Sommarøy

It has been several months since I blogged and podcasted. I have recently moved house and finally recovered my equipment from a pyramid of cardboard boxes. For the last year I have been working on and off on a new short story about the coastal village of Sommarøy in Norway. The village was in the news last year when it petitioned to be removed from a time zone. They have something like 70 days of endless light as the sun never sets.

In the end I wrote a fairly long short story so I have recorded an introduction and broken the storytelling into 3 subsequent podcasts. A young man graduates from the University of Glasgow and takes an internship in the village. What impact will the endless sunlight have on him?

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Stephen McGivern was born in East Kilbride, a massive overspill town close to Glasgow. His early writing was in Drama. He wrote several plays which were performed around Scotland. Later he turned to short stories finding inspiration in a variety of experiences such as the elderly, relationships and the negative impact of working life. 'Hits' his collected short stories covers an intense 5 year period which saw massive upheaval in his personal life. The stories explore struggles to find love in an indifferent world. Stephen lives in south west Scotland with his wife. He is a keen musician and cyclist.

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