Ewan Gault

Ewan Gault is an award winning Scottish writer. He was born in Kuwait and over the last decade has lived in Japan, Italy, Kenya, Ethiopia, The Western Highlands and now Oxford. Writing is the only way he can get back to all the places he has been.

Since graduating with a distinction from Glasgow University’s Creative Writing Masters in 2006, his short stories have been widely performed and frequently published in journals such as: New Writing Scotland, Gutter Magazine and From Glasgow to Saturn. Other short stories have won the Fish/Crime Writers Association prize in 2007, shortlisted 2008, won The Glasgow 2020 Prize, and the Runners Up prize in The Scotsman/Orange competition 2005. Last year two of his stories were shortlisted for The Scottish National Galleries Short Story Prize and The Bloody Scotland Festival Short Story Prize.

The Most Distant Way was inspired by the time Ewan spent training at a high altitude centre in Kenya’s Rift Valley, an area that is home to the legendary Kalenjin “running tribe,” who. since 1980, have won 40% of distance running men’s medals at World and Olympic Championships.