Donald Adamson is a poet and translator from Dumfries, now living in Finland, who has translated Finnish poems for collections and anthologies published by Carcanet/Scottish Poetry Library and Arc. His new collection, Bield (Tapsalteerie), contains original poems and translations into Scots of classic Finnish poems. more...

lives in Perthshire. A Frances Ainslie was a finalist in the 2017 Costa Short Story Award, she writes poetry, fiction & non-fiction and is currently doing an MLitt in Scottish Literature. more...

Craig Aitchison is a teacher and writer from Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. He is about to complete a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling. more...

Ian Aitken is previously unpublished and writes poetry for fun and relaxation. He lives in Aberdeen with his wife, three teenagers and dog. more...

Andy Allan lives in Moray beside Culbin Forest. His latest collection, Within the Slide of Wind was published by Indigo Dreams in November 2018. more...

Helen Allison lives in Forres. Her first poetry collection, Tree standing small, was published in 2018 by Clochoderick Press. Second collection in seed stage. Find her on Twitter @h_allison_poet more...

David Alston is a historian with a background in many different occupations, including museum curator, councillor and NHS chair (Highlands). He researches Highland Scots’ involvement with slavery: - the subject of his next book. more...

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James Andrew has had three books of poetry published and recently won the Autumn Voices Poetry Competition judged by Sally Evans. The Book Folks have published three of his crime novels. more...

Anjali Suzanne Angel is a Skye poet, lyricist, ghostwriter and former journalist. She writes about UK history, travel and is working on a book of essays about Hungary. more...

Juliet Antill lives on the Isle of Mull. Her poems have been seen most recently in Magma, New Writing Scotland and the ezine Antiphon. more...

Tristan ap Rheinallt is from Wales but has been living in the Scottish islands for 27 years. He is a member of Stornoway Writers’ Circle. more...

James Appleby is the editor of Interpret, a magazine of new international literature. His recent publications include Acumen and Poetry Scotland. more...

Chris Arthur lives in St Andrews. He has published several essay collections, most recently Hummingbirds Between the Pages. For details of his work see www.chrisarthur.org. more...

Tom Ashman is a writer and musician from the Orkney Islands. He is particularly drawn to the short story form and enjoys writing about people. more...

Phil Baarda is a writer based in the Highlands. He’s the creative director of Mangonel Theatre company, and also runs the Inverness Playwrights – a group of drama writers of all kinds. more...

Morag Baptie is a retired teacher living on the North Aberdeenshire coast with an interest in the Doric dialect and a tendency to lug in on other people’s conversations. more...

Stephen Barnaby was born in St. Annes, Lancashire, grew up in Thurso, Caithness and lives in Musselburgh, East Lothian with his partner and two daughters. more...

Gabriellle Barnby lives in Orkney and writes short stories, poetry and full-length fiction. She is committed to supporting creative experiences for young people more...

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Heather Beaton lives on South Uist and is inspired by the changing seasons, wild weather and connecting with the hidden wild. Read more at www.heatherybean.blogspot.com. more...

Valerie Beattie is a Northwords Board member and developed UHI’s first undergraduate literature degree. Her research interests include Gothic studies and she is working to bring an accepted book draft to publication. more...

Alison Bell’s poetry and short fiction emerges from her domestic landscape in Aberdeenshire. She has an M. Litt. in Creative Writing from Dundee University. more...

Kirsteen Bell is a poet, writer, copywriter, and literature student (University of the Highlands and Islands). She lives and works on a croft in Lochaber. more...

Liam Murray Bell lives in Stirling and teaches at the university. He is author of two novels:So It Is (2012) and The Busker (2014). more...

Simon Berry a former editor of The Scotsman book pages, president of Scottish PEN and a board member of 7:84 Scotland, has a poetry collection A Mask for Grieving and biography of Victorian poet, Alexander Smith published by FTRR Press. more...

Sharon Black is from Glasgow and lives in the Cévennes mountains in France, the subject of her fourth collection. www.sharonblack.co.uk more...

Sheena Blackhall is a writer, illustrator, traditional ballad singer and storyteller in North East Scotland. In 2009, she became Makar for Aberdeen and the North East. more...

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Helen Boden is an Edinburgh-based writer, educator, all-weather walker and fair-weather cyclist. She is widely published in literary magazines and collaborates with visual artists more...

Adam Boggon grew up in Culross, Fife. He was shortlisted for the John Byrne Award in May 2020. more...

John Bolland’s first collection – Fallen Stock – was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2019. His forthcoming collection - Pibroch – explores the climate emergency & the Piper Alpha disaster. more...

Becs Boyd is a Black-Isle-based artist and freelance ecologist who has also lived in Germany, Russia and Skye. Her work explores what it means to be a human cog in a largely non-human world, with constant reference back to her native Scotland. more...

Colin Bramwell is a poet from Fortrose. He was the runner up for the 2020 Edwin Morgan Prize; his first pamphlet, The Highland Citizenship Test, was recently published by Stewed Rhubarb. more...

Gail Brown from Caithness, writes the blog Wellies on the School Run. Her first novel, Castles of Steel and Thunder, is due to be published in November 2020. more...

MBE, D.Litt. (St. A) is a writer, photographer, lecturer, poet and editor of over thirty titles, most recently two collections of nonfiction: Walking the Song and Chasing the Dreams. more...

Ricky Monahan Brown's memoir Stroke was one of The Scotsman's Scottish Books of 2019. He's working on a screenplay set in nineteenth century Sutherland as part of SFTN's Write4Film programme more...

Lorraine Bruce is an artist and member of the Orkney voices writers’ group. more...

Tom Bryan co-edited the original Northwords with the late Angus Dunn from 1992-1997, whilst living in a restored croft in Strathcanaird, Wester Ross. He is a widely-published poet, fiction and non-fiction writer. He now lives in Kelso in the Scottish Borders. more...

Linda Buckmaster has lived for four decades in midcoast Maine. Former Poet Laureate of her small town of Belfast, her poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in over forty journals. Her hybrid book, Elemental. A Miscellany of Salt Cod and Islands was published this spring. more...

Mareth Burns is a student in Dundee. She’s usually writing, drawing, or trying to find ways to combine the two. More of her writing can be found in DURA. more...

Peter Burrows, a librarian, grew up in Kinross and is training to be a counsellor. His work has appeared widely, including most recently in Southlight, Coast to Coast and Marble Poetry. more...

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Vera Butler is a homecarer for Orkney Islands Council and a member of the Orkney Voices writers’ group. more...

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Satyapada Campbell from Inverness lived previously in Sutherland, Skye, Glasgow and London. Beyond an Arvon course at the start of the millennium, Inverness Playwrights now gets her writing. more...

