Career Ending Incidents: A Collection by Grace Edwards

With readings by Blair Coron, Ellie Wiseman, and Grace Edwards.

CAREER ENDING INCIDENTS is a collection of stories about failure, spanning bodies, employments and galaxies. Each is a new chapter in the surreal and sense-breaking life of someone who shoots for the stars and lands on their face – again, and again, and again.

Grace Edwards (they/she) has written for BBC Radio 4 and the National Theatre of Scotland. They love writing that feels intimate, where the small details of people’s lives take centre stage. Grace has also written for Exeunt Magazine and Neon Books covering contemporary dance, live art, and video games. Recently, Grace has written narrative fiction, giving voice to a transition rife with failure, uncertainty and revelation. CAREER ENDING INCIDENTS is the result.

 Ellie Wiseman (they/she) is a Northern Scottish queer raising a child in Glasgow and performing erotic labour to pay the bills. A history of art graduate, their art criticism is published online and in print, but nowadays they mostly write in their notes app. They enjoy exploring the spectrum of human sexuality, as well as their own experiences of sex work, motherhood, and being raised as a softcore evangelical. Ellie loves the uncensored nature of independent publishing and has previously produced a zine and a poetry chapbook, as well as having a smutty poem featured in Fist Zine.

Blair Coron (he/him) is a musician and poet from Springfield, a small village in Fife, Scotland. His quiet and intimate music blends modern classical, storytelling and traditional melodies, with themes of nature, people, time and place. Through music, words and cinematography, Blair intends to create enchanting atmospheres that sets course for introspection and connection to the landscapes surrounding us. Blair will be presenting a selection of poems and stories.