John Aberdein’s stories are in his slim volume The Can-Can, ken? (Clocktower, 1996), Ahead of its Time (ed. Duncan McLean, Jonathan Cape, 1997), in each of the three volumes arising from the Scotsman/Orange Short Story Competition (North, Secrets, Work, Polygon, 2004-6), and in A New Orkney Anthology (ed. Pam Beasant, GMB Writing Fellowship, 2008).
A sample translation of Moby Dick into Doric was published in the New Shetlander, his views on Scotland’s future appeared in Unstated: Writers on Scottish Independence (ed. Scott Hames, Word Power, 2012) and various poems surfaced through the years in the company of prints by John Cumming, as well as in OAR, Orkney Arts Review (ed. Alistair Peebles), within These Islands, We Sing: An Anthology of Scottish Islands Poetry (ed. Kevin MacNeil, Polygon, 2011) and in his online suite Landing (Pete Urpeth for Hi-Arts, 2011).
His first novel Amande’s Bed (Thirsty/Argyll, 2005) received the Saltire First Book of the Year award. The sequel, Strip the Willow (Polygon, 2009), won the Scottish Arts Council/SMIT Novel of the Year Award in 2010.
has stories in The Can-Can, ken? (Clocktower, 1996), Ahead of its Time (ed. Duncan McLean, Jonathan Cape, 1997), and all three volumes arising from the Scotsman/Orange Short Story Competition (North, Secrets, Work, Polygon, 2004-6). Part of his translation of Moby Dick was published in the New Shetlander and various poems were published through the years in OAR, Orkney Arts Review (ed. Alistair Peebles).
His novel Amande’s Bed (Thirsty/Argyll, 2005) won the Saltire First Book of the Year award.