Callum McSorley

Callum McSorley is a Glasgow-based writer whose short stories have appeared in New Writing Scotland, Gutter Magazine and Shoreline of Infinity. He studied English, Journalism and Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde, graduating in 2013, and was selected for the Hermann Kesten Writing Scholarship in Nuremberg in 2014. His debut crime novel, Squeaky Clean (Pushkin Vertigo, 2023), won the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year; its sequel, Paperboy, was a finalist for the same prize in 2025.