| Leila | Aboulela | novelist |
| Marion | Adams-Acton | children's writer, playwright |
| Thomas | Aird | poet |
| Alasdair MacMhaighstir | Alasdair | poet |
| William | Alexander, Earl of Stirling | playwright |
| Lin | Anderson | crime writer |
| Margot | Asquith | writer and wit |
| William | Auld | essayist, novelist (Esperanto writer) |
| Sir Robert | Ayton | poet |
| William Edmonstoune | Aytoun | poet, humorist |
| Robert Michael | Ballantyne | juvenile fiction writer |
| Iain | Banks | novelist (fiction & science fiction) |
| John | Barbour | poet |
| Sir James Matthew | Barrie | novelist and dramatist (Peter Pan) |
| Alan | Bissett | novelist |
| William | Black | novelist |
| Robert | Blair | poet |
| James | Boswell | biographer of Samuel Johnson and diarist |
| James | Bridie | playwright, screenwriter |
| Christopher | Brookmyre | novelist |
| George Douglas | Brown | novelist |
| George Mackay | Brown | poet and novelist |
| Mary | Brunton | novelist |
| Anna Masterton | Buchan | novelist |
| Rhoda | Bulter | poet |
| Robert | Burns | poet |
| John | Burnside | novelist |
| Angus Peter | Campbell | novelist, columnist, poet |
| Thomas | Campbell | poet |
| Thomas | Carlyle | essayist and historian |
| Catherine | Carswell | author, biographer and journalist |
| Glenn | Chandler | dramatist and novelist |
| Keith | Charters | children's writer, publisher |
| Billy | Connolly | humorist, writer |
| Joe | Corrie | poet and playwright |
| Iain | Crichton Smith | poet and novelist |
| Samuel Rutherford | Crockett | novelist |
| Archibald Joseph | Cronin | novelist, dramatist and writer of non-fiction |
| Helen | Cruickshank | poet and playwright |
| Andrew | Crumey | novelist |
| Christine | De Luca | poet |
| Des | Dillon | novelist |
| Anne | Donovan | novelist |
| Colin | Douglas | humorist, writer |
| O. | Douglas | novelist |
| Sir Arthur Conan | Doyle | novelist (Sherlock Holmes) |
| Carol Ann | Duffy | poet |
| William | Dunbar | poet |
| Dorothy | Dunnett | historical fiction novelist |
| Douglas | Dunnett | poet |
| Niall | Duthie | novelist |
| Michael | Faber | novelist |
| Robert | Fergusson | poet |
| Ian Hamilton | Finlay | poet, writer |
| Matthew | Fitt | poet |
| Hugh | Foulis | journalist, novelist |
| Bashabi | Fraser | poet, nonfiction writer |
| Janice | Galloway | novelist, short story writer |
| John | Galt | writer, biographer, historical novelist |
| Robert | Garioch | poet |
| Lewis Grassic | Gibbon | journalist, novelist |
| Richard | Gordon | science fiction writer, travel writer |
| Alasdair | Gray | novelist (science fiction, fantasy) |
| Andrew | Greig | novelist |
| Neil Miller | Gunn | novelist, dramatist |
| Allan | Gutherie | novelist |
| Hamish | Henderson | poet |
| Robert | Henryson | poet |
| James | Hogg | poet, writer |
| Robert Alan | Jamieson | poet |
| John Robin | Jenkins | novelist |
| Jackie | Kay | poet |
| James | Kelman | novelist, playwright |
| Alison Louise (A. L.) | Kennedy | novelist, nonfiction writer |
| Tom | Leonard | poet |
| Joan | Lingard | novelist |
| Douglas | Lipton | poet |
| Liz | Lochhead | poet |
| George Mann | MacBeth | poet, novelist |
| Norman | MacCaig | poet |
| Hugh | MacDiarmid | poet, journalist |
| George | MacDonald | poet, writer |
| Helen Clark | MacInnes | espionage novelist |
| Sir Edward Montague Compton | Mackenzie | novelist |
| Alistair | MacLean | novelist |
| Sorley | MacLean | poet |
| Ken | MacLeod | science fiction writer |
| Allan | Massie | journalist, novelist |
| Osborne Henry | Mavor | playwright, screenwriter |
| Peter | May | screenwriter, crime novelist |
| Brian | McCabe | poet |
| Alexander | McCall Smith | novelist |
| Iain | McDowall | novelist |
| William | McIlvanney | crime novelist, poet |
| Robert | McLellan | playwright |
| James | Meek | novelist |
| Denise | Mina | crime novelist |
| James Leslie | Mitchell | journalist, novelist |
| Naomi | Mitchison | poet, novelist |
| Edwin | Morgan | poet |
| Edwin | Muir | poet |
| Willa | Muir | novelist |
| Neil | Munro | journalist, novelist |
| Liz | Niven | poet |
| Andrew | O'Hagan | essaist, novelist |
| Margaret | Oliphant | novelist |
| Agnes | Owens | novelist |
| Andrew | Picken | novelist |
| Tom | Pow | poet |
| Allan | Ramsay | playwright |
| Ian | Rankin | crime novelist (Inspector Rebus) |
| James | Robertson | novelist, children's fiction, poet |
| J.K. | Rowling | novelist (Harry Potter) |
| Suhayl | Saadi | novelist |
| Andrew Murray | Scott | poet, novelist, nonfiction writer |
| Michael | Scott | novelist |
| Sir Walter | Scott | poet, novelist |
| Alan | Sharp | novelist, screenwriter |
| Nan | Shepherd | poet, novelist |
| Adam | Smith | writer |
| Ali | Smith | novelist |
| Tobias | Smollett | writer |
| William | Soutar | poet, memorist |
| Muriel | Spark | novelist |
| D. E. | Stevenson | light romance novelist |
| Robert Louis | Stevenson | novelist (Treasure Island, Kidnapped) |
| Alex | Stuart | science fiction writer, travel writer |
| Luke | Sutherland | novelist |
| James | Thomson | poet |
| Nigel | Tranter | historian, author |
| Alexander | Trocchi | novelist |
| Alan | Warner | novelist |
| Irvine | Welsh | novelist (Trainspotting) |
| Louise | Welsh | novelist |
| Christopher | Whyte | poet, novelist |
| George | Whyte-Melville | poet, novelist |
| David | Wishart | novelist (Marcus Corvinus) |
| David | Wolstencroft | screenwriter, novelist |