Well-known names and talented new writers are all to be found in this volume of the very best entries to one of Britain’s biggest and most prestigious short story competitions – The Scotsman and Orange Short Story Award 2006.
Entrants were given a single word – work – to trigger their creativity. More than 1,500 entries were received and the resulting collection is a clear indicator of the wealth of talent emerging in Scotland today.
In this year’s collection the top twenty stories from the competition, including the winning story, 'I Should Have Listened Harder' by Clio Gray, are accompanied by specially commissioned stories from three of the most accomplished storytellers around: Janice Galloway, Brian McCabe and Duncan McLean.
Bernard MacLaverty, editor of this collection, was born in Belfast but now lives in Glasgow. He has published five collections of short stories, including Walking the Dog and Other Stories (1994) and Matters of Life & Death (2006). His novels include Lamb (1980), Cal (1983) and Grace Notes (1997), which won the 1997 Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize for Fiction and the 1997 Whitbread Novel Award.
John Aberdein
Sally Beamish
Kate Blackadder
Lynsey Calderwood
Linda Cracknell
Morven Crumlish
Morgan Downie
Sophie Ellis
Jackie Galley
Janice Galloway
Michael Gardiner
Clio Gray
Carole Hamilton
Nick Houldsworth
Paul Johnson
E. Mae Jones
Peter Likarish
Sangam MacDuff
James Mavor
Brian McCabe
Lynda McDonald
Duncan McLean
William Sutcliffe
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