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The Fletcher Lecture 2024 on Opera: What's the Point? is taking place on Monday 27th May at Edinburgh City Chambers with special guest, @MaryMillerOpera 🎼 #FletcherLecture24

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Congratulations Prof. @devisridhar , our first 2020 winner of the Fletcher of Saltoun Award for Contribution to Science! @EdinburghUni @GlobalHealthGP #FletcherOfSaltoun2020

Fletcher of Saltoun Awards 2020: Devi Sridhar, Winner

Congratulations Professor Devi Sridhar! Prof. Sridhar was awarded this prestigious prize for her outstanding Contribution to Science, work which has rarely b...

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We are thrilled to announce our first 2020 Fletcher of Saltoun Award recipient is radio broadcaster, activist and journalist @LesleyRiddoch for her contribution to Public Life. See her acceptance speech here: #FletcherofSaltoun2020

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Liz Lochhead, poet, playwright and former Scots Makar, is awarded the 2023 Saltire Society Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to Scottish literature! #SNBA23

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Politician @Dr_PhilippaW joins the Outstanding Women of Scotland Community #saltirewomen

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It's #OWSunday ! Today we're celebrating @Dr_PhilippaW , who designed the Scottish accreditation standards for Breast Cancer services and developed regional cancer networks, revolutionising patient care. She is now Shadow Health Spokesperson for the SNP at Westminster. #OWS

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We are delighted to announce singer, songwriter and campaigner, Karine Polwart @IAMKP as the winner of @Saltire_Society Fletcher Award for Arts and Humanities.

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Forensic Anthropologist & Anatomist Prof.Dame Sue Black Inducted to Outstanding Women of Scotland #saltirewomen

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Congratulations to our Scottish Fiction Book of the Year 2021 Shortlistees #SNBA21 #FictionBookShortlist

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@Marcas_Mac @TheScotsman @a_pirmohamed @mariaxrose @UniStrathclyde @shehzar @Gutter_Magazine @HJosephineGiles @MhairiMcCann_ @YouthSTEM2030 @Skyrora_Ltd @1Niallmcg @dundeeuni @LessWasteLaura @beagoulao @aberdeenuni @edfringe @edinburghfringe @thelistmagazine @talatyaqoob @lenniesaurus - Len Pennie's poetry in Scots and English predominantly focusses on mental health, feminism and the Scots language #Saltire40 Find out more via the link: 🔗

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We're remembering our friend William MacIlvanney today on his birthday. This wonderful photo of @agentjenny and the man himself at his 2013 Fletcher Award ceremony is too good not to share.

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The Scottish Fiction Book of the Year 2021 is Duck Feet from Ely Percy [ @decenthumanbean ] and @monstrousrgmt Duck Feet is a novel with heart and humour, a micro landscape of teenage hood painted masterfully in Scots, which nonetheless speaks to the universal. #SNBA21

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Our final #SaltireWomen Inductee is Chief Executive of @ComJusScot @karynmccluskey . Karyn was also Director of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit for the last decade, which proposed a different way of addressing violence in Scotland.

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Fiona Duncan, CE of @corrascot has been presented with the @Saltire_Society Fletcher of Saltoun Award for Public Life. Fiona has developed the foundation to become proactive in supporting communities to develop lasting change. #SaltireFletcherAwards

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Our 6th #SaltireWomen Inductee is @agentjenny founder of @JennyBrownBooks , one of the leading independent literary agencies in the UK known for fostering new writing talent in Scotland & representing 80 writers.

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Delighted to announce our 1st #SaltireWomen Inductee Rosemary Ward! Rosemary was the first Gaelic Medium immersion teacher appointed to the Sir John Maxwell Gaelic Unit in Glasgow. Until recently she was Director of @LeughLeabhar She is now Director of Programme @scottishbktrust

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The Saltire Society Publisher of the Year are @404Ink Since becoming the 2017 Emerging Publishers of the Year, the team at 404Ink continue to grow from strength to strength while making publishing more accessible and transparent to all. #SNBA22

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The Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2021 is Life Without Air by @daisylafarge from @GrantaBooks This book is a wonderful concoction of biology, chemistry and personal relationships that come together in poetic form almost like alchemy. #SNBA21

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The Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 is Chitra Ramaswamy’s Homelands: The History of a Friendship pub. @canongatebooks

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Winner of the 2018 book of the year is All That Remains by Sue Black! Congratulations Sue! In this book Dame Professor Sue Black reveals the many faces of death she knows – from war crimes and ancient mysteries, to her own parents. #SaltireLiterary

