Professor Louise Welsh

  • Professor of Creative Writing (English Literature)

Research interests

Research interests

  • Novels
  • Short stories
  • Opera libretti
  • Plays
  • Performance
  • Sound art
  • North Atlantic Slave Trade
  • Pandemics
  • Gothic Literature
  • Crime Fiction
  • Ghost stories
  • Scottish history
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Contemporary art
  • Apocalyptic fiction
  • Writing for radio 

 

Biography

I enjoy exploring and crossing genres and have collaborated with poets, composers, architects, visual artists, theatre directors and actors. Recent interdisciplinary projects include the libretto for a forthcoming new opera Anthropocene (composer Stuart MacRae, producer Scottish Opera) which will premier January 2019 and a new play King Keich which premiers in Glasgow, October 2018 (director Paul Brotherston). I have collaborated with Stuart MacRae on three previous operas including Ghost Patrol (2012) which won a Southbank/Sky Arts Award and was shortlisted for an Olivier Award and the critically acclaimed The Devil Inside (2016). I have an ongoing collaboration,The Empire Café, with architect Jude Barber exploring Scotland’s relationship with empire, its history and how contemporary society confronts and acknowledges it. My ongoing interests include the novel, short stories, North Atlantic Slave Trade, pandemics, performance, gothic literature, crime fiction, contemporary art, apocalyptic fiction, opera, Robert Louis Stevenson and ghost stories.  

I am the author of eight novels, most recently No Dominion (John Murray 2016) the final volume of the Plague Times Trilogy. I have written many short stories and articles and am the author of four plays. I am the editor of Yonder Awa, a collection of poetry on the theme of Scotland and the North Atlantic slave trade by Scottish and Caribbean writers and Ghost a collection of one hundred ghost stories from Pliny the Younger to James Robertson (Head of Zeus, 2015). I have presented over thirty features for BBC Radio including, Scottish Bog Bodies (BBC Radio Scotland) A Funeral of One's Own (BBC Radio 3) and Welsh’s Scottish Journey (BBC Radio 4). Other radio appearances include BBC Radio 4: Only Artists, Open Book, A Good Read, Saturday Review, Front Row, Women’s Hour; BBC Radio 3: The Verb, Night Waves; BBC Radio Scotland: The Culture Café, Fred McAulay Show, Breaking the News.

I have received numerous awards and international fellowships, including an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Edinburgh Napier University and an honorary fellowship from the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

 

Projects

 Forthcoming projects include:

  • A new novel, working title, The Nature of Dogs
  • A new collaboration with Jude Barber of Collective Architecture on a fresh incarnation of the Empire Café, a multi-disciplinary project exploring wealth distribution and land ownership

Research groups

  • Practice Research (Creative Writing)

Publications

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Number of items: 98.

2025

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and Strachan, Zoe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 (2025) A Very Quiet Street: toolkit for inclusive participation in local heritage. Documentation. UNSPECIFIED.

2024

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2024) Short Story - La Scala Sauchiehall Street, BBC Radio 4. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2024) To the Dogs. Canongate Books.

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691, Barber, Jude and [producer] Rifai, Halina (2024) Podcast - Who Owns the Clyde. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and Harrison, Ben (2024) Perambulations of a Justified Sinner. [Performance]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and MacRae, Stuart (2024) Anthropocene Opera. [Performance]

2023

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and MacRae, Stuart (2023) Anthropocene Opera. [Performance]

2022

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2022) The Second Cut. Cannongate: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781838850869

2021

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (Ed.) (2021) Ghost: 100 Stories to Read with the Lights On. Head of Zeus: London. ISBN 9781800249677

Strachan, Zoe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 and Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2021) Something in the Air. [Performance]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2021) Introduction. In: Stevenson, Robert Louis (ed.) Kidnapped. Macmillan Collector's Library: London. ISBN 9781529048728

2020

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2020) No One Called Her Angel. [Audio]

