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ANDRÉS N. ORDORICA

 
Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx poet and writer based in Edinburgh, who creates worlds filled with characters who are from neither here nor there (ni de aquí, ni de allá). Publishing credits include The Skinny, Bella Caledonia, Confluence Medwa…

Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx poet and writer based in Edinburgh, who creates worlds filled with characters who are from neither here nor there (ni de aquí, ni de allá). Publishing credits include The Skinny, Bella Caledonia, Confluence Medway, Somewhere: For Us, and Gutter. In 2020, he was awarded a Second Life grant through the Edwin Morgan Trust.

(Photo: Daniel McGowan Photography)

Books:
- At Least This I Know - January 2022

At Least This I Know

At Least This I Know is the stunning debut collection from poet Andrés N. Ordorica, exploring ancestry, racism, nationhood, activism and queerness. These poems are a means of working through belonging both in a physical sense and emotional, be it the belonging of immigrant bodies in new countries, or the belonging of the queer self within found families and safe spaces.

This debut confronts trauma and pain, while making space for joy and humour, and ultimately redemption.

 

At Least This I Know published January 2022.

ARUN SOOD

 
Arun Sood is a Scottish-Indian writer, musician and academic working across multiple forms. He was born in Aberdeen to a West-Highland Mother and Punjabi father, and has since lived in Glasgow, Amsterdam, DC, and now Plymouth, South Devon. Arun’s critical and creative practice ranges from academic publications, editorials, poetry and fiction to ambient musical tapestries. Broadly, his varied outputs engage with diasporic identities, mixed-race heritage, ancestry, language and memory. @arunskisood / arunsood.com  (Photo: Robin Christian photography)Books: - New Skin for the Old Ceremony: A Kirtan - September 2022

Arun Sood is a Scottish-Indian writer, musician and academic working across multiple forms. He was born in Aberdeen to a West-Highland Mother and Punjabi father, and has since lived in Glasgow, Amsterdam, DC, and now Plymouth, South Devon. Arun’s critical and creative practice ranges from academic publications, editorials, poetry and fiction to ambient musical tapestries. Broadly, his varied outputs engage with diasporic identities, mixed-race heritage, ancestry, language and memory.
@arunskisood / arunsood.com

(Photo: Robin Christian photography)

Books:
- New Skin for the Old Ceremony: A Kirtan - September 2022

NEW SKIN FOR THE OLD CEREMONY: A KIRTAN

New Skin For The Old Ceremony: A Kirtan follows four estranged friends who reunite for a motorcycle trip up the Isle of Skye, in the hope of coming to terms with how their lives have splintered since a transformative ride in Northern India fourteen years earlier. In their fumbling attempts to spiritually reconnect, expectant father Raj, recently widowed Vidushei, perpetually youthful Liam and perpetually fragile Bobby test the limits of their friendship around campfires, on twisty roads, in unexpected Ayahuasca ceremonies, and against discussions of belonging, race, and identity.

A novel about youth, the ghosts of friendship, and growing up as a mixed-race person in a small but fiercely proud nation, the story spans India and Skye, seeing the characters exorcise past ghosts in order to face the present.

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New Skin for the Old Ceremony: A Kirtan publishes September 2022.

Books by Carrie Marshall


Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Discover Award 2023.

 

Carrie Kills A Man* is about growing up in a world that doesn’t want you, and about how it feels to throw a hand grenade into a perfect life. It’s the story of how a tattooed transgender rock singer killed a depressed suburban dad, and of the lessons you learn when you renounce all your privilege and power.

When more people think they’ve seen a ghost than met a trans person, it’s easy for bad actors to exploit that – and they do, as you can see from the headlines and online. But here’s the reality, from someone who’s living it. From coming out and navigating trans parenthood to the thrills of gender-bending pop stars, fashion disasters and looking like Velma Dinkley, this is a tale of ripping it up and starting again: Carrie’s story in all its fearless, frank and funny glory.

*“Spoiler: That man was me." – Carrie

 

 

Carrie Marshall is a writer, broadcaster and musician from Glasgow. She’s the singer in Glaswegian rock band HAVR, a familiar voice on BBC Radio Scotland and has been a regular contributor to all kinds of magazines, newspapers and websites for more than two decades. She has written, ghost-written or co-written more than a dozen non-fiction books, a radio documentary series, and more. @carrieinglasgow

 

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Chris McQueer

Chris McQueer is a 20-something year old writer from Glasgow. Chris kept his writing a secret from his friends and family for several months before sharing work through Twitter (@ChrisMcQueer_). Since then he has gone from strength to strength and h…

Chris McQueer is a 20-something year old writer from Glasgow. Chris kept his writing a secret from his friends and family for several months before sharing work through Twitter (@ChrisMcQueer_). Since then he has gone from strength to strength and has earned a reputation as ‘That Guy Oan Twitter Who Writes Short Stories’.

