Creative Writing (MLitt)

Many of our MLitt students have been published in book form:

Nicola Barry [2002-04], Mother's Ruin (Headline Review, 2007);

Nick Brooks [2000-02], My Name is Denise Forrester (Orion, 2004); The Good Death (Orion, 2004);

Lynsey Calderwood [2002-04], Cracked (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2002);

Karen Campbell [2000-02] The Twilight Time (Hodder 2008); After the Fire (Hodder 2009); Shadowplay (Hodder 2010)

Anne Donovan [1999-01], Hieroglyphics (Canongate, 2001); Buddha Da (Canongate, 2002)

Stephanie Green [2002-04], Glass Works (Cat's Pyjama Publications, 2005);

Rodge Glass [2001-03], No Fireworks (Faber, 2005);

Jen Hadfield [2000-01], Almanacs (Bloodaxe Books, 2005);

Mandy Haggith [2003-05], Letting Light In (Essence Press, 2005);

Shug Hanlan [1996-98], Hi Bonnybrig (Neil Wilson Publishing, 2000);

Laura Marney [1998-01], No Wonder I Take a Drink (Black Swan, 2004); Nobody Loves a Ginger Baby (Black Swan, 2005); Only Strange People Go To Church (Black Swan, 2006);

Jennifer McCartney [2004-05], Afloat (Penguin/Hamish Hamilton, 2007);

Alison Miller [2001-03], Demo (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, October 2005);

Maureen Myant [2000-02] The Seach (Alma Books, 2009)

Will Napier [1999-00], Summer of the Cicada (Jonathan Cape, 2005);

Landon J. Napoleon [1995-96], Zigzag (Bloomsbury/Henry Holt, 1999) http://www.landonjnapoleon.com/ index.html

Colette Paul [2000-02], Whoever You Choose to Love (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004);

Rachel Seiffert [1999-00], The Dark Room (Heinemann, 2001); Field Study (Heinemann, 2004); Afterwards (Random House, July 2007);

Alastair Sim [2004-06], Rosslyn Blood (Publish America, 2004);

Zoe Strachan [1998-00], Negative Space (Picador 2002); Spin Cycle (Picador, 2004);

Elanor Thom [2005-06] The Tin-Kin (Duckworth, 2009). Winner of the Saltire Society's Scottish First Book of the Year Award 2009

Louise Welsh [1998-00], The Cutting Room (Canongate, 2002); Tamburlaine Must Die (Canongate, 2004); The Bullet Trick (Canongate, 2006)

Graeme Williamson [1998-00], Strange Faith (Neil Wilson Publishing, 2001).

Other students have been published on-line, in magazines and journals, or have had their work produced and broadcast. Some have been shortlisted for major short fiction prizes, including the Canongate and Fish Awards; Rachel Seiffert was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and two – Dorothy Alexander and Anne Donovan – have won the Macallan. Freda Churches’ short story ‘Spoonface’ won the Fish Short Story Award judged by Roddy Doyle, and in 2004 Eunice Buchanan won the McCash Scots Poetry competition.