Maement by Various

Maement is a nifty new writing journal, named for an old scots word for 'moment'. No star rating here, because we let the Maement writers review their own book... in one sentence each.

Alana Calvert began, with this well-composed one-liner: “Probably one of the only cases where popping your publishing cherry has been pleasurable.” After begging off for more time, Kirsty Grant came up with: “You need to take a ‘moment’ to read this collection by new Scottish writers,” then put her head in her hands... "shut up, right, I know it’s cheesy.” Nadia Ness summed up the collection as “Growing  up, falling in love, falling out and growing old,” greeted with a moan of “Aw Nadia, how can we top that one?” Alex McConnell tried the direct route with “This is a good moment for young Scottish Creative Writing.” Lewis Cheung went more direct with “It’s worth a shout,” revised later, to “It’s definitely worth a shout.” Lucy Hay elaborated: “Give us a chance, give us a read, buy the book.” And Judith Lodwick was more lyrical: “Maement tries to conceptualise the parts of people’s lives that are fleeting, and at least the easy ones will be there forever.” Take a look.