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’Hilarious, heartfelt and utterly unhinged. Charlie Brooker on Buckfast’ - MARTIN COMPSTON 

‘IMPRESSIVE’ - ERIC IDLE

’One of the most exciting and authentic talents on scotland’s new writing scene’ - STUART COSGROVE

‘Every generation a writer comes along who provides an unmistakable injection of working-class energy into Scottish literature, and gets people usually alienated by books intae it again. the effervescent and hilarious Chris McQueer is the man of the moment’ - ALAN BISSETT

‘Funnier than Scot Squad’ - JOE HULLAIT, creator of Scot Squad


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ELLE NASH

Elle Nash is a founding editor of Witch Craft Magazine and a fiction editor at Hobart Pulp. Her work has been featured in Volume 1 Brooklyn, The Fanzine, Cosmopolitan, Elle, The Offing, Enclave, and other places. She lives in the Ozarks with her hus…

Elle Nash is a founding editor of Witch Craft Magazine and a fiction editor at Hobart Pulp. Her work has been featured in Volume 1 Brooklyn, The Fanzine, Cosmopolitan, Elle, The Offing, Enclave, and other places. She lives in the Ozarks with her husband, daughter and their dog. Occasionally she reads tarot in exchange for money. You can follow her at @saderotica.

Books:
- Animals Eat Each Other - May 2019

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Animals Eat Each Other

A young woman with no name embarks on a fraught three-way relationship with Matt, a tattoo artist, and his girlfriend Frances, a new mum. She begins to recognise the dark undertow of obsession and jealousy that her presence has created between Matt and Frances, and finds herself balancing on a knife's edge between pain and pleasure, the promise of the future and the crushing isolation of the present. With stripped-down prose and unflinching clarity, Nash examines madness in the wreckage of love, and the loss of self that accompanies it.

“Nash writes with psychological precision. A complex, impressive exploration of obsession and desire” - Publishers Weekly

“A desire map, a cartography or eros. A heartbomb” - Lidia Yuknavitch

"Scintillating work of literary erotica. Perceptive and raw" - Book Riot


Animals Eat Each Other is available now.

 

EUAN LOWNIE

 
Euan Lownie is a student from Aberdeenshire, currently studying MA Scottish Studies at The University of Edinburgh. He received the University’s Delargy Prize, is one of The Hunter Foundation’s 100 Disrupters and is a member of the BBC Scotland Next project, and has spent years collecting advice from successful Scots for his book. @euanlownie(Photo: Chris Scott)Books: - Never, Ever Take Anybody’s Advice on Anything - November 2019

Euan Lownie is a student from Aberdeenshire, currently studying MA Scottish Studies at The University of Edinburgh. He received the University’s Delargy Prize, is one of The Hunter Foundation’s 100 Disrupters and is a member of the BBC Scotland Next project, and has spent years collecting advice from successful Scots for his book. @euanlownie

(Photo: Chris Scott)

Books:
- Never, Ever Take Anybody’s Advice on Anything - November 2019

Never, Ever Take Anybody’s Advice on Anything: And other advice on careers and life from successful Scots

Euan Lownie was aware that as he gets through university, he has to decide his future career, but wasn’t sure what he wanted to do – he also knew that he wasn’t alone in this. So, he has spent the last few years asking people at the top of their career one simple question: What advice would you give to someone starting out in your field of work?

From actor Alan Cumming and Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches, Wimbledon champ Andy Murray to Scotland’s Makar Jackie Kay, founders of organisations and businesses including Glasgow Women’s Library, Social Bite, The Hunter Foundation, and BHP Comics, to scientists, nurses, designers, and more across various trades, Never, Ever Take Anybody’s Advice on Anything: And Other Advice on Careers and Life from Successful Scots is the perfect motivational pep talk for those wondering, what next?

 

Euan’s debut non-fiction Never, Ever Take Anybody’s Advice on Anything is available now.

