A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening

With this volume, we invite you to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of New Writing Scotland. For the last three decades, this annual publication has held a mirror to the modern Scottish literary renaissance, inviting and receiving contributions from writers either resident in Scotland or from those who are Scots by birth, residence or inclination. As the poet Maurice Lindsay once wrote, Scotland is an attitude of mind. This issue, we believe, is the strongest yet. We have tried to represent the range of contemporary Scottish writing, while maintaining one of New Writing Scotland’s finest traditions; some of our contributors will be familiar, others less so.