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Carrie Marshall

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Contact: [email protected]
Local authority: East Dunbartonshire
Languages: English
Author type: Writer
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I’m a writer, musician and parent from Glasgow and my latest book, Small Town Joy: How LGBTQ+ Music Changed the Sound of Scotland, will be published in the spring of 2025. My memoir about coming out as a trans woman, Carrie Kills A Man, was published in 2022 and was picked as a Scotsman book of the year and Damian Barr’s book of the week; it was also shortlisted in the 2023 British Book Awards. I’ve contributed to two anthologies of LGBTQ+ writing – Twenty-Eight: Stories from the Section 28 Generation (2023) and Fierce Salvage: A Queer Words Anthology (2025) – and I’ve written, co-written or ghost-written over 20 books about technology and music.

I really love talking about books, writing and LGBTQ+ joy, and I’ve appeared at festivals including the Edinburgh Book Festival, the Boswell Book Festival, the Paisley Book Festival and the Wigtown Book Festival. I’ve also done tons of radio and podcasts.

 

(Photo credit: Christopher Phin)

Websites featuring the author

Local authorities will visit

Aberdeen City; Aberdeenshire; Angus; Argyll and Bute; Clackmannanshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Dundee; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Highland; Inverclyde; Midlothian; Moray; Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles); North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Orkney Islands; Perth and Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; Shetland; South Ayrshire; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire; West Lothian

Events will deliver

Panel event; Reading; Talk

Topics of work

Biography & memoir; LGBTQIA+ characters; Music

Age groups published for

Adults

Age groups will work with

15-18; 18+

Audience size

0-10; 11-30; 31-100; 100-500; 500+