Douglas Thompson

Douglas Thompson's short stories have appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies, most recently Ambit, Postscripts, and New Writing Scotland. He won the Grolsch/Herald Question of Style Award in 1989 and second prize in the Neil Gunn Writing Competition in 2007. He was a director of the Scottish Writers Centre from 2011 to May 2014. His first book, 'Ultrameta', was published by Eibonvale Press in August 2009, nominated for the Edge Hill Prize, and shortlisted for the BFS Best Newcomer Award. His critically acclaimed second novel, 'Sylvow', was published in autumn 2010, also from Eibonvale. A third novel 'Apoidea' was released from The Exaggerated Press in 2011, a fourth 'Mechagnosis' from Dog Horn and a fifth 'Entanglement' from Elsewhen Press in Autumn 2012. In 2014 'The Rhymer', 'The Brahan Seer' and 'Volwys & Other Stories' were published by Elsewhen Press, Acair Books, and Dog Horn respectively. In November 2015, The Exaggerated Press released 'The Sleep Corporation' a collection bringing together in book form for the first time 31 of his short stories from magazines and anthologies published during the last 25 years.

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