A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening

New Writing Scotland #30

by Carl MacDougall (Editor), Zoë Strachan (Editor)

With this volume, we invite you to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of New Writing Scotland. For the last three decades, this annual publication has held a mirror to the modern Scottish literary renaissance, inviting and receiving contributions from writers either resident in Scotland or from those who are Scots by birth, residence or inclination. As the poet Maurice Lindsay once wrote, Scotland is an attitude of mind.

This issue, we believe, is the strongest yet. We have tried to represent the range of contemporary Scottish writing, while maintaining one of New Writing Scotland’s finest traditions; some of our contributors will be familiar, others less so.

336 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2012

About the author

Carl MacDougall was a Scottish writer. He wrote for theatre, radio and television in addition to being a short story writer. His first novel, Stone over Water was preceded by a collection of short stories, Elvis is Dead, published to great acclaim in 1986.

Reviews

[Helen Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

A big shout-out to three of my writing group buddies whose stories I enjoyed: Carol Farrelly with "Light Moves Like Water", R.A. Martens with "Sympathy" and Caroline von Schmalensee with "Foundling". Three very different stories, all good.

Other stand-outs for me in this collection were Cath Ferguson's "An End to Stupit Questions", Lesley Glaister's "Hero" and Allan Radcliffe's "A Moment Alone".