2019

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and Firth, Emlyn (2019) Storegga Slide. [Performance]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2019) Brick, Stone, Glass, The Mackintosh Building. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and MacRae, Stuart (2019) Anthropocene. [Performance]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2019) An attempt at exhausting a scene in Glasgow. In: Clockworks. UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2019) The face at the window. In: Murray, John (ed.) Anthology of Three Short Ghost Stories. UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and Pickstone, Edwin (2019) Glasgow School of Art Home Front Memorial. [Artefact]

2018

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2018) Festival. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2018) A funeral of one’s own. Textual Practice, 32(9), pp. 1695-1700. (doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1533176)

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2018) King Keich. [Performance]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2018) March Women March. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2018) Whistling in Goblin Market. [Audio]

2017

Strachan, Zoe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 and Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2017) 'Letter from Monkswood'. In: Walter, John (ed.) Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness. Hayward Publishing. ISBN 9781853323560

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2017) No Dominion. Series: Plague times trilogy, 3. John Murray: London. ISBN 9781848546578

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and Strachan, Zoë ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 (Eds.) (2017) Home Ground: New Writing Inspired by the Homeless World Cup in Glasgow. Glasgow Libraries: Glasgow. ISBN 9780906169728

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2017) Come friendly bombs. In: Bloody Scotland. Historic Environment Scotland: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781849172431

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2017) A Funeral of One’s Own. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2017) More Lasting than Love. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and Strachan, Zoë ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 (2017) Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness. Catalogue. Hayward Gallery.

2016

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and MacRae, Stuart (2016) The Devil Inside. [Performance]

2015

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (Ed.) (2015) Ghost: 100 Stories to Read With the Lights On. Head of Zeus: London. ISBN 9781784080174

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2015) Review of Tom Rob Smith’s 'The Farm'. Guardian, 5 Feb. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2015) Death is a Welcome Guest. Series: Plague times trilogy, 2. John Murray: London. ISBN 9781848546561

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2015) Introductory interview: Graham Fagan's Scotland and Venice Catalogue. [Exhibitions]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2015) A Lovely Way to Burn. Series: Plague times trilogy, 1. John Murray: London. ISBN 9781848546530

2014

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2014) Prince Lestat by Anne Rice review - blood drinkers with iPhones; Rice's vampires take on the digital age but have they bitten off more than they can chew? Guardian, 31 Oct. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2014) The Empire Café. Cross Discipline Explorations of Scotland and the North Atlantic Slave Trade. [Exhibitions]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2014) Hard-up in Hackney: Louise Welsh admires a tough tale of trafficking and tentative romance: Thirst by Kerry Hudson. Guardian, 26 Jul. [Book Review]

Strachan, Zoe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 and Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2014) Anyone Who Had a Heart. In: Patrick, Adele (ed.) 21 Revolutions. Glasgow Women's Library / Freight Books. ISBN 9781908754448

Arnott, P. et al. (2014) Dear Scotland. [Performance]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2014) Dear soldier. In: Pullinger, Kate and Bartlett, Neil (eds.) Letter To An Unknown Soldier: A New Kind of War Memorial Made By Thousands Of People. William Collins: London. ISBN 9780008116842

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2014) The face at the window, the wave of the hand. In: Strachan, Zoe (ed.) Out There. Freight Books: Glasgow, pp. 243-249. ISBN 9781908754684

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2014) Introduction: absent voices, absent visions. In: Jeffrey, Moira (ed.) Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland and Glasgow Life: Edinburgh, pp. 9-11. ISBN 9781906270728

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2014) Reflections in Unna. In: Florence, Peter and Ellingham, Mark (eds.) OxCrimes. Profile Books: London. ISBN 9781781250648

Welsh, Louise (2014) Yonder Awa, Poetry from the Empire Café. Collective Architecture Ltd.: Glasgow. ISBN 9780957502611

2013

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2013) 'On the edge': review of The Quarry by Iain Banks. Times, 15 Jun. [Book Review]

Strachan, Zoe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 and Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (Eds.) (2013) Best Scottish Poems 2012. Scottish Poetry Library: Edinburgh.

