Author Talk -Tony Garner and Kirsten MacQuarrie

Join us at Govanhill Library in welcoming local authors, Tony Garner and Kirsten MacQuarrie from Ringwood Publishing.

Tony and Kirsten will discuss their books “The Hotel Hokusai” and “Remember the Rowan”, read excerpts and do a Q & A. 

About the Authors:

T.Y. Garner is a Glasgow-based writer of fiction and poetry. His experience of living abroad in Japan, France, and Italy, as well as his work as a political journalist, has encouraged him to explore themes such as migration and acclimatisation in his writing. He also produces creative resources designed to support instructors teaching English to speakers of other languages.

Kirsten MacQuarrie is a Scottish artist and writer, whose writing has been published by New Writing Scotland, the Scottish Poetry Library, Gutter Magazine, Scottish PEN, Glasgow Women’s Library, the Federation of Writers Scotland, Edinburgh Literary Salon, and others.

Kirsten has been shortlisted for a Vogue Magazine Young Talent Award, selected as an Editor’s Choice for the John Byrne Award, and twice winner of the Glasgow Women’s Library Poetry Prize. Her story ‘The Wordsworth Women’ won second prize in the Federation of Writers Scotland Vernal Equinox 2020. She has also served twice as a Non-Fiction judge for Scotland’s National Book Awards.