New collection, ‘One Last Tango’ by Carol McKay.
Carol McKay’s prize-winning short stories and poems are widely published in anthologies and magazines such as New Writing Scotland, Poetry Scotland, Gutter, Causeway/Cabhsair, Pushing Out the Boat, and Mslexia. Her pamphlet Reading the Landscape was published by Hedgehog Press in 2022. The Scottish Poetry Library named ‘Ceilidh’ from that collection one of the twenty Best Scottish Poems in English that year. Hedgehog published None of This Makes Any Sense – a micro-pamphlet collaboration with partner Keith McKay – in 2024.
Carol won the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2010 and taught creative writing through The Open University between 2004 and 2018.
Also published in March is Karen Macfarlane’s Native River and Other Returnings
Karen Macfarlane grew up in Dundee and has now (probably) resettled by the Tay after several years in the Highlands. She is an Occupational Therapist and previous jobs have included a Timex production line, freelance writing for magazines, gardener’s labourer, and mental health support work. A mid-life crisis resulted in her completing a BA in Creative Writing and Art History. Karen’s first collection, All About the Surface, was published by Seahorse Publications in 2024.
