Clydebuilt 15 showcase
The Clydebuilt 15 showcase will be on June 6th at 7pm in the CCA (and available on Zoom for Mirrorball members).
Mentor Miriam Gamble will introduce her four mentees: Stuart Rawlinson, Rachel Rankin, Carlos Llaza and Jacob O’Sullivan. Clydebuilt is funded by The Edwin Morgan Trust through the Second Life Awards.
Door open 18.45, free to members, £7/£5 guests. Please note the main CCA lift is currently out of order, please ask CCA staff for access to the secondary lift.
Stuart Rawlinson is a writer living in Glasgow, where he works as a software developer. Poems of his have been published in online and print journals such as Gutter, SPAM, Fruit Journal, and Travesties!? as well as the Queer Anthology of Rage from Pilot Press. His ‘micro-chap’ main args was published with Ghost City Press as part of their 2021 summer series.
Rachel Rankin is a poet, translator and Norwegian language tutor based in Edinburgh. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Magma, Gutter, The Scotsman and Modern Poetry in Translation, among others. She is the winner of the 2023 Grierson Verse Prize and the runner-up of the 2023 Wigtown Poetry Prize, and she received a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2019.
Carlos Llaza (Arequipa, Peru) is a writer, translator, and early career researcher. He lives in Plains, Airdrie, with his wife and one of his stepdaughters. He has two more stepchildren and two granddaughters, Molly and Millie. He is currently finishing a PhD in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, where he works as a tutor.
Jacob O’Sullivan is a poet currently working towards a first collection. His poems have appeared in Butcher’s Dog, The North, Dreich, and Outcrop Poetry. He organises the ‘Poetry & Pints’ series of readings, which have been held in Sketchy Beats, Argonaut Books, and the Scottish Poetry Library. He lives in Leith and works in museum development.
Miriam Gamble’s most recent book, What Planet (Bloodaxe, 2019) won the 2020 Pigott Poetry Prize; Little Acts of Vigilance, her debut essay collection, is scheduled for publication with The Lifeboat in spring 2024. Originally from Belfast, Miriam has been living in Scotland since 2010. She lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh.