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Allan Gaw

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Local authority: North Lanarkshire
Languages: English
Author type: Poet, Writer
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A medical pathologist by training, Allan Gaw is now a full-time writer. His short stories, historical crime fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published widely. His short stories have also won several international prizes including the prestigious Alpine Fellowship. He is the author of the Dr Jack Cuthbert mystery novels. The first of these, The Silent House of Sleep, won the 2024 Bloody Scotland Debut Novel of the Year, and the series is now published by Polygon. His poetry collections, Love & Other Diseases and The Sounds Men Make were published by Seahorse in 2023 and 2025 respectively. He has run many creative writing and professional skills workshops, given regular readings of his work and participated in and chaired many panels. A large part of his medical and academic careers involved adult education, and he now successfully brings those skills to his writing life.

Websites featuring the author

Local authorities will visit

Aberdeen City; Aberdeenshire; Angus; Argyll and Bute; Clackmannanshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Dundee; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Highland; Inverclyde; Midlothian; Moray; Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles); North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Orkney Islands; Perth and Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; Shetland; South Ayrshire; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire; West Lothian

Events will deliver

Panel event; Reading; Residency; Talk; Workshop

Topics of work

Crime fiction; Historical fiction; History; Mystery & thriller; Science; Self-publishing & independent publishing

Age groups published for

Adults

Age groups will work with

18+

Audience size

0-10; 11-30; 31-100; 100-500; 500+