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Congratulation to Louise Welsh for winning the Special First Book Anniversary Prize. She won the first book award in 2002 with her debut novel The Cutting Room, she then went on to write 7 further novels. #SaltireLiterary #Inspiringwriter

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Congratulations to our 2023 Scottish Fiction Book of the Year Shortlistees! #SNBA23

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The Scottish Non-Fiction Book Award 2021 is A Tomb With a View by @PeterAlanRoss pub. Headline Publishing Never morbid or mawkish; but a celebration of the frequently strange & often beautiful world of the graveyard. #SNBA21

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@BBCRnG @UniStrathclyde @aberdeenuni @dundeeuni @JadeEsson @laurawatts @OxUniPress @PenguinUKBooks @mitpress @PublishScotland @agentjenny @PowsCorner @cranachanbooks @anneglennie @canongatebooks @littledoorbooks @akwindram @richardwainman @Normantweets @SYPScotland @sandstonepress @k_a_farrell @404Ink @BHP_Comics @CharcoPress @heathermmcd @laurafjones @discodanskin @Carcanet @BarringtonStoke @hellojencollins @DiscoverKelpies @bhousepress @TracesofThem @font_pablo @EdinburghUP @BirlinnBooks @maclehosepress @AcairBooks @ByLeavesWeLive @PolygonBooks @bitterlemonpub @RedSquirrelPres @tap_poetry @sarahfstewart @PavilionPoetry @VagabondVoices @Outspoken_Press @steverutt @MrEwanMorrison The first ever winner of the Saltire Society Lifetime Achievement Award is Alasdair Gray, pillar of the Scottish arts scene and an inspiration to the those who come after him. Alasdair can’t be with us in the museum tonight but our admiration of his work and legacy fills the hall

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Professor of Gaelic at @EdinburghUni , Wilson McLeod, is our next Fletcher of Saltoun winner for Contribution to Public Life! Congratulations @WilsonMcLeod 🥳 @celtscotued @LLCatEdinburgh #FletcherofSaltoun2020

Fletcher of Saltoun Awards 2020: Wilson McLeod, Winner

Professor of Gaelic at @EdinburghUni, Wilson McLeod is our next Fletcher of Saltoun winner for Contribution to Public Life!Congratulations Wilson!Professor W...

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We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of outstanding Gaelic poet Aonghas Dubh MacNeacail. Our thoughts and condolences are with Gerda, the family and Aonghas' many friends. A true loss to Scottish culture.

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#SaltireWomen Inductee @talatyaqoob is a feminist campaigner and equalities activist focused on women’s equality in politics and the labour market. Talat co-founded and is Chair of @Women5050

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Jenny Brown established the Edinburgh-based literary agency Jenny Brown Associates in 2002. Now a leading independent agency, it represents 80 writers and is known for fostering new writing talent in Scotland. #IWD19 @agentjenny #OutstandingWomen

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Our 5th #SaltireWomen Inductee, @MhairiBlack @theSNP MP was the youngest ever MP elected to the House of Commons. While elected she successfully graduated with a 1st class honours degree in Politics & Public Policy from @UofGlasgow

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Great to see the addition of Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, the first female Scots Gaelic poet and songmaker (1821-1898), to #MakarsCourt @Edinburgh_CC @EdinCulture @ByLeavesWeLive @LeughLeabhar @ScotNational @bbcalba

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To celebrate our #saltire80 we are delighted to present @AmalAzzudin with a special #saltirewomen award.

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The winner of the @Saltire_Society Research Book of the Year 2017 is An Leabhar Liath: 500 Years of Gaelic Love and Transgressive Verse Edited by Peter Mackay & Iain MacPherson #SaltireLiterary

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His Bloody Project by @GMacraeBurnet published by @SarabandBooks wins @Saltire_Society Fiction Book Award #saltireliterary

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Poetry winner: How to Burn a Woman by Claire Askew @ONeNightStanzas published by @BloodaxeBooks . #SNBA22 #Poetry

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Our 1st #saltirewomen Inductee is broadcaster, author and co-founder of #OurLand @LesleyRiddoch #saltire80

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The 1st of our 2017 Outstanding Women in Scotland inductees is singer,songwriter&producer @horsemusic #saltirewomen

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Gaelic language, literature and culture have been and remain crucial to the health of Scottish history and society. Gaelic studies have been provided by the @aberdeen_ucu since the eighteenth century.

