Tuesday 26 November 6.30pm
Joshua in the Sky – An Evening with Rodge Glass
A Fiction Writer’s Network Event
RODGE GLASS is the author of eight books published since 2005: three novels (No Fireworks, Hope for Newborns, and Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs), one graphic novel (Dougie’s War, with Dave Turbitt), one collection of short stories (LoveSexTravelMusik: Stories for the EasyJet Generation), two biographies (Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography & Michel Faber: The Writer & his Work) and now Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir (Taproot Press, September 2024).
His work has been nominated for eight national or international awards, including the Dylan Thomas Prize.
His various fictions have been translated into Italian, Serbian and Spanish. He’s the winner of a Somerset Maugham Award for Nonfiction for his biography of Alasdair Gray, has written audio stories for children as part of the BBC’s Time for a Story series in 2023 and 2024, and recently won the Anne Brown Essay Prize, for ‘On the Covenant’, which is a chapter from Joshua in the Sky.
Joshua in the Sky is partly set in Ormskirk and parts of Lancashire.
Rodge worked at Edge Hill from 2013 until 2020 in the Creative Writing team.
This is a Fiction Writer’s Network Event.
Ticket prices of £10 / £8 concs / £5 EHU Graduates / Free for EHU Students