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Literature Working Group Policy Document 2010
A response from HI~Arts

LATEST FEATURES | MORE FEATURES

January 2010 Feature: Manifesto Revisited

As part of its digital policy development process, HI~Arts commissioned SARA LLOYD to revisit her article A Book Publisher's Manfiesto For The Twenty First Century to look at how the digital landscape for publishers, authors and readers has shifted.

December 2009 Feature: A Question of Balance

In this article, specially commissioned by HI~Arts, copyright specialist with Beachcroft LLP, ROBIN FRY, examines some fundamental issues and implications for copyright in the DE Bill.

December 2009 Feature: A Bulletin from Stromness 2

IAN STEPHEN reports on the final stages of his story-telling residence in Orkney.

LATEST NEWS | MORE WRITING NEWS

Sixteen Books Shortlisted for Scotland’s Biggest Literary Prize (18 Mar 2010)

10 commissions announced for Unlimited, the UK’s largest programme celebrating arts, culture and sport by disabled and deaf people (18 Mar 2010)

Cultural Enterprise Office March 2010 E-Bulletin (15 Mar 2010)

HI~Arts Web Marketing Workshop tour of Scotland 2010 (11 Mar 2010)

Orkney Spirit launch date in Kirkwall (04 Mar 2010)

LATEST REVIEWS | MORE REVIEWS

SYMPOSIUM: BETWEEN LEITH AND LERWICK (Edinburgh University, 6-8 March 2010)
SCOTLAND’S GLOBAL IMPACT: HOW ONE SMALL NATION CHANGED THE WORLD! (Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, 22–24 October 2009)
THE FLIGHT OF THE ARCTIC TERN (Caol Community Centre, Caol,19 October 2009)

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October 2006 Feature: Shetland Book Festival
ALISTAIR PEEBLES reflects on the recent changes in the arts infrastructure in Shetland, and looks back on last month’s very successful book event.

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