Best Shot! Sheila Wakefield - A Ruby McCann Memorial Writing School Event

Red Squirrel Press was founded in April 2006 and has published over 300 titles, including poetry pamphlets and full collections. It showcases young poets such as Claire Askew and Andrew McMillan, as well as more established names like James McGonigal and Tim Turnbull. Andrew McMillan, as well as more established names like James McGonigal and Tim Red Squirrel Press, has published poetry in Gaelic, Scots, Doric, Shaetlan, Orcadian, Irish, Danish, Italian, German, Flemish, Romanian, Kannada and English.

Red Squirrel Press was shortlisted three times for the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for poetry pamphlet publishers. Sheila founded Postbox Press, the literary fiction imprint of Red Squirrel Press in 2015, publishing short story pamphlet pamphlets and full collections and Postbox, Scotland’s International Short Story Magazine (biannual) in 2019. Shelley Day’s debut short story collection, What Are You Like, won the prestigious £10,000 Edge Hill Short Story Prize in 2020, the first book of mainly flash fiction to be shortlisted for the Edge Hill prize. Postbox Press published a short story collection in Doric, ‘Mysie & Other Stories’, by Mary Johnston in 2021.

A Ruby McCann Memorial Writing School Event

As part of a varied and distinguished literary career, Ruby McCann was chair of the Scottish Writers’ Centre. We humbly attempt to carry her great spirit forward in this Memorial Writing School Event Series.