🌿CFP for a special journal issue of Scottish Literary Review Association for Scottish Literature, entitled 'Cultures of Care in Scottish Women's Writing', edited by Sarah Dunnigan 🌿 and me. Please send abstracts for consideration by 30 January 2025. Full details below.🌿

I won my first prize at Uni writing an essay about this text, and it’s been a pure joy to revisit it this week with my lovely Scot. Lit students at University of Glasgow ✨

The Buchan 150 lecture by MP, entitled ‘Eilean Bàn: John Buchan in Scotland and Jerusalem’, takes place on 11 March at 5.30pm in University of Glasgow’s ARC Bd. (Rm237C) with reception afterwards. Face to face is sold out, but online tickets available at: gla.ac.uk/research/az/sc…

Prof Rhona Brown will be giving a talk 'Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Birth' on Tues 18 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 at the University of Aberdeen. The event is hybrid, for more details, see the link below: abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-eve…

We were so grateful to Gerda Stevenson for coming along to share her poetry with our fab Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow honours students this week, and for the personal and very meaningful class discussion she paved the way for. It was a real highlight of the semester ✨

Thinking SELCIE would love this enchanted bird carriage!

It could be an April Fool but, apparently, it’s publication day for this wee book. Thanks to all at Boydell & Brewer for bringing this into the world!

You can now sign up to attend the excellent Nature Nature Symposium organised by Sarah Dunnigan 🌿 LLCatEdinburgh 🌿 Details below👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-nurtu…

‘Nurture through Nature with Children’s Books’ organised by MuseumsGalleriesScot and SELCIE opens tomorrow and it is an absolute delight. Treat your inner child to this reminder of the magical power of books and nature 🫶🏻🌿💜

Robert Fergusson looking canty and braw in the Edinburgh sunshine this evening 💐 Robert Fergusson (1750-74)

Was great to go to the launch of the SELCIE Nurture through Nature exhibition today! Teeny Gem would be pretty chuffed to see her fairy-hunting endeavours displayed in a museum 📚🧚‍♀️

So grateful to my dear friend and wonderful colleague Ainsley McIntosh for kindly speaking on my behalf at the 'Nurture through Nurture' exhibition launch 💚🌿🦉 What a beautiful description! 🥹🐦 #naturenurture SELCIE

Brilliant and incredibly interesting array of speakers and talks talks so far this afternoon at the SELCIE Nurture through Nature symposium 🍃 Sarah Dunnigan 🌿

Today’s Nurture through Nature SELCIE symposium ended as it began with a bountiful garden of ideas from wonderful speakers. Very grateful to Sarah Dunnigan 🌿 for organising this event and nurturing this project to fruition🍃💜

📢 1 July is the deadline for The Alasdair Ross Prize, which aims to support postgraduate students and early career researchers undertaking archival research on Scottish history and/or environmental history. Link with details below: scottishhistorysociety.com/prizes/the-ala…

“Research Outlines are welcomed on any aspect of ‘Robert Burns and the Environment’ broadly conceived.” Come and study for a PhD at the award-winning Centre for Robert Burns Studies University of Glasgow! Deadline 18th August! 👀 ⬇️

We are hiring Robert Burns Ellisland Museum & Farm The Centre for Robert Burns Studies University of Glasgow ellislandfarm.co.uk/we-are-hiring-…

We’ve got a novel playlist at the listening bench in the Pavilion at Abbotsford. It features an immersive audio stream themed by ‘Garden Stories’, ‘Scott’s Literary Garden’, ‘Restoration’, and ‘Sir Walter Scott’s Journal’. A visit to Abbotsford really is a feast for the senses!

Lovely day at Abbotsford yesterday to mark Scott’s 254th birthday. Thank you to its brilliant staff and volunteers who work tirelessly and innovatively to maintain the estate and house as a uniquely special place to visit.

Make Sunday special with a visit to Ellisland – the farm Robert Burns built. Open every Sunday, 11 am–4 pm. Explore the farmhouse, museum & riverside walks just north of Dumfries. ellislandfarm.co.uk