Kevin MacNeil is a leading Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter, born and raised in the Outer Hebrides. His most recent novel, The Brilliant & Forever, was published to huge critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction of the Year Award. Kevin recently edited Robert Louis Stevenson: An Anthology, Selected by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Kevin has won a number of prestigious literary awards and he lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling.
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Most recent work
A greyhound is a writer's dog. A cat-like dog. She lies beside the writing desk, sometimes twitching in her dreams, sometimes emerging to stare at you, blinking, like someone who just reluctantly finished a brilliant novel. Occasionally she'll nose her head beneath your palms for intensive petting.
She has four white socks (which makes two-white-socked
dogs jealous) and a dipped-in-white-paint tail, tattooed ears, is always good-natured, never
barks, sleeps 17 hours a day, loves everyone and never bothers anyone. Molly the Greyhound.
My 45mph couch potato. She handles being on stage like a professional.
The perfect writer's dog.
