An Inverness resident who wrote a short story about a special journey for a national writing competition has had her submission chosen to be published in a book.
Angela Cran beat off competition from 600 other entries to win a place in Journeys, a special book to be published as part of Book Week Scotland.
Her story Shopping for Lego will feature alongside entries from 37 other winners and author contributors such as Andrew O’Hagan, Jenni Fagan, Tom Pow and Lucy Ribchester.
Commenting on the publication of her story, Ms Cran said: “It means such a lot. Writing about my younger son’s life-shortening illness helps me deal with emotions I find hard to express out loud. Writing also helps me remember special moments which are often difficult to think about, but still incredibly precious. It feels really poignant but also encouraging to be included in this book of Journeys, thank you.”
The competition was held by Scottish Book Trust, a national charity changing lives through reading and writing, and encouraged intrepid storytellers across Scotland to share in writing the journeys that meant most to them – from a trip around the world to revisiting a precious moment from the past. Contributions included poems as well as prose.
To celebrate the fourth year of Book Week Scotland (November 23-29) more than 150,000 free copies of Journeys will be given to people throughout the week.
The books will be distributed in local bookshops, public libraries, prisons, hospitals, visitor information centres, ferry terminals and train stations. All the stories entered for the competition are available to read at www.bookweekscotland.com.