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New Writing Dundee is proud to announce the launch of its fifth anthology featuring original work from award winning authors as well as pieces by brand new talent. This year’s invited author list highlights some of the best writing in the English speaking world today.

Poetry from the Costa Book of the Year prize winner Christopher Reid will be included, as well as work from the 2009 Saltire Society Literary Award winner Robert Crawford. A short story by Adam Mars-Jones originally meant for inclusion in Pilcrow -- his most recent novel which was short-listed for the Encore Award - will be featured together with a short collection of poetry from the award winning New Zealand poet, Vincent O’Sullivan. American writer Elisa Segrave has contributed excerpts from her memoirs. Local authors Andrew Murray Scott and Kenneth Steven have also contributed, plus many more noted guests.

New Writing Dundee is also happy to present an interview with the Scotsman Literary Editor, David Robinson, regarding his views on fiction, journalism and prose that can cross boundaries between the two.

Additionally, included in the 2010 edition are pieces from new and previously unpublished authors. This year New Writing Dundee received around 600 submissions, and narrowed down the work to forty pieces of poetry and prose. A complete list of those in this year’s publication is listed below.

The book was launched at the DCA on the 22nd of April, with a reading by Robert Crawford.

This year’s NWD includes:

• Douglas Bruton - Up Mendick Hill Again
• Jane Christie - Island Mink
• J. A. Cosgrove - Truth, Fiction and the Journalist: An Interview with David Robinson
• Gillian Craig - Origami
• Robert Crawford - King’s Lynn for Tony Ellis
• Gordon Darroch - The Mute Saint
• Anna Day - Jury and Duty
• Nicole Devarenne - The Secret of My Successes, or, Why I Don’t Want You Any More
• Christy Di Frances - Kýrie, eléison
• Paul Gorman - Little Angels
• K. F. Gray - The Amazing Headless Woman
• Nicky Guthrie - Ten O’Clock News
• Karl Henry - No Time
• Helen Howe - Oxfam Footwear
• Andy Jackson - Sunburst Finish
• Hope Jennings - The Prologue (To Everything that Came Before)
• Amy Kinmond - Road to Heaven
• Belica Antonia Kubareli - Contagious Diseases
• Richard Lakin - Westerly
• Albert Lehzen - Empire
• Kirsty Logan - The Owlatorium and the Cat-King
• Lorraine McCann - Wonderberries
• Paul McFadyen - Leaving the Emerald City
• Heather McKenzie - The Telegraph Pole and the Tree
• Adam Mars-Jones - Irrational Fear of Tom Stoppard
• Rachel Marsh - CV Building
• Gavin Marshall - Digs
• Brian Meechan - The Last Visit
• Linda Menzies - No' For the Likes O' Us
• Andrew Murray Scott - Medical Records
• Jane O'Neill - Pendulum
• Vincent O'Sullivan - Come Again?, Convent girl in the Wairarapa, and Family Shots
• S. O'Tierney - The Would Be New Man
• Catherine Oxford - Enter Magnus
• Diane Payne - Six Beers and a Dog
• Christopher Reid - The Cat
• Siân Roberts - To Kill or Not to Kill?
• Andrew Rubens - Swallows
• Elisa Segrave - Elisa Segrave’s Diary
• Clare Olivia Skelton - Rome
• Eddie Small - The Drawn Blinds
• Kenneth Steven - The Quinces
• James A. Stewart - Keeping the Faithful
• Jim Stewart - Earwigs
• Jacqueline Thompson - Hourglass
• R.S. Varian - Blue
• Zoe Venditozzi - Eleven in the Morning
• Leila Webster - The Talk
• Corinna Weyreter - Oblivious Fish