In 2019, Jules Danskin and Heather Parry launched a Kickstarter campaign for a new literary magazine. They raised £10,844 from 355 backers — enough to print the first issue of Extra Teeth, a twice-yearly publication based between Edinburgh’s Leith and Glasgow that would go on to be described by Stack Magazines as ‘redefining Scottish literature.’ The name, borrowed from an anatomical condition called hyperdontia, was a declaration of intent: this magazine would have bite, and more of it than expected.
Each issue contains twelve stories and essays — from established Scottish writers like Michel Faber and Janice Galloway to debut voices discovered through open submissions that routinely attract five hundred entries. The visual identity changes with every edition, shaped by a different guest illustrator who responds to the texts in their own way, from Karine Remia to Natasha Russell. Designer Esther Clayton gives the publication its structural backbone, while Danskin and Parry maintain an editorial approach they describe as generous, honest, and above all compassionate — nurturing both writer and text toward the strongest possible version of itself.
Beyond the magazine, Extra Teeth functions as a writer development space, offering free mentorships, workshops, open Q&A sessions, and events for emerging writers — including appearances at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The editors are transparent about pay, committed to active diversity, and vocal about the challenges facing tiny arts organisations in Scotland. Ten issues in, the magazine has built a community of some of Scotland’s most exciting upcoming writers and proven that literary publishing from north of the border can be experimental, bold, internationally minded, and uncompromisingly weird.
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