A Literary Journal at the University of Glasgow
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.
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.
In order to accommodate the Easter holidays and the Royal Wedding and the absolute glut of brilliant submissions we’re receiving, we have decided to postpone the next open issue of From Glasgow to Saturn until the end of May.
Over the course of the last six months we’ve published over 50 writers and received around 18,000 visits to the website, so please send us your poetry and prose, and help spread the word. The bumper summer issue will be our biggest and best yet, and if you’d like to be included check out our submission guidelines and email fromglasgowtosaturn@glasgow.ac.uk before May 15th.
We’re hoping to put together a special schools’ edition in the coming weeks, with creative work gathered from pupils in Scottish schools, which is an excellent venture and something to look forward to.
In the mean time, enjoy the sun, enjoy the holidays and happy writing. We’ll see you in May.
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.
Last November in Issue 17 of From Glasgow to Saturn, we brought you an exclusive extract from a work-in-progress by Rodge Glass called Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs . We’ve just heard that the novel has been bought by Tindal Street Press with plans to publish in 2012.
From thebookseller.com:
Tindal Street Press has bought UK and Commonwealth rights to a book about an obsessive ex-professional footballer’s relationship with Manchester United player Ryan Giggs.
Senior editor bought UK and Commonwealth rights to Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs by Rodge Glass from Jenny Brown at Jenny Brown Associates. Tindal Street plans to publish in April 2012.
Brown said: “This is an ambitious novel about football and family which voices a once-professional footballer’s destructive obsession with Manchester United and Ryan Giggs. The variety of writing and psychological insight is brilliant.”
Glass won the Somerset Maugham prize for his biography of Alistair Gray and has had two novels previously published by Faber.
So well done, Rodge! We are delighted to have been trusted with the piece and look forward to seeing the book on our shelves next year.
Until then, you can check out the extract in Issue 17.
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.
Our friends at Glasgow Writers for Japan urge you to consider sending in work for an upcoming charity anthology aimed at raising funds for those affected by recent events in Japan.
From the website:
This has been exciting week for our fledgling charity anthology, which seems to be growing daily into something very real and worthwhile.
We now have submissions from 24 talented and fantastic writers, which is an overwhelming amount to receive in such a short space of time. There is a wonderful variety of prose and poetry within this selection, and we’re delighted to be in possession of some brilliant pieces.
We have also had interesting and helpful meetings with two publishing houses, and there is a lot to consider, we but hope soon to be able to make an announcement regarding this. Ideally we will ensure the anthology is available for sale in paperback sometime in the summer in order to start generating funds for charity.
If you haven’t yet sent us in work, don’t worry! There’s still time! We’ll be accepting submissions right up until April 17th, so if you want to be involved please email us before then (and familiarise yourself with our submission guidelines).
Email your work to writersglasgowjapan@yahoo.co.uk in a .doc or .rtf attachment.
Remember, you don’t have to wait for the book to come out to contribute to the relief fund; the Red Cross are taking donations online now.
Dear Readers,
It is with great excitement that we present Issue 21 of From Glasgow to Saturn for your reading enjoyment. This contains a selection of prose and poetry from the various talents of Lewis Irvine, Jenny Kannellopoulou, Ian Hunter, Lucy Cheseldine, Nasim Marie Jafry, Cila Warncke, Jim Ferguson, Craig Steele, Katy Ewing, Mark Fraser, George Craig, Marise Morse, Iain Maloney, Angela Blacklock-Brown, Patrick Holloway, JoAnne McKay and Megan Primrose.
To download your free copy of the magazine, visit here.
This is our largest selection of work to date; the poetry takes us from Glasgow to Istanbul, and the prose moves between the politically-correct madness of the present to a dystopian not-too-distant future. We have pieces from familiar faces and brand spanking new contributors, far-flung alumni and first year undergraduates. We hope you find something to your taste.
Many thanks to those who submitted work for our consideration. We are continuously intrigued and impressed by Glasgow University’s students and alumni, and thrive on the quality being produced.
We are beginning work on Issue 22, due out next month, which will be out last issue as editors. We hope you can join us in helping to produce a suitably excellent final hurrah, and welcome the new editorial board who will carry From Glasgow to Saturn into the new academic year.
Feel free to say hello on facebook, twitter and of course via email. Please send us your most high quality stories and verses for next month’s publication; without submissions we are nothing, and this is your magazine – make of it what you will.
Alan, Nick and Sheila
Valve Journal is Strathclyde University’s recently launched creative writing journal. They’re having a showcase evening at Mono on April 21st, which could be a good night. All welcome.
With Issue 21 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 March 21st. Any pieces received after this date may be carried over to the next issue.
We intend to publish only two more issues before the end of term. 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
From Glasgow to Saturn 
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