1961 - 1999

23rd Oct 1961
> Suhayl Saadi born in Beverly, East Yorkshire

1965
> Moved to Glasgow

1985
> Graduated from Glasgow University, in Medicine

1984 -1990
> Worked in various hospitals around the country

1990
> First article appeared in the Evening Times newspaper

1991
>First short story, Magpies, published in Inkshed magazine

1997
> Won 3rd Prize in Bridport Competition, with short story, Rabia
> Pseudonymous novel published

1997 - 1998
> Speaking in Tongues readings - seminal multicultural writers' readings
Read on Community Radio and on BBC Radio Scotland (on National Poetry Day)

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1998
> Short story, Solomon's Jar published in a special 100th 'Scottish Parliament' issue of the Edinburgh Review. Solomon's Jar won praise from Pat Kane as being " one the most exciting things [he'd] read in the past twelve months."
> Short fiction widely published, including in various New Writing Scotland annual volumes, and has run numerous workshops with adults and children over 10 years of age
> Acted as one of the judges in the Calendar Poetry Competition

1999
> Read alongside A.L. Kennedy, Kevin MacNeil and others at the Glasgow Book Festival
> Was nominated for, and won, Health Council Award
> Featured Guest on Johnstone Mackay's BBC Radio Scotland programme, Personal Touch
> Featured in Scotsman newspaper
> Won 2nd Prize in the Macallan/Scotland-on-Sunday Short Story Competition, with the story, Ninety-Nine Kiss-o-grams
> Won Millennium Award to set up and run Pollokshields Writers' Group in Glasgow aimed primarily though not exclusively at writers from Minority Ethnic backgrounds
> Featured in the Glaswegian newspaper, Go! Magazine, Scotland's Oracle
> Trained and worked as a Facilitator in the Survivors' Poetry organisation

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