Rachel Carmichael was once a lawyer but now writes stories. She has been published in thi wurd magazine. more...

Genevieve Carver is the author of A Beautiful Way to be Crazy, Landsick and Birds / Humans / Machines / Dolphins. She won The Moth Nature Writing Prize for her work on residency with the University of Aberdeen. more...

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Seonaidh Charity is secondary school teacher who was born and brought up in Lochbroom. He received a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2012 and has had short stories published in danamag.org and elsewhere. His first novel An Làmh a Bheir was published as part of the ‘Lasag’ series (Sandstone Press). more...

Leonie Charlton lives in Glen Lonan in Argyll. She recently completed an MLitt in Creative Writing at Stirling University and writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her travel memoir 'Marram' was published by Sandstone Press in 2020, and her poetry pamphlet 'Ten Minutes of Weather Away' will be published by Cinnamon Press in 2021. www.leoniecharlton.co.uk more...

Janis Clark’s poetry is published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. She received two commendations for the Geoff Stevens Memorial Award and other competitions. more...

Sara Clark is an award-winning poet and novelist from the Scottish Borders. She is currently an editor of the literary magazine The Eildon Tree. more...

Kay Clive lives in Edinburgh and has roots in the Fraserburgh area. She has been interested in the story of Lorna Moon (a distant relative) for many years. more...

Paul F Cockburn is an Edinburgh-based freelance magazine journalist specialising in arts & culture, equality issues, and popular science. He is Scotland editor for broadwaybaby.com more...

Julian Colton lives in Selkirk, edits The Eildon Tree literary magazine and contributes articles and reviews. His five collections of poetry include, most recently,Two Che Guevaras (Scottish Borders Council) and Everyman Street (Smokestack Publishing). more...

Carey Coombs breeds pedigree Beef Shorthorn cattle at the foot of the Pentland hills near Dunsyre. more...

Kevin Cormack is a musician and writer from Kirkwall. He lives in London and runs Spillage Fete Records. His poetry collection, Toonie Void, was published by Abersee Press in Aug 2021 more...

Catriona McNeill Courtier is an Edinburgh-based writer. more...

Evan Cowen is a Lake District-born resident of Fort William. Gripped by writer’s block throughout university, he’s recently picked up the pen again. Fuelled by good coffee and bad weather. more...

Linda Cracknell is based in Aberfeldy and works principally in prose fiction and narrative non-fiction. Her Doubling Back: Ten paths trodden in memory was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and her novella The Other Side of Stone was published by Taproot in April. more...

Ewan Craig lives in Strathspey, is inspired by nature and the land and explores his experience of place as an extension and reflection of his self. more...

Ian Crockatt is a widely published poet and poetry translator. He’s reading his acclaimed translations of Viking poetry at Orkney’s St. Magnus festival in June. more...

Derek Crook lives on Mull. He has published in Northwords Now, Poetry Scotlandand in such anthologies as Watch The Birdie, Poetree and The Bee’s Breakfast. more...

Dr Seth Crook is transitioning into a seal. He lives on Mull. His poems have appeared in many different publications, such as Antiphon, Magma, Envoi and The Glasgow Review of Books. more...

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Kevin Crowe lives in Wick and is author of the short story collection No Home In This World (Fly On The Wall Press, 2020) and editor of the Highland LGBT+ magazine UnDividingLines. more...

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Maureen Cullen writes poetry and short fiction and lives in Argyll and Bute. Her work has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. more...

Geoff Daniel is a former teacher who was a senior member of staff at Dollar Academy and is now based on North Uist. more...

Peter Davidson is senior research fellow in Renaissance and Baroque Studies and Curator of the Campion Hall Collection at the University of Oxford. His several acclaimed books about landscape and art include The Idea of North (2005) and The Last of the Light (2015). more...

Gillian Dawson is participating in Clydebuilt 12 – the Verse Apprenticeship Scheme run by St Mungo's Mirrorball (Glasgow). She was runner-up in the Hugh Miller Writing Competition 2017-2018. more...

Matthew del Valle lives by the Cairngorms with his family of Mexicans. After writing for family, he thought it might be time to show his work to someone else. more...

Meaghan Delahunt is a widely translated and anthologised novelist and short story writer whose latest novel is The Night-side of the Country (UWAP, 2020). Born in Melbourne, she has lived in Edinburgh for decades and runs the WordPath Scotland ‘At Home’ fiction writing programme with Kirsty Gunn. www.wordpathscotland.com more...

Mike Dixon lives in Inverness. When not travelling, he is writing the biography of famous Scottish climber and Ullapool GP, Tom Patey. more...

Molly Donachie won the Sentinel Publications Poetry Book Competition 2017 and will shortly be publishing her first collection. more...

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Katherine Douglas Has been Full time Manager of Ullapool Bookshop since 2017 and a part-time bookseller since 2011. She chooses all of the books there and enjoys reading personally, especially Scottish fiction, crime (although not too dark / scary she says), travel writing (especially in Europe) and memoirs on the Scottish Highlands. more...

Jonathan Drew lives in Perthshire. He’s inspired by the natural world and our place within it. His poetry has featured in several magazines and anthologies. more...

dubh is a writer and hermit in Glasgow who spends a lot of time meditating or walking the city without destination more...

Trudy Duffy-Wigman says that: “Flash fiction is my natural home. The sparseness of words: a haiku in prose. English is my second language. I was born in the Netherlands.” more...

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Millie Earle-Wright from the north-east edge of the Cairngorms, writes poetry, and has been published by The Dangerous Women Project, Adjacent Pineapple and in the anthology Under, amongst others. more...

Anne Elizabeth Edwards from Lewis reckons that after a long career as a midwife helping women birth their babies, it’s time for a new creative energy; coming ‘Home’ is the first step. more...

Mark Edwards lives in and is local to Lossiemouth. He has two kindle books on amazon, Half My Life and A Short Time Dead. more...

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Susan Elsley writes poetry and fiction and lives in Edinburgh. Her work is influenced by Scotland’s wilder places and our interaction with them. more...

Catherine Eunson was a joint winner of the 2018 McCash prize, had poems featured StAnza 2019 and lives in Glasgow. She also composes music for poetry. more...

Sally Evanz from Callander has been publishing poems and books of poems for many years. She is celebrating her retirement by studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. more...

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Gerrie Fellows, born in New Zealand, has lived and worked in Scotland for thirty years, as a creative writing tutor, writer-in-residence and most recently as a mentor to new poets. more...

Rebecca Ferrier was Moniack Mhor’s Emerging Writer Award winner in 2020. Her prose and poetry has featured in numerous journals, including Gutter and Channel, and received funding from Creative Scotland more...

