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New Writing Scotland 40

nobody remembers the birdman

Edited by: Rachelle Atalla, Marjorie Lotfi & Maggie Rabatski

Published in: Paperback, 208 pages. 
By: Association for Scottish Literature, Glasgow, August 2022. 
Price: £9.95 
ISBN 978-1-906841-48-5

Cover image by Red Axe Design
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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. nobody remembers the birdman: New Writing Scotland 40 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-five authors – some award-winning and internationally renowned, and some just beginning their careers.

Contents
Introduction
New Writing Scotland 41 submission instructions

  • Craig Aitchison . . . . . Fishing the Mairch 
  • Juliet Antill . . . . . Uses of a Compass 
  • Jane Archer . . . . . Phenomenal Waves 
  • Peter Bennett . . . . . Stovies 
  • Karen Elizabeth Bishop . . . . . cairn 
  • Nathan Breakenridge . . . . . Upstairs 
  • Niki Brennan . . . . . Gather 
  • Mikey Burnett . . . . . It’s Ladle 
  • Emily Christie . . . . . Homes in Many Cities 
  • Kate Coffey . . . . . Stratus clouds do not precipitate 
  • Lynn Davidson . . . . . June 2019 / From Scotland to New Zealand 
  • Lil DeThomas . . . . . The Greedy Algorithm 
  • Shehzar Doja . . . . . A sequence of loss 
  • Meg Eden . . . . . Family Dinner 
  • Ellen Forkin . . . . . Hare, Bee, Witch 
  • Timothy Fox . . . . . nobody remembers the birdman 
  • Roshni Gallagher . . . . . My Granny Dreams of Guyana 
  • Rodge Glass . . . . . On Speculation 
  • Heather Gregg . . . . . Shaken 
  • Kris Haddow . . . . . The Incomer 
  • Nat Hall . . . . . Hairst 
  • Alan Hill . . . . . Saying it Late 
  • Alex Howard . . . . . Couchsurfing at Nikolay’s 
  • Shane Johnstone . . . . . Mocheirigh 
  • Charles Lang . . . . . Good Friday 
  • Len Lukowski . . . . . Sites of Humiliation 
  • Aoife Lyall . . . . . Matinee / Hamper 
  • Hannah McDonald . . . . . Jam and Butter 
  • Crìsdean MacIlleBhàin . . . . . Tòiseachadh le Athar / Starting with a Father 
  • Liz McKibben . . . . . Known Unto God 
  • Jane McKie . . . . . Rope 
  • Hugh McMillan . . . . . Couple, New Cumnock 
  • Scott McNee . . . . . Jellyfish 
  • Caoimhin MacNèill . . . . . An dèidh Santōka Taneda (1882–1940) 
  • Paul McQuade . . . . . The World in Our Hands 
  • Callum McSorley . . . . . The Last Good Thing 
  • Andrea Mejía . . . . . The Prettiest Girl in Town 
  • Claire O’Connor . . . . . Night Swimming with Godzilla 
  • Allan Radcliffe . . . . . Meet for Fun 
  • Mark Russell . . . . . Tabula Rasa 
  • Colin Scott . . . . . Empty Nest 
  • D. Hugh Taylor . . . . . Ex Traumata 
  • John White . . . . . Travelling Across Borders 
  • Kirsti Wishart . . . . . Satellite of Love 
  • Bethany Wren . . . . . Shriek Song 

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