Gutter is an award-winning, high quality, printed journal for fiction and poetry from writers born or living in Scotland. The editors believed there is a need for an energetic, ambitious magazine dedicated exclusively to the best in new Scottish creative writing. Gutter 09 features work by Andrew Crumey, author of Mobius Dick, Sputnik Caledonia and Mr Mee, Gillian Philip, author of Bad Faith, Crossing the Line and the Rebel Angels series, Elizabeth Reeder, author of Ramshackle and Freemont, Juliet Conlin, author of The Fractured Man, Jen Hadfield, winner of the TS Eliot Prize and John Glenday, author of The Apple Ghost, Undark and Grain.