Creative Writing visiting speakers
Events in the Creative Writing visiting speaker programme are open to the public, unless otherwise indicated.
To find out about upcoming speakers, see: Creative Conversations events.
Events usually take place on Tuesdays at 5.30-7:00pm at venues around the University.
Creative Conversations: YouTube
Previous speakers
In recent years, visiting speakers have included:
- Simon Armitage (poet)
- Jake Arnott (novelist) - Creative Conversations
- Peter Arnott (playwright) - Creative Conversations
- Margaret Atwood
- Professor Edward Baugh (W P Ker Poetry Lecture)
- Sujata Bhatt (poet)
- Francis Bickmore (editor, Canongate)
- Alan Bissett (novelist)
- Malika Booker (poet, playwright) - Creative Conversations
- Jenny Brown (Literary Agent)
- Luke Brown (Tindal Street Press) and Gaynor Arnold (novelist)
- John Burnside (poet)
- Professor Stephen Burt (SESLL Annual Poetry Lecture)
- Polly Clark (poet, novelist) - Creative Conversations
- Gillian Clarke & Robert Crawford (poets)
- Jackie Copleton (novelist)
- Linda Cracknell (writer) - Creative Conversations
- Peter Davidson
- Chris Dolan (playwright, author) - Creative Conversations
- Laurie Duggan (poet)
- Patricia Duncker (novelist)
- Margaret Elphinstone & James Robertson (novelists) (Scottish PEN Naomi Mitchison Memorial Lecture)
- Michel Faber
- Graham Fagen
- Michael Farrell (poet)
- Vicki Feaver (poet)
- Niall Ferguson (an Aye Write! event)
- Cathy Forde (novelist)
- John Freeman (editor of Freeman's, a new literary biannual)
- Graham Fulton (poet)
- Janice Galloway (novelist) (The Scottish PEN Naomi Mitchison Memorial Lecture 2009)
- Lorna Goodison (poet)
- Rosemary Goring (Literary Editor, the Herald, novelist, columnist)
- Jorie Graham (poet)
- Alasdair Gray (novelist, playwright, artist)
- Kirsty Gunn (novelist)
- Jen Hadfield (poet) - Creative Conversations
- Mandy Haggith (novelist)
- Chris Hamilton-Emery (Salt Publishing)
- Douglas Jackson (novelist)
- Kate Johnson (Literary Agent)
- Jackie Kay (poet and novelist)
- Stuart Kelly (Literary Editor, Scotland on Sunday)
- AL Kennedy (novelist)
- Frank Kuppner (poet)
- Tom Leonard (poet)
- William Letford (poet) - Creative Conversations
- Marina Lewycka (novelist)
- Amy Liptrot (author) - Creative Conversations
- Toby Litt (novelist, journalist)
- Liz Lochhead (poet, dramatist)
- Kirsty Logan (writer, journalist) - Creative Conversations
- Tony Lopez (poet)
- Lucy Luck (Agent)
- Val McDermid (The Scottish PEN Naomi Mitchison Memorial Lecture 2015)
- Bob McDevitt (programmer, photographer)
- Lesley McDowell (novelist)
- Bernard MacLaverty (novelist)
- Kevin MacNeil (novelist, poet) - Creative Conversations
- Graeme Macrae Burnet (novelist) - Creative Conversations
- Dave Manderson (lecturer/ screen writer)
- Peter Manson (poet)
- Carol Mavor (artist-historian)
- Maggie McKernan (Literary Agent)
- Denise Mina (novelist)
- 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)
- Don Paterson (poet)
- Mary Paulson-Ellis (writer)
- Kate Pool, Society of Authors
- Richard Price (poet and novelist)
- Alice Quinn (Poetry Editor, New Yorker magazine)
- Ian Rankin (novelist)
- Frederic Raphael (novelist and screen writer)
- Michael Salu (writer and creative director)
- Jenny Savill (Literary Agent)
- Anna Smith (novelist)
- Ben Smith (Head of Books and Comics for 2000 AD, Solaris, Abaddon Books and Ravenstone)
- Karen Solie (poet)
- Malachy Tallack (writer, editor, singer-songwriter) - Creative Conversations
- Jo Unwin (Literary Agent)
- Zoë Wicomb (novelist)
- Andy Wightman (writer, researcher, analyst) - Creative Conversations