University of Glasgow

We make spaces & spaces make us: An exploration through creative writing of the relationship between literature & carceral spaces

Academic History:

2015 - DFA (Doctor of Fine Arts) in Creative Writing, University of Glasgow

2013 - 2014 MLitt in Creative Writing, University of Glasgow

Supervisors:

Zoe Strachan, University of Glasgow Creative Writing Department

Professor Johnny Rodger, Glasgow School of Art

Professor Fergus McNeill, Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research

Research Interests:

• Creative writing
• Literary fiction
• Criminology
• Rehabilitation
• Desistance
• Spatial justice
• Politics of space
• Prison architecture
• Urban theory
• Non-places

I am particularly interested in cross-disciplinary & collaborative approaches, & research through creative practice.

Previous Research Projects:

2014 

• Participation in 'Distant Voices', a knowledge exchange project run by Vox Liminis between artists, criminologists & people with convictions, exploring the role of the arts in public understanding of cime & punishment.

2013

• All at Sea - part 1 of a cross-disciplinary project with Richy Carey, composer and Libby Walker, illustrator, exhibited at DNA Gallery in Glasgow, securing grants from Ideas Tap & Creative Scotland.

Scholarships:

AHRC PhD Studentship

Publications/Awards:

2017

• Poet in Residence with the National Trust for Scotland 2017-2018
  

2015

• Winner of the 2015 Dundee International Book Prize for novel 'Devil take the Hindmost' which will be published by Freight Publishing 

2014

• 'A floating halfway house' published: Gutter Magazine #10, ISBN:978-1-908754-41-7
• Various short stories published: From Glasgow to Saturn (Japanese Orange), Octavius (Ishaq), Sub City Radio (Golden Wonder)

2013

• 'An Underwater Cathedral' won BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines competition for emerging writers, broadcast July 2013
• 'Robert Anderson's Fires' - novel shortlisted for the Luke Bitmead Award
• 'Is/land' shortlisted for the Baker Prize, published in anthology: ISBN:978-0-9547021-2-0

2012

• 'S-bahn and the Sons of Judah' published in Spilling Ink Review
• 'Finnish for beginners' shortlisted for the Birmingham Book Festival Short Story Award
• 'Keith Morris is a Royal Plum' longlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize
• 'A floating halfway house' shortlisted for the Bridport Prize

2011

• Various short stories shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize (Framed), University College Dublin Short Story Prize (Is/Land) & the Rubery Award (An Old Boy and a Young Man), including publications in the Rubery Anthology ISBN:978-0955425240
• 'Four months' published in Sentinel magazine, Champions #10, ISSN:2045-2233

First published: 24 September 2015