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.
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 Crisdean MacIllebhain . . . . Mo Shearmon (II) Donal McLaughlin . . . . The Man and the Younger Man Robbie MacLeoid . . . . 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 . . . . Correspondence 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 . . . . Smaland Gillian Watson . . . . Digs Olga Wojtas . . . . Not Machu Picchu Biographies