Extra Teeth: Issue Six Launch

Join us for a special evening launching issue 6 of Scottish literary mag Extra Teeth, featuring readings from 3 contributors to the issue: Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, Alexandra Ye and Amanda Thomson.

We are planning for this event to take place in the bookshop with an in-person audience, as well as a livestream for attendees watching from home.

In-person vouchers can be redeemed on the night of the event against anything in the bookshop – we will have a list of attendees with vouchers at the ready. Livestream vouchers are valid until the day after the event and can be redeemed on our website against a copy of Extra Teeth Issue Six.

Wines will be provided by Smith and Gertrude, and non alcoholic options will be available.

About Issue Six:

The twelve stories and essays within these pages ask what it means to make a connection. They explore our human fears and frailties; the way our families both bolster and damage us. Stylistically daring and experimental with form, they shrug off literary constraints and make a new space for themselves.

Featuring some of Scotland’s best emerging and established writers alongside their contemporaries from as far as Nigeria and Japan, Issue Six of Extra Teeth showcases the bold, brilliant and inspiring work at the forefront of fiction and nonfiction today, expertly illustrated in striking colour by Karin Eremia.

Extra Teeth is a biannual literary magazine focused on new writing coming from writers in Scotland, but with an International outlook. Publishing innovative and unique stories, Extra Teeth is full of words with bite.

Jessica Gaitán Johannesson is a Swedish/Colombian writer and climate justice activist based in Edinburgh.  Her debut novel How We Are Translated was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. Her essay collection The Nerves and Their Endings was published with Scribe in August 2022. She was Wasafiri Magazine’s Writer-in-Residence for 2021-22 and works as Digital Campaigns Manager for Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh’s radical bookshop.

Alexandra Ye is a fiction writer from Maryland. She now lives and works in Edinburgh, where she completed a Master’s degree in creative writing. Her work can be found in From Arthur’s Seat and The Selkie.

Amanda Thomson is a Scottish writer and visual artist, and a lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art. Her first book, A Scots Dictionary of Nature, was published in 2018. She has spoken at many book festivals and had her work published in Antlers of Water, Willowherb Review, The Wild Isles, Gifts of Gravity and Light and the Guardian. She lives and works in Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands and Glasgow.

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