Creative Conversations: In Conversation with Rodge Glass
Monday 27 January, 2025, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
University Memorial Chapel, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Rodge Glass is the author of eight books published since 2005: No Fireworks (a novel, Faber & Faber), Hope for Newborns (a novel, Faber & Faber), Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography (Bloomsbury), Dougie’s War (a graphic novel, with Dave Turbitt, Freight Books), Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs (a novel, Serpent’s Tail), Stories for the EasyJet Generation (short story collection, Freight Books), Michel Faber: The Writer & his Work (Liverpool University Press) and the new nonfiction book Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir (Taproot Press, September 2024). He is also the author of two audio stories for children: ‘A Little Light’ (2023) and ‘The Magic of Stories’ (2024), both available on BBC Sounds across the UK as part of the ‘Time for a Story’ series. He is a regular contributor to TV and radio programmes as a commentator and regularly appears at book festivals internationally as both an author and a host. Rodge is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde, where he is Convener of the MLitt in Creative Writing.
Creative Conversations is generously supported by the Ferguson Bequest.
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