12 Good Reasons to Support Bella
Over the past 18 years we have published hundreds of writers including: Afua Hirsch, Amna Saleem, Neal Ascherson, Irvine Welsh, Vonny Moyes, Dougald Hine, Christopher Silver, Alan Bissett, Jay Griffiths, Jen Stout, Kathleen Jamie, Stuart Cosgrove, Peter Geoghegan, Katie Gallogly-Swan, John Warren, Iain MacKinnon, Alec Finlay, Andy Wightman, Smári McCarthy, Wilson McLeod, Cat Boyd, Darren McGarvey, Douglas Robertson, Alastair McIntosh, Dougie Strang, Laura Cameron Lewis, Kevin Williamson, Meaghan Delahunt, Peter Arnott, Pat Kane, Rona Dhòmhnallach, Billy Kay, Matthew Fitt, AL Kennedy, Jim Monaghan, Adam Ramsay, Hannah Lavery, Jenny Constable, Gerry Hassan, Layla-Roxanne Hill, Jenny Tsilivakou, Chloe Farand, Scott Hames, Raman Mundair, Rory Scothorne and many many others.
Here’s 12 good reasons to support Bella in the form of a very diverse selection of brilliant writers … (we’ll showcase a further 12 great writers next week).
Paul Tritschler’s essays are almost undefinable, dreamy, personal, historic, other-worldly. Read them all HERE. You can follow him at @TritschlerPaul.
Donna McLean is the author of Small Time Girl about her experience of being deceived into a long-term relationship by an undercover police officer, was published by Hodder Studio in February 2022. She has a regular opinion column in the Press and Journal newspaper. She writes about state violence, feminism and misogyny, among other things. Follow her at @Donna__McLean
Anahit Behrooz is the the author of BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship, out with 404 Ink. She was one of our Commissioning Editors exploring decolonisation in the Scottish arts and has written for a variety of publications including i-D, Little White Lies, AnOther Magazine, gal-dem, The Big Issue, and Girls on Tops. You can read her previous HERE.
Christopher Silver has been writing for Bella since 2013 (!). He has just completed his Phd on the Scottish media. He was one of the foremost and articulate advocates for Scottish independence in 2014 and ever since. You can read his fine collection of 62 articles HERE.
David Black – is an author, playwright, and journalist who lives in Edinburgh. He has written countless articles for Bella on the state of the city. Read him on Festicide, or How to Kill the Thing You Love HERE.
Gemma Smith has written a series of beautiful essays about the highlands, history and ecology. She studies place-names as a source for the ecological history of North West Sutherland. Read her writing HERE.
Emma Anderson has previously written for The Guardian, The Independent, The Irish Independent, The National, The Griffith Review, among others. Read her HERE.
Arusa Qureshi is the author of Author of FLIP THE SCRIPT about women in hip hop. She is currently Editor of Fest Magazine, which covers the best of the Edinburgh Festivals. She was a Commissioning Editor for us and was previously Editor of The List. She has written for publications including the Guardian, NME, Clash, Time Out, The Forty-Five and the Scotsman. Read her back catalogue HERE.
Graeme Purves was a member of the Editorial Board of the political magazine Radical Scotland. He has written for Bella for number of years, on film (In Quest of a film culture), reviews (The Fin-de-Siècle Scottish Revival & The Cailleach, the Wildwood and the Coming of the Sheep) and much else. Read his essays and articles HERE.
Iain Mackinnon has written widely (and deeply) on gaelic culture, colonisation and decolonisation. Here he is on Complicity’ or Duplicity: a Marxist account of the Gàidhealtachd. Here he is on gaelic (and anti-gaelic) in an extract from Closer: Large Scale Solidarity.
Mairi McFadyen is a writer and researcher based in Inverness. She was a key organiser of the non-party creative cultural campaign for Scottish independence, National Collective. Read her previous HERE. You can follow her @mjmcfadyen
George Gunn has been the author of the long-running column From the Province of the Cat on Bella, which became a book, here.
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