Promoting and supporting the teaching and study of Scottish literature and language
Kirsti Wishart has a PhD in Scottish Literature from the University of St Andrews. Her short stories have appeared in New Writing Scotland, 404 Ink, Glasgow Review of Books, Product Magazine, The Seven Wonders of Scotland anthology and Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology. She’s been a Hawthornden Fellow, a contestant in Literary Death Match and is a regular contributor to The One o’ Clock Gun. Her first novel, The Knitting Station, was published by Rymour Books in 2021.
In a review of two new histories of Edinburgh, Stuart Kelly bemoaned the strange absence of literary explorers charting the city’s streets. ‘Narrating any city is an endless task, and it does surprise me that there is no psychogeography, no Iain Sinclair, for Edinburgh. We have no books that encompass Gilmerton Cove, the Craigentinny Marbles, […]
One of the recurring and somewhat less tragic headlines that appeared during the early stages of the pandemic was Covid-19’s ability to lockdown the most famous of wandering Scots, James Bond. That even such an international man of action didn’t have the might to open up our empty cinemas brought home the cultural reach both […]