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[PUBLISHED] Ph.D. Thesis: Presenting the Animateur d’Art...

Degree Awarded July, 2025

• 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 spisovatelů Praha to recent PhD archival research.

[BOOKS] 'Back to Start with Lady Bunny', 'What's Left of Leatherdale', A GREAT GAY BOOK: May 2024

Anthology of Hello Mister! magazine

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.

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

Opinion • The Stage, London. June 15 2020.

GQ + Gap interview campaign

A stroll with @Garconjon for GQ + GAP.

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

The Sunday Times September 8 2013

• 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.

Prison Writing • THE SCOTTISH SUN, Poetic Justice

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

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

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

[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, but climbs down and dances on the pole for you...’