Rodge’s CV

Reader in Creative Writing, University of Strathclyde

A full academic CV is available on request. This version of Rodge’s CV concentrates on his main creative and critical writing over the last 20 years.

·       No Fireworks, novel (Faber & Faber, 2005). Nominated for: Dylan Thomas Prize (Worldwide) Authors’ Club First Book Award (UK), Saltire First Book Award (Scotland) and Glen Dimplex First Novel Award (Ireland). 269 pages.

Books – as editor:

• Head Land: 10 Years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize (Edge Hill University Press, 2016)
• Second Lives: Tales from Two Cities (Cargo, 2012). Multi-platform collaboration between cities of Glasgow and Pittsburgh
• The Year of Open Doors, ed. Rodge Glass, (Cargo, 2010). Executive Producer on audio book released in association with Chemikal Underground Records.

I have worked as freelance editor on over 20 books of fiction for Freight Books, including the novel Goblin by Ever Dundas, which won the Saltire First Book of the Year in 2017. Alongside my work with independent publishers, I worked consistently with The Literary Consultancy as a reader of manuscripts (2010-2022), offering detailed reports and support to authors working on projects. Over this time, I worked with authors who went on to be published: Will Storr’s The Hunger and Howling of Killian Lone (Short, 2013) and Deirdre Shanahan’s Caravan of the Lost and Left Behind (Bluemoose, 2019), as well as helping to develop many others. In 2022 I worked as editor on James Yorkston’s novel Book of the Gaels (Oldcastle Books, 2022) and currently work as a mentor for Arkbound, an organisation who pair experienced writers with emerging writers from marginalised backgrounds.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals/Volumes – Recent – 2020-2025

• ‘The New South Coast’: Compassion in Extreme Landscapes in Michel Faber’s Short Fiction’ (Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, Intellect Books, 2025)
• ‘Scottish by Formation’: Michel Faber’s Under the Skin & National Ambiguities, (Studies in Scottish Literature, University of South Carolina, Volume 49.1, Autumn 2025)
• ‘Moving from ‘the Realm of the Hospital Room to the Realm of Political Minority’: Ever Dundas’ HellSans and the Radical Contemporary Disability Novel (Etudes Ecossaises, Volume 23, Special Issue on Disability in Scottish Literature, eds Arianna Introna & Gavin Miller, 2024 – published in English and French)
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – 4,500-word entry for Alasdair Gray in the (Oxford University Press, 2023, ed. Cannadine, David)
• ‘Erasure & Reinstatement: Gray the Artist, Across Space and Form’, chapter in Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New, (Edinburgh University Press, 2022, eds. Hames, Scott, Manfredi, Camille & Pittin-Hedon, Marie-Odile)
• Two chapters in Michel Faber: Critical Essays (Gylphi, 2020, eds. Langworthy, Rebecca, Lindfield-Ott, Kristin & MacPherson, Jim) – ‘In Separate Time’ (creative) and ‘A Compassionate Fictional Universe’ (critical essay)

Chapters in books – Selected

• ‘Return to ‘The Gorbals’, first chapter of novel Y*D in New Writing Scotland: 43: A Chaos of Light (Association for Scottish Literature, 2025)
• ‘On Biography’, Creative nonfiction essay in Gutter magazine No.28 (August 2023)
• ‘On Speculation’, Creative nonfiction essay in New Writing Scotland: 40: No One Remembers the Birdman (Association for Scottish Literature, 2022)
• ‘On Waves’, creative nonfiction essay in Epoch Journal Issue 04: Transitions (Epoch Press, Autumn 2021, pp142-152)
• ‘On Alasdair Gray’, Viktor Wynd Exhibition Catalogue, pp125-127 (Viktor Wynd, 2018)
• ‘Orme & the Golden Lion’, story commissioned for Ormskirk’s Festival of Tales, pp17-23 (Chapel Gallery, 2018)
• ‘Crime Scenes’, story in Scottish Writers’ Centre, pp65-66 (Red Squirrel Press, 2018)
• ‘Finding an Audience’ in How to Write a Short Story (And Think About It), ed. Robert Graham, pp275-286 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
• ‘Introduction’, 25^th anniversary edition of novel A Day at the Office by Robert Alan Jamieson, ppv-xv (Verbivoracious Press, Singapore, 2017)
• ‘The Water, the Onion, the Slow March of the Stars: Roberto Bolaño and the Secret Story’ in Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, pp11-19 (Volume 5, Numbers 1 & 2) ed. Philip Coleman (Intellect Books, 2016)
• ‘Bye Bye Ben Ali’, commissioned for In the Empty Places, (Bantuan Books, Indonesia, 2014), pp23-29. Also published in Unthology 8 (Unthank Books, 2016).
• ‘The Jim Hangovers’ in Being Dad: Stories About Fatherhood, edited by Dan Coxon (Tangent Books, March 2016). Won Best Anthology at Saboteur Literary Awards 2016
• ‘Nae New Ideas, Nae Worries’, essay in Ink for Worlds, ed. Camille Manfredi (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), pp185-200.
• ‘Biography and the Duty to Abandon Truth’, in Determining Form: Creative Non Fiction Journeys, eds. Micaela Maftei & Laura Tansley, pp55-70, (Gylphi, 2015)
• ‘A Real T.O.A.’, short story published in Unthology 4 (Unthank Books 2013), pp3-12.
• ‘We’re All Gonna Have the Blues’, commissioned for Beacons environmental writing anthology, ed. Gregory Norminton (Oneworld, March 2013), p43-54.
• ‘59 Places in Arizona’, commissioned for Irish Pages Sexuality Issue, Vol 6, No1, ed. Chris Agee, published January 2012, pp60-75. Translated into Slovenian and published as ‘59 Fukplacov v Arizoni’ LUD Literatura, November 2014.
• ‘After Drink You Can Turn Earth Upside Down’, commissioned for Edinburgh Book Festival’s worldwide ‘Elsewhere’ project, (McSweeney’s/Cargo, 2012), pp35-46.
• ‘The Realm of Non-Truths’. Essay commissioned for Edinburgh Review 131, published April 2011, pp25-35.
• ‘God Saved the Class of ’85, published in One O’Clock Gun: Pax Edina (Leamington Books, 2010), pp184-188.

FUTURE WORK: COMMISSIONED / FORTHCOMING PROJECTS

• Scotnotes: Lanark by Alasdair Gray (for Scottish school pupils) (Association for Scottish Literature, due 2027)
• ‘Beyond the Shanda: On Scottish Jewish Literature’ – Chapter on Scottish Jewish Literatures, for Routledge Companion to Scottish Literature (eds Tomothy C. Baker, Elizabeth Elliot & Sarah Sharp, Routledge, 2027)
• ‘The Afterlife of Joshua in the Sky’ – Chapter on memoir and biography for Haunting Lives (ed Helen Pleasance, Bloomsbury Academic, 2027)
• ‘Alasdair Gray & the Art of the Creative Response: From ‘The Star’ to ‘The Crystal Egg’ & Back, Across Visual and Literary Practice’ – Chapter on Alasdair Gray’s visual art for Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray (Edinburgh University Press, 2026)
• Expanded paperback edition of Michel Faber: The Writer & his Work on Faber’s nonfiction work (Liverpool University Press, 2025)

MEDIA Rodge is a regular panellist on the BBC Radio Scotland news and culture show The Faith Forum reviewing TV, appearing 12 times between 2024 and 2025. He has also appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Take Four Books as a commentator, on Radio 4’s The Third Degree, as well as on BBC’s Edinburgh Nights, on BBC documentaries and on The One Show, amongst many others