George Gunn was born in Caithness and lives in Thurso. He founded the Grey Coast Theatre Company in 1992 and with them has produced many plays and educational projects. In the 1970s and 80s he worked in the fishing industry and in the North Sea oil industry. His first play on that theme, Roughneck, was performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in 1984. He has written over twenty stage plays, plays for BBC Radio Scotland and Radio 4. He has also written and presented several series, such as Coastlines and Islands for the same. He tutors in drama at the North Highland College (University of the Highlands and Islands).

Tom Bryan was born in Canada in 1950 but is long resident in Scotland. He is a widely published and broadcast poet, fiction and non-fiction writer and has won or been short-listed for several leading writing prizes. He has been awarded fellowships from the Scottish Arts Council and has also been Writer in Residence for Aberdeenshire and the Scottish Borders. He has had many poems and short stories published in leading literary magazines in several countries. Widely-travelled, he is currently the Brownsbank Writing Fellow based at Brownsbank Cottage near Biggar. He lives in Kelso, and plays blues harmonica solely for fun.

Angus Dunn lives in the Highlands of Scotland where he has been most of his life, apart from several years spent travelling widely, and time at Aberdeen University. He writes both poetry and short and long fiction. He is widely published in various anthologies and journals. There is sometimes a fantastic element in his work as shown in his novel Writing in the Sand, which was short leeted for the Saltire Award in 2007. He won the Robert Louis Stevenson Award in 1995 and the Neil Gunn writing competition. His collection of short stories The Perfect Loaf has just been published.

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. 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 will be published by Puffin in 2009. She has won prizes for poetry and short stories. She is currently writing for the Sassy Blu, Eco-Warrior Babe series for Puffin as well as Flame, a post-climate change novel for young teens.

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Huntly Writers

Supported by

Duff House, Banff
Scottish Book Trust
Gordon Forum for the Arts
Aberdeenshire Council