Scottish Arts Council

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Material Conditions of Writing Anne Stevenson
Correspondences by AS was published both by Wesleyan University Press and Oxford University Press .
Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press.
149
She worked on it from 1970, researching (while her husband, Mark Elvin , held an appointment at Harvard between...
Material Conditions of Writing Anne Stevenson
She dedicated it to her grandson Paul and his parents; the last poem in the book conjures up little Paul dancing for, and stamping on, the sea.
Stevenson, Anne. The Other House. Oxford University Press.
v, 52
The book has an epigraph from...
Reception Anne Stevenson
AS has held a number of awards: a Scottish Arts Council award, 1974, a Welsh Arts Council award, 1980, a Northern Arts Literary Fellowship at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham , 1981-2,
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
9
and...
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.
xv
“Ali Smith Wins the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction”. Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Reception Ali Smith
As recipient of the Saltire Literary Award and a 10,000-euro prize from the Scottish Arts Council , Free Love and Other Stories was received with considerable acclaim. According to Jeanette Winterson , AS was actually...
Textual Production Ali Smith
Finally, in 2006, Smith joined up again with director Matthew Zajac , her original partner for the Highland Festival, and successfully reapplied to the Scottish Arts Council for funding. Now partnered with the Dogstar Theatre...
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...
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
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.
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.
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...

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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