2012

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2012) Review of The Dinner by Herman Koch. Guardian, 18 Aug. [Book Review]

Bell, Henry, Cizakca, Defne, Sills, Geneva and Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (Eds.) (2012) Tip Tap Flat, A View of Glasgow. Freight Books: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908754066

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2012) The Girl On The Stairs. John Murray: London. ISBN 9781848546509

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2012) No jetpacks, no future. In: Bernstein, Jane and Glass, Rodge (eds.) Second Lives: Tales From Two Cities. Cargo: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908885029

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2012) Vanishing point. In: Smith, A., Doyle, R. and Morpurgo, M. (eds.) Elsewhere Box Set. Cargo Publishing. ISBN 9781908885098

2011

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2011) The Queen of Craigilee. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2011) Strange Case: review of The Possession of Dr Forrest by Richard T Kelly. Financial Times, 21 May. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2011) Realm of the Census. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2011) Night Waking by Sarah Moss. Financial Times, 27 Feb. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2011) Anthologised. In: Jakubowski, M. (ed.) The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime. Robinson: London. ISBN 9781849015677

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2011) Darkness in the beyond. In: Wanner, Len (ed.) Dead Sharp: Scottish Crime Writers On Country and Craft. Two Ravens Press: Isle of Lewis. ISBN 9781906120580

2010

Strachan, Z. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 and Welsh, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2010) Festive spirits. Sunday Herald, 17 Dec,

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and Strachan, Zoe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 (2010) Christmas spirits. Sunday Herald, Dec.

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2010) 'Dreadful harvest', review of Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Financial Times, 2 Oct. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2010) Hootennany’s. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2010) A simple life. Gutter, 3,

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2010) The importance of being Alfred. In: Howard, Phillip (ed.) Scottish Shorts. Nick Hern Books: London, pp. 239-265. ISBN 9781848420700

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2010) Naming the Bones. Canongate: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781847672568

2009

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2009) A Hombre with a Gun, review of Your Face Tomorrow Vol. 3, by Javier Marías. Financial Times, Nov. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2009) Arthur Conan Doyle's other lost world. Guardian, 24 May.

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2009) Anthologised. In: Anderson, L. (ed.) Shattered: Every Crime Has A Victim. Polygon: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781846971273

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2009) The night highway. In: Kennedy, A., Bainbridge, B., Adebayo, D., Simpson, H., Fielding, H., Shamsie, K., Welsh, L. and Seth, V. (eds.) Ox-Tales : Air: Original Stories From Remarkable Writers. Series: Ox-tales (2). GreenProfile: London. ISBN 9781846682612

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2009) Introduction. In: Regi, Claire (ed.) Fighting It. Two Ravens Press: Lochbroom. ISBN 9781906120412

2008

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2008) The memory man: review of The Man Without by Ray Robinso. Guardian, 9 Aug. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2008) Murder they wrote; death of the amateur detective. Financial Times, 23 Aug.

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2008) The Best Small Country in the World. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2008) 'On a Knife Edge', Origins of the Legend of Sweeney Todd. Guardian, 20 Jan. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2008) The Rings o’ Brodgar and Stennis. [Exhibitions]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2008) Robert Louis Stevenson and the Theatre of the Brain. Journal of Stevenson Studies, 5,

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2008) Young Lochinvar. Sampark: Journal of Global Understanding, 10,

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2008) Introduction. In: Leddy, David (ed.) Sub Rosa. Fairplay Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781906220273

2007

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2007) Wrath - Scotland’s seven deadly sins. Sunday Herald, 12 Aug.

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2007) Graveyard Shift. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2007) Introduction. In: Lawrence, D.H. and Wilson, S. (eds.) Selected stories. Series: 9780141441658. Penguin: London.

2006

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2006) Willy’s List. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2006) Franco and uncle Marcus. Celtic View, 41(28),

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2006) The Bullet Trick. Canongate: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781841958903

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2006) My funeral. In: Pelling, R., Hodsdon, A. and Doyle, J. (eds.) The Decadent Handbook. Dedalus: Sawtry. ISBN 9781903517307

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2006) Young Lochinvar. In: Lacuesta, S. and Davidson, T. (eds.) Latitude: Writing From The Philippines And Scotland. Anvil Publishing. ISBN 9789712717259

2005

Strachan, Z. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 and Welsh, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2005) The last ticket. Herald, 30 Aug,

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2005) 10.15 to Bucharest. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2005) Torchlight. Chapman, 107,

2004

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2004) God and fortune. Sunday Herald, 6 Jun.