Anna Fleming writes on environment, ecology and adventure. She is editing an anthology of creative writing for the Cairngorms National Park. You can follow her thoughts on thegranitesea.wordpress.com more...

Ellen Forkin is a chronically ill writer living in windswept Orkney. She has a love for all things folklore, myth and magic. more...

Imogen Forster is preparing poems for publication as a pamphlet, and posting haiku and cinquains on Twitter. more...

Jenny Fothergill is from the Isle of Seil and born and raised in the Inner Hebrides. Her writing focuses on internal and external landscapes. more...

Chris Foxall divides her time between Yorkshire and the Isle of Skye, taking inspiration from the land, the sea and unexpected encounters along the way. more...

Sally Frank lives in Fife and Tiree. When she can, she walks the machair with Tim, planning. more...

Scott R Fraser lives in Kingussie. He is a project manager, pilgrim and poet currently working on a short collection of poems titled Big Steps. more...

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Graham Fulton is from Paisley. His many books and pamphlets have been published over many years by Smokestack, Red Squirrel, Penniless,Rebel Inc, Polygon, Clochoderick, Salmon Poetry and Pindrop Press. more...

Julie Galante is a writer and visual artist based in Edinburgh. She won the inaugural Janet Coats Black Prize for Fiction in 2019. more...

Matthew Gallivan is a Canadian living in Belfast. His poetry and short stories have been published in numerous journals more...

Romany Garnett lives in Assynt in the Northwest Highlands with her two teenagers. She loves the outdoors, works in conservation and is writing her first novel. more...

Sheila Garson is a retired museum curator and a member of the Orkney Voices writers’ group. more...

Elizabeth Gibson is a writer, performer, zine-maker, and facilitator in Manchester. Poems have appeared in Atrium, Banshee, Butcher’s Dog, Dust, Magma, and Under the Radar. Elizabeth’s first collection is A love the weight of an animal (Confingo, due early 2025). more...

Joan Gibson lives in Kinross and is a member of Kinwriters. She began writing short stories and poetry in retirement. more...

David Gilbert is a lapsed Landscape Architect, a founder member of Resolis Community Arts and Cromarty and Resolis Film Society and an enthusiastic supporter of all the arts, particularly film, music and painting. more...

Jo Gilbert is a writer and spoken word artist from Aberdeen who won the 2018 StAnza slam and is currently working on her first poetry collection. more...

Ruth Gilchrist is an award-winning, East Lothian poet who can be found in various media. Her first joint pamphlet The Weather Looks Promising is published by Black Agnes Press. more...

Harry Giles lives in Edinburgh and is studying for a Creative Writing PhD at Stirling. His collection Tonguit (Freight, 2015) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. more...

Amanda Gilmour is a creative writing student at the University of the Highlands and Islands. She lives in Inverness with her husband and three children. more...

Merryn Glover writes fiction, drama and poetry. For 2019, she is Writer in Residence for the Cairngorms National Park, which is turning out to be her dream job. more...

Peter Godfrey lives in the Hebrides and covers his tracks by working as a journalist. more...

David Goldie lives and works in the Highlands and has recently returned to writing poetry after a long period of admiring it from a distance. more...

Ross-shire born, Ardvasar-based Niall Gordon is a poet, translator and musician. His collection Eadar Baile is Beann was published by CLÀR in 2003. more...

Rody Gorman is the current (57th) Bàrd of An Comunn Gàidhealach. The founding Gaelic editor of Northwords Now, he lives on Skye and has published dozens of Gaelic literary translations and original collections of poetry in Scottish Gaelic, Irish and English. more...

Brian Gourley from Co. Tyrone has most recently published poems in Acumen, Southlight and The Eildon Tree and is currently working on debut collection and novel. more...

Amelia Graham is reading History at the University of Edinburgh and was shortlisted for the Jane Martin Prize for Poetry in 2019. She is currently working on a collection: People, Places. These are her first poems published in a national magazine more...

Barry Graham is what Foucault called an Author Function. More than a dozen books. www.dogozen.co.uk more...

Nancy Graham lives in Belfast, working in the women’s sector. Her poetry is inspired by her Highland family history, as well as Northern Irish life. more...

Christine Grant lives in the West of Scotland with her family. She has recently finished a novel about two islanders who meet in London. more...

Stephanie Green is English-Irish. Her pamphlet Flout was published by HappenStance, 2015. She lives in Edinburgh where she reviews theatre and dance. http://sites.google.com/site/stephgreen1/home more...

Zoë Green is originally from Montrose but now now lives in Germany where she writes and teaches. A Forward-Prize-nominated poet, she won third place in the 2024 Gregory O’Donoghue Prize and was Highly Commended in the Edward Thomas Prize. Find her at www.zoegreenpoet.com. more...

ngrid Grieve is an artist and member of the Orkney Voices writers’ group. more...

Issy Grieve is a dramatist and member of the Orkney Voices writers’ group. more...

Sharon Gunason Pottinger’s novel, Returning: The Journey of Alexander Sinclair was published in 2015. Her work has also appeared in New Writing Scotland. more...

George Gunn grew up in Dunnet, Caithness, and now lives in Thurso. He has written over fifty productions for stage and radio, published several poetry collections and produced several series for BBC Radio Scotland and Radio 4. He was Artistic Director and co-founder of the Thurso-based Grey Coast Theatre Company. more...

Kirsty Gunn is an internationally published writer of novels and short stories who was born in New Zealand and lives in Sutherland and London. Her work has received many awards and has been made into films, broadcast and dance theatre. Her latest collection of short stories Pretty Ugly was published in autumn 2024 by Rough Trade Books. more...

Jen Hadfield is a Shetland-based poet, visual artist and writing tutor who has won several major awards for her poetry, including the T.S.Eliot Prize in 2008 for her second collection Nigh-No-Place, the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Award in 2012 and the Highland Book Prize 2021 for her fourth collection The Stone Age. She is currently working on a book of essays more...

Mandy Haggith is a writer and environmental activist who lives in Assynt, where trees grow down to the sea. www.mandyhaggith.net more...

Simon W. Hall is a headteacher and writer from Orkney. His books include 'The History of Orkney Literature' (Birlinn, 2010) and 'The Orkney Gruffalo' (Itchy Coo, 2015). more...

Catherine Halliday is three years in to a Creative Writing Degree at UHI and writes in a variety of genres. She lives in Lossiemouth and is a member of Elgin Writers. more...

Alistair Hamilton describes himself as "a 'Weegie wha hus bided aroon' the Highlands fur aw' his adult life. He currently bides in Culbo oan the Black Isle wi three dugs. He’s trying to be retired – but is nae use at it." more...

