Creative Writing Visiting Speakers
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)
- Anna Smith (novelist)
- Douglas Jackson (novelist)
- Alan Bissett (novelist)
- Dave Manderson (lecturer/ screen writer)
- Graham Fulton (poet)