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“LANARK is a strange, experimental book that immediately thrusts the reader into a weird world with glimmers of familiarity” —author @rodgeglass.bsky.social & the International @anthonyburgess.bsky.social Foundation discuss Alasdair Gray’s LANARK #GrayDay www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/n...

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A rare chance to meet @berniemcgill.bsky.social this side of the Irish Sea. www.edgehill.ac.uk/event/bernie...

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As well as hearing Padraig O’Tuama & other inspiring guests here on BBCRadioScotland, you can listen in the 2nd hour to Mona Siddiqui, @rodgeglass.bsky.social & me discussing with Zara anti-semitism & ‘othering’; #DonaldTrump & his ‘mandate’; & the true power of poetry www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Fascinating and moving talk by @rodgeglass.bsky.social at Glasgow Uni today. @louisewelsh00.bsky.social Another excellent #creativeconversations event. Thank you

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Grace Paley's 'Wants'. The greatest short story, bar none, written since the invention of the form. And no one is allowed to disagree 😁 @msmeghanbean.bsky.social we should have spent our entire Creative Conversations discussing this!!

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Always a pleasure to be on the Sunday Morning show w Zara Janjua & fellow guests Mona Siddiqui & @rokewood.bsky.social. Link here to the programme via @bbcsounds.bsky.social

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Creative Conversations: Rodge Glass 27 Jan, @uofglasgow.bsky.social & online – free @rodgeglass.bsky.social is the author of 8 books published since 2005; 2 audio stories for children; & is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-c...

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Continuing our regular posts celebrating the life and work of Alasdair Gray for his 90th birthday year... Timeline post 5: 1950 - EARLY WRITING Alasdair was encouraged to present his essay on the Industrial Revolution to the Whitehill Literary and Debating Society.

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Timeline post 5: 1951 - THE STAR is written. Gray produced his first short story whilst on holiday on Arran and felt it was the first piece he had finished that was of value. Many years later he created a visual version. It was published in 1951 by Collins & was the start of a new style of writing,

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Please share: British Society of Literature & Science's 2024/25 Winter Symposium, run in collaboration with Strathclyde, with the theme of 'Fat Fictions'. Free online event, Saturday January 25th. Keynotes from Dr Lorna Piatti-Farnell & Dr Francis Ray White. Register via QR code, or bit.ly/3WgjSSk.

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Next up! I'm taking part in the Creative Conversations series at Uni of Glasgow on 27/1 @ 13.00, where I'll be discussing my memoir, Joshua in the Sky, and my writing life. The event is FREE, online & offline, and open to all. Tickets & details here ↘️ ↘️🌈 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-c...

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Glasgow's Langside Library is closing for refurbishment soon and I'll be running a creative writing workshop next Thursday 24th Jan so we can write down our memories of this brilliant community institution. Places are free. 6.30pm www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/alis...

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Be free friends.

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Artist-poet LORA MATHIS on building & bending habits @thecreativeindependent.com: thecreativeindependent.com/people/poet-... 'Getting outside of thinking & just beginning is helpful because there’s a momentum that can build on itself when you start making. I find that works for me in every medium'

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My audio story for children, 'The Magic of Stories', is back up on BBC Sounds for 2025 ✨ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 'Isobel likes to read. Her little sister, Sophia, wonders why. But in her books, Isobel finds a world and a space of her own.' About neurodiversity & respecting difference ♥️🌈🤍

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Happy new year, folks. Thanks @scotlit.bsky.social for sharing my Paris Review piece, published shortly after the death of Alasdair Gray at the end of 2019. I'd forgotten I wrote this. But am glad I did. 🩶

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Love each other 💞

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Please share! With @agrayarchive.bsky.social & Hussein Mitha on 28/1/25 at 17.00 we are running a FREE WEBINAR on Colonialism in Alasdair Gray's work: Beyond POOR THINGS. Funded by @sgsah.bsky.social as part of Global Connects programme, this follows Hussein's research at the Archive. Link in bio.

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Some books I've enjoyed in 2024: #1 Joshua in the Sky by @rodgeglass.bsky.social published by Taproot Press. Bright, intelligent, beautifully written essays about the life and death of the author's nephew. taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/josh...

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So glad to see this online: in Nov I appeared alongside Michel Faber, subject of my book MICHEL FABER: THE WRITER & HIS WORK, at the New College Festival of Books & Belief. Only 2nd time we shared a stage, & 1st in conversation. You can now watch the event for free: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSPd...

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We're proud to join the Creative Rights in AI Coalition (CRAIC), a new coalition of rightsholders that are calling on the Government to protect copyright ahead of the imminent launch of its consultation on AI. Read more: www.alcs.co.uk/news/alcs-jo...

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Well worth signing here: meanwhile the @louisewelsh00.bsky.social podcast on who owns the Clyde river informs us of why it's valuable for the Clyde ot have this status...

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Next up! I'm on latest Take 4 Books hosted by @jdcrawf.bsky.social on Radio 4, in conversation with AL Kennedy about her new @saraband-books.bsky.social novel ALIVE IN THE MERCIFUL COUNTRY & her three key influences - Andrei Bely, Tolkein & Melville. My idea of fun ↘️📖 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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This raffle benefits my school, which does not have a library! If you have a couple quid spare, please chuck them @biggreenbooks.bsky.social’s way

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Have a look at the latest ‘Bottle Imp’ ⬇️ featuring an article by @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social’s very own @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social. And make sure you try out the Robert Fergusson-themed cocktail this weekend, dreamed up by Amy and @poncarova.bsky.social!

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Grateful to get to have public conversation about memoirs, loss and jewishness with @rodgeglass.bsky.social in Edinburgh earlier this week. One of us dressed for summer. The other defeated by the Scottish cold.

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Exit jackdaws.

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V excited my 5 part radio play voiced by Elaine C Smith is up on @BBCSounds as of this week. Robert Burns: His Psychotherapy and Cure was a joy to write. Listen for free here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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SO PLEASED my children's audio story 'A Little Light' is now @bbcsounds.bsky.social ahead of Chanukah. Produced by Gill Davies, commissioned by @claireogalla.bsky.social, the story explores religious legacies, togetherness, & how, sometimes, we need less than we think we do. New link in my bio.

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Happy 1st of December. Today, a 🧵 of Scottish women worthy of statues. Statues memorialise in a specific way. They honour achievement. First, Jennie Lee, MP and founder of the Open University. The work she did as Arts Minister was transformative. Also = Mrs Aneurin Bevan. /1

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“The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm." - Seamus Heaney

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