{"id":5584,"date":"2021-09-06T10:48:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T09:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2021-09-06T10:48:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T09:48:34","slug":"scots-language-awards-2021-ely-percy-duck-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/scots-language-awards-2021-ely-percy-duck-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Scots Language Awards 2021: Ely Percy \/ Duck Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Weel duin tae Ely Percy \/ Duck Feet wha hae bin nominatit in Scots Book o the Year sponsored by Scottish Book Trust in the Scots Language Awards. Vote now!<\/a><\/p>\n

We askit Ely Percy o Ely Percy \/ Duck Feet thae speirins. Vote now!<\/a><\/p>\n

Tell us aboot yersel or yer ootfit.<\/strong>
\nEly Percy is a Scottish writer who grew up in Renfrew. Thir first publication wis a letter-cum-poem in Big! magazine in 1994. Since then, thiv released a memoir Cracked: Recoverin After Traumatic Brain Injury (JKP, 2002), graduated wi distinction fae Glasgow University\u2019s MPhil in Creative Writin (2004) an contributed over fifty short stories tae literary journals (e.g. New Writing Scotland, Scotsman Orange an The Edinburgh Review). Percy\u2019s debut novel Vicky Romeo Plus Joolz wis published in March 2019 by Knight Errant Press. Thir second novel Duck Feet (Monstrous Regiment) came oot on March 2021.<\/p>\n

Duck Feet is a comin-of-age novel that begins in the Autumn ae 2001 an ends in the Summer ae 2007. It follies the lives ae workin-class school girl, Kirsty Campbell, an her pals as they go fae first through tae sixth year at the fictional high school Renfrew Grammar, dealing wi things like bullyin, exam pressure, sexuality an teen pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Whit wis it got ye involvit wi the Scots leid?<\/strong>
\nMa whole life ah\u2019d been gettin told tae \u2018speak properly\u2019 \u2013 ma parents an teachers at school wid say \u2018don\u2019t say aye, don\u2019t say naw or yi\u2019ll never get a job\u2019. Then when ah wis about twenty, ah went tae this evenin creative writin class an the tutor suggested ah should read Jim Kelman\u2019s novel \u2018How Late It Was, How Late\u2019. That wis a revelation! Suddenly here wis this thing written in what ah\u2019d previously been told wis \u2018slang\u2019 an \u2018trash language\u2019 an it\u2019d won the bliddy booker prize! Seein somebody write in the Glaswegian vernacular gave me permission tae huv a go at writin the way ah speak, an ah discovered ah wis quite good at it.<\/p>\n

Ony particlar career heighlichts<\/strong>
\nSeein ma novel on a table in a book shop labelled \u201cBest Scottish Fiction\u201d, then seein ma novel on its own table in a book shop, then bein told told that The Drama\u2019s In The Dialect (the talk ah did wi Harry Josephine Giles an Heather Parry about novels written in Scots) wis considered a \u2018stand out event\u2019 in a review ae the Edinburgh International Book Festival!<\/p>\n

Wha’s yer plans fir the days aheid?<\/strong>
\nAh’ve got a novella out on spec, an ah’m revisitin a crime novel ah’ve been tryin tae write fur years, an ah’d really like tae do some spin off stories wi some ae the other characters fae Duck Feet – specifically the LGBT characters because we don’t often get tae hear workin class queer voices in Scottish fiction an ah’d really like tae see that change.<\/p>\n

Ah’m also hopin tae get fundin tae be able tae go on an in-person book shop tour ae the UK wi Duck Feet in 2022!<\/p>\n

Read more about Ely Percy \/ Duck Feet<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/elypercy.com<\/a>
\nFacebook: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/elypercy<\/a>
\nTwitter: http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/decenthumanbean<\/a>
\nInstagram: http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ely_percy<\/a><\/p>\n

The Scots Language Awards are in the Gardyne Theatre, Dundee on 25th September at 7pm. Tickets are available to buy here: https:\/\/www.gardynetheatre.org.uk\/show\/the-scots-language-awards\/<\/a> Performing on Saturday 25th September include Ellie Beaton, Anna Stewart, Gemma Johnson and more to be announced.<\/p>\n

If you would like to support Hands Up for Trad in their work with Scottish trad music and musicians please consider supporting our Patreon<\/a> campaign. We have 3 tiers starting at $1 a month and everything helps support us in our work. Read more at www.patreon.com\/handsupfortrad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weel duin tae Ely Percy \/ Duck Feet wha hae bin nominatit in Scots Book o the Year sponsored by Scottish Book Trust in the Scots Language Awards. Vote now! We askit Ely Percy o Ely Percy \/ Duck Feet thae speirins. Vote now! Tell us aboot yersel or yer ootfit. Ely Percy is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nominee-2021-en","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/files\/2021\/08\/6B26EAAA-C7C4-4A64-846F-BD73E830BE5B.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phaZzh-1s4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5585,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions\/5585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}