When the year-long blogging task was initially explained to the class my first thought was; how can I get out of this? I had previously...

Straying away from the theme of Scottish writers, here we have Zora Neale Hurston. Hurston was from Alabama and was not only an author...

Here is another feminist Scottish writer. The links between Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay go even further as the pair were in a...

Carol Ann Duffy was “the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet” to be appointed as the British Poet Laureate from...