Gutter is Scotland’s international journal of new writing, publishing fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art with a commitment to both Scottish and international voices. The magazine provides a vital platform for new literary work in a country with a rich literary tradition and a growing community of writers who need a publication that takes their work seriously.
Each issue is carefully edited and produced, with a quality of selection and presentation that has earned the magazine a reputation as one of the most important literary journals in Scotland. The editorial approach is open to all forms of literary experiment while maintaining high standards of craft — a publication where a traditional short story sits comfortably alongside a piece of visual poetry or a work of creative nonfiction that pushes the boundaries of the form.
The name is characteristically Scottish in its refusal to be precious: the gutter is where things end up, where the overlooked collects, where the real life of a city happens. Gutter magazine reclaims that space for literature — insisting that the most interesting new writing is often found in the places nobody thinks to look.
For readers who care about new writing and want to discover it at its freshest — before the prizes and the publishers and the marketing campaigns — Gutter is where some of the best new work in Scottish and international literature first appears.
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