Alan Warner at Strathclyde: Free Author Event

Another free/open to the public event organised by Doug Johnstone. The novelist Alan Warner (Morvern Callar) will be speaking in Livingstone Tower on the 5th of March.

ALAN WARNER
5pm, Monday 5th March 2012
Room LT509, Livingstone Tower
26 Richmond Street, Glasgow
Free entry, refreshments provided

Alan Warner is one of the leading lights of his generation of Scottish
writers. Born in 1964 he shot to fame with the publication of his
debut novel Morvern Callar in 1995. The book was adapted into a highly
acclaimed film directed by Lynne Ramsay, and Warner has gone on to
publish five more novels to great success. He won the Somerset Maughan
Award for Morvern Callar and the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the
Year Award for his novel The Sopranos.
In 2003 Alan was nominated by Granta magazine as one of twenty ‘Best
of Young British Novelists’. In 2010, his novel The Stars in the
Bright Sky was included in the longlist for the Man Booker Prize. His
seventh novel, The Deadman’s Pedal, is due for publication in May this
year. Alan also currently holds the position of Writer-in-Residence at
the University of Edinburgh.





Hope to see you there!

Jane Harris to speak at Strathclyde Author Event

Doug Johnstone, novelist and Keith Wright Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, has organised another event in February for all word lovers; this one is free, too! Please come. Don't be put off by the unrepentant ugliness of the building. Jane Harris wil be speaking about her latest novel, 'Gillespie and I,' among other things.

5pm, Monday 13th February 2012
Room LT509, Livingstone Tower
26 Richmond Street, Glasgow
Free entry, refreshments provided


Jane Harris is a British writer of fiction and screenplays. Her latest
novel, Gillespie and I, was published to critical acclaim in the UK by
Faber and Faber on the 5th of May 2011. Her first novel The
Observations was shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction 2007 and
has been published in over 20 territories worldwide. In France, The
Observations was shortlisted for the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in
2009. In the USA, The Observations won the Book of the Month Club’s
First Fiction Prize in 2007.

Waterstone’s chose Jane as one of its 25 Authors for the Future and in
2007 she was also nominated for the British Book Awards Newcomer of
the Year and for the Southbank Show/Times Breakthrough Award. In 2011,
Richard and Judy chose The Observations as one of their 100 Books of
the Decade.




** You can follow her on Twitter; perhaps you will even work up the nerve to ask her why she calls herself @blablafishcakes, and why she spells 'blah' without the 'h'.

Author Event at the University of Strathclyde

Doug Johnstone,  novelist and Keith Wright fellow at the University of Strathclyde, has organised more author events over the next few months. These are free, well cool, and open the public. Coming up next:


Allan Guthrie

5pm, Monday 30th January 2012
Room LT509, Livingstone Tower
26 Richmond Street, Glasgow
Free entry, refreshments provided


Allan Guthrie is a crime novelist based in Edinburgh. He won the
Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year in 2007 for his debut, Two-Way
Split, and has been nominated for several awards, including an Edgar
in the US. He has published five novels and three novellas. In the
last year, he’s also sold over 50,000 copies of his self-published
ebooks.

Since October 2005, Allan has been a literary agent with Jenny Brown
Associates, where he has his own client list. In November 2011, he
launched his own publishing company, Blasted Heath, which is the first
digital-only publisher in Scotland, with plans to release around 30
new titles per year. At this event, Allan will be discussing his
various experiences within the publishing world, as well as reading
from his own work.

The Donor

We have another confirmed reader for Write Now on 3/6/11: Helen FitzGerald. She writes "comic noir" novels in which bad things happen to good people as well as to bad people. She was the last author in the Visiting Authors series of talks Doug Johnstone organised at the Ramshorn Theatre for this year on 30/3/11. She read just enough from her upcoming novel, The Donor (out in July 2011), and talked about her process as a writer, and why she needs contact with other people/writers to keep focussed and to keep going. The Donor is about a single, bumbling but well-intentioned, Dad to twin teenaged girls who finds himself in an impossible situation. There is apparently a lot of wine involved in his decision-making process....


Helen is all OVER the Web, and needs you to be her friend, because "writers need input" and audiences.


http://www.faber.co.uk/author/helen-fitzgerald/
http://helenfitzgerald.posterous.com/
Befriend her on Facebook http://tinyurl.com/3b6d5ac
or follow her on Twitter: @FitzGeraldHelen


Come meet her and hear more about The Donor for yourself on the 3rd of June. You can now register to attend on-line; http://tinyurl.com/43sjsoz takes you directly to the University of Strathclyde on-line shop. 


There is still time to send an abstract too, and we would love to hear from you: 


http://bit.ly/CFPDOC
http://bit.ly/CFPPDF