Chapman was a literary magazine based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It has published many Scottish and international authors, including Iain Crichton Smith, Alasdair Gray, Sorley MacLean and Kathleen Raine. It covered new poetry and short fiction, as well as critical essays and reviews.

It was started in 1970 as The Chapman, a pamphlet edited by George Hardie and Walter Perrie. Robert Calder, Joy Hendry and Walter Perrie edited the magazine during 1975. Joy Hendry began editing the title first in conjunction with Perrie, then solo from Issue 16 in 1976. She was the magazine's editor until 2005.

Chapman (magazine)

It is variously known as Chapman magazine, Chapman: Scotland's Quality Literary Magazine, but Chapman is its proper title.

Chapman (magazine)

Notable contributors

Richard Burns

Stewart Conn

Alasdair Gray

Duncan Glen

Michael Horovitz

Robert Lofton

Sorley MacLean

Aonghas MacNeacail

Eric Mottram

Kathleen Raine

Iain Crichton Smith

See also

List of literary magazines

List of magazines published in Scotland

References

External links

Chapman

1970 establishments in Scotland

Literary magazines published in Scotland

Magazines established in 1970

Mass media in Edinburgh

Quarterly magazines published in the United Kingdom

Scottish literature

Chapman (magazine)