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Writer Talks & Update

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A message below from our friends at Glasgow University Writers.  These talks are primarily being offered to Creative Writing students, but GUW have also made a limited number of places available to any From Glasgow to Saturn subscribers.  If you’d like to attend the Anna Smith talk send us an email at fromglasgowtosaturn@glasgow.ac.uk and we’ll pass on your details. If you’re interested in future events let us know that too, and we’ll pass it on.

And for all you lovely writers who have been waiting patiently to hear whether your work will be included in Issue 23 of From Glasgow to Saturn, hang on in there. Final decisions are being thrashed out over the next few days and everyone will be contacted next week.  Thank you for your patience.

GUW Writer Talks

Glasgow University Writers (GUW) is a group of continuing and former MLitt students who have come together develop their craft as writers. The group have recently secured a number of published writers as guest speakers and would like to extend an invitation to all current MLitt students to join them for these talks, which will be held in the Edwin Morgan Room at No 5 University Gardens over the forthcoming months.

The first of these events will be on Thursday 27th October at 5.30-7.30pm when Anna Smith will be coming over the water from her home in Ireland to talk to us.

Anna is the author of coming of age novel Spit Against the Wind set in a Lanarkshire village and its sequel, The Homecoming. Her latest novel, The Dead Won’t Sleep is a gritty thriller about prostitute murders set in Glasgow featuring tabloid reporter Rosie Gilmour. Anna herself is an award-winning journalist and newspaper columnist, and was chief reporter for the Daily Record. You can find out more about Anna at www.annasmithscotland.com. If you’d like to attend send an email to fromglasgowtosaturn@glasgow.ac.uk.

GUW will be providing glasses and a few nibbles for this event, but our limited funds won’t quite stretch to drinks, so we invite you to BYO. 

Best wishes

Glasgow University Writers

Submissions now closed for Issue 23

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The submission deadline for Issue 23 has now passed, and we’d like to say thank you to everyone who’s submitted their shiny new work to From Glasgow to Saturn.  We’ve had a fantastic response to the call for submissions, from both old friends and new, and we’ll be sifting delicately through all those gorgeous words over the next couple of weeks.

Siobhan, Megan & Paul

FGTS hosts CW Reading Party

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From Glasgow to Saturn was asked to host a special Reading Party last week, to welcome the Creative Writing Programme’s new students. The students were treated to fabulous readings from current students, staff & recent graduates (a huge thank you to Elizabeth Reeder, Kerri McLawlin, Emily Munro, Alan Gillespie, Bethany Anderson & Laura Marney).  The evening also featured music from singer-songwriter and GU graduate Jo Mango, and we even made cake.  Thank you to all the CW students who came along and made it such a great evening.  We had fun, so watch this space for details of another FGTS reading party later in the term for all you lovely subscribers and contributors.

Siobhan Staples, Megan Primrose & Paul Deaton

Hello from your new Glasgow to Saturn Editors!

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We’ve hope you’ve all had a good summer and have been working hard on your brilliant story/poem/essay to submit for the next From Glasgow to Saturn issue.  We’re delighted to be taking over the magazine from the able hands of Alan, Nick & Sheila for the next twelve months.  Issue 23 will be coming your way in mid-October so we are now open for submissions (and thank you to those of you who have been submitting over the summer).  The deadline for submissions is 26th September.  Further information to follow shortly on our plans for the year- including reading parties, themed issues and more.

Siobhan Staples, Megan Primrose & Paul Deaton

Exhibition on Alastair Reid

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WEATHERING:
AN ALASTAIR REID RETROSPECTIVE

University of Glasgow, Library, Level 3.
June – September 2011

On Alastair Reid
Alastair Reid stands out for being an important literary figure in three continents ― Europe, North and South America. Alastair continues to impress with his multilayered and illuminating verses and texts which reach out to many audiences at once. The gift of a brilliant writer is to be able to touch many souls. Whether in Spanish or as Alastair would say the ‘two’ Englishes ― Scots and English English — he enchants readers by allowing us into the secrets of his world. His tone is mostly one of wonderment and joy, and we can feel the intrigue of discovering something small, curious, or lovingly familiar in his lyrical observations.

 

On this exhibition
Alastair Reid is to be awarded the Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Professor David Clarke at the Crichton Campus in Dumfries on 6th July 2011. To honour the world-renowned translator of Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda, the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) awarded Dr Karen Peña from the SMLC, a small grant to display his work and to study his manuscripts (especially those on Borges).

 

This exhibition proposes to offer but a brief snap-shot of the many tones and colours of Alastair Reid’s literary life. We hope that you take away some small treasure (a poem, a verse, a line of translation) to ponder upon. If Neruda told Alastair, ‘just improve my verses!,’ we hope that you ‘steal some verses!’ and add them to the list of books and authors to read and enjoy.

Story2Script2Screen Screening

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Exciting news from our friends at Story2Script2Screen:

You are invited to the initial screening of our three short films: ‘Fish’, ‘Freedom’, and ‘Fairy Lights’, written and made by students of Glasgow University.  The screening will be held on Wednesday the 4th of May at 19:30 in Lecture Hall B of the Boyd Orr Building. Popcorn will be provided. All welcome.

LIVE WRITING – WRITERS LIVE

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You are cordially invited to a Reading Party featuring students of the Creative Writing Programme, with a special guest appearance by award-winning Scottish poet Hugh McMillan.

