Table of Contents

Patricia Ace: Talking To Cancer

Juliet Antill: A Night In Fermanagh

Douglas Bruton: Walk Don’t Run

Becky Carnaffin: My Sister Lives in a Council Flat

Jim Carruth: Bringing In The Cows

Lynn Davidson: Leaving Bass Rock Gannet Colony

Beth Frieden: A’ sireadh thaibhsean air tràigh a’ Bhàigh Siar, Bhatarsaigh / Muc-mhara

Harry Giles: The Worker

Brian Hamill: Thinking these thoughts

Lars Horn: Forest

Sandra Ireland: Ultramarine

Vicki Jarrett: Yellowness

Russell Jones: Cartography of a Rural Landscape

Jeff Kemp: This is Bill from Birmingham

Marcas Mac an Tuairneir: Neòineanan

Pàdraig MacAoidh: Geographical Exclusions Apply

Eilidh McCabe: Amber

Al McClimens: Ode to a Burning Astronaut / Relationship Advice Part Three: Breaking Up is Very Hard to Do

Kevin MacNeil: Makar

Kirsten MacQuarrie: MMM

Iain MacRath: isopodum (sgliatair) / Meteor / Tiodhlac

Ian Madden: Cracks in an Edifice of Sheer Reason

Susan Mansfield: Sloth / Eight Reasons

Lynsey May: Scars On Their Knuckles

Donald S. Murray: How the Loch Ness Monster Stole My Husband

Julie Rea: Shark Tooth

Margaret Ries: Lucky Strike

Mark Russell: Drama

David Simons: Remember From Where You Came

Mark Ryan Smith: Whaler’s Testament

A. Steed: The Last Door

Margaret Stewart: Orion’s Mouth

Simon Sylvester: The Few Poor Houses of My Sanndabhaig

Kenny Taylor: Cull

Valerie Thornton: Family

Aisha Tufail: If

Jim Waite: Collops o Colonsay / The Impedimentae o Age

Fiona Ritchie Walker: A Praise Poem for My Husband’s Love of Bookmarking / Comeuppance

Roderick Watson: A Rain Poem for Sandy Hutchison

Sarah Whiteside: With Their Best Clothes On

About the Author

Susie Maguire is a writer best known for short stories. As well as publishing two collections – The Short Hello and Furthermore – more than thirty of her stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Radio Scotland. She is an experienced editor, having produced four anthologies to date (Little Black Dress; Something Wicked: new Scottish crime fiction; Scottish Love Stories; and Hoots! An anthology of Scottish comic writing). An accomplished broadcaster and stage performer, with a background in acting, stand-up comedy and television presenting, she is a member of Equity, and of the Society of Authors. An Arvon tutor at Moniack Mhor and The Story House Ireland, she is also a mentor for WoMentoring.

Reviews

The publication of another New Writing Scotland is always a significant date on the Scottish literary calendar … this 36th volume of NWS has both an impressive number of strong and well-executed ideas and a spirit of ambition and optimism.
*The Herald*