Enjoy! And stand by for two more tremendous entries in our Being Scots McCompetition.
Here’s a midweek treat for fans of Grangemouth-born writer Andrew McCallum Crawford. Called Pistachio, it’s a story that literally comes to life; a tale of unrequited desire, of disappointment and of closure.
Enjoy! And stand by for two more tremendous entries in our Being Scots McCompetition.
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Just like the good Doctor and his colleagues, a trio of regular McStorytellers has us travelling back and forwards through time tonight.
Riding a Magic Carpet, we’re catapulted back with Dalmuir-born Alasdair McPherson to an earth-shattering night in Clydebank in 1941 – a night which poor Alasdair simply can’t remember. Then it’s the turn of young Time Lord Lee Carrick, whose Betting Slips and Saggy Tits – Part Two zooms us forward to a bookies in the arse-end of Cameron’s Britain in 2013. Finally, it’s a welcome return to the West Coast of Scotland during the long, hot summer of 1976, where in Fairground Distraction Ayrshire man Angus Shoor Caan dishes the dirt on a long-forgotten crime. Enjoy the journeys – and the stories! The limerick is thought to take its name from the City of Limerick in Eire. It became popular in the mid-nineteenth century after the London-born poet Edward Lear published his Book of Nonsense. So it’s a type of poem named after an Irish city and it was first popularised by an Englishman. But what do you call a limerick that’s been written by a Scotsman? Why, a McLimerick, of course!
Still Coontin’ is a collection of over 100 McLimericks. They’ve all been penned by the Ayrshire writer and poet (and McStorytellers regular) Angus Shoor Caan as a follow-up to his earlier collections of McLimericks, Coont Thum and Coont Thum Again. In true Scots fashion, the McLimericks in all three collections are witty, irreverent and sometimes bawdy. In fact, we at McStorytellers were so tickled by them that we rushed to publish each collection. We hope you’ll be tickled by them as well. So please delve into Still Coontin’. And if you like what you read go grab copies of Coont Thum and Coont Thum Again. Download the Kindle version or order the paperback at the links below. Amazon.co.uk (Kindle) Amazon.co.uk (Paperback) Amazon.com (Kindle) Amazon.com (Paperback) Mind our Being Scots McCompetition (which you can read all about here: Scots Wha Hae)? Mind we said the closing date for submissions was the end of June? Aye, well, that means you now have only this month to get your submission to us. Here, by way of encouragement, are the cracking submissions we’ve received so far (in the order we received them): Home-Koming Night by Allan Watson When Frankie Loved Jeanie by John McGroarty The trout who dreamed of being a salmon by Jack MacRoary Born and Bred by Alasdair McPherson Greek As A Foreign Language by Andrew McCallum Crawford Scots Away by Angus Shoor Caan The Voracious Reader by Pat Black Snippits in Scots by Andrew Velzian One last mind. Mind we said that the best of the submissions will feature not only at the 2nd Edinburgh eBook Festival in August, but also in the next McStorytellers anthology? Well, by way of further encouragement, we’re delighted to announce that BOTH our earlier anthologies are FREE to download this weekend. Just click on the book covers to get yourself to the Amazon Kindle pages. Had enough encouragement? Now it’s time to hone those submissions!
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McBlog AuthorBrendan Gisby is McStoryteller-in-Residence. He's the author of four novels, three biographies and several short story collections. The McStorytellers
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