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Congratulations to the Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2021 Shortlistees

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For today's #saltirewomen we want to celebrate all the suffragettes who have made it possible for women to vote in Scotland today

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Congratulations to the 2021 Scottish First Book Awards Shortlistees #SNBA21 #FirstBookShortlist

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The Scottish Book of the Year 2022 is Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean by David Alston pub. @EdinburghUP

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@BBCRnG @UniStrathclyde @aberdeenuni @dundeeuni @JadeEsson @laurawatts @OxUniPress @PenguinUKBooks @mitpress @PublishScotland @agentjenny @PowsCorner @cranachanbooks @anneglennie @canongatebooks @littledoorbooks @akwindram @richardwainman @Normantweets @SYPScotland @sandstonepress @k_a_farrell @404Ink @BHP_Comics @CharcoPress @heathermmcd @laurafjones Huge congratulations to the team at @sandstonepress , our 2019 #SaltireLiterary Publisher of the Year! The judges were very impressed by Sandstone’s work to find talented emerging writers.

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Congratulations to the 2023 Scottish First Book of the Year 2023 shortlistees! #SNBA23

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Shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book, Blood Salt Spring by Hannah Lavery @HanLavery published by @BirlinnBooks explores ideas of nation, race and belonging, while working to find some meaning while trying to heal the pain and vulnerabilities. #SNBA22 #Poetry

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We are SO EXCITED to celebrate Scottish literature, publishing AND, for the first time, 📚 book design 📚 ! It's such a treat to bring all these talented folks together, on St Andrews Day, no less! #SaltireLiterary

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We are excited to announce our 40 Under 40 list showcasing talented creatives under the age of 40 across Scotland! #ShowThisThread and follow the link to our website and find out more: 🔗 #ShoutOut to @Marcas_Mac for inspiring this project! #Saltire40

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Nominations for 2018's Outstanding Women of Scotland are now open! 10 Scottish women from the arts, culture, politics, activism & science will once again be honored and inducted into the esteemed OWS community at a special event @womenslibrary 20 October

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Well done to Lucy Ellmann, Ruairidh MacIlleathain, Leila Aboulela, @MrEwanMorrison and @Damian_Barr ! #SaltireLiterary

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The @Saltire_Society Emerging Publisher of the Year 2017 Award goes to:

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Our next winner of the science Fletcher of Saltoun Award is an expert we have all become familiar with over the last few months, Prof. @jasonleitch #FletcherofSaltoun2020

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Shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book is At Least This I Know by @AndresNOrdorica publisher @404Ink In experiencing Ordorica’s poetry, personal & intimate, we re-evaluate & re-imagine ourselves; we look outwards a cross frontiers of nationality and culture. #SNBA22 #Poetry

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Congrats to Christopher Whyte, @janetteayachi , Iain Morrison, Ross Wilson, Roseanne Watt and @HarryJosieGiles #SaltireLiterary

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Congratulations to our 2023 Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2023 Shortlistees! #SNBA23

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Aberdeenshire Folksinger @ionafyfe is the recipient of the first Alasdair Gray Inspiring Scotland Bursary.Iona will use the bursary to complete her album with accompanying songbook of North East folk songs. #SaltireBursary #AlasdairGray #Aberdeenshire

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Joining the Outstanding Women of Scotland community is playwright and performer @JoCliffordPlays #saltirewomen

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@BBCRnG @UniStrathclyde @aberdeenuni @dundeeuni @JadeEsson @laurawatts @OxUniPress @PenguinUKBooks @mitpress @PublishScotland @agentjenny @PowsCorner @cranachanbooks @anneglennie @canongatebooks @littledoorbooks @akwindram @richardwainman @Normantweets @SYPScotland @sandstonepress @k_a_farrell @404Ink @BHP_Comics @CharcoPress @heathermmcd @laurafjones @discodanskin @Carcanet @BarringtonStoke @hellojencollins @DiscoverKelpies @bhousepress @TracesofThem @font_pablo @EdinburghUP @BirlinnBooks @maclehosepress @AcairBooks @ByLeavesWeLive @PolygonBooks @bitterlemonpub @RedSquirrelPres @tap_poetry @sarahfstewart @PavilionPoetry @VagabondVoices @Outspoken_Press Congratulations to @janetteayachi , winner of the 2019 Saltire Poetry Book of the Year, for Hand Over Mouth Music from @PavilionPoetry #SaltireLiterary

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This #EarthDay we have a #GiveAway of The Eternal Season by @steverutt 📚 This beautifully written thought provoking book explores the changes to British summer 🌎 To win a copy for yourself and a friend like and retweet this post by 2pm tomorrow 🕰️

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Great Tapestry of Scotland designer Andrew Crummy receives the Fletcher of Saltoun Award for Public Life. Andrew's vision in design is groundbreaking and a real departure from the traditional.

