The referendum discourse was shaped by an emphasis on popular participation, frequently articulated through notions of political progressivenessprogressiveness and, by extension, artistic vanguardismvanguardism. This practice draws on the powerful narrative or myth of cultural devolutioncultural devolution which suggests that writers as well as the art they produce have been an “active vehicle for political identity formation” in Scotland (Thomson in J Scott Thought 8:63–87, 2016: 63). Contrary to what this narrative might suggest, the referendum was largely marked by a “lack of actual art” (Massie in Where’s the Art, National Collective? The Scotsman, March 14, 2015. https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/alex-massie-wheres-the-art-national-collective-1510279 ), including literature. This chapter attends to the literary texts that did emerge during and shortly after the referendum and respond to the referendum experience. It considers these in their function as campaign tools, testimonies, and expressions of national identitynational identity. The chapter discusses the role of creative activism and practice in Scottish political imagination and analyses how participation was portrayed and performed in political versepolitical verse, poetry, and fiction. Analyses of the chosen texts further contextualise how the fictionalisation of key referendum arguments and motifs originating in public debate contributed to the construction and performance of a myth of popular participation, its political function, as well as the referendum’s participatory legacy.