Association for Scottish Literary Studies

[14] Since its first issue in 1983, many contemporary Scottish writers have had early work published in ASLS's annual anthology of new short fiction and poetry, New Writing Scotland, including Leila Aboulela,[15] Lin Anderson,[16] Iain Banks,[17] Polly Clark,[18] Anne Donovan,[19] Janice Galloway,[20] Kris Haddow,[21] Jane Harris,[22] Gail Honeyman,[23] Kathleen Jamie,[24] A L Kennedy,[25] James Meek,[26] Ian Rankin,[27] James Robertson,[28] Suhayl Saadi,[29] Ali Smith,[30] Chiew-Siah Tei,[31] Irvine Welsh,[32] and others.

There are currently thirty-nine titles in this series, on authors ranging from late medieval poets such as William Dunbar and Robert Henryson to contemporary writers such as Iain Banks, Liz Lochhead and Ian Rankin.

[35] In May 2010, in partnership with the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, ASLS published an illustrated edition of Sir Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake, to mark the 200th anniversary of the original publication.

[37] In February 2013, ASLS hosted the inaugural Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship, set up by Creative Scotland "to enable a writer to take time out of their usual environment to embark upon a year-long literary adventure to develop their practice".

[41][42] From 2004 to 2019, ASLS mounted the Scottish Writing Exhibition at the Modern Language Association of America's annual conventions in the United States.

[43] In August 2008 the Scottish Writing Exhibition was on display at the biannual European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) conference in Aarhus in Denmark.