Meet Alan Bissett during Harbourfront IFOA XXX

Saturday, October 31, 4PM at Fleck Theatre

New Writing Scotland: An Edinburgh International Book Festival panel on contemporary Scottish literature. Featuring Alan Bissett, Margaret Elphinstone, James Meek and Eleanor Thom. Moderated by Roland Gulliver.

Sunday, November 1, 2PM at Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts, Parry Sound.

Readings by Alan Bissett, John Brady, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden and Miriam Toews. Charlotte Stein hosts.

Alan Bissett was born in Falkirk in 1975. His acclaimed first novel, Boyracers, published whilst he was still a student, was based on his adolescent experiences growing up there. His ambitious second novel, The Incredible Adam Spark, was extraordinarily well received and is now being turned into a play. He is a former English teacher and has lectured in Creative Writing at the Universities of Leeds and Glasgow. Alan is now a full-time writer and playwright, and is much in demand as a live performer of his own work. He was recently named 'Falkirk Personality of the Year'.   www.alanbissett.com

Dark, funny and deliciously erotic, Death of a Ladies’ Man is an intense portrait of male vanity, written with verve and emotional rawness. By day, Charlie Bain is the school’s most inspiring teacher. By night, he prowls the stylish bars of Glasgow, seducing women. Fuelled by art, drugs and fantasies of being an indie star, Charlie journeys further into hedonism, unable to see the destruction his desires are leading everyone towards.

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