Dilys Rose is a Scottish fiction writer and poet. Born in 1954 in Glasgow, Rose studied at Edinburgh University, where she taught creative writing from 2002 until 2017. She was Director of the MSc in Creative Writing by Online Learning from 2012 to 2017. She is currently a Royal Literary Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Her third novel Unspeakable was published by Freight Books in 2017.
Awards and honours Rose has won many awards, including the Canongate Prize, the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition, and a Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award; she has also been awarded a Society of Authors travel bursary and a UNESCO City of Literature exchange fellowship. Her poem 'Sailmaker's Palm' won the 2006 McCash Poetry Prize,Scots Language Centre announcement and her poetry collection Bodywork was shortlisted for the Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Rose's novel Red Tides won the 1993 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, as well as being shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award and the McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year.
Selected works Poetry Madame Doubtfire's Dilemma, Chapman, 1989 When I Wear My Leopard Hat: Poems for Young Children (illustrated by Gill Allan), Scottish Children's Press, 1997 Lure, Chapman, 2003 Bodywork, Luath, 2007 Stone the Crows, Mariscat, 2020
Fiction Our Lady of the Pickpockets, Secker & Warburg, 1989 Red Tides, Secker & Warburg, 1993 War Dolls, Headline Review, 1998 Pest Maiden, Headline Review, 1999 - Lord of Illusions, Luath Press, 2005 - "proves adept at swiftly establishing a mood" Selected Stories, Luath Press, 2005 Pelmanism, Luath Press, 2014 Unspeakable, Freight Books, 2017 Sea Fret, Scotland Street Press, 2022
Short stories Sea Fret, Scotland Street Press, 2022
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