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2004) Belle and Sylvie. Erotic Review, 59,

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2004) Annunciation. In: Searle, A. (ed.) The Knuckle End: A Meaty Collection Of The Best New Writing In Scotland. Freight Books: Glasgow. ISBN 9780954402426

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2004) Tamburlaine Must Die. Canongate: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781841956046

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2004) Young Lochinvar. V & A Magazine(Spring),

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2004) Young Lochinvar. In: Büchlerová, A. and Klimentová, E. (eds.) Ztráty A Nálezy: Povídky Skotských Spisovatelek. One Woman Press: Praha. ISBN 9788086356365

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2004) Young Lochinvar. Big Issue,

2002

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2002) The Cutting Room. Canongate: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780857860866

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Articles

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2018) A funeral of one’s own. Textual Practice, 32(9), pp. 1695-1700. (doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1533176)

Strachan, Z. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 and Welsh, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2010) Festive spirits. Sunday Herald, 17 Dec,

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and Strachan, Zoe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 (2010) Christmas spirits. Sunday Herald, Dec.

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2010) A simple life. Gutter, 3,

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2009) Arthur Conan Doyle's other lost world. Guardian, 24 May.

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2008) Murder they wrote; death of the amateur detective. Financial Times, 23 Aug.

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2008) Robert Louis Stevenson and the Theatre of the Brain. Journal of Stevenson Studies, 5,

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2008) Young Lochinvar. Sampark: Journal of Global Understanding, 10,

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2007) Wrath - Scotland’s seven deadly sins. Sunday Herald, 12 Aug.

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2006) Franco and uncle Marcus. Celtic View, 41(28),

Strachan, Z. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 and Welsh, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2005) The last ticket. Herald, 30 Aug,

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2005) Torchlight. Chapman, 107,

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2004) God and fortune. Sunday Herald, 6 Jun.

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2004) Belle and Sylvie. Erotic Review, 59,

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2004) Young Lochinvar. V & A Magazine(Spring),

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2004) Young Lochinvar. Big Issue,

Books

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2024) To the Dogs. Canongate Books.

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2022) The Second Cut. Cannongate: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781838850869

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2017) No Dominion. Series: Plague times trilogy, 3. John Murray: London. ISBN 9781848546578

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2015) Death is a Welcome Guest. Series: Plague times trilogy, 2. John Murray: London. ISBN 9781848546561

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2015) A Lovely Way to Burn. Series: Plague times trilogy, 1. John Murray: London. ISBN 9781848546530

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2012) The Girl On The Stairs. John Murray: London. ISBN 9781848546509

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2010) Naming the Bones. Canongate: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781847672568

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2006) The Bullet Trick. Canongate: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781841958903

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2004) Tamburlaine Must Die. Canongate: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781841956046

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2002) The Cutting Room. Canongate: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780857860866

Book Sections

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2021) Introduction. In: Stevenson, Robert Louis (ed.) Kidnapped. Macmillan Collector's Library: London. ISBN 9781529048728

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2019) An attempt at exhausting a scene in Glasgow. In: Clockworks. UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2019) The face at the window. In: Murray, John (ed.) Anthology of Three Short Ghost Stories. UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)

Strachan, Zoe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 and Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2017) 'Letter from Monkswood'. In: Walter, John (ed.) Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness. Hayward Publishing. ISBN 9781853323560

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2017) Come friendly bombs. In: Bloody Scotland. Historic Environment Scotland: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781849172431

Strachan, Zoe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 and Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2014) Anyone Who Had a Heart. In: Patrick, Adele (ed.) 21 Revolutions. Glasgow Women's Library / Freight Books. ISBN 9781908754448

