Live Project The Second

Our second live project is called Ah Dinnae Ken: Stories of Scottish Identity. An anthology of short stories, the book deals with issues of Scottish identity and is aimed at Scottish teens. As with the other one, I'm not going to be talking about them too much on here (maybe more after the trimester is over) but I will say this project is proving much more logistically difficult as it will be made up of nearly all new, never-before-published work from significant Scottish young adult authors.

What does it mean to be Scottish?

Can "Scottishness" be defined, and is there really a difference between Scotland and the rest of the UK? Some of today‘s leading Scottish authors for young adults – Theresa Breslin, Matthew Fitt, Cathy Forde, Keith Gray, J.A. Henderson & Cathy MacPhail – address these questions and more, in this thought-provoking collection of stories about national identity. Each story is unique, some are amusing, others moving but together they show how different people, ideas and even dialects make up the Scotland we know and love today. With a foreword by Scottish journalist and broadcaster Stuart Cosgrove.

As with the other project, you can follow our progress on the website, on twitter, (#AhDinnaeKen), and Facebook, where we are currently running a bit of marketing which involves people sending us their pictures of what Scottish means to them, which is turning out to be quite fun.

While The Day Boy and the Night Girl is being published to be sold in bookstores, we are hoping to give Ah Dinnae Ken out to various Scottish high schools.