KIRSTIN INNES is an award-winning novelist and journalist based in Renfrewshire, just outside of Glasgow. Her first novel, Fishnet, won The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize in 2015 and is published by Black & White in the UK and Scout Press in the US. Her second, Scabby Queen (Fourth Estate, 2020), was shortlisted for Gordon Burn Prize and Scottish Novel of the Year and is being adapted for television by Moonage Pictures.
Kirstin was one of the first winners of the Scottish Book Trust’s New Writers Award in 2008, and she has had short fiction commissioned by McSweeney’s, Edinburgh International Book Festival and BBC Radio 4.
Her journalism has been published in the Independent, the Pool, the Herald, the Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday. She won the Allen Wright Award for Arts Journalism in both 2007 and 2011, and she was Assistant Editor and Feature Writer at the List magazine for four years. She is currently writing her third novel and collaborating on a new touring theatre work.
- Areas of expertise: literary fiction, short stories (short- and long-form), feature writing, arts journalism
- Location: Glasgow & Paisley
- Possible meeting places: Mitchell Library (Glasgow) or Brew Café (Paisley)
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