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Writers hoping to follow in the footsteps of Rachel Seiffert, Louise Welsh and Zoe Strachan will give a public reading at the University of Glasgow on 26 February.

Students of the University’s Creative Writing Masters Course, acclaimed for the demanding nature of its programme and the calibre of its graduates, will read stories from their forthcoming student-edited anthology, In-Fidelity.

Convenor of the course, Professor Michael Schmidt, said: “Many of our graduates have gone on to achieve success with fantastic publishing deals and great book sales, including Zoe Strachan, Rachel Seiffert and Louise Welsh. Others have chosen to go down other routes, experimenting with language and form and perfecting the arts of the new. The In-Fidelity readings provide a preview of work by writers of both kinds, those who will be the next big names on our bookshelves, and those who will make a difference to the course of narrative in the future. In some happy instances, the same writer can do both.”

The anthology title defines the theme, but the takes on that theme are numerous and it promises to be an evening of surprises: marital, sexual, political, spiritual and other infidelities may well be evoked. The convenors of the readings are the anthology editors.

The following Tuesday, 4 March, students will give readings taken from the Creative Writing Masters’ e-magazine, From Glasgow to Saturn.

Both events will be held at 5.30pm in Seminar Room 3, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow. The readings are free and open to the public.

In-Fidelity will be published by St Andrew’s Press in September 2008.
From Glasgow to Saturn e-magazine can be viewed at http://fromglasgowtosaturn.co.uk/

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Notes to editors

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First published: 22 February 2008