Shug Hanlan was one of the earliest contributors to Rebel Inc. and is known for comedic writing strongly rooted in Scotland, including an imaginary version of his home village in Hi Bonnybrig and Other Greetings (Neil Wilson 2000). In recent years he has published several pamphlets with Kerfuffle Press, plus his latest book The wee Book of Imaginary Football Hooligans (2022). more...

Selena Hardisty was raised in North London, has visited North Scotland over many years and absorbed its traditions. She is a keen beachcomber. more...

Edith Harper writes poetry and stories in English and Doric. Although now living in Kelso and originally from Aberdeen, she still finds writing in Doric easier and more expressive. more...

Lydia Harris has made her home in the Orkney island of Westray. In 2017, she held a Scottish Book Trust New Writers’ Award for poetry. more...

Lesley lives on the Angus coast. In her poetry and prose she explores our instinctive responses to our 'home' environment - physical, material, linguistic, psychological. Recent projects include working with scientists and visual artists to produce a multimedia 'deep map' of the Icelandic fishing village of Skagaströnd. Her most recent pamphlet is Blue Pearl (New Directions, 2017). more...

Jennifer Henderson is originally from Edinburgh and now lives in Gairloch. She is a visual artist, photographer and mandolin player. more...

Jennifer Morag Henderson’s book Josephine Tey: A Life was included in the Observer’s list of the best biographies of 2015. Her website is www.jennifermoraghenderson.com more...

Willie Hershaw is a Scots language poet, playwright, editor, singer and musician. Grace Note Publications has just published two new collections of his poetry: Saul Vaigers - A Scottish Saints’ Calendar and Earth Bound Companions. more...

Alisdair Hodgson is a poet, writer, freelance editor and joint editor-in-chief of Bandit Fiction, who has thus far divided his life between Wick, Haddington, Stow and Stirling. more...

Angi Holden writes adult and children’s poetry and fiction. She won the MMB Poetry Pamphlet Prize for Spools of Thread and the Victoria Baths Splash Fiction Prize. more...

Brian Holton translates into English and Scots and is the only currently-publishing Chinese-Scots translator in the world. His latest book Hard Roads an Cauld Hairst Winds: Li Bai an Du Fu in Scots has just been published by Taproot Press (2021) more...

Rachel Horsburgh grew up in Dundee and then ‘emigrated’ to the Highlands. She works in wildlife conservation, writes and grows food for her family. more...

Sally Hughes was brought up in West Yorkshire and lives in the West Highlands. she has a PhD in Scottish literature and works as a Library Supervisor. more...

Marc Innis has been writing a novel for some time. His book of poems Sireadh is available online. more...

Lauren Ivers is a Glasgow-based writer, originally from East Ayrshire. more...

Robert Alan Jamieson is a Shetlander who has published five novels and whose poetry has been translated into a dozen European languages. A former co-editor of Edinburgh Review, he recently retired from teaching creative writing at Edinburgh University. His collection Plague Clothes (2020) is the first publication from the new Taproot Press. more...

Paula Jennings’ most recent poetry collection is Under a Spell Place, published by HappenStance. She facilitates poetry writing workshops in Fife and Edinburgh more...

Sarah Jessen writes poetry and fiction inspired by the landscape of her home, motherhood and folklore. She is based in the beautiful islands of Orkney. more...

Barbara Johnston is a retired teacher and member of the OrkneyVoices writers’ group. more...

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Jackie Kay is a poet, novelist, The Scots Makar and Chancellor of the University of Salford. more...

Antonia Kearton is originally from Edinburgh and now lives in Strathspey, where she makes landscape photographs, has recently started writing poetry again after a decades-long gap, and is training to become a counsellor/psychotherapist. more...

Stephen Keeler is an award-winning poet. He lives in Ullapool where he teaches creative writing workshops and courses. more...

Suzy A. Kelly holds an MLitt in Creative Writing from Glasgow and is also published in Gutter and New Writing Scotland. She is working on her first novel, Vile Deeds. more...

Jean Langhorne tries to spend as much time as possible in the Highlands, walking in the hills. She recently completed an MLitt in Environment Culture and Communication from Glasgow University. more...

Alistair Lawrie was born in Peterhead and now lives in Stonehaven. He co-edited Glimmer Of Cold Brine, leads Mearns Writers, is published in The Interpreter’s House and Poets’ Republic and won the William Soutar Prize 2016. more...

Robert Leach is a theatre director, academic and writer. He has published five collections of poetry, including the epic The Journey to Mount Kailash in 2010. more...

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Robin Leiper is a psychotherapist living between Scotland and South Africa and trying to write in the spaces that open up between them. more...

Ingrid Leonard comes from Orkney, which inspires much of her work. She recently graduated from Newcastle University with an MA in Writing Poetry. more...

Anna Levin is a writer and editor specialising in wildlife journalism. She is currently writing a book Incandescent, to be published by Saraband in 2019. www.annalevinwriting.co.uk more...

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Sai Liuko is a poet from Helsinki, Finland, where she received her MA in English Philology. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Asimov’s Science Fiction, 3Elements Literary Review, Grimoire Magazine, In the Mood Magazine, and others. more...

Sheila Lockhart is retired and lives on the Black Isle. She started writing poetry two years ago following a bereavement and now finds she can’t stop. more...

Gerry Loose is a poet living on the Isle of Bute.As well as his books, his poetry is inscribed on stone in Botanic Gardens, hospitals and other public spaces. more...

Gail Low teaches at the University of Dundee. Having written academic essays for most of her working life, she is just discovering the possibilities of the essay form. more...

Charlotte Luke is an Inverness-based writer. She works on the youth programme at Moniack Mhor Creative Writing Centre, and is developing a short story collection in her spare time. more...

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Karen MacDonald lives with her husband, and various other creatures up a wee glen in Perthshire, with no internet but lots of pencils. more...

Mandy Macdonald’s poetry appears in journals and anthologies in and outwith Scotland, with contributions forthcoming in Multiverse (Shoreline of Infinity) and Vaster than Empires (Grey Hen). more...

Sonya Macdonald is a Scottish writer currently working on a first collection of poems. Her nomadic upbringing and years spent in the Hebrides remain a source of inspiration. more...

Rónán MacDubhghaill is a writer, essayist and post-doctoral scholar of narrative and memory based at the Sorbonne, Paris (generally), and the mountains of Slovenia (presently). more...

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Anna Macfie was born in Glasgow and lives in the Highlands. She writes about experience of place. more...

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D.B. MacInnes writes and plays uilleann pipes on the Skye croft held by his family since 1860. He is currently working on a novel called Highland. more...

