Press

• Martin B. PhD: PRESS & MEDIA

Welcome to my my archive of cross-pollination — from New York City ad agencies, Glasgow & Edinburgh-to-London creative, littéraire à Paris, festival…

Nov 16, 2025 • Martin B PhD

Jim Haynes 1933-2021 (official obit) The Scotsman

Co-founder of Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Traverse Theatre & London Drury Lane Arts Lab.

Jan 12, 2021 • Martin B PhD

The Stage: Could a 1960s counterculture hotbed be a blueprint for post-lockdown theatre?

Opinion • The Stage, London. June 15 2020.

Jun 15, 2020 • Martin B PhD

GQ + Gap interview campaign

A stroll with @Garconjon for GQ + GAP.

Oct 3, 2013 • Martin B PhD

[tech • events] THE SUNDAY TIMES / Iain Banks : BANKSOPHILIA. online project

The Sunday Times September 8 2013

Sep 8, 2013 • Martin B PhD

• Port Magazine: Martin Belk's Pretty Broken Punks

The writer and editor talks to Nick Rainsford about his memories of iconic New York addresses, shot by Jonathan Daniel Pryce. By Nick Rainsford.

Jul 4, 2013 • Martin B PhD

Prison Writing • THE SCOTTISH SUN, Poetic Justice

Prison Writing: Martin Belk, Writer-In-Residence, Polmont Young Offenders Institution, Scotland.

Apr 23, 2013 • Martin B PhD

[BOOKS] Scots Who Enlightended the World, Ferguson. Martin Belk, ed./publisher

The new, fresh who's-who of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Apr 10, 2013 • Martin B PhD

[BOOKS] Pretty Broken Punks, lipstick, leather jeans, a death of New York by Martin Belk

‘Black outfits at midnight, guitars screeching til’ dawn, glitter in your breakfast cereal. NYC: a place where freedom doesn’t hang as a street sign…

Dec 23, 2012 • Martin B PhD

Prison Writing • Scottish Review of Books: A Ballad of Reading in Jail

Prison Writing: Creative writing classes offer young offenders a route back to the world. Martin Belk, Writer-In-Residence, Polmont Young Offenders…

Nov 4, 2010 • Martin B PhD

Prague Writers' Festival 2010: Silence = Death

Heresy & Rebellion. Where is it?

Jun 24, 2010 • Martin B PhD

Prison Writing • The Scotsman: Troubled youth need inspiration on the outside to cut reoffending

Prison Writing: Martin Belk, Writer-In-Residence, Polmont Young Offenders Institution, Scotland.

Nov 13, 2008 • Martin B PhD

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