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The @Saltire_Society Scottish Book of the Year 2017 goes to Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova #SaltireLiterary

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The @Saltire_Society 2017 First Book of the Year Award goes to Goblin by @everdundas #SaltireLiterary

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Next is Margaret Bennet, singer, folklorist and writer! Margaret is the force behind @gnotesscotland which conserves, nurtures and promotes the traditional folk culture of Scotland #OWS2019

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Congratulations to our TWO Publishers of the Year! @CharcoPress & @EdinburghUP #SNBA23

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THE EARLY LIFE OF JAMES VI: A Long Apprenticeship, 1566–1585 by Steven J. Reid published by @BirlinnBooks shortlisted for the Scottish History Book of the Year 2023 ran in partnership with @ScotHistReview #SNBA23

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And that concludes our Fiction Book of the Year 2017 shortlist! #saltireliterary

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Its finally here! #SaltireLiterary Awards this evening. Lets have a wee look at the amazing shortlists before the ceremony.

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. @404Ink has been shortlisted for @Saltire_Society Publisher of the Year 2018. 404 Ink has gone from strength to strength in a relatively short time. They are tireless in their promotion of authors and titles. #SaltireLiterary

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Chitra Ramaswamy’s Homelands pub. @canongatebooks is about a remarkable friendship, the past and the present. It is about the state we're in now and the ways in which we carry our pasts into our futures. #SNBA22 #NonFiction #Shortlisted

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Delighted to announce that as part of the Inspiring Scotland Bursaries writer @HelenMcClory will be attending the Kaaysá Residency in North Brazil. Really pleased to be able to offer this support to Helen & looking forward to hearing all about her trip.

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. @ewangibbs Coal Country:The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialisation in Postwar Scotland pub. @UoLPres details the complex process of the tragic demise of coal mining. Academically rigorous but made accessible with the use of compelling oral testimony. #SNBA21 #HistoryShortlist

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Muriel Spark is today's #Saltirewomen from history. Best known for her novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Congratulations Angela Meyer ( @LiteraryMinded ), @JAFMacDonald , Alan Brown, @steverutt and Clare Hunter( @sewingmatters )! #SaltireLiterary

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Congratulations for all our Scottish Book Cover Award Shortlistees! #SNBA21 #BookCoverShortlist

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And that completes our Publisher of The Year 2017 shortlist! #saltireliterary

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Winner of the 2016 @Saltire_Society Book of the Year is The Bonniest Companie by Kathleen Jamie @picador

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@BBCRnG @UniStrathclyde @aberdeenuni @dundeeuni @JadeEsson @laurawatts @OxUniPress @PenguinUKBooks @mitpress @PublishScotland @agentjenny @PowsCorner @cranachanbooks @anneglennie @canongatebooks @littledoorbooks @akwindram @richardwainman @Normantweets @SYPScotland @sandstonepress @k_a_farrell @404Ink @BHP_Comics @CharcoPress @heathermmcd @laurafjones @discodanskin @Carcanet @BarringtonStoke @hellojencollins @DiscoverKelpies @bhousepress @TracesofThem @font_pablo @EdinburghUP @BirlinnBooks @maclehosepress @AcairBooks @ByLeavesWeLive @PolygonBooks @bitterlemonpub @RedSquirrelPres @tap_poetry @sarahfstewart @PavilionPoetry @VagabondVoices @Outspoken_Press @steverutt 'I wrote my book as an act of survival' Congratulations to Melanie Reid who wins this the 2019 #SaltireLiterary Non Fiction Book of the Year for the ‘beautiful and moving’ The World I Fell Out Of from @4thEstateBooks #SaltireLiterary

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And the winner of this year Non Fiction Book of the Year Award is All that Remains: A Life in Death by Sue Black. A curiously uplifting and life-affirming book it, like all good memoirs, reveals as much about the reader as the writer. #SaltireLiterary

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Congratulations to our Scottish Emerging Publisher 2021 Shortlistees #SNBA21 @PublishScotland #EmergingPublisherShortlist

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The 2020 Ross Roy Medal winner is @paulmalgrati of @univofstandrews for 'Robert Burns in Scottish Politics (1914-2014)' which readers called a "hugely important thesis" and a "long overdue" study of a key topic in Scottish literature. Congratulations Dr Malgrati!

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Our first Scottish Publisher of the Year 2022 shortlistee is @404Ink 404Ink are brave and honest publishers, working to ensure underrepresented writers and works are published. 404Ink continue to grow from strength to strength. #SNBA22

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Today is #BookLoversDay 📚 All you have to do is get a book and ❤ it!