Helen McClory

Helen McClory lives in Edinburgh and grew up between there and the isle of Skye. Her first collection, On the Edges of Vision, won the Saltire First Book of the Year 2015. Her debut novel, Flesh of the Peach, was published by Freight in Spring 2017.…

Helen McClory lives in Edinburgh and grew up between there and the isle of Skye. Her first collection, On the Edges of Vision, won the Saltire First Book of the Year 2015. Her debut novel, Flesh of the Peach, was published by Freight in Spring 2017. There is a moor and a cold sea in her heart.

Books:
On The Edges of Vision
- Mayhem & Death
- The Goldblum Variations

"Angela Carter for the millennial generation."

Meena Kandasamy (When I Hit You)

"Lyrical Gothic niblets. Shiny dark licorice mind candy: nothing quite like them." 

- Margaret Atwood on Mayhem & Death and On The Edges of Vision.

"McClory is clearly one of the best new writers to have emerged in Scotland in the last few years."

- The Herald

 
MAYHEM & DEATHIn the anticipated follow-up collection to 2015’s award-winning On the Edges of Vision, Helen McClory returns delving deeper into descriptively mythical yet recognisable stories woven from dark and light, human fear and fortune.&nb…

MAYHEM & DEATH

In the anticipated follow-up collection to 2015’s award-winning On the Edges of Vision, Helen McClory returns delving deeper into descriptively mythical yet recognisable stories woven from dark and light, human fear and fortune. 

Swimming and suffering. Spikes loom ever-threatening. A weight against the throat. Sea where the dead lie pressed into a layer of silt. A silent documentary through a terrible place. Mary Somerville, future Queen of Science. A coven of two. A polar companion. 

Mayhem & Death is the matured, darker companion to On the Edges of Vision and shows McClory’s ever expanding ability to envelop and entrance her readers with lyrical language of lore, stunning settings and curious characters. It includes woodcut-style illustrations to accompany each short story.

ON THE EDGES OF VISION'Angela Carter for the millennial generation' - Meena KandasamyIn On the Edges of Vision, unease sounds itself in the language of legend.  Images call on memory, on the monstrous self. In Helen McClory’s award-winning, dar…

ON THE EDGES OF VISION

'Angela Carter for the millennial generation' - Meena Kandasamy

In On the Edges of Vision, unease sounds itself in the language of legend.  Images call on memory, on the monstrous self. In Helen McClory’s award-winning, daring debut collection, the skin prickles against sweeps of light or darkness, the fantastic or the frightful; deep water, dark woods, or scattered flesh in desert sand. 

Whether telling of a boy cyclops or a pretty dead girl, drowned sailors or the devil himself, each story draws the reader towards not bleakness but a tale half-told, a truth half-true: that the monster is human, and only wants to reach out and take you by the hand.

THE GOLDBLUM VARIATIONSYou like Jeff Goldblum. We like Jeff Goldblum. Helen McClory really likes Jeff Goldblum.Enjoy The Goldblum Variations, a collection of flash fictions, stories and games on the one and only Jeff Goldblum as he, and alternate ve…

THE GOLDBLUM VARIATIONS

You like Jeff Goldblum. We like Jeff Goldblum. Helen McClory really likes Jeff Goldblum.

Enjoy The Goldblum Variations, a collection of flash fictions, stories and games on the one and only Jeff Goldblum as he, and alternate versions of himself, travels through the known (and unknown) universe in a mighty celebration of weird and wonderful Goldbluminess.

Maybe he’s cooking, maybe he’s wearing a nice jumper, maybe he’s reading this very pamphlet. The possibilities are endless.

Treat yourself, because all that glitters is Goldblum.

 

Jason Reynolds

Jason Reynolds is an Edgar Award Young Adult winner, New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, National Book Award Honoree, a Kirkus Award winner, a two time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Aw…

Jason Reynolds is an Edgar Award Young Adult winner, New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, National Book Award Honoree, a Kirkus Award winner, a two time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honours. The American Booksellers Association’s 2017 spokesperson for Indies First, his many books include Long Way Down, Boy in the Black Suit and the Track series.

'Motivation for a lifetime.'

The Sunday Times

For Every One, an ode to the dreamers in all of us, is out now.

'Defiant and inspirational.'

The Guardian

'A lyrical masterpiece'

- School Library Journal 

 

"The origins of this book are rooted in my feeling of failure and self-doubt. I started writing it after I quit chasing my dream of writing. And over the course of three years while penning this, it became clear to me that the gift is in the dream itself, not necessarily in the fruition of said dream. The courage it takes to have a dream . . . is the actual freedom of it all."

