Founded in 2009, Gutter is Scotland’s leading literary journal. Twice a year, in February and August, we publish a high-quality print magazine that features short stories, novel extracts, essays, poetry, interviews and reviews. The editors aim to showcase work by emerging and established writers from Scotland and beyond: work that will challenge, move and enliven our readers. Gutter is international in outlook, and we take pride in the diversity of our content and our contributors.

Contributors to Gutter have included Lin Anderson, Sarah Bernstein, William Boyd, Karen Campbell, Jim Carruth, Imtiaz Dharker, Christine De Luca, Cheryl Follon, Janice Galloway, Harry Josephine Giles, Rodge Glass, John Glenday, Alasdair Gray, Kirsty Gunn, Jen Hadfield, Alexander Hutchison, Kathleen Jamie, Nadine Aisha Jassat, Doug Johnstone, Auður Jónsdóttir, Jackie Kay, James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, Daisy Lafarge, Hannah Lavery, William Letford, Liz Lochhead, Kirsty Logan, Kevin MacNeil, Helen McClory, Darren McGarvey, Kei Miller, Aidan Moffat, Andrés N. Ordorica, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Heather Parry, K. Patrick, Michael Pedersen, Alycia Pirmohamed, Alan Spence, Zoe Strachan, Olufemi Terry, Louise Welsh, Zoë Wicomb, Jay G. Ying, and many others.

Meet the Gutter team

  • Cal Bannerman

    PRODUCTION MANAGER

  • Colin Begg

    CO-EDITOR

  • Henry Bell

    CO-EDITOR

  • Katie Goh

    PROSE REVIEWS EDITOR

  • Katy Hastie

    EDITOR-AT-LARGE

  • April Hill

    SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

  • Sean Wai Keung

    POETRY REVIEWS EDITOR

  • Malachy Tallack

    MANAGING EDITOR

  • Ryan Vance

    DESIGNER