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@BBCRnG @UniStrathclyde @aberdeenuni @dundeeuni @JadeEsson @laurawatts @OxUniPress @PenguinUKBooks @mitpress @PublishScotland @agentjenny @PowsCorner @cranachanbooks @anneglennie @canongatebooks @littledoorbooks @akwindram @richardwainman @Normantweets @SYPScotland @sandstonepress @k_a_farrell @404Ink @BHP_Comics @CharcoPress @heathermmcd @laurafjones @discodanskin @Carcanet @BarringtonStoke @hellojencollins @DiscoverKelpies @bhousepress @TracesofThem @font_pablo @EdinburghUP @BirlinnBooks @maclehosepress @AcairBooks @ByLeavesWeLive @PolygonBooks @bitterlemonpub @RedSquirrelPres @tap_poetry @sarahfstewart @PavilionPoetry @VagabondVoices @Outspoken_Press @steverutt Congratulations to @MrEwanMorrison , winner of the 2019 Fiction Book of the Year for his ‘great feat of imagination’ Nina X. #SaltireLiterary

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Our Scottish Publisher of the Year 2021 is @canongatebooks 2020 and 2021 saw them diversify and develop both commercially and internally which lead to an exceptional 18 months during a very difficult time. Canongate are a leader in publishing. #SNBA21

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Congratulations @404Ink , @BHPComics , @canongatebooks , @CharcoPress and @sandstonepress #SaltireLiterary

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And the winner of the 2018 Fiction Book of the Year Award is Elsewhere, Home by Leila Aboulela. This wonderful collection of short stories offers perceptive insights into the lives and experiences of immigrants at home and abroad. #SaltireLiterary

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A huge congratulations to all our #SNBA22 Book Award Shortlistees. The breadth of talent in Scotland is clear to see. You can find out more about the shortlistees at

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Our final Fletcher of Saltoun Winner for 2020 is @DoddieWeir5 ! Doddie was honoured by Saltire members for his commitment to fundraising towards MND research with @MNDoddie5 . Congratulations! #FletcherofSaltoun

Fletcher of Saltoun Award Winner, Public Life, Doddie Weir

Doddie Weir OBE, is one of Scotland’s larger-than-life sports personalities who can always be spotted at events sporting a bold tartan suit. Doddie’s rugby c...

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First up on the Publisher of The Year shortlist is @404ink #saltireliterary

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The Scottish Fiction Book of the Year 2023 is Ascension by Martin MacInnes published by @AtlanticBooks #SNBA23

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Shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book, The Luna Erratum by Maria Sledmere published by @dw_wannabe is an exotic delight. A book which is fresh and challenges our perceptions both about the issues that affect us all and the nature of the word itself. #SNBA22 #Poetry

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The Scottish First Book of the Year 2023 is For Thy Great Pain have Mercy on my Little Pain by @forthygreatpain published by @BloomsburyBooks #SNBA23

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Our 2019 Alasdair Gray Inspiring Scotland Bursary for an emerging creative, pursuing a career in music, fine arts, theatre, dance or cultural studies is now launched! #InspiringScotland

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How to Burn a Woman by Claire Askew @ONeNightStanzas published by @BloodaxeBooks is shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book. Her precise imagery is skilfully crafted. This is powerful writing; intense, indignant, poignant, smoulderingly angry and wryly humorous. #SNBA22 #Poetry

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Authors! Publishers! Reviewers! Readers! We are delighted to launch our 2018 Literary Awards! Celebrating the best in Scottish Literary works and publishing. #SaltireLiterary

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Shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2023 is Another Way to Split Water by @a_pirmohamed published by @birlinnbooks #SNBA23

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Congratulations to our Book of the Year winner Kirstie Blair, author of Victorian Scotland: Poetry, Press, Community. #SaltireLiterary

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Peter Burnett of @leamingtonbooks is Shortlisted for Emerging Publisher of the Year. Peter works hard to bring out an eclectic mixture of books while also training and mentoring younger people in publishing. #SNBA22

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The 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Douglas Dunn, Douglas is a major Scottish poet, editor and critic, whose Elegies (1985), a moving account of his first wife’s death, became a critical and popular success. #SNBA21

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Our #scotlitfest 2017 programme and shiny new website is live!!! And, if we do say ourselves, it is brilliant!

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The winner of our 30th First Book of the Year Award is Sal by Mick Kitson! A novel of such craft and depth of character that it never once feels like a first book. #SaltireLiterary