Don’t. Even. Ask. Too. Hot.
Edited by Kirstin Innes, Chris Powici & Niall O’Gallagher
Published in: Paperback, 240 pages
By: Association for Scottish Literature, Glasgow, August 2024
Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781906841614
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. Don’t. Even. Ask. Too. Hot: New Writing Scotland 42 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-nine authors – some internationally renowned, and some just beginning their careers.
Contents
Introduction
New Writing Scotland 43 submission instructions
Shasta Hanif Ali . . . . . How to get eggs off your windows (following a racist incident)
Henry Bell . . . . . An Obvious Secret
C. D. Boyland . . . . . Saint Sebastian
Colin Bramwell . . . . . Devotional Music
Eve Brandon . . . . . Bog Body, Again
Nathan Breakenridge . . . . . Frank
Nathaniel Cairney . . . . . In which two magpies realise they are not alone
E. E. Chandler . . . . . Things You Left Me
Rachel Clive . . . . . I met your sister today
Claire Deans . . . . . Getting Rid of Gabriella
Lara Delmage . . . . . Crush / I don’t cry
Johana Egermayer . . . . . Àite nan Iomadh Loch
Graham Fulton . . . . . Do You Feel
Niamh Gordon . . . . . Food
Zoë Green . . . . . Leven Street
Lydia Harris . . . . . Robert Dick
Benjamin K. Herrington . . . . . Yo’ Momma
Michael Hopcroft . . . . . Echoes from Calder Glen
Ellis Jamieson . . . . . Stolon
Ioulia Kolovou . . . . . [A Bilingual Dictionary of Loss & Mourning Weaved with Fragments from a Journal]
Ruby Lawrence . . . . . Moulting
Hannah Ledlie . . . . . Sleeper / The Embroidery
Kate McAllan . . . . . Gerry
Donnchadh MacCàba . . . . . Còig Mionaidean
Hayli McClain . . . . . In All its Moving Parts
Jennifer McCormack . . . . . Always, Something is Lost
Rowan MacDonald . . . . . 23 Club
Crìsdean MacIlleBhàin . . . . . Litrichean nan Leughadair
Carol McKay . . . . . Watching Orion While You Sleep / Pawn
Gordon Mackie . . . . . We Waste Away Like Something Rotten
Jane McKie . . . . . When we stay by the sea we drink only White Star
Iain MacRath . . . . . Dheigheadh sinn a dh’iasgach
Luke Mackle . . . . . Carluke
Emily Munro . . . . . Frog vs. Prince / To start a fire
Donald S. Murray . . . . . Tales of a Cosmic-Crofter
Sindhu Rajasekaran . . . . . unreal love/r(s)
Martin Raymond . . . . . The Path
Aimee Elizabeth Skelton . . . . . Across the Inner Sound
George Smith . . . . . Wild Flowers
Morag Smith . . . . . Renaissance Bat
Caitlin Stobie . . . . . Deep Dive
Tia Thomson . . . . . Thus’ air mo chuimhne
John Tinneny . . . . . 923 / A Riddle
Jacques Tsiantar . . . . . Fruits of the Sea
Claire Urquhart . . . . . Dipper / Exchange
Lynn Valentine . . . . . Midnight, Midsummer, Croft na Creich / St Kilda Crossing
Lorna J. Waite . . . . . Wee Mercury
Catherine Wilson Garry . . . . . Besom
Ania Zolkiewska . . . . . Shrapnel from Kharkiv