Alistair Braidwood 
Six Must-See Events at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2025
This year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival returns to Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) for the ...
Callum McSorley on Winning Awards, Paperboy, and Swanning About with a Lanyard
Callum McSorley’s debut novel, Squeaky Clean, was praised far and wide, winning the Bloody ...
Chris McQueer on Hermit: masculinity, incels, and isolation
Chris McQueer’s debut novel, Hermit, is one of the most acclaimed Scottish books of ...
Mhairi Collie on Fiction, Fistula, and The Bright Fabric of Life
Taking inspiration from her work as a consultant surgeon, Mhairi Collie’s debut novel, The ...
From Scenes Like These Deserves Its Place in the Scottish Literary Canon
The term ‘lost classic’ is a loaded one, often referring to a book which ...
The Malt Whisky Murders: Natalie Jayne Clark on Her Debut Crime Thriller
Crime fiction and whisky: aspects of Scotland’s culture which have come to help define ...
How Queer Music Shaped Scotland – Small Town Joy by Carrie Marshall
Perhaps best known as the author of the acclaimed memoir Carrie Kills A Man, ...
Craig A. Smith on Love, Loss, and the Shaping of Modern Scotland (interview)
Craig A. Smith’s 2013 debut novel, The Mile, was one of the few to ...
SNACK has a clear commitment to equality: we were the first, and still the only, Scottish publication to make a Keychange pledge committing to take positive action for a representative music industry.
We committed to a 50/50 gender balance in our coverage in 2021 and have exceeded this pledge annually since.
