The first Gray Day was held in 2021 to mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of Lanark. We celebrated with a Gray Day Broadcast hosted by Neu Reekie, with the Alasdair Gray Archive and Canongate Books.
It featured guests Ali Smith, Yann Martel, Alan Cumming, Ian Rankin, Denise Mina, Irvine Welsh, Gemma Cairney, Chitra Ramaswamy, Alex Kapranos, Ewen Bremner, Louise Welsh, Salena Godden, Gavin Mitchell, Bernard MacLaverty, Rodge Glass, The Vaselines’ Eugene Kelly and more. Special thanks to the Òran Mór in Glasgow.