Scottish stories from Ayrshire

Paul Andrew Sneddon
Scottish writer · Kilmarnock, Ayrshire

The days that go wrong.
The people who keep going.

I write about working lives, pubs, football, music, friendship and the places we carry home. Start with Ten Pounds: Andy has a tenner in his pocket and a difficult day ahead.

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Latest writing

Stories, poems, book news and notes from Kilmarnock.

  • Big Blue
    Above me only the sky, blue on blue on blue. Out over the Firth of Clyde, past Arran to the deep Atlantic. Waves as high as houses. Fishing boats and… Read more: Big Blue
  • Petrol Station
    Another Ayrshire night under the fluorescent light. Same songs, same playlist, and seven hours still to go.
  • Shakespeare
    A quiet coffee in an Ayrshire café. Then a woman walks in and tells the man at the window to stop writing about her.

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Start with the writing

Two ways in.

A complete piece first. You can worry about the back catalogue later.

A tenner and a bad day.

Ten Pounds

Andy has a tenner in his pocket and a difficult day ahead.

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A Johnny Cash covers band. A pub in Ayrshire. Trouble.

Cash Covers

A Johnny Cash covers band walks into a familiar Ayrshire bar and turns the place inside out.

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On the shelf

Stay a wee while.

Longer stories, collections and the odd bad night that turns into something else.

Burn book cover

Burn

Tam has landed at rock bottom. He has no intention of staying there.

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Miserable Bastards book cover

Miserable Bastards

One Glasgow day. Cheap drink, friendship and the small mercies.

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Before the prose

Twenty years of songs.

Guitars, records and a few stories that began as music.

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