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2014) Dear soldier. In: Pullinger, Kate and Bartlett, Neil (eds.) Letter To An Unknown Soldier: A New Kind of War Memorial Made By Thousands Of People. William Collins: London. ISBN 9780008116842

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2014) The face at the window, the wave of the hand. In: Strachan, Zoe (ed.) Out There. Freight Books: Glasgow, pp. 243-249. ISBN 9781908754684

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2014) Introduction: absent voices, absent visions. In: Jeffrey, Moira (ed.) Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland and Glasgow Life: Edinburgh, pp. 9-11. ISBN 9781906270728

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2014) Reflections in Unna. In: Florence, Peter and Ellingham, Mark (eds.) OxCrimes. Profile Books: London. ISBN 9781781250648

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2012) No jetpacks, no future. In: Bernstein, Jane and Glass, Rodge (eds.) Second Lives: Tales From Two Cities. Cargo: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908885029

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2012) Vanishing point. In: Smith, A., Doyle, R. and Morpurgo, M. (eds.) Elsewhere Box Set. Cargo Publishing. ISBN 9781908885098

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2011) Anthologised. In: Jakubowski, M. (ed.) The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime. Robinson: London. ISBN 9781849015677

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2011) Darkness in the beyond. In: Wanner, Len (ed.) Dead Sharp: Scottish Crime Writers On Country and Craft. Two Ravens Press: Isle of Lewis. ISBN 9781906120580

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2010) The importance of being Alfred. In: Howard, Phillip (ed.) Scottish Shorts. Nick Hern Books: London, pp. 239-265. ISBN 9781848420700

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2009) Anthologised. In: Anderson, L. (ed.) Shattered: Every Crime Has A Victim. Polygon: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781846971273

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2009) The night highway. In: Kennedy, A., Bainbridge, B., Adebayo, D., Simpson, H., Fielding, H., Shamsie, K., Welsh, L. and Seth, V. (eds.) Ox-Tales : Air: Original Stories From Remarkable Writers. Series: Ox-tales (2). GreenProfile: London. ISBN 9781846682612

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2009) Introduction. In: Regi, Claire (ed.) Fighting It. Two Ravens Press: Lochbroom. ISBN 9781906120412

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2008) Introduction. In: Leddy, David (ed.) Sub Rosa. Fairplay Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781906220273

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2007) Introduction. In: Lawrence, D.H. and Wilson, S. (eds.) Selected stories. Series: 9780141441658. Penguin: London.

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2006) My funeral. In: Pelling, R., Hodsdon, A. and Doyle, J. (eds.) The Decadent Handbook. Dedalus: Sawtry. ISBN 9781903517307

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2006) Young Lochinvar. In: Lacuesta, S. and Davidson, T. (eds.) Latitude: Writing From The Philippines And Scotland. Anvil Publishing. ISBN 9789712717259

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2004) Annunciation. In: Searle, A. (ed.) The Knuckle End: A Meaty Collection Of The Best New Writing In Scotland. Freight Books: Glasgow. ISBN 9780954402426

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2004) Young Lochinvar. In: Büchlerová, A. and Klimentová, E. (eds.) Ztráty A Nálezy: Povídky Skotských Spisovatelek. One Woman Press: Praha. ISBN 9788086356365

Book Reviews

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2015) Review of Tom Rob Smith’s 'The Farm'. Guardian, 5 Feb. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2014) Prince Lestat by Anne Rice review - blood drinkers with iPhones; Rice's vampires take on the digital age but have they bitten off more than they can chew? Guardian, 31 Oct. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2014) Hard-up in Hackney: Louise Welsh admires a tough tale of trafficking and tentative romance: Thirst by Kerry Hudson. Guardian, 26 Jul. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2013) 'On the edge': review of The Quarry by Iain Banks. Times, 15 Jun. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2012) Review of The Dinner by Herman Koch. Guardian, 18 Aug. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2011) Strange Case: review of The Possession of Dr Forrest by Richard T Kelly. Financial Times, 21 May. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2011) Night Waking by Sarah Moss. Financial Times, 27 Feb. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2010) 'Dreadful harvest', review of Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Financial Times, 2 Oct. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2009) A Hombre with a Gun, review of Your Face Tomorrow Vol. 3, by Javier Marías. Financial Times, Nov. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2008) The memory man: review of The Man Without by Ray Robinso. Guardian, 9 Aug. [Book Review]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2008) 'On a Knife Edge', Origins of the Legend of Sweeney Todd. Guardian, 20 Jan. [Book Review]

