David Manderson – Writer

Recent/Forthcoming Publications:

Lost Bodies, an original novel, published by Kennedy and Boyd, release date 21 July 2011, launch at The Arches in Glasgow on that date. You can buy advance copies from 23 June from Amazon.co.uk or the Kennedy and Boyd website.

“Powerful and compelling … this is a ground-breaking book …” Margaret Elphinstone

Rob Roy: directed by Michael Caton-Jones, Association of Scottish Literary Studies, Glasgow, 2009

Local Hero: written and directed by Bill Forsyth (co-authored with Alistair Scott), Association of Scottish Literary Studies, Glasgow, release date 1 October 2011 at the Annual ASLS Schools conference

Short story extract Inkerman in New Writing Scotland 29: The Flight of the Turtle, release date 15 August 2011

Perfection, an extract from the novel Lost Bodies, in Gutter 04, edited by Adrian Searle, Freight Publishing, Glasgow, February 2011

An article about creative writing research The Beginnings of Solitude and an extract from Lost Bodies appeared in this new e-book in June, which was launched as part of the 2011 Belfast Literary Festival. It was collated from a conference held at Queen’s University in 2009 and is published by eSharp/Glasgow University, edited by Emily Dukakis.

An academic paper about films that have used The Trossachs as their location – Location/Dis-Location: Film and the Trossachs – originally presented at the Scott, The Tourists and The Trossachs conference in Balloch in June 2010, will appear in an anthology of critical writing published by the ASLS in late 2011 or early 2012. No image from the book is available as yet, so this logo from the event will have to do.

Older Publications:

Short story The Other in Word Jig: New Fiction from Scotland, edited by Marie Carter, Hanging Loose Press, New York, 2004. I read this to an audience in Manhattan Central Library!

Essay/critical article One Letter from a Western Empire: The Isms of Alasdair Gray in Chapman 97, edited by Joy Hendry, Edinburgh, 2000.

Short story: Best Man in A Spiel Amang Us: Glasgow People Writing (The Scotia Bar Writers’ Prize), edited by Brendan McLaughlan, Mainstream, 1990. I came sixth, apparently!

Extract from Scuttle, an unpublished novel, on Spoke CD: New Scottish Voices, edited by Clapp, Lewis and Trainor, Bletherink, 1999

… and you can find many other stories, articles, reviews, essays and extracts written by me in long-lost literary anthologies and small magazines, such as Confluence, edited by Fiona Parrott, Strathclyde University, 2002; various issues of West Coast Magazine, edited by Brian Whittingham and Joe Murray, Glasgow, 1985-1995; various issues of Nerve Magazine, edited by myself, Glasgow, 1998-2000; The Minds’ Eye, produced by the Blind Writers’ Group, Glasgow, 1997; The Living Tradition, edited by Pete Heywood, Kilmarnock, 1998; Ecloga, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, 2001; Alternative, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, 2005; various issues of Scotlit, the Association of Scottish Literary Studies’ newsletter; the academic journal New Writing in Education, Routledge, 2009 and 2010; and Northern Light, edited by Andrew Knight, produced by Aberdeen University in 1980. I also helped collate and edit Write Times, an anthology of writing by SQA students, published by the Scottish Qualifications Authority in 2007.

An extract from Lost Bodies appears on Allan Guthrie’s Noir Originals website.