From Glasgow to Saturn

Hello,

Issue 29 of From Glasgow to Saturn is now open for submissions! As ever, we’re looking for the very best writing that the University of Glasgow’s students, staff and alumni have to offer.

Our last issue was the first under the new editorial team. We were blown away by the standard of submissions, and we’re excited about reading more of the same. We’re looking for prose, poetry and essays that make us think, that challenge and provoke , dazzle, shock and above all entertain!

The closing date for submissions is 2^nd December.

For details of how to submit please visit https://glasgowtosaturn.com/submit-work/

And before submitting, please familiarise yourself with the magazine by visiting https://glasgowtosaturn.com/archive/ where a full archive of all past issues is available.

As well as providing a platform for established writers, this year’s magazines will also give new writers the opportunity to make their publishing debuts, and we exist to help these writers shine.

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

 

Shaunagh Jones | Calum Maclean |Kevin Scott
Editors
From Glasgow to Saturn
@glasgow2saturn

Hello,

We’re delighted to announce that Issue 28 of From Glasgow to Saturn is now available on our website!  To download the issue for free, just visit http://www.glasgowtosaturn.com/latest-issue

The issue is the first under the new editorial team of Shaunagh Jones, Calum Maclean and Kevin Scott, and has a new look. Inside you’ll find the same amazing writing From Glasgow to Saturn has become renowned for. There are tales of missing lockets and deposed planets; naïve crows and awkward chats; surreal shifts and conflicted youth. All of this and so much more.

Enjoy!

Shaunagh Jones | Calum Maclean | Kevin Scott

editors

Karen Campbell and Elizabeth Reeder among line up for From Glasgow To Saturn Reading party

From Glasgow To Saturn Reading Party
Thursday 13th Sept. 6.30pm
Anatomy Museum, University of Glasgow

To mark the start of the 2012/13 Creative Writing MLitt year, the university’s literary magazine From Glasgow To Saturn is hosting a reading party with some of the best current and emerging talent in the country – and they’ve all played their part in the celebrated MLitt programme.

Hosted in the university’s fantastical Anatomy Museum the free event is open to all. Readers featuring on the night include:

Karen Campbell
Scottish writer Karen Campbell is the author of five novels: The Twilight Time, After the Fire, Shadowplay and Proof of Life – all Hodder & Stoughton. Karen’s new novel This is Where I Am is published by Bloomsbury Circus in February 2013.
A graduate of Glasgow University’s Creative Writing MLitt, Karen also teaches creative writing and carries out freelance communications training.

Elizabeth Reeder
Elizabeth is a teacher of Glasgow Creative Writing MLitt and is also an extensively published writer of fiction, lyrical essays and poems. Her critically acclaimed debut novel Ramshackle was published in 2012 by Freight and the follow up Fremont will be published later this year by Kohl Publishing.

Elaine Reid
Elaine is currently a student on the university’s MFA Programme. Her work was recently performed at the inaugural Outside Thoughts literature event in Glasgow.

James Carson
James is entering the second year of the part-time MLitt course. His work has been published in a number of magazine and journals, including From Glasgow To Saturn.

…and there’s more to be unveiled.

There will also be a music performed by Jonathan Henderson.

And as if that’s not enough, there will be plenty of wine, cake and nibbles to enjoy during our networking break.

After party at The Loft on Ashton Lane from 8pm

To RSVP please see our facebook page or email fromglasgowtosaturn@glasgow.ac.uk

We’re having a reading party on Thursday 13th September 2012. The event will feature readings from contributors and Creative Writing MLitt and PhD students. More details to be announced soon so watch this space! To RSVP see our Facebook page.

Calum Maclean| Kevin Scott| Shaunagh Jones

We’re going to be featuring the best emerging artists in our upcoming issues. The editors are looking for illustrations, graphic art or photography on the theme of reality vs. the fantastic. This can be interpreted in any way. The artwork dimensions would need to be A4 size, 300 dpi.

Submissions for issue 28 are now open. This is a great opportunity to publicise your work; our website has had over 30,000 hits in total.

Send your submissions to fromglasgowtosaturn@glasgow.ac.uk

We look forward to receiving your work.

Calum Maclean | Kevin Scott | Shaunagh Jones

Submissions for Issue 27 are now closed. A huge thank you to everyone who submitted. We’re aiming to have this issue online for mid-June, so will be in touch with all submitters in a couple of weeks.

Siobhan Staples|Megan Primrose|Paul Deaton

The Lit Parade is an evening of specially selected readings, written and performed by students and alumni from the University of Glasgow’s prestigious MLitt Creative Writing course.  This event is being presented as part of The West End Festival, Glasgow’s biggest arts festival.

 Featuring appearances by Zoe Strachan and Mark Buckland (founder of Cargo Publishing ) the event will be held at Centre for Open Studies, University of Glasgow, St Andrew’s Building, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow on Wednesday 13th June, 6-8pm.

To find out more you can email the.lit.parade@gmail.com .

Hope you’ve been enjoying the transformation-themed work in Issue 26. The three of us will shortly be handing over the From Glasgow to Saturn editorship to a new team, but we’re determined to squeeze in just one more issue before we go, so without further ado, submissions are now open for Issue 27. No theme this time – anything goes. Submissions will close again on 21st May, and we aim to have this issue online for mid-June. Don’t forget to check out our submission guidelines before you send us your work.

Looking forward to reading!

Siobhan Staples|Megan Primrose|Paul Deaton

We’re proud to present Issue 26 of From Glasgow to Saturn, the magazine’s first ever themed issue.

The response to our theme of ‘transformation’ has been fascinating, with so many different interpretations of one single word from so many brilliant writers, and we’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who submitted work for this issue.

What we chose to include in the end was the writing that took us to another place. In some cases this was literal – of the five stories published here, four are set outside of the UK – and in others more figurative, the writer taking us to the darkest recesses of the human experience. 

We’re delighted to present to you writing from James Carson, George Craig, John Horn, Vivien Jones, Sarah Lowndes, Gillean McDougall, John O’Donnell, Hayley Rushing, Sandra Webster and JL Williams.  Issue 26 also includes another fascination Quick View interview, this time from ex-police officer and Glaswegian writer Karen Campbell.

Happy reading!

Siobhan Staples | Megan Primrose | Paul Deaton