Edited Books

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (Ed.) (2021) Ghost: 100 Stories to Read with the Lights On. Head of Zeus: London. ISBN 9781800249677

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and Strachan, Zoë ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 (Eds.) (2017) Home Ground: New Writing Inspired by the Homeless World Cup in Glasgow. Glasgow Libraries: Glasgow. ISBN 9780906169728

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (Ed.) (2015) Ghost: 100 Stories to Read With the Lights On. Head of Zeus: London. ISBN 9781784080174

Welsh, Louise (2014) Yonder Awa, Poetry from the Empire Café. Collective Architecture Ltd.: Glasgow. ISBN 9780957502611

Strachan, Zoe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 and Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (Eds.) (2013) Best Scottish Poems 2012. Scottish Poetry Library: Edinburgh.

Bell, Henry, Cizakca, Defne, Sills, Geneva and Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (Eds.) (2012) Tip Tap Flat, A View of Glasgow. Freight Books: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908754066

Research Reports or Papers

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and Strachan, Zoe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 (2025) A Very Quiet Street: toolkit for inclusive participation in local heritage. Documentation. UNSPECIFIED.

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and Strachan, Zoë ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 (2017) Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness. Catalogue. Hayward Gallery.

Artefact

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and Pickstone, Edwin (2019) Glasgow School of Art Home Front Memorial. [Artefact]

Exhibitions

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2015) Introductory interview: Graham Fagan's Scotland and Venice Catalogue. [Exhibitions]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2014) The Empire Café. Cross Discipline Explorations of Scotland and the North Atlantic Slave Trade. [Exhibitions]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2008) The Rings o’ Brodgar and Stennis. [Exhibitions]

Performance

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and Harrison, Ben (2024) Perambulations of a Justified Sinner. [Performance]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and MacRae, Stuart (2024) Anthropocene Opera. [Performance]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and MacRae, Stuart (2023) Anthropocene Opera. [Performance]

Strachan, Zoe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-8284 and Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2021) Something in the Air. [Performance]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and Firth, Emlyn (2019) Storegga Slide. [Performance]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and MacRae, Stuart (2019) Anthropocene. [Performance]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2018) King Keich. [Performance]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 and MacRae, Stuart (2016) The Devil Inside. [Performance]

Arnott, P. et al. (2014) Dear Scotland. [Performance]

Audio

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2024) Short Story - La Scala Sauchiehall Street, BBC Radio 4. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691, Barber, Jude and [producer] Rifai, Halina (2024) Podcast - Who Owns the Clyde. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2020) No One Called Her Angel. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2019) Brick, Stone, Glass, The Mackintosh Building. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2018) Festival. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2018) March Women March. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2018) Whistling in Goblin Market. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2017) A Funeral of One’s Own. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2017) More Lasting than Love. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2011) The Queen of Craigilee. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2011) Realm of the Census. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2010) Hootennany’s. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2008) The Best Small Country in the World. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2007) Graveyard Shift. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2006) Willy’s List. [Audio]

Welsh, Louise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-0691 (2005) 10.15 to Bucharest. [Audio]

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Grants

Selected Grants, 

  • Worshop of Potential Scottish Literature (in collaboration with Zoe Strachan) £9000 (2017)
  • The Empire Café grants totalling over £135 000. Funders included Creative Scotland, Glasgow Life, British Council, National Lottery, 14:18 NOW, RCAHMS, Edinburgh International Book Festival (2014)
  • Merchant City Voices www.collectivearchitecture.com/projects/projects-merchant-city-voices sound art collaboration with Jude Barber of Collective Architecture exploring Glasgow and the North Atlantic slave trade, was funded by a grant of £15000 from Glasgow Life (2012)

