Carol McKay Blog
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Location | Lanarkshire, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Poetry Pamphlet 'Reading the Landscape' out now from Hedgehog Press. One of the poems in it - "Ceilidh" - was chosen as one of the twenty 'Best Scottish Poems' of 2022 by the Scottish Poetry Library. Writer and former university teacher of creative writing through The Open University. Novels 'White Spirit' and 'Incunabulum' available now. Winner, Hedgehog Poetry Press White Label 'Quatre' poetry pamphlet competition, 2020. Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, 2010, and of the inaugural Booktown Writers' Short Story Competition, 2012. Shortlisted in the 2019 Dinesh Allirajah Short Story Competition. My short fiction has been published in magazines Gutter, Chapman, Mslexia and others, anthologised by Birlinn and Luath and featured in newspapers The Herald and The Telegraph. Co-wrote 'As I lay me down to sleep', a biography of Eileen Munro, published by Mainstream in 2008. My ebook 'Second Chances: true stories of living with Addison's Disease' was published by PotHole Press in 2012. 'Ordinary Domestic: collected short stories' published by Pothole Press, 2012. Lover of all things wild and natural. Believe what Blake said, i.e. 'Everything that lives is holy.' |
| Interests | Trying to find the right words in English. And in other languages too sometimes. |
| Favorite Movies | Not movies, but hooked on BBC Four series on a Saturday night. Spiral. Follow the Money. Montalbano. Last Wave. Also, Money Heist Netflix! |
| Favorite Music | Enjoying M83 these days. And Tom Walker. But also Arvo Paert and Tavener. And as always, anything medieval. |
| Favorite Books | Kirstin Innes, Jane Alexander, Vicki Jarrett, David Mitchell, Andrew Greig, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Anne Donovan, Rachel Seiffert, Jon McGregor's, too. |
Did you read Incunabulum in response to the Covid-19 pandemic?