Irish Pages: “Scotland” Call For Submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Irish Pages:
"Scotland"

(Volume 12, Number 2) 


Ten years after the Independence Referendum, Irish Pages asks diverse Scottish writers of distinction – established, mid-career and new – to think about their country, and take stock of the current state of its culture and polity, language and literature, ecology and environment, while a specially curated selection of Scotland’s emerging poets will offer a younger perspective. How will Scotland fare in an era of momentous and unpredictable political change? Stands Scotland where it did?

The issue will be edited by poets Kathleen Jamie (Scotland’s Makar 2021-2024, and the Scottish Editor of Irish Pages), Don Paterson and Niall Campbell.

Submissions from a broad and diverse range of Scottish and Scottish-based writers from different backgrounds, orientations and at different career stages are actively encouraged and welcomed.

Submissions must, however, be sent by post only to the Irish Pages office in Belfast: The Editors, IRISH PAGES, 129 Ormeau Road, Belfast BT7 1SH. If your submission is accepted the editors will be in touch for an electronic version.

About The Editors

Kathleen Jamie was born in the West of Scotland in 1962. She is the author of eleven collections of poems, including The Tree House (Picador, 2004: winner of the Forward Prize and Scottish Book of the Year), Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead: Poems 1980-94 (Bloodaxe Books, 2002: shortlisted for the 2003 International Griffin Prize), The Overhaul (Picador, 2012: shortlisted for the 2012 T. S. Eliot Prize, winner of the 2012 Costa Poetry Award), and The Bonniest Companie (Picador, 2015). Her non-fiction work includes Among Muslims (Sort of Books, 2002), Findings (Sort of Books, 2007), Sightlines (Sort of Books, 2012: joint winner with Robert McFarlane of the 2013 Dolman Travel Award, winner of 2014 John Burroughs Award and the 2014 Orion Book Award) and Surfacing (Sort of Books, 2019). In 2017, she received the Ness Award from the Royal Geographical Society for “outstanding creative writing at the confluence of travel, nature and culture.” Her latest books are Cairn (Sort of Books, 2024) and The Keelie Hawk (Picador, 2024). She lives with her family in Fife.

Originally from Dundee, Scotland, Don Paterson left school at 16 and moved to London to pursue music and join a band. He found success with the jazz-folk ensemble Lammas, but was captivated by poetry upon encountering poet Tony Harrison, among others. He is the author of nine collections of poems, most recently 40 Sonnets (Faber, 2015) and Zonal (Faber, 2020), as well as several poetry anthologies and collections of aphorisms. He continues to perform as a jazz guitarist and lives in Dundee, Scotland.

Niall Campbell is a poet from the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. His first poetry collection, Moontide (2014), was published by Bloodaxe Books and won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and the Saltire First Book of the Year. Noctuary (2019), his second collection, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. His latest collection, The Island in the Sound (Bloodaxe) was published in 2024. He is the Poetry Editor of Poetry London and lives in Newport on Tay, Fife.

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