Scrievenis: Gordon Darroch's reading and writing space
Making things up since 1837. Contact me at gordonwrotesomething [at] gordondarroch.com
I'm delighted to have a story in this year's Federation of Writers (Scotland) anthology, Tracks in the Sand. As well as being a tapestry of good writing from these parts, it's put together by people who evidently care about what gets shoved between the covers. There's a lot of anecdotal evidence around that the quality … Continue reading (Almost) the last post
Now here's an update I ought to have got round to a long time ago. So I'll cut all the blurbery and just say that my story, The Storm-Flood, is available to read in Issue Five of The Right Eyed Deer, which you can download here. What is it? How about, 'a sweetly melancholic story … Continue reading No time like the present (especially when it’s been and gone)
One of the stories I wrote for the 2010 Whittaker Prize has made it into the competition anthology. It’s slightly curious, because of all the eight pieces I'd written, The Long And The Short Of It was the one I’d written off as a bad job. A no-frills tale of middle managers in a sales … Continue reading Body Parts And Coal Dust
I wasn’t sure at first whether to class the outcome of The Whittaker Prize 2010 as ‘success’ or ‘failure’. There’s a prevailing school of thought that urges people to adopt a ‘glass half-full’ mindset and ‘accentuate the positive’. But it’s always been one of my guiding principles to distrust a prevailing opinion, and besides I … Continue reading Whitt and wisdom
I'm delighted to have a story, Living With Cancer in the April edition of Eclectic Flash. Delighted on two fronts: firstly, because it's a beautifully produced magazine, available either as a PDF or print edition, which has evidently been the product of much care, effort, and no little flair by people who want to make … Continue reading Flash news (sorry)
A story of mine, The Mute Saint, is included in the fifth annual New Writing Dundee anthology, to be published next month. I posted this on Facebook and The Write Idea forum a few weeks ago, but wanted to hold off here until the link was up (and set up a gratuitous second plug into … Continue reading Saints alive and kicking in Dundee
Once More Around the Loganberry Bush is one of my more leftfield offerings which breaks a string of Rules of Fiction Writing. Does it get away with it? Just a handful of pounds will yield you the answer...