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Reading is the curriculum.
A Fellow reads about thirty serious texts a year. Not summaries. Not bullet points. Books.
Founded in Drumsheugh Gardens in 2014 by Prof. Margaret Caldwell and a small editorial circle, Loidaysman is a quarterly review and private studio for the late-career professional disciplines.
When Loidaysman was founded eleven years ago, we believed the senior career deserved a more serious literature than the productivity industry was providing. Eleven years on, that conviction has not weakened.
The Review prints four issues a year on paper because some sentences are too important to lose to a tab. The studio admits about forty Fellows a year, by direct enquiry to the editorial office.
We do not hire from the academy. Our faculty are senior practitioners writing on the disciplines they ran for twenty years.
A Fellow reads about thirty serious texts a year. Not summaries. Not bullet points. Books.
No exams. A weekly half-page response to faculty. Annotated and returned by post.
The lasting thing is the eighteen other people you read with. Cohort balance is admissions hardest job.
Programmes run six to nine months for a reason. The disciplines we teach are bodily; they cannot be rushed.
A Georgian townhouse in the West End of Edinburgh, walking distance from the Library of Mitchell and the New Town reading societies.