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Rodge Glass

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Contact: [email protected]
Other contact method: [email protected], or through www.rodgeglassauthor.com
Local authority: Glasgow City
Languages: English, Scots
Author type: Storyteller, Writer
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I am the author of eight books across fiction and nonfiction, including the novels No Fireworks, Hope for Newborns and Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs, also Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography. I specialise in memoir and biography, and have increasingly moved into writing real lives. This is seen in my recent book, Michel Faber: The Writer & his Work (2023), and my latest book Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir (2024). I am also the author of two audio stories for children, available through BBC Sounds, commissioned for their Time for a Story series - 'A Little Light' (2023) and 'The Magic of Stories' (2024). 

My work has been nominated for ten international awards and I won a Somerset Maugham Award for Nonfiction for my Gray biography. Since Gray’s death in 2019, I have continued to work alongside the Alasdair Gray Archive, including curating public events on Gray’s work and commissioning other writers to respond to Gray's oeuvre (2020-2025: Chitra Ramaswamy, Maria Sledmere, Denise Mina, Michael Pedersen, Sara Sheridan & Juana Adcock). In 2023, I won the Anne Brown Essay Prize for Scotland, for 'On the Covenant', which later became a chapter in Joshua in the Sky. 

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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

Bibliotherapy; Chairing events; Mentoring; Performance; Reading; Residency; Talk

Audience will work with

Adult learners

Topics of work

Biography & memoir; Characters of colour & BAME characters; Childhood; Class & society; Coasts, seas & oceans; Contemporary fiction; Death, grief & bereavement; Discrimination & prejudice; Editing & editing your own work; Emigration & immigration; Environment & climate; Event production; Fairy tales, folklore & mythology; Friendship; Gender equality; Health including mental health & wellbeing; Historical fiction; History; Human rights; LGBTQIA+ characters; Loneliness & isolation; Love & romance; Music; Mystery & thriller; Nature; Politics; Publishing & getting published; Sports; Travel writing; Wars & conflicts

Age groups published for

Adults

Age groups will work with

6-8; 9-11; 12-14; 15-18; 18+

Audience size

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