Kevin Williamson

KEVIN WILLIAMSON founded and edited the ground-breaking Rebel Inc Magazine (1992–1994) and was Senior Commissioning Editor at Canongate Books (1996–2001) editing its Rebel Inc imprint. In 1997 he wrote the influential essay book Drugs & The Party Line, a political polemic on UK drugs policy. He won the 2005 Robert Louis Stevenson Award and in 2007 his debut poetry collection In A Room Darkened/em> was published by Two Ravens Press. That same year he co-founded Bella Caledonia, widely recognised as one of the most influential Scottish current affairs websites. In 2011 he co-founded Neu! Reekie! – a cross-arts cabaret – and in the summer of 2011 he wrote and starred in the successful Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Robert Burns: Not In My Name. He lives with his family in Leith.