Laura Marney is a Scottish novelist and short-story writer.

Biography

The author of five novels and numerous short stories, Laura Marney is a member of the Glasgow G7 group of writers (

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, Nick Brookes, Rodge Glass, Laura Marney, Alison Miller, Zoë Strachan and Louise Welsh). Born and brought up in

Glasgow Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom ...

, Marney co-founded a theatre group Theatre Raskolnikov there. Since "nobody else could be bothered", she also began writing scripts for the company. Marney is a graduate of the MLitt course in Creative Writing at the

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, and now teaches there. Her writing has been described as

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. She also writes for radio. Marney tutored

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, one of the 21 writers and 21 artists commissioned by

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in 2012 to create work to celebrate the 21st birthday of the organisation.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''No Wonder I Take A Drink'' (2004) * ''Nobody Loves a Ginger Baby'' (2005) * ''Only Strange People Go to Church'' (2006) * ''My Best Friend has Issues'' (2008) * ''For Faughie's Sake'' (2014)

References

External links

Interview in The Scotsman
(2004)

(2005)
Radio interview (2009)
* Short story:
The Taste of Women
', Mad Hatters Review, No.7, February 2007 * Short story:
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
'
Glasgow 2020
* Short story:

', Barcelona Review, Issue 50, October – December 2005
Creative Writing at Glasgow University
Living people Writers from Glasgow Scottish women novelists Alumni of the University of Glasgow 21st-century Scottish novelists 21st-century Scottish writers 21st-century Scottish women writers Year of birth missing (living people) Academics of the University of Glasgow Scottish short story writers Scottish women short story writers {{Scotland-writer-stub