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. Available this summer, New Writing Scotland 29: The Flight of the Turtle is the latest collection of excellent contemporary literature, drawn from a wide cross-section of Scottish culture and society.
Over the last twenty-eight years New Writing Scotland has published early material by Iain Banks, Anne Donovan, Janice Galloway, A. L. Kennedy, James Meek, Ian Rankin, Suhayl Saadi, Chiew Siah Tei and Irvine Welsh, along with a host of other talents. What rising stars are shining in this edition?
New Writing Scotland is regarded as an annual indicator of the state of the literary nation. The Flight of the Turtle shows it to be it to be in vigorous, vibrant, strong - even rude - health!
