SJAC Open Day – Author Rodge Glass – 2pm – 4pm

SCOTTISH JEWISH ARCHIVES CENTRE OPEN DAY –

Guest speaker – Dr. Rodge Glass, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing. University of Strathclyde

Subject: Scottish Jewish Writing in the 21^st Century

RODGE GLASS is the author of eight books published since 2005: three novels (No Fireworks, Hope for Newborns & Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs), one graphic novel (Dougie’s War, with Dave Turbitt), one collection of short stories (LoveSexTravelMusik: Stories for the EasyJet Generation), two biographies (Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography & Michel Faber: The Writer & his Work) and now Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir (Taproot Press, September 2024). His work has been nominated for multiple national or international awards including the Dylan Thomas Prize, Saltire Award and Authors’ Club Award, while his various fictions have been translated into Italian, Serbian and Spanish. He’s the winner of a Somerset Maugham Award for Nonfiction for his biography of Alasdair Gray, he has written children’s audio stories for BBC Sounds – ‘A Little Light’ in 2023 and ‘The Magic of Stories’ in 2024 – and he recently won the Anne Brown Essay Prize, for ‘On the Covenant’, which is a chapter from Joshua in the Sky.