- The Drouth
The Drouth is an American-format quarterly periodical published in
Glasgow ,Scotland . Founded in 2001 by Mitchell Miller and Johnny Rodger it is one of the newerScottish arts magazines.Although its title is Scots (Eng: "The Thirst") the magazine is published mostly in
Scottish Standard English though features and fiction do regularly appear in languages such as French, Italian, Spanish, Scots and Gaelic."The Drouth" is unusual for a Scottish magazine in refusing to publish poetry, arguing that as poetry covers a good portion of other magazines’ content, its efforts are better focused on other art-forms. The
poetry rule is retained with occasional exceptions, although this has always been commissioned directly by the editors, as is the majority of content. It has a particular focus on literature, film and politics but also coversvisual art ,music ,architecture ,photography andcomix , as well as giving generous space to creativefiction .In general, the magazine takes an aggressively non-institutional stance and tends to hold itself apart from other magazines in Scotland. It is nevertheless very active in the Scottish arts scene, sponsoring a number of events across Scotland and Glasgow’s
West End Festival . Every issue features a guest editor (usually someone of distinction in a given field) and guest cover artist.Notable contributors
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Angus Calder
*Gowan Calder
*Jenni Calder
*Eddie Campbell
*Gerard Carruthers
*Jem Cohen
*Ken Currie
*Stephen Davismoon
*Owen Dudley Edwards
*Roberto Fabbricciani
*John Gray
*Dorian Grieve
*Murray Grigor
*Sileas na Keppoch
*Simon Kovesi
*Frank Kuppner
*Carl MacDougall
*Donald MacLeod
*Edwin Morgan
*Jonny Murray
*Ruaridh Nicoll
*Andrew O’Hagan
*Paul O’Keeffe
*Juana Ponce de Leon
*Jake Mahaffy
*George Monbiot
*Ashley Shelby
*David Stenhouse
*Sherien Sultanee also
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List of magazines published in Scotland External links
* [http://www.thedrouth.com The Drouth Website]
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