News and Announcements
Liam McIlvanney wins the 2018 McIlvanney Prize!
21st September, 2018
We’re pleased to announce the Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2018 winner to be Liam McIlvanney’s The Quaker! The judges of the McIlvanney Prize this…
Nordic Noir and Scandi Blanc at Bloody Scotland
7th September, 2018
Today we welcome local Nordic Noir expert Miriam Owen to the blog to give you a wee preview of the Scandi flavoured events at Bloody Scotland this year. Recent news…
Crafting your perfect pitch
5th September, 2018
Another blog from 2016 Pitch Perfect winner Alison Belsham but this time she comes with lots of advice for this year’s pitchers, and for everyone out there who would benefit…
McIlvanney Prize 2018 shortlist revealed!
4th September, 2018
Congratulations to Lin Anderson, Chris Brookmyre, Charles Cumming and Liam McIlvanney for making our McIlvanney Prize 2018 shortlist for best Scottish Crime Book of the Year! Read what our judges…
Pitch Perfect 2018
27th August, 2018
The 2018 Pitch Perfect-ers have been chosen! We had a huge response so thank you to all who took the time to apply to present their idea to our panel…
Crime in the Spotlight 2018 (part 2)
22nd August, 2018
You’ll hopefully have seen that we announced the 2018 Crime in the Spotlight cohort here and we wanted to share all the beautiful covers for our spotlighters. Click on the…
Crime in the Spotlight 2018
15th August, 2018
(L-R: Andy Muir, Claire Askew, Daniel Smith, CS Duffy, Ian Patrick, Chris Curran, Andrew Reid, Mysti Berry, CS McLean, GB Williams, Allan Watson, Heleen Kist, William Graham) We’re overjoyed to…
BAME writing competition now open
31st July, 2018
We are pleased to announce the the Harvill Secker crime writing competition for BAME writers is now open, in partnership with Bloody Scotland. For all information please click here. The…
Ashley Jensen comes to Bloody Scotland!
29th July, 2018
We’re unbelievably excited that we will be joined by Ashley Jensen, star of the TV series, Agatha Raisin who will be appearing on stage with M C Beaton, author of…
Alison Belsham on Pitching Perfectly
11th July, 2018
Alison Belsham, author of The Tattoo Thief, has given us some insight into what it’s like to apply for Pitch Perfect, prep, take part and then win! Alison (photo by…
Xabia Negra or Crime on the Costa
7th July, 2018
A blog from Bloody Scotland board member Gordon Brown about his trip to Xabia Negra, a noir festival in Spain. November the 4th 2017. Where were you? Was the sun…
2018 McIlvanney Prize longlist revealed!
20th June, 2018
The readers have passed their judgement and we’ve collated the 2018 McIlvanney Prize longlist to be: Lin Anderson, Follow the Dead (Macmillan) Chris Brookmyre, Places in the Darkness (Little, Brown)…