Black Middens

New Writing Scotland #31

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

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.

Black Middens: New Writing Scotland 31 is the latest collection of excellent contemporary literature, drawn from a wide cross-section of Scottish culture and society, and includes new work from more than ninety authors – some award-winning and internationally renowned, and some just beginning their careers.

314 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2013

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]

This is another one of those books where I can't give an unbiased rating because it contains one of my stories, so I shall give no rating at all.

In my entirely biased opinion there are some damn good stories and poems in here. In particular, I'd like to highlight: Shena Mackay's "Grasshopper Green", Aonghas MacNeacail's there are days, R.A. Martens's "The Biovor Agreement," Colette Paul's "Dark Night of the Soul" and Valerie Thornton's Hoard and Secret.