Studies Review)
Ronnie Renton (Convener of Education Committee)
Dr Christine Robinson (Convener of Language Committee)

Co-opted
Prof Ian Brown
Dr Rhona Brown
Prof Nigel Leask
Dr Christopher MacLachlan
Dr Christopher Nicol
Ailsa Stratton

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Last updated 8 October 2009.