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Carol McKay
From Drumchapel, Glasgow, of working class background, I am an experienced creative writing teacher and facilitator. My fiction tackles contemporary issues, e.g. isolation, abortion, alcoholism. It has been described as "hallucinatory urban realism" (Suhayl Saadi). My short fiction and poetry have appeared in Poetry Scotland, Gutter, Causeway/Cabhsair, Mslexia, From Glasgow to Saturn, Daily Telegraph, The Herald, Chapman, Cencrastus and Wasafiri.
Books include - Reading the Landscape, poetry pamphlet, Hedgehog Press, Feb 2022, and White Spirit, a novel, PotHole Press, 2022.
I taught creative writing through The Open University from 2004-2018 and am particularly interested in offering fiction, poetry, and life writing workshops. I am available to give readings of my own work and as a competition judge.
Key achievements include:
- Poem ‘Ceilidh’ selected as one of the 20 Best Scottish Poems in English in 2022 by Scottish Poetry Library
- Added to the Scottish Poetry Library’s Online Guide to Scottish Poets, Nov 2022
- Winner, Scottish Association of Writers’ James Muir Poetry Competition, Oct 2023
- Appointed ‘Scriever’ of the Federation of Writers (Scotland), Jan 2023.
- Winner of the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship 2010
- Magnetic North Space/Time residency 2018
(Photo credit: Eddie Mceleney)