Break in Case of Silence
Edited by Rachelle Atalla, Marjorie Lotfi & Maggie Rabatski
Published in: Paperback, 224 pages
By: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Glasgow, December 2020
Price: £9.95
ISBN 978-1-906841-42-3
Cover image by Red Axe Design
Submission instructions for New Writing Scotland
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 Tear: 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
- 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