Sunday 8 March 2009
5pm
Migvie Church, Tarland
Poetry with Sheena Blackhall and Gerard Rochford
Sunday 8 March 2009
7pm
Left Bank, Tarland
Poetry with Kenneth Steven and Douglas W. Gray
Monday 23 March 2009
7pm
Station Hotel, Stonehaven
Writing Workshop with Magi Gibson
Friday 27 March 2009
7pm
Salmon Bothy, Portsoy
Viking Poetry: Ian Crockatt's Skald
Sunday 29 March 2009
2pm
Brander Library, Huntly
Renga Workshop with Colin Will
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Wordfringe Spring Events
March 2009
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Writing Workshop with Magi Gibson
Monday 23 March 2009
7pm
Station Hotel, Stonehaven (map)
Admission £5 (£3 concession)
Magi Gibson is well known to North-East audiences from her time as Writer-in-Residence
with Aberdeenshire Council. Many North-East writers remember the writing workshops
she used to run in Stonehaven with great fondness, valuing highly Magi's support,
encouragement and constructive criticism. We are delighted to be able to invite
her back to Stonehaven to give another workshop, and we hope to see some old familiar
faces as well as new. Magi's workshops always seemed to take place on story winter's
nights — we may not be able to recreate the weather, but on a March evening
in Stonehaven... who knows?
Please feel free to bring along a piece of your work, prose or poetry, for discussion,
or just come along to enjoy the debate.
Come early for food at the Station Hotel from 5.30pm.
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Poet and performer Magi Gibson lives in Glasgow. She has three grown-up children.
She graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in French and German and taught
languages until the birth of her first child. Since then she has held three Scottish
Arts Council Fellowships and one Royal Literary Fund Fellowship. She has won prizes
for poetry and short stories, and was recently named as Stirling's first Makar for
nearly 500 years.
In 2007 she was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Bursary to enable her to develop
her writing for older children and teens. Her first three novels for this age group,
Sassy Blu, Eco-Warrior Babe, will be published by Puffin in 2009; the first
comes out on 1st April and is Waterstone's Book of the Month.
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