Creative Conversations: Chris Barkley

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Author Chris Barkley reading and in conversation

Campus Bookshop University of Glasgow

Chris Barkley’s debut novel, <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-man-on-the-endless-stair/chris-barkley//9781846976896" title="https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-man-on-the-endless-stair/chris-barkley//9781846976896" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Man on the Endless Stair</a> was released in summer 2025 and was described in The Times as ‘An eerie, deeply atmospheric tale of hidden treasure and trauma.’ He was appointed Writer in Residence by the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2022 and has won the Oxford University Kellogg Writing Competition as well as the Bedford International Writing Prize. He achieved a distinction on the MSt in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and, before that, graduated from the Warwick University Writing Programme with a First. He has taught creative writing at Yale and on social media, he hosts the popular channel <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tufferbarkley/" title="https://www.instagram.com/tufferbarkley/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@TufferBarkley</a> where he posts writing lessons to a community of 65k. Edinburgh is where he stays.The Zoom Link to attend online is: <a href="https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/84847985257" title="https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/84847985257" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/84847985257</a>Creative Conversations is supported generously by The Ferguson Bequest. Professor Thomas Ferguson (1900-1977), Henry Mechan Chair of Public Health (1944-64), bequeathed his estate to the University, with the instruction that the money should be used to foster the social side of University life.

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