Creative Conversations: Louise Welsh

Louise Welsh is an award-winning author of nine novels, most recently To the Dogs, a campus novel. The Cutting Room, her debut novel, won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award and the Saltire First Book of The Year Award. A sequel to this novel was published in 2022 titled The Second Cut. From 2015 - 2017 Welsh published her Plague Times Trilogy. In 2018, she was named the Most Inspiring Saltire First Book Award winner by public vote. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.

She has also written well-received and internationally produced libretti for opera, has a long-standing collaboration with the composer Stuart Macrae, and has edited volumes of prose and poetry such as Yonder Awa and Ghost, an anthology of ghost stories, and contributed to many journals and anthologies. In 2004, she received the Corine Literature Prize.

This event is live and in person in the Memorial Chapel. It is also watchable live online and a zoom link will be sent to those who book a ticket.

Creative Conversations is generously supported by the Ferguson Bequest.

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