ARTS NEWS: Authors invited to Ignite fellowships, Lanterns relit at the zoo, charity arts show in Ayr
THE Scottish Book Trust has launched a new fellowship programme, called Ignite.
Professor Sue Black at Wigtown: We should celebrate death as much as birth.
DEATH should be celebrated - as well as those who donate their bodies to science, the Wigtown Book Festival has been told.
St Mary's Music School ready to transform Old Royal High School in new home for music
THE transformation of an iconic building on Edinburgh's Calton Hill into a music school "could start tomorrow" if appeals by hotel developers fail.
The Herald's Wee Cherub for the pick of the Young Critics goes to Rachel Cronin, 17.
A TEENAGER has scooped a Herald Angel award for her review of a three hour long opera.
ARTS NEWS: Scottish talent in line for screen bursary, Kinney and Perry for book festival, piano plays lunar music
ONE of the most lucrative film prizes in the UK, the IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, worth £50,000 has announced its short list.
ARTS NEWS: Winners of major poetry prizes announced, Northbound to Shetland, Hebrides film festival opens
DANEZ Smith, Phoebe Power and Liz Berry have been announced as the winners of the Forward Prizes for poetry.
Hogmanay sends a 'forget me not' love letter to the EU, and the world
IT is Queen Gertrude who notes in Hamlet that a character in a play ‘doth protest too much, methinks.’
Board of Glasgow School of Art "not fit for purpose", Parliament hears
THE board of the Glasgow School of Art are “not fit for purpose”, a Glasgow MSP told the Scottish Parliament.
Poet Robertson short listed for £50,000 Man Booker Prize for his novel in verse
THE award winning Scottish poet Robin Robertson is in the running for the leading prize in fiction, The Man Booker Prize.
