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Are you a Scottish writer or publisher interested in promoting your work overseas? Maybe you are a writer or publisher who would like to work with your counterparts in Scotland? If so, we may be able to help you.
We work with the Edinburgh: UNESCO City of Literature Trust on many of our literature projects. They recently held their 2008 One Book - One Edinburgh citywide reading campaign. The project was designed to bring the city's residents together to read the classic Robert Louis Stevenson story of the darker side of human nature, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Find out more on their website.
We arrange for Scottish authors to be involved in our projects which we develop and run in collaboration with our UK and overseas offices. By attending readings of Scottish writers we select the most appropriate events for touring. Whether you write fiction or poetry, criticism or drama, crime fiction or travel we are interested in hearing from you.
We are particularly keen to hear from you if you:
- write for young people
- are translating literary works
- are writing from a distinct cultural perspective.
Email art.scotland@britishcouncil.org or telephone +44 (0) 131 524 5713 to let us know if you have a reading event coming up in Scotland.
Examples of our work include:
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Four Bengali writers who write in their native Bangla and in English took part in the Edinburgh International Book Festival giving readings from their latest works and reflecting on the history of modern India and its continuing resonances. Discover more. |
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Critically-acclaimed Scottish writer Rodge Glass make some recommendations for tourist survival in Copenhagen after participating in a writers’ exchange with Denmark. Find out what he thought. |
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The work of Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie is being displayed on the Shanghai Underground as part of the British Council’s ‘Poems on the Underground’ project. Read more. |
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Alexander McCall Smith, Don Paterson, Anne Donovan and A.L. Kennedy took part in a series of readings in Brussels that aimed to highlight some of the best contemporary Scottish writers. Find out more. |
We also support Scottish literature through:
Literature showcase
Every two years we invite international promoters to a literature showcase called the Bookcase which takes place as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
The Bookcase, our biennial showcase for contemporary British literature will take place from Thursday 14 to Monday 18 August 2008. Find out more.
The last Bookcase was held in 2006 was and was a great success with participants attending from across the globe. Read more.
The programme for the 2006 Bookcase included the final date in a UK tour of Arab writers. Taking part were Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Ala Hlehel, Joumana Haddad and Abed Ismael. Read their weblog on the Literary Translation website.
The next Bookcase will take place in August 2008. Please contact UK-Bookcase@britishcouncil.org for more information.
We have been involved in developing a project with Cove Park and Edinburgh: UNESCO City of Literature called Poet to Poet Translation. It involved a group of writers from the UK and the Hebrew and Arabic cultures of Jerusalem working together on new poetry and translations. Find out more about the project and read the work.
The first three poems we commissioned by Rody Gorman, Jackie Kay and Matthew Fitt to welcome visitors to our website are also available in audio version, read by the poets themselves.
Scottish literature is enjoying a golden age. With new translations of Scottish writing at unprecedented levels, Scottish publishers and new writers are finding themselves on multiple prize shortlists. There has never been a better time to find a wider audience for your work.
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