Poet Sophie Collins at Creative Conversations
Monday 25 February 2019 1 – 2 p.m.
University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Creative Conversations
Sophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Glasgow University. She is co-editor of tender, an online arts quarterly, and editor of Currently & Emotion (Test Centre, 2016), an anthology of contemporary poetry translations. small white monkeys, a text on self-expression, self-help and shame, was published by Book Works in November 2017 as part of a commissioned residency at Glasgow Women’s Library. Her debut collection Who Is Mary Sue? was published by Faber & Faber in 2018 and shortlisted for the 2018 Saltire Literary Awards Poetry Book of the Year.
As part of the on-going Creative Conversation speaker series poet and writer Sophie Collins comes to campus to chat about her writing. Bring your lunch and burning questions!
Sponsored by the Ferguson Bequest and programmed by Creative Writing at University of Glasgow
Free & Open to the Public
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