This is us! Following up on 2nd Int. Gray Conference 2022 in Glasgow, looking to present work on Gray Studies w. Rodge Glass Creative Writing at Strathclyde The Alasdair Gray Archive. If you know of any good examples for other writers/artists please holler!

Happy to spread word! Arianna Introna gave a fantastic paper on Alasdair Gray's Disability Imagination MakingImaginedObjects Conference this summer. Great to see her involved in this Etudes ecossaises special issue. ↘️↘️↘️↘️

Education: jointly delivered MakingImaginedObjects Wat Dryhope Award & undergrad/postgrad placements with SGSAH Department of Humanities, Uni Strathclyde Creative Writing at Strathclyde @artwritingGSofA Curatorial Practice Edinburgh College of Art secured Arts and Humanities Research Council collab doc award with Lauren Forde and co-supervisors Rodge Glass Eleanor Bell

Good Gray things in a bad world, 2022 edition 🎉📚🖼️

OH YES INDEED. Pls RT word far n' wide. The 3rd annual GRAY DAY focuses on Gray's 30-years-young novel POOR THINGS (soon to be a major motion picture, as they say). Hosted by The Alasdair Gray Archive at Òran Mór home of Gray's visual artistic masterpiece. Bella Caledonia Rules OK!

Tickets selling fast for #GrayDay Òran Mór 25.02.23 7pm Canongate (has left) Bloomsbury Books UK With bernard maclaverty Rodge Glass Chitra Ramaswamy @ScribePedersen @jill_lorean and Alan Bissett See you there Gray Heads! ❤️

GRAY DAY 2023: POOR THINGS 25/2 @ Òran Mór, Glasgow, 7pm. 5 days to go: feat. Chitra Ramaswamy! @ScribePedersen! @jill_lorean! Alan Bissett! bernard maclaverty! And most importantly, POOR THINGS, Gray's playful Glasgow Frankenstein. Hosted by The Alasdair Gray Archive. Whoop! rodgeglassauthor.com/2023/02/19/gra…

Meet our #GrayDay performer… bernard maclaverty Bernard was Gray’s close friend & co-conspirator in all Things Poor! He was an early reader of the novel & also posed for the portrait of Godwin Baxter! He’s a fantastic storyteller, come hear his Gray tales! Òran Mór 25.02.23

Meet our #GrayDay performer…Chitra Ramaswamy She will read part of her creative response to ‘Poor Things’, commissioned by us with Creative Writing at Strathclyde in 2023. She is a journalist & author, her latest book, Homelands: The History of a Friendship, is a brilliant work of creative non-fiction

📚🎤🎶 The latest SWH! podcast is an interview with Rodge Glass about this year's #GrayDay - the annual event which celebrates the life & work of the writer, artist & polymath, Alasdair Gray... For full details, and all the ways to listen, click here 👉 bit.ly/3IGinGX

🚨🚨🚨 JUST ANNOUNCED: The Scottish Government has completely abandoned its plans to cut funding for Creative Scotland, after more than 15,000 people signed our urgent petition to #StopTheCuts. 🎉🎉🎉

Not sure if I've mentioned this a weeeee bit recently but: it's nearly #GrayDay! Great fun talking to Alistair Braidwood about all things AG, Poor Things, and our big celebration this Saturday. Cheers Ali! More power to you 🎊🎊🎊. Here's the link to the podcast.

Meet our #GrayDay performer…@ScribePedersen He’s a Scottish poet, writer, scribbler & stitcher. His prose debut was ‘Boy Friends’ by Faber Books in 2022. He co-founded Neu! Reekie! which delivered our last 2 Gray Days, he’s an awesome performer & proponent of excellent knitwear

GRAY DAY X POOR THINGS GIVEAWAY !!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 10 X CHANCES TO WIN! To be in with a shot…👇👇👇 👉🏽follow The Alasdair Gray Archive 👉🏽tag a friend in the comments. We'll be choosing 10 WINNERS to receive all of these prizes on Friday 24th FEBRUARY at 10am GMT.

It's lovely to be able to share that my book MICHEL FABER will be published 1/8/23 by Liverpool University Press. Announcement here, with blurb & v generous endorsements from Heather Parry @writerkcampbell Timothy Baker @EverDundas & Mat Osman: LUCKY ME. 🎉🎇🎈rodgeglassauthor.com/2023/01/28/mic…

Roll up, roll up - @mariaxrose, workshop force of nature & poet extraordinaire, is running this FREE workshop at the The Alasdair Gray Archive 10/3 @ 11.00. Part reading & discussion of her new creative commission WOUNDSCAPE, part workshop for attendees to write their own creative responses

Not too late to sign up for this Gray-tastic hybrid session w. hugely talented @mariaxrose who responded to last year's AG Conference with a pamphlet of poems, WOUNDSCAPE, now forthcoming with Osmosis Press. 10/3 The Alasdair Gray Archive part-reading, part-chat, part-workshop. Roll up!

Alasdair Gray added to the Oxford Dictionary of Biography, alongside writers such as Deborah Orr and M.C. Beaton, also folks from all walks of Scottish life:

Pls RT! There's always a 20% discount from Liverpool University Press but for 5 DAYS ONLY there's 50% DISCOUNT on my book MICHEL FABER: THE WRITER & HIS WORK link below. If you're interested in Faber or my work but usually the book would be out of your range then ↘️↘️ liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.38…