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 ...
Alessandra Thom on Summer Hours, Boundaries, and the beauty of Edinburgh
Alessandra Thom was a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee for Prose in 2023 ...
Elspeth Wilson’s “These Mortal Bodies” is a devastatingly beautiful debut
‘Wilson expertly conveys how a trauma lingers and taints the brushtrokes of life, like ...
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 ...
Michael Pedersen on Muckle Flugga: Isolation, Grief & Lighthouses
Michael Pedersen’s writing truly sparkles with energy and originality. He has published three acclaimed ...
Sexual, gender, and class tensions: Lucy Ribchester on her Edinburgh novel ‘Murder Ballad’ (interview)
Lucy Ribchester is an Edinburgh-based writer whose novel Murder Ballad (also set in Edinburgh) ...
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.
