New Prizes - Chapman!

I have some great news - more prizes for the winners of the Glasgow Student Short Story Prize! Just 3 days left to enter now, so it's getting pretty exciting..

The prizes come from Chapman, Scotland's leading literary magazine, which is 'controversial, influential, outspoken and intelligent': in short, everything a writer needs for inspiration!

Scotland's leading literary magazine, Chapman, has a well-deserved international reputation for quality, diversity, and its authoritative cultural voice. It is often compared to the likes of Granta, The Poetry Review, P N Review, Agenda and easily stands comparison with similar magazines in Ireland and Wales, like The New Welsh Review as well as counterparts throughout Europe and elsewhere.

Its outstanding feature is consistency of quality, combined with originality in the range of material it publishes. Surprises are guaranteed in each issue. Most of all, and perhaps unique to Chapman, is its dynamic nature. It's not passive, and merely reflective of the current literary scene, but active and stimulating of change in both culture and in society at large.

Tied in with their commitment to encouraging new writing talent, they are supporting the Glasgow Student Short Story Prize, by awarding prizes to all the prize winners! The 1^st Prize winner will get a one year Subscription to Chapman, which is a brilliant reward! The 2nd Prize winner will win a set of Chapman Centenary Editions, something I would love to get for myself, the 3rd Prize winner will receive a copy of the current issue of Chapman:


Chapman publishes the best in Scottish and international writing – new work by both well-known and new writers, and readable, enlightening critical discussion. We promote energetic ideas and approaches, always with an eye to the future. While our central commitment is to Scottish literature, Chapman is increasingly international, and writers the world over jostle to get into its pages. Chapman 61–62 celebrated our 20th anniversary with an International Festival of Writing and, since then, Catalan, Irish, Hungarian, Bengali, Spanish – and many other literatures have featured in translation.

Chapman’s intervention in cultural issues has been decisive. No 35-6, Scotland: A Predicament for the Scottish Writer sparked a huge debate about culture and politics; No 43–44 on Scottish Theatre helped create a new drive for the Scottish National Theatre which now exists; the Women’s Forum (74–77) updated our pioneering 1980 survey on women in the arts in Scotland. Our most impressive recent achievement has been the Centenary editions (100-104) which celebrate the many writers who have appeared over more than 30 years, and amounts to a showcase of contemporary Scottish writing. English, Scots and Gaelic appear in every issue, reflecting the linguistic diversity of Scotland.

I like Chapman, it really is a literary magazine worth supporting:

Chapman publishes the best in Scottish writing – new work by well-known Scottish writers in the context of lucid critical discussion. With our commitment to the future, we energetically promote new writers, new ideas and approaches. Several issues have been landmarks in their field, in Scots language, women's writing, cultural politics in Scotland, and we have published extensive features on important writers: Hugh MacDiarmid, Hamish Henderson, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tom Scott, Naomi Mitchison, Edwin and Willa Muir and Alasdair Gray and others – making a big difference to the reputation and status of these writers. And, as an extension of all this, we began the Chapman New Writing Series, to provide publication in book form for those gifted contributors who richly deserved such support but, given the climate, were unlikely to get it elsewhere.

Take a look at subscribing here, or find out more about them here.

I am delighted that Chapman have been so generous with their support for the Prize, thank you Chapman!