Creative writing PhD student Agata Maslowska has won this year's Gillian Purvis Award for New Writing.

The awards were created in memory of Gillian Purvis who died in 2004. Gillian's partner, Toby Paterson, established a Trust in her name which celebrates interest and pleasure in the creative arts.

Agata told MyGlasgow News she plans to use the award to travel around Europe following the footsteps of Janine, a nomadic character in her novel-in-progress Homeland Variations. 

Since the foundation of The Trust in 2004, over £30,000 has been awarded to help students in the creative arts in Glasgow in their third, final or postgraduate years. In recognising Gillian's interest in textile design and fashion, the initial focus of the Trust was the Department of Textiles at Glasgow School of Art (GSA) where two Awards are made annually. Further annual Awards are now given at the GSA Degree Show, to a student of Creative Writing at The Universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde or The Glasgow School of Art and to a students of Fashion Business or Fashion Branding at Glasgow Caledonian University. 

First published: 22 May 2017

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