 

Residencies and Invitations

  • University of Otago Scottish Writers' Fellowship at Pah Homestead, Auckland New Zealand (2016)
  • International Artists’ Residency, Cove Park (2012)
  • Writer in Residence, University of Glasgow and Glasgow School of Art (2010–12)
  • Fellow in Writing, University of Iowa’s International Writers’ Programme (2011)
  • Villa Hellebosch, Vollezele, Flanders (2009)
  • Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, Umbria, Italy (2008)
  • Internationales Künstlerhaus, Villa Concordia, Bamberg, Germany (2006-07)
  • Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto Island, Canada (2005)
  • Hawthornden Fellowship (2005)
  • Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award (2003) 

Supervision

  • Langley, Alice
    A Chronological Exploration of Women Who Turn to Stone.

Additional information

Publications:

Novels:

•             Death is a Welcome Guest, John Murray Publishing (2015)

•             A Lovely Way to Burn, John Murray Publishing (2014)

•             The Girl on the Stairs, John Murray Publishing (2012)

•             Naming the Bones, Canongate Books (2010)

•             The Bullet Trick, Canongate Books (2006)

•             Tamburlaine Must Die, Canongate Books (2004)

•             The Cutting Room, Canongate Books (2002)

 

Editor:

•             Ghost, One Hundred Stories to Read with the Lights On, Head of Zeus Publishing (Oct 2015)

•             Yonder Awa, Poetry from the Empire Café, Collection of eighteen poems exploring Scotland and the North Atlantic slave trade commissioned from Caribbean and Scottish poets (2014)

•             Best Scottish Poems 2012 (with Zoë Strachan) Scottish Poetry Library (2013)

•             Tip Tap Flat, A View of Glasgow (with student editorial board) an anthology of Glasgow themed creative writing and graphics from staff and students at Glasgow School of Art and University of Glasgow, Freight Books (2012)

Introductions, Prefaces and Afterwords:

•             Graham Fagan, Scotland & Venice Catalogue, Venice Biennale (2015)

•             Generation, 25 Years of Contemporary Scottish Art, National Galleries of Scotland (2014)

•             Dead Sharp, interviews with crime writers, Ed. Len Wanner, Two Ravens Press (2011)

•             Fighting It, short stories by Regi Claire, Two Ravens Press (2009)

•             Sub Rosa a play by David Leddy, Fairplay Press (2009)

•             Selected Short Stories by DH Lawrence, Ed. Sue Wilson, Penguin Books (2007)

•             Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, Canongate Books (2007) 

•             Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming, Penguin Books (2006)

Plays

 •            The Importance of Being Alfred published in Short Scottish Plays (Nick Hearne Books, 2010)

Selected Articles, Features and Reviews:  

•             ‘A Book that Changed Me’, The Guardian (August 2015) http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/11/maya-angelou-caged-bird-poetry-power

•             Programme Notes for Titus Andronicus, directed by Stewart Laing for Dundee Rep (2015)

•             Review of Anne Rice’s Brat Prince Lestat, The Guardian (October 2014) http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/31/prince-lestat-anne-rice-review

•             Review of Kerry Hudson’s Thirst, The Guardian (July 2014)

                http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/26/thirst-by-kerry-hudson-review-working-class-heroes

•             Mary Queen of Scots Monologue, ‘Dear Scotland’ http://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/content/default.asp?page=home_DearScotland National Theatre of Scotland/Scottish National Portrait Gallery (April 2014)

•             Review of Tom Rob Smith’s The Farm, The Guardian (5th February 2014)

                http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/05/farm-tom-rob-smith-review

•             On the Edge, Review of The Quarry by Iain Banks, Book of the Week, The Times (15th June 2013)

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/books/fiction/article3790559.ece

•             Review of The Dinner by Herman Koch, The Guardian (18th August 2012)

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/17/the-dinner-herman-koch-review

•             ‘No Jetpacks, No Future?’ Second Lives, Cargo/University of Pittsburgh (July 2012)

