Creative Writing (MLitt)

Speakers and Events

Events in the Creative Writing Visiting Speaker programme are open to the public, unless otherwise indicated.  Events usually take place on Tuesdays at 5.30-6.30pm in the Adam Smith Building, Lecture Theatre T415.

In recent years, Visiting Speakers have included:_

• Simon Armitage (poet)
• Margaret Atwood
• Professor Edward Baugh (W P Ker Poetry Lecture)
• Sujata Bhatt  (poet)
• Francis Bickmore (editor, Canongate)
• Alan Bissett (novelist)
• Professor Stephen Burt (SESLL Annual Poetry Lecture)
• Luke Brown (Tindal Street Press) and Gaynor Arnold (novelist)
• Gillian Clarke & Robert Crawford (poets)
• Peter Davidson
• Patricia Duncker (novelist)
• Margaret Elphinstone & James Robertson (novelists) (Scotish PEN Naomi Mitchison Memorial Lecture)
• Niall Ferguson (an Aye Write! event)
• Cathy Forde  (novelist)
• Janice Galloway (novelist) (The Scottish PEN Naomi Mitchison Memorial Lecture)
• Lorna Goodison (poet)
• Rosemary Goring  (Literary Editor, the Herald)
• Jorie Graham (poet)
• Alasdair Gray (novelist, playwright, artist)
• Kirsty Gunn (novelist)
• Jen Hadfield (poet)
• Mandy Haggith (novelist)
• Chris Hamilton-Emery (Salt Publishing)
• Jackie Kay (poet and novelist)
• Stuart Kelly (Literary Editor, Scotland on Sunday)
• AL Kennedy  (novelist)
• Marina Lewycka (novelist)
• Toby Litt (novelist, journalist)
• Liz Lochhead (poet, dramatist)
• Tony Lopez (poet)
• Lucy Luck (Agent)
• Bob McDevitt (Hachette)
• Bernard MacLaverty (novelist)
• Maggie McKernan (Literary Agent)
• G J Moffat (novelist)
• Sophie Moxon (Scottish Book Trust)
• Helena Nelson (poetry publisher)
• David Ian Neville (BBC Radio)
• Maggie O’Farrell (novelist)
• Andrew O’Hagan (novelist)  
• Sharon Olds (poet)
• Kate Pool, Society of Authors
• Alice Quinn (Poetry Editor, New Yorker magazine)
• Ian Rankin (novelist)
• Frederic Raphael (novelist and screen writer)
• James Robertson (fiction writer, pamphlet publisher of fiction and poetry)
• Rachel Sieffert  (writer)
• Susan Sellers (novelist)
• Lionel Shriver  (novelist)
• Jane Stevenson
• Professor Rebecca Stott
• Karolina Sutton (Curtis Brown)
• Graham Swift (novelist - held at the Mitchell Library as part of the Aye Write! Festival 2009.)
• Alan Taylor  (Literary Critic)
• Boyd Tonkin (The Independent)
• Chiew-Siah Teng (playwright)
• Erica Wagner (editor and author, The Times)
• Louise Welsh  (novelist)
• Zoe Wicomb (novelist)
• Professor Michael Wood