Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark and University of St Andrews Principal Louise Richardson have become judges for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, which awards £25,000 to the author of the best historical novel of the year.

This February 2012 HI-Arts will be organising a Crowdfunding Workshop and Networking Day taking place at The Pier Arts Centre in Stromness.

Orkney Arts Society, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, 3 February 2012

Canongate is to publish a new collection of the complete short stories of Alasdair Gray.

BBC ALBA will be marking the Bard’s birthday with a special Robert Burns tribute concert from Nashville, Tennessee, featuring Cathy Ann MacPhee from the Isle of Barra, one of Scotland’s best loved Traditional Gaelic singers.

Moray Art Centre are ready to start a new year of creativity, with their new courses starting this January.

Stirling-based roofer-poet William Letford, one of the very first winners of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award, has secured a publishing deal with Carcanet Press for his first volume of poetry.

Morrison’s Van is about to set off on the world-wide internet super highway, delivering brand new Highland comedy right to your door! The writers of popular theatre shows “The Accidental Death of an Accordionist”, “Who Bares Wins” and “Whisky Kisses” will release their latest theatrical offering on 1st December – online.

A national project which celebrates the traditional Scottish link between trees and writing concludes its first phase with two events, one in Edinburgh and one in Helmsdale. Known as the Tree Ogham, or Tree Alphabet, each letter of the Gaelic alphabet has an associated tree or shrub, and the A-B-Tree project’s first phase is a […]

Katie Laing speaks with Lewis writer Donald S Murray and photographer Carol Ann Peacock.