About

I am a Glasgow-based writer of fiction and occasionally poetry. My debut novel, The Hotel Hokusai, was published in February 2024 by Ringwood. It has received kind reviews in The Herald, The Glasgow Review of Books and The Bottle Imp, as well as from renowned Scottish authors Iain Maloney, Callum McSorley and John Gerard Fagan. Sadly, since July 2025 Ringwood no longer exists in the same form, so new copies are no longer easily available in bookshops. There are second hand copies out there, including online, or new ones can be bought on Amazon through me or, preferably, directly (just email me using the address at the foot of this page).

I am currently working on a collection of short stories and a second novel.

Some links to prior publications/readings:
New Writing Scotland 29: short story ‘More Fabulous Animals’ (2011)
Sunday Herald: article about European migration crisis (2013)
Narratively: profile of migrant rights campaigner Georges Alexandre (2014)
Metropolis Japan: Kohaku calling – tongue in cheek look at New Year in Japan (2016)
Green Ink Poetry: Poem: ‘the poet returns with nothing to show’ (2021)
Eat the Storms Podcast: 4 poems (2021)
Seahorse Creative Arts Live: 4 poems ‘cyclists and sinners’, ‘a jarring’, ‘autodefinitions’ ‘limbo’, (2022)
Battlefield: Writing the Lives: 2 poems ‘cyclists and sinners’ and ‘limbo’ (2023)
in Writing the World: ‘Government Memo on Immigration’ (2023)
Product magazine: Ardnamurchan Hotel – short story (2024)
Ringwood Publishing, Grant Muir Prize winner: Scrap – short story (2024)
Tantallon Tir: story ‘Flea Market’ in 274 Miles (available for pre-order, out Sept 2025)

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tony.yg2018@gmail.com

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