Creative Conversations: Poet Sophie Collins - Monday, 25/02/19, 13:00 - 14:00

Published: 10 January 2019

Sophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Glasgow University. We start at 1pm as usual in the University of Glasgow Chapel. All welcome.

Sophie Collins

Creative Conversations

Date: Monday 25th February 2018
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Category: Public lectures

who is mary sueSophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Glasgow University.

She is co-editor of tender, an online arts quarterly, and editor of Currently & Emotion (Test Centre, 2016), an anthology of contemporary poetry translations. small white monkeys, a text on self-expression, self-help and shame, was published by Book Works in November 2017 as part of a commissioned residency at Glasgow Women’s Library.

Her debut collection Who Is Mary Sue? was published by Faber & Faber in 2018 and shortlisted for the 2018 Saltire Literary Awards Poetry Book of the Year.

As part of the on-going Creative Conversation speaker series poet and writer Sophie Collins comes to campus to chat about her writing. Bring your lunch and burning questions!

Sponsored by the Ferguson Bequest and programmed by Creative Writing at University of Glasgow

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First published: 10 January 2019