Auditions for Three Short Films

glasgow2saturn

A message from our friends at story2script2screen:

We are now holding auditions for individuals that would like to be involved in our three short films.

Auditions will be held on Tuesday the 25th of January from 2pm till 4pm. We will let you know as soon as possible as to where the auditions will be held, although we can confirm they will more than likely be held within Glasgow University. These auditions however are open to both students and non-students alike.

We kindly welcome any actor interested to sign up for a time by replying to this group with your full name, email address and the time you wish to attend from the scheduled times below (please read other replies to ensure that you do not sign up for a time already taken by another auditionee). A full sign up list/schedule will also be posted on the door on the day and you are welcome to sign up then although we urge you to sign up in advance so that you are not disappointed. Advanced sign up will end on the morning of the auditions at 10am.

We will then send out the finalised schedule.

A possible second audition may be held later, however, this is not definite so if you can make this one please attend.

Actors are asked to prepare a short (1 to 5 minute) monologue of their choice prior to the auditions.

Schedule:

2:00-2:10
2:10-2:20
2:20-2:30
2:30-2:40
2:40-2:50
2:50-3:00
3:00-3:10
3:10-3:20
3:20-3:30
3:30-3:40
3:40-3:50
3:50-4:00

We apologise for the short notice of this audition but hope that you can make it.

After the auditions have been held a short list will be produced and times/dates of filming discussed with the various directors. We will then contact you in due course to inform you of whether you have been successful or not. If you have been successful times/dates will be discuss to make sure that you are in fact available to attend filming etc.

Thank you and we greatly anticipate meeting you all.

Story 2 Script 2 Screen is a collaborative project in the Creative Writing Masters Programme at the University of Glasgow.

The project aims to take 3-4 short stories and convert them in to scripts and then into short films to be shown at a screening later in the year.

We also intend to take these film’s as part of a show exploring the creative process behind the project to both the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and The Glasgow Film Festival.

We now have sufficient short stories and have since converted these to scripts.

Whilst some directors have already been approached anyone interested in directing these short films should email story2script2screen@gmail.com

We are currently seeking actors for these shorts. Applications can be made via email or by simply signing up for an audition slot in the events section of this group. Initial auditions will be held on Tuesday the 25th of January 2011.

For more information please contact Zoe White and Livia Larrabee at: story2script2screen@gmail.com

Writer in Residence

glasgow2saturn

We hope that you’ll be able to join us in welcoming Louise Welsh, the new Writer in Residence for the University of Glasgow and Glasgow School of Art. Louise is an award-winning author of novels, short stories, plays and libretti. She will be reading from her work and answering questions, as well as talking about her new role as Writer in Residence.

You can find out more about Louise from her website or her page at Contemporary Writers.

Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room T415

Tuesday 18th January, 5.30pm

All welcome.

Louise will be based in the Scottish Literature Library every Thursday during term time, when she will be available to help staff and students with their creative work. You can contact her by email to make an appointment: louise.welsh@glasgow.ac.uk


Afternoon Readings with the BBC

glasgow2saturn

Why hullo there!

Happy New Year to all our readers, contributors, subscribers, and the rest. Thanks for all your support in 2010, and we look forward to 2011 with great excitement.

BBC Radio 4 has recently been showcasing new Scottish writing on their afternoon reading slot. You’ll have to be quick to hear them all, as they are only held in the archive for seven days each, but here are the links. Click the title of the story you want to hear to be taken to the website. Enjoy!

Fear in a Hat

A shy schoolgirl fears the worst when she attends a compulsory religious retreat with her catty classmates.

Read by Sally Reid

Written by Nicola White
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie

This story is available until January 11th.

Nicola White lives on a peninsula in Argyll, between a picturesque sea loch and an MOD arms depot. A former art curator and documentary producer, she turned her back on the city and steady wages a few years ago. Since then she has been invited to read her work at the Blue Room, Newcastle and the Irish Writers Centre, Dublin. In 2008 she received a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award.


The Last Cup

Set on a windswept Western Isle, a kindly old fisherman and his stern minister find a poignant sliver of common ground over tea from a chipped china cup.

Read by Matthew Zajac.
Written by Merryn Glover.
Producer: Patricia Hitchcock

This story is available until January 12th.

Merryn Glover is a playwright and author of short stories and received a Scottish Arts Council bursary. She has written plays for BBC Radio Scotland.


