Events

Lecture by Dr Peter Garratt, from the Department of English Studies, Durham University

Seminars will always discuss the text from that morning's lecture.

Lecture by Professor Terry Eagleton, from the Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Lancaster

Lecture on James Joyce's Dubliners, by Dr John Coyle, from the Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow N.B. This lecture is optional for Creative [...]

Information for students who would like to take the course for credit, including discussion of assessment requirements and transfer credit schemes.

A screening of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, a film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

Lecture by Dr Jason Harding, from the Department of English Studies, Durham University

We will all gather after the lecture for a group photo of both the modernism and creative writing cohorts.

Lecture on Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway by Dr Jane Goldman, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow

Seminars will always discuss the text from that morning's lecture.

Lecture by Dr Rex Ferguson, from the Department of English, University of Birmingham N.B. This lecture is optional for Creative Writing students

We will take a tour of the Scottish Parliament in two groups - up to 9 students can join a group at 2.00 pm, and [...]

Nick Thorpe is an award winning travel writer and author of three books. Urban Worrier: Adventures in the Lost Art of Letting Go is his most [...]

Lecture by Dr Adam Hanna on W.B. Yeats' poetry and his play Purgatory Dr Hanna joins us from the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish [...]

Modernism students will leave campus together, for a visit to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. For more information, see https://www.nationalgalleries.org/visit/introduction-118

Lecture on Good Morning, Midnight by Professor Emeritus Angela Smith, from the Department of English Studies, University of Stirling N.B. This lecture is optional for [...]

Held in room 2.2 at 22 Buccleuch Place - please submit paper abstracts in advance if you would like to present.

Colin Herd was born in Stirling in 1985 and now lives in Edinburgh. He is a poet, fiction writer and critic. His first collection of [...]

Lecture on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984, by Dr Elsa Bouet, SUISS Director, Department of English, University of Edinburgh

Farewell party for modernism cohort (creative writing students are also invited)

Lecture by Dr Helen Sedgwick, from Cargo Publishing

Welcome reception for Scottish Literature students

Opening lecture on Scottish Literature (with continued reference to Hugh MacDiarmid), by Dr Alex Thomson, English Literature, University of Edinburgh

Seminars will always discuss the text from that morning's lecture.

Lecture on Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song, by Professor Ian Campbell, English Literature, University of Edinburgh

Information for students who would like to take the course for credit, including discussion of assessment requirements and transfer credit schemes.

Lecture by Dr Robert Irvine on John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil and Gregory Burke's Black Watch N.B. This lecture [...]

Workshop with Dr Linda Tym, from the Southern Adventist University in the USA, and former SUISS Director at the University of Edinburgh

With an international reputation as a prize-winning novelist, RON BUTLIN is a former Edinburgh Makar. He was made Edinburgh University’s first Honorary Writing Fellow, together [...]

Lecture by Dr David Goldie, from English Literature, University of Strathclyde

We will all gather after the lecture for a group photo of both the scottish literature and creative writing cohorts.

Lecture by Professor Robert Crawford School of English, Unviersity of St Andrews

Seminars will always discuss the text from that morning's lecture.

Lecture by Dr Emma Lister on Alisdair Gray's Poor Things English Literature, University of Glasgow N.B. This lecture is optional for Creative Writing students

Masterclass delivered by Metaphrog, authors of the Louis graphic novels series and the forthcoming The Red Shoes and Other Tales. Students can choose between either [...]

Masterclass in Children's Writing by Vivian French, author of The Tales from Five Kingdoms and the forthcoming  The Most Wonderful Thing in the World. Students can choose between [...]

Lecture on Liz Lochhead's play Mary Queen of Scots got her Head Chopped Off, by Dr Scott Hames, from the Stirling Centre for Scottish Studies, [...]

Lecture on Scottish Short Stories, by Dr Timothy Baker, School of Language and Literature, University of Aberdeen N.B. This lecture is optional for Creative Writing [...]

Burns Suppers are usually held on the 25th of January, in celebration of the Scottish poet Robert Burns's birthday, but we're putting on a special [...]

Lecture by Dr Eleanor Bell, School of English, University of Strathclyde

Farewell party for both Creative Writing and Scottish Literature cohorts.