My name's Elaine Reid and I'm a short story writer based in the west end of Glasgow. I recently graduated from Strathclyde University with a First Class Honours in English with Journalism and Creative Writing. This year, my short story 'Paulie's Bar Mitzvah' was awarded first prize in the Keith Wright Memorial Literary Competition. I've taught creative writing workshops for children across Glasgow's libraries and also worked with Unicef's story competitions and seminars, assisting published authors. I'm currently working on a collection of short stories entitled 'Give Your Fingers a Little Work' which I was lucky enough to preview at this year's Edinburgh book festival at the suitably gut-churning 'Dragons' Pen'.
Now, I think that's enough academia for one day. When I'm not eagerly selling myself straight from the old CV, I enjoy Wes Anderson films, White Russians and the words of Charles Bukowski. I'm a pretty good vegetarian chef and love to travel. London, New York, Berlin. It's an incurable case of Wanderlust, which brings me rather neatly to my next post. My itchy feet are taking me to Inverness and I'll tell you why...
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