Donald Mackay was a teacher from Caithness whose poetry pamphlets were published by Mariscat and in publications such as The Dark Horse, with which he had a long connection. more...

Rob A. Mackenzie lives in Leith. He is reviews editor for Magma Poetry and runs Blue Diode Press. His third collection, The Book of Revelation, was published by Salt (2020). more...

Jim C. Mackintosh is a poet, editor and producer based in Perth. The latest of his seven collections of poetry is We are Migrant (Seahorse, 2024). He has also edited and co-edited four anthologies including The Darg (Drunk Muse, 2019) and (with Paul S Philippou) co-edited Beyond the Swelkie (Tippermuir 2021) an anthology celebrating the centenary of George Mackay Brown. He was named Scots Writer of the Year at the 2024 Scots Language Awards.. more...

Peter Maclaren lives in Glasgow. His poems have appeared in Akros, Lines Review and New Writing Scotland. more...

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Gordon MacLellan is an artist, storyteller and creator of celebrations, who uses his work under the name Creeping Toad to help groups and individuals explore their relationships with the people, places and wildlife around them. Gordon has written several books, including Sacred Animals (revised and reprinted 2023). Waiting for the snow (Lulu Press, 2024) is his most recent poetry collection. more...

Anne MacLeod has published two novels and two poetry collections. Her Standing by Thistles collection was shortlisted for a Saltire First Book Award and her first novel,The Dark Ship, was nominated for Saltire and Impac awards. more...

S.A. MacLeod’s short stories have appeared in anthologies, online and been shortlisted for competitions. She has just completed a novel that moves between contemporary Scotland and wartime Japan. more...

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Caoimhin MacNèill Tha Caoimhin MacNèill na òraidiche aig Oilthigh Shruighlea. Am measg nan leabhraichean aige tha The Brilliant & Forever agus The Diary of Archie the Alpaca. Sgrìobh e am fiolm Hamish: The Movie. more...

Aonghas MacNeacail Poet in three languages, songwriter, journalist, broadcaster, translator, scriptwriter. A Borders-based, multi-award-winning Skyeman, he is a Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, with an honorary Doctorate of Literature from Glasgow University. more...

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Robin Fulton Macpherson Born on Arran and long resident in West Norway, Robin’s own poetry and his translations from Swedish and Norwegian, including of Tomas Tranströmer, Kjell Espmark, Harry Martinson and Olav H. Hauge, are internationally respected. A Northern Habitat: Collected Poems 1960-2010 was published by Marick Press (Michigan) in 2013, followed by Unseen Islands and Other poems from the same publisher in 2019 and Arrivals of Light (Shearsman Books, 2023). more...

Lucy MacRae lectures in Scottish Ethnology at Edinburgh University. She is writing a novel called Nettles which features folklore collectors, replica swords and a missing grandmother. more...

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Chris Madej lives and works in Inverness. He somehow finds time to write while being a husband and a father of two boys. more...

Nicola Madill is a singer songwriter/writer from the east coast of Scotland, who ‘alchemises the oneiric and ethereal by blending lyrics with poetic prose into songs and short creative pieces’. more...

Nick Major lives on a biodynamic farm with the usual menagerie and a sexually-frustrated peacock called Percy. His writing has appeared in The Herald and The Scottish Review of Books. more...

Martin Malone lives in north-east Scotland. He has published two poetry collections:The Waiting Hillside and Cur. He’s an Associate Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing at Aberdeen University. more...

Eòin Marsco is a writer based in the West Highlands. This summer he plans to become the (unofficial) poet laureate of the Corran ferry. more...

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Richie McCaffery lives in Alnwick, Northumberland and has a PhD in Scottish literature from Glasgow University. His most recent collection is the pamphlet First Hare from Mariscat Press (2020). He also has two book-length collections from Nine Arches Press, the more recent being Passport (2018). more...

Patricia McCaw from Edinburgh was born and raised in Northern Ireland and had a career in social work before studying creative writing and becoming widely published. Her pamphlet Breaking Apple (2019) is published by Cinnamon Press. more...

Marion McCready lives in Dunoon, Argyll. She is the author of two poetry collections, most recently Madame Ecosse (Eyewear Publishing, 2017). more...

Cáit O'Neill McCullagh is an ethnologist, archaeologist and poet, first published in Northwords Now 41. Her work has appeared widely since then and she has read throughout Scotland and Ireland. A co-director the annual Wee Gaitherin Festival, her pamphlet with Sinead McClure The Songs I Sing Are Sisters was published by Dreich in 2022. Her first collection is The Bone Folder (Drunk Muse, 2024). more...

Beth McDonough’s poetry appears in Causeway, Gutter and elsewhere; she reviews in DURA. Handfast (with Ruth Aylett) explores dementia and autism. A pamphlet is coming... more...

Ian McDonough has published four collections of poetry, most recently A Witch Among The Gooseberries (Mariscat 2014). His work has appeared in Poetry Review, Ambit, New Writing Scotland and other places. Brora Rangers supporter. more...

Kevin McGowan is based in Stirling and has had numerous poems and short stories published. His chapbook, ‘Eastern Thistles’ (2020) is published by Dreich. more...

Erin McGregor lives and writes in Alberta, Canada, and flies to Scotland every few years to go for long walks in the Highlands. more...

Brenda McHale lives in Perthshire and is coming to the end of Dundee’s MLitt Writing Practice. She’s had short stories and non-fiction published. more...

Roddie McKenzie has published in Nethergate Writers’ anthologies since 2006 and recently also appeared in Lallans, Seagate III, New Writing Scotland 35, 50 Shades of Tay and Rebel. more...

Liz McKibben lives in Edinburgh, writes in English and Scots, enjoys translating poetry and has been published in New Writing Scotland. more...

Duncan McLean set up and ran the small but influential Clocktower Press publishing house with James Meek, which helped bring a new generation of Scottish writers, including Irvine Welsh, to wider attention. Resident on Orkney for several decades, he now divides his time between writing, music, running an off-license and lo-fi publishing through the Abersee Press, which he launched in 2015 with a booklet of contemporary Orkney-language writing. more...

William McLean is an ecologist, woodworker and song-writer, living in Abernethy Forest in Strathspey. more...

Hugh McMillan is a poet from Dumfries and Galloway. Through lockdown he ran a daily video blog called #plagueopoets which has been described as “unique” and “wonderful” more...

David McVey has published over 120 short stories and also writes non-fiction articles. He lectures in Communication at New College Lanarkshire. more...

Linda Menzies lives in Dunfermline and has had poetry and short stories published in magazines during the past 20 years. Her first novel was published this year. more...

