The annual Scottish PEN/University of Glasgow Naomi Mitchison Memorial Lecture:

Thursday 24th November 2011

Anatomy Museum and Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow

Wine reception 6pm, event begins 6.30pm.

Free and all welcome!

Denise Mina is the author of nine bestselling novels, the most recent of which, The End of the Wasp Season, was this year shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award. She will be discussing her work and her research, introduced by GU/GSA Writer in Residence Louise Welsh.

Her first trilogy of novels set in Glasgow was Garnethill (1998), which won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Memorial Dagger; Exile (2000); and Resolution (2001).

Other books include Sanctum (2002), the story of a forensic psychiatrist, convicted of killing a serial killer. This was followed by The Field of Blood (2005), The Dead Hour (2006) and The Last Breath - three books about a young journalist, Paddy Meehan, working in the newspaper industry during the turbulent '80s and '90s, carving a place for herself. In 2007, The Dead Hour was shortlisted by the Mystery Writers of America for the Edgar Award, and was also serialised on Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4. BBC Scotland filmed The Field of Blood in 2010.

Denise Mina also writes short stories, which have appeared in various anthologies - one of which, 'Helena and the Babies' from Fresh Blood 3 (1999), won the Crime Writers' Association Macallan Short Story Dagger. Short stories and a play have also been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Her first stage play, Ida Tamson, was performed at Oran Mor. In 2008 she wrote a performance poem, 'A Drunk woman looks at the thistle', and it transferred from Oran Mor to the Edinburgh fringe for a three-week run.

She also writes comics, having written 'Hellblazer' for a year, collected as Empathy is the Enemy (2006) and The Red Right Hand (2007). Her latest graphic novel is A Sickness in The Family (2010) – with the Italian artist Antonio Fuso.
Denise Mina also presents and appears on television and radio, most recently the 2010 docudrama, Poe’s Women, on BBC 4. Her latest works are a series of books about Glaswegian DS Alex Morrow: Still Midnight (2009); The End of the Wasp Season (2011) and Gods and Beasts (2012).