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Kang-Yen Chiu received the 2025 Jack Medal for his chapter 'Translation and Film Adaptation of Ivanhoe in the Modern History of Taiwan,’ published in 'Scotland and China: Literary Encounters' (@scroll-scotlit.bsky.social, @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2025). Read the statement: tinyurl.com/255n2rm6

Sarah Sharp @abdnriiss.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social received the Honourable Mention for the article ‘The Settler Colonial Cotter: Situating “The Cotter’s Saturday Night” in Post-Revolutionary America,’ published in the Burns Chronicle @edinburghup.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/255n2rm6

The Susan Manning Memorial Lecture | English and Scottish Literature | Literatures Languages and Culture Join us in person for the Susan Manning Memorial Lecture 2026 by Professor Cedric Tolliver (University of Oklahoma), followed by a Q&A and reception.

Our annual Susan Manning Lecture is an exciting one this year. Cedric Tolliver will be speaking on African-American spy novels. Book here: llc.ed.ac.uk/english-lite... @uoe-llc.bsky.social

The Caledonian Trans Reveal Scottish Gender Novels in the Literature of Devolution University of Aberdeen

The Caledonian Trans Reveal
4 March @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social & online: free

Writer & performer Harry Josephine Giles looks at transgender figures across genres in modern Scottish literature – with @vavapoetry.bsky.social, @domenicodr.bsky.social & Moth McGowan
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Reminder: nominations close 31 March!

A poster advertising a PG symposium for Scottish Literature

CFP: 2026 Scottish Literature PG Symposium

(Mis)placing Scottish Literature
8 May 2026, University of Glasgow

Details: ucsl-scotland.com/2026-pg-symp...
Deadline 15 March, student travel bursaries available!

The Darkness Within: 8 Novels About the Devil Lucifer. Beelzebub. The Prince of Darkness. The guy’s got a lot of names—and even more credits. In Christianity, he’s the master of sin and evil. In horror movies, the monstrous voice that speaks t…

A curious coincidence? A certain sympathy for the Satanic? Or a testament to the enduring influence of James Hogg’s CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER? Of the 8 devilish novels chosen by Luke Dumas, 3 – including Hogg’s masterpiece – are by Scottish authors…
#BookWormSat 💙📚
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A dark blue journal cover with white lettering: SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW Autumn | Winter 2025 Journal of the Association for Scottish Literature The cover illustration shows an open book, lying on its back, with four stylised, twisty thistles growing from between its fanned pages.

Contents page 1 Editorial Kang-yen Chiu: Resistance to Accommodation: Postcolonial Readings of the Highland Clearances in Iain Crichton Smith’s Consider the Lilies Megan Coyer: ‘By famine, sword, and pestilence’: James Hogg and Cholera in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country Alison Denham: William Thom (1798–1848), Weaver Poet: The London Years Katherine Ferrier: The Literary Gossiping of Susan Ferrier Mao Guihua and Zheng Ronghua: Animal Subjectivity in the Poetry of Robert Burns Under the Animal Turn Scott Hames: Tom Nairn as Essayist: Romantic Negativity and Critical Imagination Sarah Harlan-Haughey: Low Visibility: ‘wickit wedderis’ and the Contest of Knowledge in The Taill of Rauf Coilȝear Kaiyue He: Muriel Spark and the House of the Brontës: Female Authorship and Autonomy

Joanna Martin: ‘He in alle thing wele temperite was’: The Emotional Language of The Buik of King Alexander The Conquerour Ian Cameron Robertson: Green Blades Among the Rubble – Posterity’s Judgement on The Minstrel? Angus Sutherland: Hogg and the Ettrick Clearances Annalisa Nicholson: Octonaries upon the Vanitie and Inconstancie of the World, by Esther Inglis; an essay, by Jamie Reid Baxter (review) Trish Reid: Plays in Scots, Volume 1 and Volume 2, by Michel Tremblay (review) Honor Rieley: The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation, 1640–1800, edited by Nicholas Brownlees (review) Désha Osborne: Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons: Romanticism’s Black Geographies, by Katey Castellano (review) Adam Kozaczka: Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions, edited by Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt (review) Zsuzsanna Varga: A modern skót irodalom a 19. század végétől napjainkig [Modern Scottish Literature from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day], by Attila Dósa (review)

Lois Burke: The International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature, edited by Maureen A. Farrell and Robert A. Davis (review) Scott Lyall: History of a Revoluter: The Life of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon, by William K. Malcolm (review) Peter Auger: Mary Queen of Scots: The First Biography: With the Life and Times of Its Author, George Con, by Ronald Santangeli (review) Amy Wilcockson: Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century, by Sarah Sharp (review) Hilary Clydesdale: Scottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life, by Juliet Shields (review) Notes on Contributors

SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/2 (Autumn/Winter 2025)

The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review is online now via @projectmuse.bsky.social (institutional access required). Print copies will be in the mail to subscribers shortly!
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And for our first post it's a pleasure to announce a brand new prize for outstanding scholarship in our field.

Nominations are now open for the 2026 Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize: ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...

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