Janice Galloway
Janice Galloway is a award-winning author of short stories, novels and memoir. Her novel The Trick is to Keep Breathing was winner of the MIND Book of the Year Award; Foreign Parts was winner of the McVitie’s Prize, and Clara was winner of the E.M. Forster Award, the Creative Scotland Award, and the Saltire Book of the Year Award. She is also the author of two memoirs This is Not About Me, winner of the SMIT Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and All Made Up. Her latest book, Jellyfish, was published in 2019. She has written and presented three radio series for BBC Scotland and has collaborated with musicians and visual artists. She lives and works in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Publications
Janice Galloway on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir | Issue 158
Crocodiles and Fairy Dust
Janice Galloway
‘I admit the sneaking feeling, just now and then, that those who govern us think we’re the problem.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 115
We’re Not in This Together
Janice Galloway
‘Abstain was the only advice we were getting.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 110
Physics and Bonkology
Janice Galloway
‘Sex Education, like winning the pools, was something that did not happen to us.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 101
This is Not About Me
Janice Galloway
‘My mother thought I was the menopause.’