•             ‘Gothic Edinburgh’, Podcast for The Guardian (19th August 2011) http://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2011/aug/19/guardian-books-podcast-gothic-edinburgh

•             ‘Rigoletto – Beauty and the Beasts’, Scottish Opera Website (April 2011) https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/our-operas/a-writers-guide-to-rigoletto

•             Review of Night Waking by Sarah Moss, Financial Times (27th February 2011)

•             ‘James Pryde, the Edgar Allan Poe of Painting’, The Bottle Imp, Association of Scottish Literary Studies E-zine (Nov 2009) http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/SWE/TBI/TBIIssue6/Welsh.html

•             ‘Arthur Conan Doyle’s Other Lost World’, Guardian.co.uk (25th May 2009) http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/may/22/conan-doyle-paranormal

•             ‘Robert Louis Stevenson and the Theatre of the Brain’, Journal of Stevenson Studies, Vol. 5, Ed. Prof Roderick Watson, Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Stirling (Jan 2009 )

•             ‘Murder They Wrote; Death of the Amateur Detective?’ Financial Times, (23rd August 2008)

•             ‘The Memory Man’, review of The Man Without by Ray Robinson, The Guardian (9th August 2008) http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/09/fiction6

Selected Short Stories:

•             The Face at the Window, E-book anthology of three short ghost stories, John Murray (2014)

•             ‘Dear Soldier’ http://www.1418now.org.uk/letter/louise-welsh/ Eds. Neil Bartlett and Kate Pullinger, William Collins (2014)

•             ‘Anyone Who Had a Heart’ (with Zoë Strachan) ‘Glasgow Women’s Library 21 Revolutions’, Freight Books (2014)

•             ‘The Face at the Window, the Wave of the Hand’, BBC Radio 4 (2013) Anthologised in ‘Out There’, ed. Zoë Strachan, Freight Books (2014)

•             ‘An Attempt at Exhausting a Scene in Glasgow’, Clockworks (2012)

•             ‘The Queen of Craigilee’, BBC Radio 4 (17th August 2011)

•             ‘Realm of the Census’, BBC Radio 4 (24th March 2011)

•             ‘Christmas Spirits’ (with Zoë Strachan) The Sunday Herald (December 2010)

•             ‘Hootennany’s’, BBC Radio 3 (October 2010)

•             ‘Reflections in Unna’, Mords Metropole Rhur, Mord am Hellwig V, Anthology (Grafit, Germany, 2010) Ox-Crimes Anthology in support of Oxfam (2014)

•             ‘Vanishing Point’, Edinburgh Festival Elsewhere online anthology (June 2010) print version (         2012)

•             ‘The Night Highway’, Oxtales, Anthology in support of Oxfam (June 2009)

•             ‘A Simple Life’, commissioned by the Aye Write! Glasgow Literary Festival (March 2009)

•             ‘The Best Small Country in the World’, BBC Radio 4 (6th Feb 2008) anthologised in Shattered, Polygon Books ( 2009) anthologised in The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime, Constable & Robinson (2011)

•             ‘Graveyard Shift’, The Verb, BBC Radio 3 (January 31st 2007)

 

Louise has appeared at numerous international book festivals including: Edinburgh International Book Festival, Comedie du Livres, Montpellier, Nuremberg International Krimi Festival, Prairie Lights, Iowa City, Beijing International Bookworm Festival, Melbourne Authors’ Festival, International Festival of Authors, Harbourfront, Toronto, Chengdu International Bookworm Festival, La Villa Gillet, Lyon, Brisbane Book Festival, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, Lahti International Writers’ Reunion Finland, Brno, Czech Republic, Vancouver Writers’ and Readers’ Festival . . .

She has also given keynotes lectures and invited talks: National Library of Scotland, University of St Andrews, Scottish Parliament, University of Strathclyde, Tate Britain, Glasgow School of Art, University of Edinburgh, GOMA, Faculty of Advocates . . .


Portraits of Louise Welsh by Steve Lindridge of www.idealimages.co.uk/

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