![]() ![]() It was also nominated for the 2014 Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year Award and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. ![]() The collection was shortlisted for the 2014 Green Carnation Prize for LGBT writers, and also won the Polari First Book Prize 2015 (awarded each year to a writer whose debut work explores the LGBT experience), the 2013 Scott Prize for Short Stories, The Herald: Book of the Year 2014 and the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection. ![]() Her first collection of short stories, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales, was published by Salt in 2014. She contributed a collage on paper entitled This is Liberty. In 2012 Logan was one of 21 women writers and artists who contributed to the Glasgow Women's Library 21 Revolutions publication, released to mark the organisation's twenty-first year. She cites Emma Donoghue and Angela Carter as her main influences. She wrote her undergraduate thesis on retold fairytales, and her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Kirsty Logan (born 13 March 1984) is a Scottish writer. ![]()
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