Glasgow in 2024 Presents: The Glasgow SF Writers’ Circle!

The Glasgow SF Writers' Circle has helped genre writers improve their craft since 1986. In that time many members have sold their first stories, and quite a few their first novels. Several have gone on to forge careers. Successes are rightly celebrated, but the longevity of the group is founded on the ethos of helping every tale become the best it can be, with candour, mutual support and a love for telling a really good story.

GSFWC meets weekly in Glasgow and online, and is always open to new members.

More at: gsfwc.co.uk

Interviewed by our very own bid chair Esther MacCallum-Stewart, a few members of the GSFWC will join us for a journey in the Circle’s past, its present, and its glorious future.

E.M. Faulds

E. M. Faulds is an Australian who now calls Scotland home. A member of the Glasgow SF Writers' Circle since 2016, she edited their charity anthology Flotation Device. She also created and hosted the British Fantasy Award shortlisted podcast Speculative Spaces. Her latest story, A Flight of Birds, is available in Shoreline of Infinity 25. Go to www.emfaulds.com to find out more.

Cameron Johnston

Cameron Johnston is the author of the Age of Tyranny Duology and The Maleficent Seven. The Traitor God was nominated for the Dragon Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and Cameron was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2019 British Fantasy Awards. He is a swordsman, a gamer, and an enthusiast of archaeology, history and mythology. He loves exploring ancient sites and camping out under the stars by a roaring fire. He lives in Scotland with his family.

Neil Williamson

Several of Neil's books and seventy-odd published stories have been finalists for the British Science Fiction Association, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy awards. His most recent tale is Mudlarking (Best of British Science Fiction 2020), and he has two new books coming out early in 2022: The Packet, a science fiction novella, and Queen of Clouds, a dystopian fantasy prequel to his first novel, The Moon King.Neil has been a member of GSFWC since 1994.More at: neilwilliamson.blog

Dr Esther MacCallum-Stewart

Esther is the bid chair for Glasgow 2024 and an associate professor in Games Studies at Staffordshire University.