Greg Michaelson lives in Edinburgh. He mostly likes to write about how things aren’t and how they might be. more...

Isabel Miles is from Ayrshire and spent seven years in North East Scotland. She now lives, walks and writes in the North Yorkshire Moors. more...

Alison Miller is an Orkney writer, appointed Scots Scriever for 2021-22. She runs a creative writing group for Orcadian speakers and writes prose and poetry in Orkney language herself. more...

James Miller is an author and journalist who hails from Caithness and lives near Inverness.The latest of his many books The Dunbars of Ackergill and Hempriggs was published by Whittles this spring. more...

Jon Miller’s poetry has been published in a wide range of literary magazines. Winner of the Neil Gunn Poetry Competition, the International Book & and Pamphlet Competition 2022. His latest pamphlet Past Tense Future Imperfect (2023) is published by Smith/Doorstop. more...

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Sherry Morris lives in the Highlands where she pets cows, watches clouds and dreams up stories. Her published work is here: www.uksherka.com. She also tweets @Uksherka. more...

Martin Lee Mueller is an ecophilosopher, writer and storyteller who lives in Oslo. He is working to create the Circumpolar Salmon Forum, a network organization for salmon cultures from around the Arctic. more...

Loretta Mulholland recently completed an MLitt in Writing Practice and Study at Dundee University. She is currently researching the John Murray Archives, held at the National Library of Scotland. more...

Maxine Rose Munro is a Shetlander living in Glasgow and still suffering from the culture shock. Her poetry is an exploration, and interpretation, of this. more...

Robin Munro now lives on Bute, after running a bookshop in Galloway. His two published poetry collections are The Land of the Mind and Shetland like the World. more...

Donald S. Murray is from Ness in the Isle of Lewis and now lives in Shetland. His next book The Dark Stuff, Stories from the Peatlands will be published by Bloomsbury early in 2018. more...

R M Murray from the Isle of Lewis is Head of Visual Arts & Literature at An Lanntair, Stornoway. His memoir 'Bleak: the mundane comedy' (Saraband 2020) won Best First Book at the National Book Awards. more...

Hamish Myers lives in the Highlands and enjoys writing poems mainly inspired by the history, landscape and natural rhythms of the area. more...

Richard Myers is retired and owns a croft near Glen Affric. more...

David Newman co-founded the Cromarty Film Festival and established the Plexus website design and development company in the town. Passionate about film, he most recently introduced a short series of Jacques Tati films in Cromarty’s new community-run cinema. more...

Ngan Nguyen is a Vietnamese-born author who writes both fantasy and realistic fiction. She received her MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Aberdeen and the Mentoring award from the Wigtown Book Festival. more...

Shona Nic a’ Mhaoilein born in Carloway, Lewis, and now resident in Skye, Shona MacMillan is well known singer, committed to Gaelic language development and promotion. She is a member of Carloway and Portree Gaelic Choirs. more...

Victoria NicIomhair Gaelic poet Victoria MacIver was recently published in the Federation of Writers of (Scotland)'s competition anthology. Based in Tain, she works in Gaelic Education. more...

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Hannah Nicholson is from Brae in Shetland, and graduated from the University of Aberdeen with an MLitt with Distinction in Creative Writing in 2017. more...

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John Robertson Nicoll is from Broughty Ferry. His book The Balloon Man in Edinburgh (Blue Ocean Publishing) was published in 2013. more...

Greer Norquoy is a retired teacher and a member of the OrkneyVoices writers’ group. more...

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Clare O’Brien lives in Wester Ross, writing her first novel, ‘Light Switch’. Recent publication includes Mslexia, Spelk and anthologies from Hedgehog Poetry Press and The Emma Press. more...

Ian Olson long-retired Aberdeen doctor, writing poetry and on Scottish traditional culture, history and balladry. From a Caithness family, he was GP in Muir of Ord. more...

Willie Orr is a former hill shepherd, teacher and counsellor. Now retired and living in Argyll, his new novel Mick (Thunderpoint) will be launched this autumn. more...

Pip Osmond-Williams graduated in 2019 from Glasgow University with a PhD in Scottish Literature. Her poems have most recently appeared in New Writing Scotland and the SWC chapbook, Island & Sea. more...

Stuart A. Paterson is a former BBC Scotland Poet in Residence & Robert Louis Stevenson Fellow, Paterson writes in both English & Scots. He lives by the Solway Firth. more...

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Roy Pedersen is an Inverness-based author and transport consultant, now semi-retired from a career in Highland economic and social development. He serves on the Scottish Government’s Expert Ferry Group more...

Bob Pegg lives in Strathpeffer in Ross-shire. He is a songwriter, musician, author, and occasional storyteller. more...

Sue Pepper lives in Edinburgh and has written poetry over a long lifetime of teaching and travel. Curly Snake published some of her work in 2015. more...

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Anne Pia is an Edinburgh-based Italian Scot, author and poet. Her Language of my Choosing was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award (2017) and won the Premio Flaiano Linguistica in 2018. more...

Lydia Popowich dreams, writes and paints by the sea in Caithness. Her first pamphlet, The Jellyfish Society was published in 2016 by Paper Swans Press. more...

Chris Powici is a former editor of Northwords Now who teaches English and Creative Writing and whose collection The Weight of Light is published by Red Squirrel Press. more...

Karen Hodgson Pryce lives in Aviemore. Her poetry has been published in several literary magazines and one of her short stories was Commended in the Neil Gunn Writing Competition 2017. more...

Eveline Pye’s collection, Smoke That Thunders, was published by Mariscat Press (2015) and, from it, the poem Mosi-Oa-Tunya was chosen for the 20 Best Scottish Poems of that Year. more...

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Heather F. Reid originally from Lancashire but long resident in Scotland, began writing when her children, encouraged friends in the Soutar Writers. Her work for adults and children has won multiple awards and been included in several anthologies. more...

Larissa Reid is an English teacher turned science writer from Fife who began writing poetry two years ago. Inspirations include geology, the night sky and the beauty of language. more...

Frank Rennie is Professor of Sustainable Rural Development at the University of the Highlands and Islands. Based in Galson in the Outer Hebrides, he has produced over 30 books and numerous articles. He was the Winner of the 2020 Highland Book Prize. more...

Marka Rifat is a member of Mearns Writers who recently began writing poetry, short stories, and plays, after careers in journalism and corporate communications. more...

James Robertson now based in Angus, is an acclaimed novelist, poet, short story and non-fiction writer who runs the independent publishing company Kettillonia and is co-founder of Itchy Coo. His novels include several award-winning titles. News of the Dead (Hamish Hamilton, 2021) won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2022. more...

