Thursday 25 March, 2010

No booking required.

Notes from the Underground published a story, Mrs Eveleigh Nash, by Clare Wigfall which was based on a photograph by Inge Morath, currently on display in the National Gallery of Scotland. This instigated a series of short stories based on photographs and published in the free literary magazine, Notes From the Underground and co-edited by Clare. Contributors of this series have been invited to read at the gallery along with a display of the photographic work that has inspired their writing.

Reading at the event will be:

Nicholas Hogg is an award-winning author, poet, and short story writer. He was the runner up for the Bridport Prize in 2009, and shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2010 for his novel Show me the Sky.

“An assured and gripping debut.” — Ian MacMillan, The Verb, BBC Radio 3

Sophie Cooke’s, who’s short story, Why You Should Not Put Your Hand Through The Ice, won her the runner-up prize in the MacAllan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Award in 2000. Later forming the opening pages of her debut novel The Glass House which was nominated for the Orange Prize and short listed for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. Cooke has been awarded a New Writer's Bursary and subsequently a full Writer’s Bursary from the Scottish Arts Council, several of her short stories have been published in anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio and her second novel, Under the Mountain, has been published by Hutchinson in 2008. She is currently working on her third novel, set in the Hebrides as well as a screenplay.

Tod Wodicka is the author of the novel, All Shall Be Well; and All Shall be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall be Well, published by Jonathan Cape and Vintage in the United Kingdom, short-listed for The Believer Book of the Year 2008. His writing has appeared in The Guardian and The New Statesman. He is currently working on his second novel for Jonathan Cape, The Household Spirit, and a memoir/manifesto entitled The Monolinguists’ Guide to Living Abroad.  

Adam Marek, who has been shortlisted for this year's prestigious Sunday Times Short Story Award. 

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