Where: Museum of Anatomy, University of Glasgow

When: Tuesday, 3rd May 2011

Time: 5.30pm to 7.30pm

Writers appearing include:

Bethany Anderson

Jennifer Beaton

Rachel McLennan

Marise Morse

David Prentice

Nuala Watt

A Souvenir Zine will be available to purchase on the night (and only, ever, on the night).

There will also be a display of handmade poetry pamphlets, plus the opportunity to win a unique artist’s book and poetry anthology, Animalia.

If you’re coming, the contribution of a bottle of wine would be much appreciated, though not essential.

Hugh McMillan at StAnza, 2011

Spilling Ink: Volume 1 Launch Party

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I’m writing to let you know that we finally have a date and a venue for the Spilling Ink: Volume 1 launch party! The event will be held on Tuesday, 19 April 2011 at the University of Glasgow Anatomy Museum. Wine and conversation from 5:30pm and Event from 6:00 – 8:00pm. Please RSVP to unboundpress@gmail.com, let us know how many will be in your party so that we can (at least) try to have wine and snacks aplenty!

The evening will feature readings from anthology contributors: Gill Hoffs, Kirsty Neary, Alan Gillespie, Marc R Sherland and Kathrine Sowerby. We will also be joined by friends of the University of Glasgow Creative Writing Programme as we celebrate other local literary magazines and journals including Michael Schmidt/PN Review, Alan Gillespie, Shelia Miller, Nick Boreham/From Glasgow to Saturn, Kirsty Logan/Fractured West and, of course, Amy Burns (that’s me!)/Spilling Ink Review.

The Anatomy Museum is a great, slightly quirky place to hold a launch party, I know, but I’ve attended several events at the Museum and there’s something oddly appropriate and intimate about the venue. While it makes a great place to gather for a celebration, it is notoriously difficult to find! I will cut and paste walking-directions below and will attach a marked map. I will also attach a flyer should you wish to advertise the event.

I hope to see you there!
Kind regards,
Amy Burns

Anatomy Museum Walking Directions from University of Glasgow Main Gates:
From University Avenue, walk through the main gates. Turn left and walk down a small incline across the car park. The Anatomy Museum is ahead of you, a low building with a ramp leading down to the entrace. It is not well sign-posted so take care! I will try to put up signs (rain, rain stay away) on the night. If you have any questions just let me know.

Fun And Paper Frolics

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MLitt Creative Writing student JoAnne McKay will be running a pamphlet making workshop on Wednesday 20th April in the Edwin Morgan Room, starting at 10am and finishing at 4.30pm.  It’s free, and will be very informal.

All you need to do is bring some basic stuff and some writing, and you can produce your own works of art. Literally.

There are plans afoot to hold a Reading Party at The Museum of Anatomy in May at which the day’s productions can be displayed.

For more details, or to signal your interest, e-mail JoAnne McKay at 1000383M@student.gla.ac.uk

Fun And Paper Frolics in the Edwin Morgan Room

Making poetry pamphlets / prose pamphlets / altered books and possibly even artist’s books.

Date: Wednesday 20th April 2011

Time: 10am to 4.30pm

Venue: Edwin Morgan Room, 4, University Gardens.

The workshop is free, very informal, and open to anyone on the Creative Writing Programme.

You will absolutely need:

1.      A pencil

2.      A 12-inch ruler

3.      A pair of scissors

4.      A nice pen for writing with (good felt-tip fineliner or fountain pen)

5.      Your writing (see below)

These things will be useful and save on the fisticuffs:

1.      Double sided sellotape. Bostik ‘Sticki tape – double sided tape on a roller’ is good for fine work, Scotch double sided tape (on a roller) good for more substantial stuff.

2.      PVA glue with the easiest, least messy dispenser. Children’s is fine.

3.      A tapestry needle

Your Writing:

Bring several copies of many pieces of writing. Different size fonts means you have more options with how to place them into books (this is a simple, physical cut and paste, so the better your paper the better your result).

For short pieces, hand writing is fine and easily achievable. You can also stencil letters, or cut letters from other printed sources.

If it’s a pamphlet you’re after (the more obvious choice for prose and possibly a collection of poems) you’ll need to print it out correctly. Pamphlets are usually an A4 sheet folded in two, to form 4 sides of A5. Add more sheets, pamphlet gets bigger. Needs some serious calculation and the right software to get the right pages in the right places. Numbering the pages as you go makes it easier to get it right.

You can also make ‘spines’ for A4 sheets, so don’t worry if you can’t do the above. Print out with a wider left-hand margin than usual.

Brainwaves on the day are fine. Or using poems of long dead poets.

Any questions, do please get in touch.

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Issue 18 Submissions Deadline

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With Issue 18 of From Glasgow to Saturn due to be published around the end of the month, we would like to advise anyone wishing to submit work to have done so before November 22nd. Any pieces received after this date may be carried over to the next issue.

The submissions we have received so far include several high quality pieces from a variety of students, staff and alumni. See our submission guidelines for more details of how to get your own work published.

We need your prose fiction, poetry and essays in order to showcase the talent contained within the University of Glasgow.

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Alan Gillespie | Nick Boreham | Sheila Millar

Editors

fromglasgowtosaturn@glasgow.ac.uk