Nikki Robson’s poems appear in places such as Acumen, Under the Radar, The Lake, Obsessed with Pipework and Scotia Extremis. She was runnerup in the 2019 Shooter Poetry Competition. more...

Cynthia Rogerson’s is a prizewinning author based in Easter Ross. She writes mainstream literary fiction set in Scotland and California and is the author of five novels, one under the pen name Addison Jones. She has also published a memoir and a collection of short stories. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, been broadcast on BBC radio and translated into six languages. more...

Marie-Bernadette Rollins is a Dundee-based poet, editor and non-native English speaker who believes in the power of words across borders. more...

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Dilys Rose is a novelist, short story writer and poet. She has published twelve books, most recently the short story collection, Sea Fret (Scotland Street Press, 2022). more...

David James Ross lives in Culloden Moor, Inverness and has published four poetry collections. He divides his time between music performance, poetry and stand-up comedy. more...

Julie-ann Rowell is a poet who divides her time between Devon and Orkney. She was born and grew up in Devon but on her mother’s side is Scottish tracing back centuries. more...

Martin Russell has had several short stories and poems published, including his own short story collection, Rattleskin. He lives in Inverness and supports Queen’s Park FC. more...

Isobel Rutland enjoys penning novels as well as short fiction. She won the Romantic Novelists’ Association Elizabeth Goudge Award in 2015, is an arts correspondent for The Wee Review and a member of the Aberdeen Writers’ Studio. more...

Olof Samuelsson is a Swedish writer and physics student at Lund University. When he’s not grappling with complex equations, he finds solace in literature, both reading and writing. His work has been featured in Lotus-Eater Magazine and Eunoia Review. more...

Stewart Sanderson is a poet from Glasgow. His second pamphlet,An Offering, is published by Tapsalteerie. more...

Donald Goodbrand Saunders has been writing poems, in English and Scots, for almost half a century. He lives in Gartmore, in the Trossachs. more...

Finola Scott’s work is widely published in zines, mags & anthologies. A seasoned performance poet, she is proud to be a slam-winning granny. more...

Hamish Scott’s fourth, and latest, poetry collection is Tuk-tuks, published under the Laverock’s Nest imprint. more...

Helen Sedgwick is writing a crime trilogy and is the author of The Comet Seekers and The Growing Season (both Harvill Secker) which was shortlisted for the Saltire Society’s 2018 Fiction Book of the Year. more...

Alison Seller is a former teacher who lives in Cromarty. She writes poetry and monologues and enjoys singing, drama and cloud-gazing. more...

Aidan Semmens lives in Orkney and is a winner of the Julia Budenz Commemorative Prize (Scottish Poetry Library) and the 2024 Deirdre Roberts Prize (Mallaig Book Festival). His sixth volume of poetry, The Jazz Age, was published by Salt in 2022. more...

Hilton Shandwick is the pseudonym of a writer based in Easter Ross. more...

Gillian Shearer lives in Alford. Published in Causeway, Southlight and The Leopard. She is a creative writing therapist for Clan cancer charity. more...

James Sinclair’s work has featured in several literary magazines and anthologies. He is a committee member of the New Shetlander and Shetland Forwards. more...

Karin Slater is a creative writing graduate from Lewis with a love of all things poetry. Her work has appeared in a number of publications. more...

Derek Smith lives in North East Scotland. A late developer, poetically, Derek has in the last year been published for the first time in Poetry Scotland and Dreich. more...

Jane Picton Smith is a mum of ‘two wonderful girls’. She was longlisted in the 2018 National Poetry Competition and has a PhD in Contemporary Scottish Poetry more...

Mark Ryan Smith lives in Shetland. His poems have appeared in various places, including New Writing Scotland, Gutter, Ink Sweat and Tears and Snakeskin. more...

Arun Sood teaches Romanticism, Gothic Literature and Critical Theory at Plymouth University and is also working on several writing projects, including a book about the transatlantic cultural memory of Robert Burns. more...

Mary Anne Spence A teacher and prize-winning poet, Mary Anne Spence resides in Ardersier. She is often inspired by a need to record the past and fix memories. more...

Kit Spink is a writer and visual artist based in the Highlands. His work is interested in exploring the relationship between humanity and the natural world. more...

David Stakes is a social worker and writer who lives in Glasgow. He writes about locality, identity and the human heart. more...

Ian Stephen is a writer, artist and storyteller from the Isle of Lewis. He won the inaugural Robert Louis Stevenson award and has worked full-time in the arts for three decades. His most recent book Boatlines (Birlinn, 2023), illustrated by Christine Morrison, is a coastal geography of the vessels and maritime culture of Scotland. more...

Michael Stephenson is a poet from Bathgate,West Lothian. His pamphlet collection, Starsailor, was published by Mariscat Press (2019). more...

Kenneth Steven is now living in Argyll. His latest sequence of poems is Deirdre of the Sorrowsfrom Birlinn; his novel 2020 was published last year by Saraband. more...

Cindy Stevens lives on the west coast of Barra. She has lived and worked in various parts of Europe and Africa and has published poetry and non-fiction, including the collection Botswana to Barra (CreateSpace 2017). more...

Gerry Stewart is a poet living in Finland. Her collection Post-Holiday Blues was published by Flambard Press, UK. Her blog is http://thistlewren.blogspot.fi more...

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Fiona Stirling is a writer, counsellor, and educator based in Dundee. She enjoys exploring the narratives people create about their lives and filling her house with too many books. more...

Shane Strachan holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Aberdeen. His writing has been widely published, and also performed on stage in Aberdeen’s The Lemon Tree and His Majesty’s Theatre. www.shanestrachan.com more...

Zoe Strachan is an award-winning author of novels, stories, libretti and essays. She is Reader in Creative Writing at University of Glasgow. more...

Em Strang is a poet, novelist, mentor and founder of Scottish charity,Three Streams. Her writing preoccupations are with nature, spirituality and the relationship between the human and nonhuman. more...

Annie Sturgeon is an Aberdeenshire writer and artist interested in place, wildlife and human interactions between them. She’s widely published and has been longlisted for the Ginkgo prize twice. more...

Mia Suhaimi Originally from Malaysia, now resident in Edinburgh, writes poems and songs in English, Gaelic, Scots and Malay. She works extensively at grassroots level to promote LGBTQ literature and Gaelic language and culture with Lavender Menace and Bothan Dhùn Eideann. more...

Mairi Sutherland lives in Nairn. She is a creative writing tutor who enjoys encouraging new writers. Her short stories have appeared before, most recently in Tether’s End Magazine. Her debut novel ‘the things we don’t’ is looking for a home. more...

