A source of some more Scottish stories is The Poet and the Echo, Scratch Books, 2023. I especially like 'The Grey Eagle', by Harry Josephine Giles, written in the voice of a Scottish man in 1905 - though is he a man? The narrative voice is appropriate for someone in 1905 and that's part of its appeal/difference I think. Long old-fashioned sentences.
I’m not brilliant at naming specific stories but I have favourite British and Irish short story writers: Wendy Erskine, Jon McGregor (for me in preference to his novels), Danielle McLaughlin and Kirsty Logan all spring to mind.
I've never taught writing but perhaps these would fit the bill:
The ghost story 'Doggerland’ by Kaliane Bradley, winner of the VS Pritchett Short Story Prize 2022.
Michael Magee, when he was called Michael Nolan, published a story which I think from memory was 'Rustlers', published in The Stinging Fly. A teenage boy/young man is taken sheep rustling by his father.
TSF also published his story 'Bottles' which I haven't read.
A source of some more Scottish stories is The Poet and the Echo, Scratch Books, 2023. I especially like 'The Grey Eagle', by Harry Josephine Giles, written in the voice of a Scottish man in 1905 - though is he a man? The narrative voice is appropriate for someone in 1905 and that's part of its appeal/difference I think. Long old-fashioned sentences.
Cynan Jones would be interesting - most/all of his novels are so short that they are effectively short stories.
I’m not brilliant at naming specific stories but I have favourite British and Irish short story writers: Wendy Erskine, Jon McGregor (for me in preference to his novels), Danielle McLaughlin and Kirsty Logan all spring to mind.
I've never taught writing but perhaps these would fit the bill:
The ghost story 'Doggerland’ by Kaliane Bradley, winner of the VS Pritchett Short Story Prize 2022.
Michael Magee, when he was called Michael Nolan, published a story which I think from memory was 'Rustlers', published in The Stinging Fly. A teenage boy/young man is taken sheep rustling by his father.
TSF also published his story 'Bottles' which I haven't read.