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Scottish writer selected for 2025 Prague Residency

by Keira Brown
Communications, Edinburgh
City of Literature Trust

25 Nov 2024

Prague City of Literature have announced the lucky writers selected for their 2025 Residencies

It's a mix of writers from the Creative Cities Network, including one with an Edinburgh connection. Prague City of Literature expect residents to produce a piece of writing inspired by their stay, which the Prague Municipal Library and Prague City of Literature will use to promote the city and its residencies. Kevin P. Gilday has been selected for a residency later in the 2025 in Prague.

Kevin P Gilday

<strong>One Scottish writer selected for Prague Residency in 2025</strong>
'I'm absolutely buzzing to spend two months writing and learning in one of my favourite cities. I'll be primarily working on a new poetry cycle inspired by Prague's legacy of brutalist architecture, exploring the utopian vision and human stories behind the buildings. I'll be immersing myself in the local poetry community and hopefully collaborating with some Prague-based artists to create a live document of my writing and research.'

Kevin P. Gilday is an award-winning poet and performer from Glasgow. He is a National Theatre of Scotland Associate Artist, a BBC Writersroom Scottish Voice and one of Scotland’s most celebrated contemporary poets. He was recently included in the Saltire Society’s ’40 under 40’ list celebrating outstanding Scottish creative talent.

His commitment to Scottish poetry has seen him curate and produce countless events around the country. He is the founder of poetry performance collective The Scribbler’s Union and co-founder of much loved spoken word cabaret night Sonnet Youth. He is currently the facilitator of poetry workshop series The Verse Foundry.

Kevin has performed all over the world, from Hollywood to East Kilbride, including major festivals (BBC 6Music Festival, Glastonbury), Fringes (Edinburgh, Toronto, Vancouver), literary festivals (Edinburgh International Book Festival, Verve Poetry Festival) as well as large scale tours of the UK, Europe, the US and Canada. He has supported artists and public figures such as Akala, Saul Williams, George the Poet, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead, Sage Francis, The Silencers and Jeremy Corbyn MP.

He has published five books of poetry, with his most recent – Anxiety Music – released by Verve Press in September of 2022 to universal acclaim and promoted via a 22-date tour of the UK and Europe.

<strong>One Scottish writer selected for Prague Residency in 2025</strong>

Here at Edinburgh City of Literature we are delighted that writers across Edinburgh and Scotland have – through our Cities of Literature network – access to programmes like the two month Prague Residency. It’s a fantastic opportunity for creative development.

If you work in literature and would like to find out more about worldwide opportunities through our network read our resource on working internationally.