Promoting and supporting the teaching and study of Scottish literature and language
Kevin MacNeil/ Caoimhin MacNèill is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling and a leading Scottish novelist and poet. His novels include The Brilliant & Forever; a literary festival themed around that book took place in front of Lews Castle in August 2022. Kevin MacNeil has edited volumes of Scottish island poetry and works by Robert Louis Stevenson and Iain Crichton Smith.
Recently, in my home island of Lewis I spent some life-enhancing time with two writers who were doing novel-related research in the Hebrides, one a Booker Prize winner at the dizzying apex of his career, the other, an American writer earnestly researching her first novel, demonstrating her commitment by starting to learn Gaelic. I am […]
Iain Crichton Smith’s literary output was remarkable in more ways than one. He wrote poems, stories, novels, essays, plays, and reviews across two languages. Na Sgeulachdan Gàidhlig is a milestone publication. It brings together for the first time the 116 stories Smith wrote in Gaelic (more, incidentally, than any other writer). These stories demonstrate how […]