Full Description
New Writing Scotland is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today. Every year it publishes the very best from both emerging and established writers, and lists many of the leading literary lights of Scotland among its past (and present) contributors. The Last Good Year: New Writing Scotland 38 is the latest collection of excellent contemporary literature, drawn from a wide cross-section of Scottish culture and society, and includes new work from forty authors - some award-winning and internationally renowned, and some just beginning their careers.
Contents
Introduction
Patricia Ace . . . . Highland Fling
Arthur Allen . . . . On Craters
Dean Atta . . . . My Dad's Dick
Evgenia Jen Baranova . . . . Paradise
Jack Bigglestone . . . . How You Like It
Simon Brown . . . . A Bird You Don't Have to Feed
Larry Butler . . . . Last Text to Tom Leonard
Angela T. Carr . . . . Song of the Kingston Bridge Overpass, 2 a.m.
Krishan Coupland . . . . The Last Good Year
Carol Farrelly . . . . Likewise
Alan Gillespie . . . . The Arcade
Jennifer Harvey . . . . Something Red and Small and Crumpled
Lauren Ivers . . . . John
Russell Jones . . . . Beorn
David Ross Linklater . . . . House by the Divine
Aoife Lyall . . . . Sounds of that day
Crìsdean MacIllebhàin . . . . Mo Shearmon (II)
Donal McLaughlin . . . . The Man and the Younger Man
Robbie MacLeòid . . . . Auto-filidh
Callum McSorley . . . . On the Plate
Susan Mansfield . . . . Gardener
Mina Moriarty . . . . Inheritance
Siobhan Mulligan . . . . Salmon Run
Valerie Nieman . . . . Healing Powers
Jeda Pearl . . . . 15 Ways of Looking at a Tuareg Pendant
Sharon Gunason Pottinger . . . . Waltzing with Morpheus
Meghan Purvis . . . . Correspondences
Martin Raymond . . . . Lochan nan Corp
Lotte Mitchell Reford . . . . Blast Zone
Olive M. Ritch . . . . Letter from Home, 1915
Daniel Shand . . . . Our Little Piece of Heaven
Mark Ryan Smith . . . . Team Building
Kathrine Sowerby . . . . Whole Bloody Endeavour
Richard W. Strachan . . . . Mercury
Ojo Taiye . . . . Mourns Down the Moon & Dissolves It on Her Tongue Like a Wafer
Don Taylor . . . . The Surveyor
Samantha Walton . . . . The Torch
Sarah Ward . . . . Småland
Gillian Watson . . . . Digs
Olga Wojtas . . . . Not Machu Picchu
Biographies
