University of Strathclyde The Up-and-Coming Reading

Hosted by poet Chris Agee, writer-in-residence at the University of Strathclyde, finalists for the 2014 Keith Wright Literary Prize from the University's Department of Creative Writing read from their work, followed by an open mic for student writers.

For further information about the prize and the reading, contact Chris Agee (christopher.agee@strath.ac.uk).

Chris Agee’s most recent volume of poetry, Next to Nothing (Salt, 2009), was short-listed for the 2010 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, funded by the Poet Laureate and organised by the Poetry Society in London. He is the Editor of Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing, and currently the Keith Wright Literary Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.