- Jason Reynolds


JEMMA NEVILLE

Jemma Neville has a professional background in human rights law. She is Director of arts charity, Voluntary Arts Scotland, and was the inaugural Community Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh. Jemma has …

Jemma Neville has a professional background in human rights law. She is Director of arts charity, Voluntary Arts Scotland, and was the inaugural Community Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh. Jemma has written for a range of print and broadcast media and was shortlisted for the Guardian International Development Journalism Award. @jemma_tweets

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Human rights activist Jemma Neville’s debut non-fiction book Constitution Street explores constitution in the age of anxiety.

Constitution Street considers what real life stories from neighbours on one street in Leith reveal about today’s constitutional crisis in an age of anxiety. Part memoir, part social history, part exploration of a new constitution for the day we live in, Neville’s debut encourages a reclamation of human rights practice as something that belongs to each of us, too important to be left solely to politicians and lawyers.

Jemma gets to know the people and stories that have lived on her street for decades, showcasing real life accounts of perseverance, courage and vulnerability, and that extraordinary stories are waiting behind every door. Constitution Street takes a view on the global issue of human rights through the lens of one street and its inhabitants.


Winner of the Creative Edinburgh City Award

Jemma’s debut non-fiction Constitution Street is out now.

 

JOE DONNELLY

Joe Donnelly is a Glaswegian journalist, writer, video games enthusiast and mental health advocate. He has written about both subjects' complex intersections for The Guardian, New Statesman, VICE, PC Gamer and many more, and believes the interactive nature of video games makes them uniquely placed to educate and inform. His book Checkpoint considers the intersections of video games and mental health. @deaco2000Books: - Checkpoint - July 2020

Joe Donnelly is a Glaswegian journalist, writer, video games enthusiast and mental health advocate. He has written about both subjects' complex intersections for The Guardian, New Statesman, VICE, PC Gamer and many more, and believes the interactive nature of video games makes them uniquely placed to educate and inform. His book Checkpoint considers the intersections of video games and mental health. @deaco2000

Books:
- Checkpoint - July 2020

Checkpoint: How video games power up minds, kick ass and save lives

You're probably familiar with tired cliches around gaming culture in the media... that video games are violent and damaging. That they re for children, or society's outcasts; for the lazy and those without purpose. Joe Donnelly is here to tell you that video games, in fact, save lives. They saved his.

Inspired by his own experience navigating depression following a tragic personal loss, Checkpoint reflects on the comforting and healing effect that entering into new digital worlds and narratives can have on mental health both personally and on a wider scale. From the big-budget triple A studios, to the one-person indie set-ups, there are thousands of eye-opening games exploring human complexities overtly and subtly all waiting to enthral and comfort players old and new.

Through exclusive, in-depth interviews with video game developers, health professionals, charities and gamers alike, Joe makes the case for the vital value of gaming culture and why we should be more open minded and willing to pick up a controller if not for fun, for the well-being of ourselves and our loved ones.


Checkpoint: How video games power up minds, kick ass, and save lives is available now.

 

LIAM KONEMANN

 
Liam Konemann is a queer Australian writer based in London. He writes music journalism, fiction and poetry with a focus on queerness and masculinity. His work has appeared in Dazed, HUCK, NME and more, and he published his debut non-fiction title The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture as part of 404’s Inklings series, and his debut novel publishes in Spring 2022.  @LiamKonemann  (Photo: Robin Christian photography)Books: - The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture - August 2021 - The Arena of the Unwell - April 2022

Liam Konemann is a queer Australian writer based in London. He writes music journalism, fiction and poetry with a focus on queerness and masculinity. His work has appeared in Dazed, HUCK, NME and more, and he published his debut non-fiction title The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture as part of 404’s Inklings series, and his debut novel publishes in Spring 2022. @LiamKonemann

(Photo: Robin Christian photography)

Books:
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The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture - August 2021
- The Arena of the Unwell - April 2022

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THE APPENDIX

In 2019, Liam Konemann began collating what he called ‘The Appendix’, a simple record of ongoing transphobia in the UK that he came across in day-to-day life: from the flippant comments of peers to calculated articles and reviews in newspapers. When the list began to take its toll on his mental health, he changed tack by asking different questions: how is beauty in transmasculinity found? And how is it maintained in a transphobic world?

