Carol McKay

You don't need me to say it. It's been a turbulent time on the world's stage this year, with conflicts and catastrophes. If only...

I recently had the pleasure of reading Norman Bissell's latest book Living on an Island: Expressing the Earth  and chatting with him abo...

In December 2023, I collaborated with my long-term creative partner Keith McKay on a project to produce four poems and four artworks that wo...

  The Sparkler  is a fictionalised account of part of the life of author Charles Dickens. I opened it in happy anticipation. Alan Humm is we...

  Today, I’m delighted to welcome Julie Kennedy to my blog, to talk about her novel  Ma Mum and William Wordsworth . Julie has an impressi...

Well, well. I've just realised it's twenty-five years since my first short story was accepted for publication. It was early 1999 and...

 'Who wants to live to be a hundred?' the old joke goes. The answer? 'A ninety-nine year old.' We all know we're not goi...