Ian Tallach was raised in Taiwan and Hong Kong, worked in Botswana and retired from paediatrics with progressive M.S. He and his family now live in Glenurquhart. more...

Alice Tarbuck is an Edinburgh-based poet, editor, creative writing teacher and Scottish Book Trust awardee for poetry (2019). Her debut non-fiction book A Spell in the Wild: a year (and six centuries) of Magic (2020) is published by Hodder & Stoughton. more...

Judith Taylor originally from Perthshire, now lives and works in Aberdeen. Her first collection, Not in Nightingale Country, is published by Red Squirrel Press. more...

Kenny Taylor editor of Northwords Now, lives on the Black Isle and is also a writer, photographer, naturalist and musician who works mostly in non-fiction features – especially for the BBC - books (seven to date) and performance drawn from nature, science and culture. more...

Suria Tei is a poet, essayist and novelist. Born and raised in southern Malaysia, she has been living in Glasgow since 2002. more...

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Amanda Thomson is a visual artist and writer who lectures at the Glasgow School of Art. Her award-winning artwork focuses on place, space and landscape in Scotland. more...

Isabel Thompson is a UHI Creative Writing/ Literature student currently staying in Oban more...

Issy Thompson is a UHI Creative Writing/ Literature student currently staying in Oban. more...

Sandy Thomson is a retired university lecturer from Glasgow who has been based in Cromarty for the past 22 years. more...

Clair Tierney lives in Ardentinny and is a singer-songwriter, teacher and emerging poet. Themes include voices of women in history, children, immersive environments more...

Samuel Tongue has published two pamphlets and a collection – Sacrifice Zones – is forthcoming with Red Squirrel (Feb 2020). He is Project Coordinator at the Scottish Poetry Library. more...

Andrea Turner is a visual artist, singer and writer who lives in Moray. She has been a professional artist for several decades, exhibits throughout Scotland and has work held in many public and private collections. more...

Graham Turner stays in North Harris and Edinburgh. His work has appeared at StAnza and on the Poetry Map of Scotland more...

Iain Twiddy studied literature at university, and lived for several years in northern Japan. His poems have been published in The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The London Magazine and elsewhere. more...

Linda Tyler lives in Aberdeenshire. Her short stories have been published in the UK, the US and Australia. She is currently seeking a publisher for her first novel. more...

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Hazel Urquhart is a second year degree student studying Creative Writing with UHI, Inverness, enjoys writing poetry and prose and was published in the Scottish Book Trust’s 2019 Anthology The Blether. more...

Lynn Valentine writes between dog walks. She is working towards her first poetry collection under the mentorship of Cinnamon Press after winning a place on their Pencil Mentoring competition. more...

Ryan Van Winkle lives in Edinburgh. His second collection, The Good Dark, won the Saltire Society’s 2015 Poetry Book of the Year award. His poems have appeared in New Writing Scotland, The Prairie Schooner and The American Poetry Review. more...

Jane Verburg makes silver jewellery and lives in Cromarty. Local history, nature and landscapes inspire her own writing. She is presently working on a biography. more...

Petra Vergunst is a poet and ecologist living and working in Northeast Scotland. Her writing deals with the multiple ways in which we know, relate to, and participate in our environments. more...

Molly Vogel is a poet from Thousand Oaks, California who moved to Glasgow in 2011. She was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize in 2014 and received a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2016. Her collection Florilegium is published by Shearsman (2020). more...

Maggie Wallis has lived in the Highlands for twenty years. She is interested in the natural world and how she interacts with it, especially how it informs her way of living within it. more...

Jennifer Watson is originally from Edinburgh and now lives in Gairloch. She is a visual artist, photographer and mandolin player. more...

Peter Watson started writing seriously in retirement after courses at Oxford Continuing Education. Inspiration comes from the wild Sutherland landscape where he mostly writes. more...

and she has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and the Fresher Writing prize. She was born in Aberdeen. more...

Eileen West is a former freelance journalist, advertising copywriter and magazine editor who is now exploring her creative side and dabbling in fiction and poetry. more...

Hannah Whaley is a writer and children’s author based in Angus, and past winner of Writing Magazine’s Self-Published Book of the Year. more...

David Wheatley is a poet and prose-writer. His novel Stretto has just appeared from CB Editions. He lives in rural Aberdeenshire. more...

Mary Wight's poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Scotland, Ink Sweat & Tears, New Writing Scotland, Stand Magazine, The Honest Ulsterman and The Poets’ Republic. more...

Hana Wilde lives on Mull. She is an enthusiastic, inexperienced crofter, currently spending her time typing poems on her phone with one hand while feeding her baby with the other. more...

David Mark Williams writes poetry and short fiction. He has two collections of poetry published:The Odd Sock Exchange (Cinnamon, 2015) and Papaya Fantasia (Hedgehog, 2018).www.davidmarkwilliams.co.uk more...

Jay Wilson is a Banff-based dog-walker and allotmenteer who forages stories from the shire and grows them on in her purple shed. Sometimes they become poems - sometimes just compost. more...

Jim C Wilson is an award-winning poet who lives in Gullane and has for many years run the Poetry in Practice workshops at Edinburgh University. His five collections include Come Close and Listen (Greenwich Exchange). more...

Robin Wilson has had two poetry collections published by Cinnamon Press - Ready Made Bouquets (2007) and Myself and Other Strangers (2015). His poetry has appeared in many UK poetry magazines and literary journals. more...

Ross Wilson's first full collection, Line Drawing, was published by Smokestack Books in 2018. A pamphlet of poems will be published by Tapsalteerie in 2020. more...

Dawn Wood and Beth McFarland are twins who have recently focused on writing together. Dawn published As Mind Imagines World Templar Poetry (2018) and Beth Birth Red Moon Press (2021). more...

Olga Wojtas won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2015. Her debut novel,Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar, is published by Contraband. more...

Aoife Wren is a writer based in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park, near Nethybridge more...

Howard Wright lectures at the Ulster University, Belfast School of Art. Long-listed in the 2016/17 National Poetry Competition and widely published, his first collection is King of Country (Blackstaff Press). more...

Joanna Wright lives in Ullapool and writes alongside painting and managing An Talla Solais (Ullapool Visual Arts). more...

Carolyn Yates is a poet and playwright inspired by feminism and science. She lives in Dumfries and Galloway and runs a youth theatre in Stranraer. more...

Grahaeme Barrasford Young is widely published. His most recent collection is Routes of Uncertainty (Original Plus). more...

John Young recently retired from a career in education. He writes short pieces as a preferred means of exploring societal issues. more...

Catriona Yule works as an English tutor in Aberdeenshire. Her poetry has recently been published in Southlight 26, launched at Wigtown Book Festival. more...