I’m so happy to find a home again in New Writing Scotland. My short story, ‘Likewise’, has been published in The Last Good Year: New Writing Scotland 38. The contents page is a roll call of brilliant writers: Dean Atta, Olga Wojtas and Krishan Coupland, and dear Glasgow MLitt classmates Kathrine Sowerby, Sarah Ward and Alan Gillespie. And isn’t that front cover a stunner?

My story ‘Likewise’ is set in Emergency or neutral 1940s Ireland, a time not much explored in fiction, but a time that draws me, as questions of identity and conscience and nationalism prove so urgent once again–or reveal they never went away. And I love writing from places, like Dublin, that hear the sea…