Matryoshka

A spoilt princess craves possession of the one thing she can’t have in this new spin on a familiar tale.

Read by Nicola Jo Cully

Written by Kirsty Logan
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie

This story is available until January 13th.

Kirsty Logan graduated in 2009 from Glasgow University’s Creative Writing MLitt; over the next year she won a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust, the Gillian Purvis Award, and third place in the Bridport Prize. She regularly performs her own work and recently read at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Her short fiction has been published in around 80 anthologies and literary magazines. Kirsty is currently working on her first novel and a short story collection.



Story2Script2Screen

glasgow2saturn

Today we bring you an invitation to get involved in another project being undertaken by students from the creative writing department. It’s a very worthwhile venture called story2script2screen which aims to turn short stories into scripts and then films.

Please pass this on to anyone who might be keen to get involved.

Call for Actors

We’re looking for actors interested in getting involved with a series of short films being filmed in and around the Glasgow area at the beginning of 2011. The project is being lead by members of the Glasgow University English Department, and will be based on original stories and scripts. For further information including roles, dates and anything else that might come to mind, please email story2script2screen@gmail.com.

Call for Directors/Technical Crew

We’re looking for anyone with experience in making tv/short films to be involved in a project filming a series of short films in and around the Glasgow area in the beginning of 2011. The films will be based on scripts and stories written by students from the Glasgow University English Department, with a hope of showcasing new ideas and talent drawn from the surrounding area. For further information, please email story2script2screen@gmail.com, including any relevant previous experience where appropriate.

Issue 18 Online Now!

glasgow2saturn

We are thrilled to announce publication of the 18th issue of From Glasgow to Saturn. We have put together what we feel is a rather delicious collection of short fiction and poetry by present and past students, including Kathrine Sowerby, Vivien Jones, Philip Murnin, Mairi McCloud, Elizabeth Reeder, Amy Rafferty, Lynsey Calderwood, Ellen Glasgow, Michelle Waering, Paul Joseph Abbott and JoAnne Ruby McKay.

You can read prose and poetry online, or download your free copy.

Many thanks to those of you who submitted work. The standards of writing were once again highly impressive, so if your piece did not find a home in this issue, please do try us again in the future. Work has begun already on Issue 19, which we hope to have ready some time in January.

Until then, enjoy the magazine, and we’ll see you in 2011!

Alan Gillespie | Nick Boreham | Sheila Millar

Editors

fromglasgowtosaturn@glasgow.ac.uk

Issue 18 Submissions Deadline

glasgow2saturn

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

Update

glasgow2saturn

As the dust settles and submissions begin to tumble in for Issue 18 (due to be released on November 29th), we’d like to take a moment to thank everyone who has contributed to, downloaded and supported this fledgling magazine. The number of visits to the website over the weekend was staggering, and we’re grateful to those who have helped to promote and spread the word.

We’d love to now receive some feedback from our readers and subscribers, so that our next issue can be even better than the last. Your comments, suggestions, criticisms and nitpicks will be gratefully taken on board, as of course will any glowing recommendations and/or tributes of soaring lyrical praise. Feel free to get in touch via the comments below or at our email address, fromglasgowtosaturn@glasgow.ac.uk.
And don’t forget to send your poetry, prose and (especially) essays on the craft of writing to the same address. We’re reading submissions on a rolling basis and need quality writing for the next batch of delicious Glasgowy goodness.

We also have a shiny new twitter account, so please do come along and say hello @glasgow2saturn.

All the best,

Alan, Nick and Sheila

Issue 17 Online Now

glasgow2saturn

The editors are pleased to announce publication of the 17th issue of From Glasgow to Saturn. We have put together what we feel is an excellent collection of short fiction and poetry by present and past staff and students, including Alan Bissett, Rodge Glass, Anneliese Mackintosh, Raymond Soltysek, Duncan Muir, Julie Martis, Mukul Dahal, Paul Abbott, Amy Anderson, Miles Beard and Patrick Holloway.

You can read online, or download your free copy, here.

Many thanks to those of you who submitted work. The standards of writing were suitably impressive, so if your piece did not find a home in this issue, please do try again in the future. Work has begun already on Issue 18, which we hope to have ready in the first week of December. We’re open to submissions and read on an ongoing basis.

Happy reading!

Alan Gillespie | Nick Boreham | Sheila Millar