Scottish Arts Council

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Anita Desai
Many critics agree that AD is a formidable writer, at home in intimate psychological worlds
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
271
as well as in social, historical, and political polemics. Salman Rushdie has named her central subject as solitude, and...
Reception Carol Ann Duffy
CAD considers these poems to be juvenilia.
Rees-Jones, Deryn. Carol Ann Duffy. Northcote House.
5
The following year she received a Scottish Arts Council Award.
Rees-Jones, Deryn. Carol Ann Duffy. Northcote House.
ix
Reception Carol Ann Duffy
Critics welcomed this new voice in poetry. Peter Porter noted that the urgency of CAD 's crusading sensibility
Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin.
152
had not led her to any compromise in the artistry of her language. The book won...
Literary responses Carol Ann Duffy
Ruth Padel in the TLS celebrated CAD 's political-erotic challenge.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin.
152
This book won her a second Scottish Arts Council Book Award and a Dylan Thomas Award.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin.
prelims
Rees-Jones, Deryn. Carol Ann Duffy. Northcote House.
x
Reception Carol Ann Duffy
This book garnered the Forward Poetry Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, and another Scottish Arts Council Book Award.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin.
prelims
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
Eavan Boland called CADone of the freshest and bravest talents to emerge in British poetry—any poetry—for years.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin.
152
Wealth and Poverty Kathleen Jamie
With her salary and the award at the turn of the century of two years' generous funding from the Scottish Arts Council , KJ said: At last I've got as much money as I need.
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Kathleen Jamie”. Mslexia, Vol.
9
, pp. 39-40.
39
Reception Kathleen Jamie
This volume won KJ a Scottish Arts Council award.
Mulford, Wendy, editor. The Virago Book of Love Poetry. Virago Press.
256
Of the suddenness of her early success she says, I didn't think of asking permission
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Kathleen Jamie”. Mslexia, Vol.
9
, pp. 39-40.
39
and Nobody told me I couldn't do it.
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Kathleen Jamie”. Mslexia, Vol.
9
, pp. 39-40.
39
Reception Kathleen Jamie
On its original appearance, this book won the Scottish Arts Council Book Award for 1992.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Reception Kathleen Jamie
KJ has said that now, having all the time, money (a two-year grant from the Scottish Arts Council ), and confidence she needs, she feels able to say, I'm a poet and this is what...
Reception Jackie Kay
This collection won a prize from the Scottish Arts Council .
Kay, Jackie. Red Dust Road. Pan Macmillan.
129
Maggie Gee praised the stories in The Sunday Times Culture, calling them accomplished and fearless.
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
Travel Liz Lochhead
LL went to Glendon College in Toronto, on the first Scottish Arts Council Scottish/Canadian Writers' Exchange.
The Canadian writer who spent that year in Scotland was the novelist Graeme Gibson , Margaret Atwood 's partner.
Smith, Ali. “Liz Lochhead: Speaking in Her Own Voice”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-16.
8, 13
Reception Liz Lochhead
This volume won a Scottish Arts Council book award.
Publishing Naomi Mitchison
NM published in Edinburgh, with the help of a grant from the Scottish Arts Council , What do you think yourself? Scottish short stories.
Mitchison, Naomi. What do you think yourself? Scottish short stories. Paul Harris.
title-page
Material Conditions of Writing J. K. Rowling
She began writing it as a student of education, using the computer room at Moray House in Edinburgh. Then she was awarded a Scottish Arts Council grant of £8,000 (the first of several) for...
Textual Production Ali Smith
AS 's first book, a collection entitled Free Love and Other Stories, was published by Virago Press . The book won that year's Saltire Literary Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book Award.
Germanà, Monica, and Emily Horton, editors. Ali Smith. Bloomsbury.
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“Ali Smith Wins the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction”. Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Timeline

January 2004: A new quarterly, the Scottish Review of Books,...

Writing climate item

January 2004

A new quarterly, the Scottish Review of Books, was launched, published in Edinburgh by the Scottish Arts Council .

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