Kirsty Logan
{{Short description|Scottish writer and poet}}
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Kirsty Logan (born 13 March 1984){{cite tweet |user=kirstylogan |number=1105393248397348864 |date=12 March 2019 |title=Tomorrow is my birthday}} is a Scottish writer.
Logan lives in Glasgow. She wrote her undergraduate thesis on retold fairytales, and her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.{{Cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/books/the-write-stuff-the-gracekeepers-by-kirsty-logan-1-3768307|title=The Write Stuff: The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan|website=www.scotsman.com|access-date=2016-04-01}} She cites Emma Donoghue and Angela Carter as her main influences.{{Cite web|url=https://www.list.co.uk/article/69913-interview-kirsty-logan-my-childhood-was-very-rich-in-stories/|title=Interview: Kirsty Logan, 'My childhood was very rich in stories'|website=The List|access-date=2016-03-30}}
Work
In 2012 Logan was one of 21 women writers and artists who contributed to the Glasgow Women's Library 21 Revolutions publication, released to mark the organisation's twenty-first year. She contributed a collage on paper entitled This Is Liberty.{{Cite book|title=21 Revolutions - This is Liberty|last=Logan|first=Kirsty|publisher=Freight Books|year=2014|isbn=978-0-9522273-3-5|editor-last=Patrick|editor-first=Adele|location=Glasgow|pages=126–128}}
Her first collection of short stories, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales, was published by Salt Publishing in 2014. The collection was shortlisted for the 2014 Green Carnation Prize for LGBT Writers, and also won the 2015 Polari First Book Prize (awarded each year to a writer whose debut work explores the LGBT experience), the 2013 Scott Prize for Short Stories, The Herald: Book of the Year 2014 and the 2014 Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection.{{Cite web |last=Salt |title=The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales |url=https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-rental-heart-and-other-fairytales-9781907773754?variant=3892828481 |access-date=2016-03-30 |website=Salt}} It was also nominated for the 2014 Saltire Society Literary Award for First Book of the Year{{Cite web|url=http://www.theskinny.co.uk/books/news/2014-saltire-literary-awards-handed-out-in-edinburgh|title=2014 Saltire Literary Awards – Full list of winners {{!}} Book News {{!}} The Skinny|website=www.theskinny.co.uk|access-date=2016-03-30}} and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
In 2013 the Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) selected Logan to be the recipient of Creative Scotland's first Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship,{{cite web |url=http://www.creativescotland.com/what-we-do/latest-news/archive/2013/08/kirsty-logan-named-inaugural-dr.-gavin-wallace-fellow |title=Kirsty Logan named inaugural Dr. Gavin Wallace Fellow |date=14 February 2014 |website=www.creativescotland.com |publisher=Creative Scotland |accessdate=23 April 2016 |archive-date=2 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602021516/http://www.creativescotland.com/what-we-do/latest-news/archive/2013/08/kirsty-logan-named-inaugural-dr.-gavin-wallace-fellow |url-status=dead }} to enable her to produce a collection of short fiction inspired by Scottish folklore. In 2015 the resulting book, A Portable Shelter, was published in limited edition hardback by ASLS.{{cite web |url=http://asls.arts.gla.ac.uk/A_Portable_Shelter.html |title=A Portable Shelter |date=10 August 2016 |website=asls.arts.gla.ac.uk |publisher=Association for Scottish Literary Studies |accessdate=8 June 2016}} A paperback edition was published by Vintage Books in November 2016.{{cite book |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1110033/a-portable-shelter/9781784702342.html |title=A Portable Shelter |date=3 November 2016 |website=www.penguin.co.uk |publisher=Penguin |accessdate=30 May 2019}} A Portable Shelter was longlisted for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize,{{cite web |url=https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/news/2016/03/edge-hill-short-story-prize-long-list-announced-2/ |title=Edge Hill Short Story Prize longlist announced - News |date=9 March 2016 |website=www.edgehill.ac.uk |publisher=Edge Hill University |accessdate=8 June 2016 |archive-date=3 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703065910/https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/news/2016/03/edge-hill-short-story-prize-long-list-announced-2/ |url-status=dead }} and in 2017 the collection was shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize.{{cite web |url=https://greencarnationprize.com/2017/04/28/the-green-carnation-prize-2016-shortlist/ |title=The Green Carnation Prize Shortlist 2016 |date=28 April 2017 |website=greencarnationprize.com |publisher=The Green Carnation Prize |accessdate=28 April 2017}}
In 2015 Logan was interviewed as part of Glasgow's Aye Write! festival, where she read an extract from her debut novel, The Gracekeepers,{{Cite web|url=http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/news/pages/christoper-brookmyre-and-lucy-ribchester-unveil-full-aye-write!-programme.aspx|title=Aye Write! Programme unveiled|website=www.glasgowlife.org.uk|access-date=2016-03-30|archive-date=15 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415055803/http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/news/pages/christoper-brookmyre-and-lucy-ribchester-unveil-full-aye-write!-programme.aspx|url-status=dead}} and appeared as the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award winner at Morningside Library in Edinburgh as part of Book Week Scotland.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theskinny.co.uk/books/news/book-week-scotland-2015|title=Book Week Scotland: Scottish book events - The Skinny|website=www.theskinny.co.uk|access-date=2016-03-30}} The Gracekeepers won the Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT SF/F/Horror in 2016.{{cite web |url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/06/07/28th-annual-lammy-award-winners-announced/ |title=28th Annual Lammy Award Winners Announced |date=7 June 2016 |website=www.lambdaliterary.org |publisher=Lambda Literary |accessdate=9 June 2016}} Her second novel, The Gloaming, was published in 2018,{{cite web |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1113850/the-gloaming/9781911215943.html |title=The Gloaming |date=19 April 2018 |website=www.penguin.co.uk |publisher=Penguin |accessdate=30 May 2019}} and her third novel, Now She is Witch, followed in 2023.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/18/now-she-is-witch-by-kirsty-logan-review-a-quest-for-freedom|work=The Guardian|title=Now She Is Witch by Kirsty Logan review – a quest for freedom|first=Laird|last=Hunt|author-link=Laird Hunt|date=18 January 2023|access-date=1 April 2023}}
Bibliography
=Short story collections=
- The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales (2014)
- A Portable Shelter (2015)
- Things We Say in the Dark (2019)
=Novels=
- The Gracekeepers (2015)
- Gloaming (2018)
- Now She Is Witch (2023)
Awards and honours
= Literary awards =
- 2013 Scott Prize for Short Stories: The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
- 2014 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize (longlist): The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
- 2014 Green Carnation Prize (shortlist): The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
- 2014 The Herald: Book of the Year: The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
- 2014 Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection: The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales{{Cite web |date=17 March 2011 |title=Saboteur Awards |url=http://sabotagereviews.com/saboteur-awards/ |access-date=2016-03-30 |website=Sabotage |language=en-US}}
- 2014 Saltire Society Literary Award for First Book of the Year (nominated):
- 2015 Polari First Book Prize: The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
- 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT SF/F/Horror: The Gracekeepers
= Honours =
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.kirstylogan.com/}}
- [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4565834.Kirsty_Logan Kirsty Logan] on Goodreads
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Category:Scottish short story writers
Category:Scottish women novelists
Category:Scottish LGBTQ novelists
Category:Lambda Literary Award winners
Category:21st-century British short story writers
Category:21st-century Scottish women writers
Category:21st-century Scottish novelists