The Appendix, in its new incarnation, begins at the end. Considering the final item on the list, we travel back in time through Liam’s life and his formative experiences on both sides of the globe, and examine the wider hostile climate that trans people face today. In response, focus shifts to celebrate trans joy, the complexities of finding it and, crucially, holding on to it.


The Arena of the Unwell

The Arena of the Unwell follows 22-year-old Noah as he is drawn into the co-dependent relationship of two older men in the indie music scene. In the absence of any real purpose, Noah spends his nights drifting between North London pubs and music venues, and his days sleeping off hangovers in the stock room of the floundering record shop where he works. He tries not to think about what’ll happen when his NHS-allocated therapy hours run out and he’s left alone with his mind again. Then his favourite band Smiling Politely announce a last minute set in a small venue. When the crowd turns violent Noah runs into the street, where he meets Dylan, the charming local barman he’s never quite had the courage to approach.

As Smiling Politely prepare to release their first album in five years, Noah finds himself pulled deeper into the toxic relationship between Dylan and his brooding, enigmatic friend Fraser. An amazing debut novel, and one to watch for 2022.

 
 
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The Arena of the Unwell publishes in April 2022.

Lilly Banning

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Lilly Banning is a librarian based in London who likes the quieter things in life.

She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Sociology more years ago than she cares to admit and spent a decade of her life working as an investigator, which she has now (thankfully) put to bed. James Scythe was her last case. 

She is also, maybe, a little bit fictional. And the brainchild of rock band Creeper. Maybe.

THE LAST DAYS OF JAMES SCYTHE

What happened to James Scythe? What you are about to read is confidential. One of the Ombudsman of the Preternatural's former Special Agents went missing in 2015 and it's time to answer the question that the authorities have ignored: what happened to James Scythe? Many have tried to follow the unnatural and unsettling story of Southampton's prolific mystery but no one has been granted full access to the official James Scythe case files to piece together exactly what happened to him in his last days. Until now. 

NADINE AISHA JASSAT

 
Nadine Aisha Jassat is a writer and poet based in Scotland. She has appeared at numerous festivals and has been widely published. Her spoken-word piece ‘Hopscotch’ was made into a film-poem by Roxana Vilk, and in 2018 she received a prestigious New …

Nadine Aisha Jassat is a writer and poet based in Scotland. She has appeared at numerous festivals and has been widely published. Her spoken-word piece ‘Hopscotch’ was made into a film-poem by Roxana Vilk, and in 2018 she received a prestigious New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust. She was named as one of 30 inspiring young women under 30 in Scotland.

(Photo: Chris Scott)

Books:
- Nasty Women (contributor) - March 2017
- Let Me Tell You This - March 2019

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Let Me Tell You This

Let Me Tell You This is a vital exploration of racism, gender-based violence, and the sustaining, restorative bonds between women, told with searing precision and intelligent lyricism. Nadine takes you on a journey exploring heritage, connection, and speaking out. These poems demonstrate the power of heart and voice, and will stay with readers long after the last page.

‘A punchy, powerful debut

- Jackie Kay

’I really like Nadine’s poetry’

- Hollie McNish

‘She masterfully evokes the often beautiful, sometimes painful specificity of her mixed heritage whilst invoking the universality of being a woman looking for answers to questions that shouldn't need to be asked'

- Sabrina Mahfouz

Shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2018.

Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2018.

 

Nadine's debut collection Let Me Tell You This is available now.

 Alan Cumming & Forbes Masson

Alan Cumming & Forbes Masson’s Kelvinside Compendium collects the actors’ reminiscences around characters Victor MacIlvaney and Barry McLeish with classic scripts, interviews, memorabilia and materials from back in the day, also featuring fond memories from celebrity fans and collaborators, including actor David Morrisey (The Walking Dead) and TV presenter Kirsty Wark, and a foreword from former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

The fictional duo began as a college cabaret to entertain final year drama students at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1982, making their way through venues before their debut at the Fringe. They became stalwarts of Scotland’s comedy scene and beyond via endless shows, stints on STV and the BBC through the latter half of the decade, and a tour in Australia, before parting ways in the mid ’90s.

Cumming and Masson later starred in BBC sitcom The High Life, with Masson subsequently appearing in shows including The Crown and Eastenders, now an Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company; and Cumming going on to perform on Broadway, in TV’s The Good Wife and, recently, as the host of The Traitors US.

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