Carol McKay

Telephone:
01698 820778
Website:
www.carolmckay.co.uk

Author type:
Poet, Writer
BRAW network:
no
LL funded:
yes
Biography:
Experienced creative writer and tutor. I spent my childhood running wild in the massive Drumchapel housing scheme in Glasgow, spent three years drinking red wine and eating fish in a stony little plage on the French Riviera and now live sedately in a suburban semi in the heights of South Lanarkshire. I’ve been married for over thirty years (to the same man) and have four grown daughters.
About writer's work:
Themes – social inclusion; gender issues; alcoholism; child abuse; mental health; the self in the system. My short fiction and poetry have appeared in a range of literary magazines including Chapman and Mslexia, as well as the Daily Telegraph and The Herald. Anthologised by Luath in ‘Written Remedies’, which was distributed to all health centres in Scotland. Anthologised by Polygon (Birlinn) after being shortlisted in the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition, 2002. I’ve published family and social history journalism and restaurant reviews and I’m a past recipient of a Scottish Arts Council Writer’s Bursary. Literary representation is through Edwin Hawkes at The McKernan Agency (www.mckernanagency.co.uk) My present day job is teaching creative writing online through the Open University. In 2007-8 I collaborated with Eileen Munro on her poignant autobiography As I Lay Me Down to Sleep, published by Mainstream in August 2008. Eileen took this photo of me in 2008.
About writer's events and projects:
I’ll design and run one-off or longer term creative writing sessions focusing on developing creativity, writing fiction, poetry, travel writing and biography and on aiming at publication. I’m interested in residencies for specific projects such as personal search and social welfare issues. I’m also available to give readings of my own work and as a competition judge. Flexible formats – either informally in workshop situations or in more structured teaching situations. Fostering the individual’s creativity, self expression and self-worth are key.
Links to other websites:
www.open.ac.uk
Language:
English
Age groups:
Teens, Adults
Local authorities available to visit:
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Dundee, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow, Highland, Inverclyde, Midlothian, Moray, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles), North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Orkney, Perth and Kinross, Renfrewshire, Scottish Borders, Shetland, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, West Dunbartonshire, West Lothian

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