The Bloody Scotland Debut Prize celebrates its 5th Anniversary this year. Previous winners include Claire Askew (2019), Deborah Masson (2020), Robbie Morrison (2021), Tariq Ashkanani (2022) and Kate Foster (2023) who has gone on to be longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 and shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger 2024.
The winner of the 2024 Bloody Scotland Debut Prize is:
Allan Gaw with The Silent House of Sleep (SA Press).
Shortlist:
Suzy Aspley with Crow Moon (Orenda).
Daniel Aubrey with Dark Island (Harper North).
Doug Sinclair with Blood Runs Deep (Storm Publishing).
Martin Stewart with Double Proof (Polygon).
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Join us for a special Launch Event...
Join us for this special standalone event with the brilliant Val McDermid, who’ll be helping us to launch the 2024 Bloody Scotland programme. Val will be in conversation with Craig Robertson about her dark and bloody latest novel, Queen MacBeth.
Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags the truth out of the shadows, exposing the patriarchal prejudices of history. Expect the unexpected. A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three companions – a healer, a weaver and a seer. The men hunting her will kill her – because she is the only one who stands between them and their violent ambition. She is no lady: she is the first queen of Scotland, married to a king called Macbeth. Thursday 20th June at 1.30pm in The Golden Lion Hotel, Stirling. Tickets £6/£5
Thursday 20 June 2024, 13:30
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2024 applications will open soon.
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