G. W. Colkitto

I have always wanted to write but life intervened and making a living interfered with that ambition.

Margaret, my wife, and I worked together for many years and when she died I decided that I could not continue on the same path. There was a story for children that I had often talked of writing. When I was asked what I would do if I did not go to work I said that I would write it. Having said it, I had to do it. I had the good fortune of a friend who went to a local writers group. There I found encouragement and three great friends, Mo Blake, Wullie Purcell and Ian Hunter. ( we are Read Raw)

I have had short stories and poetry in magazines and anthologies in the Uk and North and South America. I have three poetry collections and nine a poetry pamphlets.  I read from my Tartan Noir Crime novel A Dish Served Cold at the Bloody Scotland Festival in 2021.

The story for children The Glass Cat was published in 2022.  

There are six Sebastian Symes Victorian Detective stories available on the internet as e-books, Mx Publishing/Endeavour Press.  The latest two in the series The Case of the Rat Catcher's Granddaughter and The Case of the Feverly Hoard are available ins paperback from Amazon. 

The Year of the Loch (2017) Diehard Press.

Waitin tae meet wie the Deil (2018) Diehard Press. 

Brantwood, that place of Little Green Poems (2019) Cinnamon Press

Clyde, my river (2021) Cinnamon Press

Shake the Kaleidoscope (2023) Cinnamon Press

Crown of Thorns (2024) Cinnamon Press

Imag(e)ination (2024) Reklaw Press

The Dead of Jericho (2024) Reklaw Press

I perform regularly in the Glasgow area and in Cumbria.  Recently I had the great pleasure to perform in Carlisle with John Hegley.

I was First in the Scottish Writers Centre Short Story Competition 2011, their

Poetry Competition 2012, Siar Sceal Hanna Greally Poetry 2014, Second in  Pendle War Poetry 2019,first in Autumn Voices Acrostic Poem Competition 2020.  I was joint winner in Cinnamon Press Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2023.