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IRVINE WELSH: Author of Trainspotting, The Acid House, Marabou Stork Nightmares and Ecstasy. All critically acclaimed best-sellers. Trainspotting has been turned into an award-winning movie and box office smash. Welsh was described by The Face as the ‘poet laureate of the chemical generation’.

ALAN WARNER: Author of award-winning Oban rave novel Morvern Callar, which is currently being adapted into a major movie by the BBC, and more recently a second novel, These Demented Lands.

GORDON LEGGE: Author of two novels and an SAC award-winning collection of short stories, In Between Talking about the Football. Inspired many of the new wave of Scottish writers to start writing with his first novel The Shoe. Described as ‘pop writer extraordinaire’.

JAMES MEEK: Author of two novels, McFarlane Boils the Sea and Drivetime and an SAC award-winning collection of short stories, Last Orders.

LAURA HIRD: Short fiction previously published in literary magazines like Rebel inc., Chapman, Cencrastus, Verbal, etc. Her first full collection, Nail and other stories, is to be published in Autumn ’97 by Rebel inc.

PAUL REEKIE: Writer whose live performances have become legendary. Author of one poetry collection, Zap, You’re Pregnant. His poem ‘Caesar’s Mushroom’ was featured at the front of Irvine Welsh’s The Acid House.