Scottish Writers' Centre & Glasgow Women's Library In Process with Janet Paisley

Writer, poet and playwright Janet Paisley talks about her life and work, giving insight into her writing craft. The event will be introduced by Glasgow Women’s Library’s Reader in Residence, Magi Gibson.

Janet Paisley is an award winning poet, author, playwright, non-fiction and scriptwriter, writing in Scots and English. A prolific and popular writer, first published in 1979, her work has been translated into German, Russian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Catalan, Spanish, Hungarian, Ukranian, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch and is widely anthologised.

Awards include BAFTA and RTS nominations for Long Haul, a 2000 Creative Scotland Award to write Not for Glory; 1999 Canongate Prize; 1996 Peggy Ramsay Memorial award for first play Refuge (set inside a safe house in Scotland for victims of domestic violence); National, Scottish National, Swanage Arts and MacDiarmid Trophy poetry prizes; Sutton, Scotwrite and BBC prose prizes. In 1996, Alien Crop was short-listed as Scottish Book of the Year and Sooans Nicht was Critics Play of the Year. In 2003, Not for Glory was in the World Book Day Top Ten Scottish Books and featured on the nation’s favourite books of all time list of 2005. Her critically-acclaimed historical novels, White Rose Rebel and Warrior Daughter, are Penguin paperbacks. The short film Long Haul, written by Paisley, won a Bafta nomination in 2001.