Kirstin
Innes ...

Kirstin Innes is a Glasgow-based writer and journalist. Her short fiction has been published in Gutter Magazine, New Writing Scotland and in the Cargo Press anthology The Year of Open Doors, she won the Scottish Arts Council New Writers Award in 2008 and is currently working on her first novel, Fishnet, about prostitution in Scotland.

Innes is also in demand as a performer of her own work; she’s performed at the Hydro Connect Festival, at regular nights Discombobulate, Manifesto and The Golden Hour, and on BBC Radio Scotland, and co-runs the monthly Glasgow spoken word and live music night Words Per Minute. As a journalist, she writes for The Scotsman, The Herald, The Independent and The List, won the Allen Wright Award for Excellence in Arts Journalism in 2007, and has twice been nominated for Feature Writer of the Year at the Scottish Magazine Awards.