‘Meeting Places’: A project commissioned by the Saltire Society

Meeting Places is a vibrant snapshot of creative thought from across generations and communities in Scotland undertaken in workshops and collected for publication

“The past is a foreign country” (L. P. Hartley). How might we inhabit the archive in order to make it come alive? What is our relationship to the past and to its fragments and shards? 

Meeting Places is a project commissioned by the Saltire Society. It grew out of a number of creative writing workshops from students of Lochaber High School in Fort William; Dundee International Women’s Centre; Hot Chocolate Youth Centre, Dundee; the University of Dundee and a special event for Book Week Scotland focusing specifically on queer voices. Writers were asked to respond to some of the papers of the Saltire Society archive held at the National Library of Scotland, to insert themselves into a contemporary narrative about Scotland and Scottishness. 

Meeting Places, edited by Ellie Julings, can be purchased by clicking here.