Red Squirrel Press

19/02/2024

16/02/2024

Did you catch The Donkey, The Whippet and The Giant Leek last night on ITV Tyne Tees?🤩

Starring Graeme Danby and Valerie Reid, the production celebrating the music of North East composer Eric Boswell comes to Bishop Auckland Town Hall this April!

Read more👉http://tinyurl.com/yc2m85zm

📆 Friday 26 April, 7.30pm
🎟 https://bishopaucklandtownhall.org.uk/the-donkey-the-whippet-and-the-giant-leek

09/02/2024

03/02/2024

FOOERS FAE THE FILLIN STATION: WORDS FROM THE HEART #002 FEBRUARY 6 24 @ 7:00 PM

TIX: https://bit.ly/SWC6Feb24
Readers Sign up: https://forms.gle/VMaYek11jxV45Kmc9

From the mind of John Bolland and after a two-year hiatus, the SWC Speakeasy | Fooers fae the fillin station: words from the heart returns!

Join the likes of:
Anjali Ramayya
Cáit O'Neill McCullagh
Chik Duncan
Damaris West
Gail Winters
Ian Stephen
Jan Brolly
Lynsey Gilmour
Mary Thomson
Peter A
Stephen Eric Smyth

Come and read or be in the audience to enjoy our readers’ take on love, lust, and oxytocin in person, live in the CCA Clubroom, or online!

We welcome everyone, our members, friends and first-timers to come along and share their work and encourage all writing forms, voices and languages.

This hybrid event offers performers the convenience to read remotely.

Please note you have the freedom to learn into or delve away from the feelings and themes that this time of year can bring.

Therefore, reading out song lyrics, DM requests and devotion letters to your pets hold the same level of acceptance!

If forms drain your dopamine and do not spark your joy, let us know via email or social media, and we can assist you.

02/02/2024

✨ Announcing the Highland Book Prize 2023 Longlist! ✨

Congratulations to all twelve authors!

Now in our seventh year, this year’s list sees strong representation from non-fiction, reflecting current publishing trends, as well as literary fiction, poetry, and commissioned works from well-known Scottish authors on key moments in Highland history.

Read more at www.highlandbookprize.org.uk

The Bone Cave: A Journey Through Myth and Memory, Dougie Strang
(Non-Fiction, Birlinn)

Briny, Mandy Haggith
(Poetry, Red Squirrel Press)

Columba’s Bones, David Greig
(Fiction, Birlinn)

Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time, Kapka Kassabova
(Non-Fiction, Jonathan Cape)

Footprints in the Woods: The Secret Life of Forest and Riverbank, John Lister Kaye
(Non-Fiction, Canongate)

Kitchen Music, Lesley Harrison
(Poetry, Carcanet Press)

Nothing Left to Fear from Hell, Alan Warner
(Fiction, Birlinn)

Sea Bean, Sally Huband
(Non-Fiction, Penguin)

Study for Obedience, Sarah Bernstein
(Fiction, Granta)

Turas, Iain D. Urchardan
(Poetry, Acair)

Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong, James Macdonald Lockhart
(Non-Fiction, Fourth Estate)

Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland, James Crawford
(Non-Fiction, Birlinn)

Birlinn Books Polygon Books Red Squirrel Press Canongate Books Carcanet Press Penguin Books Granta Books Acair Books 4th Estate Books

Moniack Mhor Creative Writing Centre

29/01/2024

23/01/2024

Happy 40th Birthday to the Scottish Poetry Library, what an achievement! Thank you for all your help and support over many years and wishing you the very best for the next 40 years!

07/01/2024

Our featured publication for January and February 2024 is Collecting the Data by Mat Riches, published by Red Squirrel Press. Mat Riches offers a rare treat in this debut collection. In a voice tha…

20/12/2023

Litany of CoalJean Taylor(Red Squirrel Press, 2023; pbk, £7) How Do We Talk About KnivesSamina Chaudhry, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir & Rebecca Sharp eds(Matecznik Press,…