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thi wurd Magazine, Issue 4
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Issue 4 introduces a bold new direction for thi wurd, featuring 20 original pieces of fiction as well as poetry and essays. Visual art comes to the fore in an interview with internationally acclaimed artist Rachel Maclean, who discusses her work and artistic processes. Meanwhile, Kate McAllan provides the illustrations that run throughout the magazine, the first time one artist has illustrated an entire issue. The non-fiction includes a passionate piece on Frightened Rabbit’s The Midnight Organ Fight and a lengthy essay on literary art from Duncan McLean, author of the seminal Bucket of Tongues. 135pp.
Dark Island by Duncan McLean
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Dark Island by Duncan McLean is a booklet of short stories from one of Scotland’s finest short story writers. McLean is the author of previous works such as Bucket of Tongues, Blackden and Bunker Man. Published by Abersee Press in 2017 (34pp).
Swiet Haar: New Writing from Orkney and Shetland, edited by Duncan McLean
£5.00Swiet Haar: New Writing from Orkney and Shetland is a booklet edited by Duncan McLean. It features writing from Kevin Cormack, Robert Alan Jamieson, Amy Liptrot and Christine De Luca. Published by Abersee Press in 2017 (36pp).
Tūrangawaewae, Beuy: Thinking of Home in Orkney and New Zealand, edited by Duncan McLean
£5.00Tūrangawaewae, Beuy: Thinking of Home in Orkney and New Zealand is a booklet edited by Duncan McLean, featuring writing by Steve Braunias, Mervyn J Inkster, Morag MacInnes, Craig Marriner, Alison Miller and Paula Morris. Published by Abersee Press in 2018 (40pp).
Speak for Yourself: New Writing from Orkney and New Zealand, edited by Duncan McLean
£5.00Speak for Yourself is a booklet of new writing from Orkney and New Zealand, edited by Duncan McLean. It features writing from Hera Lindsay Bird, Simon W Hall, Morag MacInnes, Craig Marriner, Alison Miller and CK Stead. Published by Abersee Press in 2017 (44pp).
The Freedom to Think Kurdistan by James Kelman (ebook)
£6.99The Freedom to Think Kurdistan features an introduction and eight essays on the struggle of the Kurdistan people, written over a number of years. These essays are derived from talks that James Kelman gave at public meetings between 1991 and 2018. The book acts as a primer to the historical and current political situation faced by the people of Kurdistan.
Tales From a Cancelled Country
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Published in the aftermath of the electorate of Scotland choosing to vote ‘NO’ to becoming an independent country, this collection features fiction by seventeen writers from various places who were working in Scotland at the time. The stories include ‘Who is Killing the Fringe Comedians of Edinburgh?’ by Alan Warner.
thi wurd Magazine, Issue 3
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Features a twenty-three page interview with James Kelman, focusing on some of the processes involved in his writing. In addition, the first chapter of Kelman’s unpublished novel, Creative Chronicles, is included. There is a short story by Janice Galloway and new work from fourteen other writers, essays on Gogol and Mark E. Smith, and a classic reprint of a Chekhov story.