Jackie Kay | Granta Magazine

Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay has written the memoir Red Dust Road published by Picador. Her short stories, Wish I was Here, won the Decibel Prize and she last appeared in Granta 98 with the story ‘The Last of the Smokers’.

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You Go When You Can No Longer Stay

Jackie Kay

‘It is not so much that we are splitting up that is really worrying me, it is the fact that she keeps quoting Martin Amis.’

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Fiction | Issue 107 padlock

Reality, Reality

Jackie Kay

‘Now that – that is bursting with flavour.’

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Fiction | Issue 107 padlock

In Between Talking about The Elephant

Jackie Kay

‘I discover some rough skin on her elbow. I run my tongue along it’.

Fiction | Issue 107
Fiction | Issue 107

The Last of The Smokers

Jackie Kay

‘Smoking is my first erotic memory.’

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 107 padlock

The Lord in his Wisdom

Jackie Kay

‘I realize with a fresh horror that Jonathan is seeing me as the sin’

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