Wordfringe Spring Events
March 2009

Sheena Blackhall is a poet, short story writer, novelist and illustrator. She is also a traditional ballad singer and storyteller, whose family roots are in the area around Migvie Church. From 1998-2003 she was Creative Writing Fellow in Scots at Aberdeen University's Elphinstone Institute, and in 2007 was Creative Writing Tutor with the Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies at Aberdeen University. Sheena writes in Scots and English. Two of her children's plays have been televised. She has published three Scots novellas, ten short story collections and over fifty poetry collections. She has won several national and regional awards for Scots poetry, Scots singing and ballad writing, and short story writing.

Gerard Rochford's publications include Eating Eggs with Strangers, The Holy Family and Other Poems, and Figures of Stone (Koo Press). Founder member of Dead Good Poets, convenor of poetry readings at Books and Beans. He is included in Janice Galloway's selection of Best 20 Scottish Poems of 2006, for the Scottish Poetry Library. A featured poet on Poets Against the War, principal guest reader at Planet Earth, Victoria B.C. and recently at the launch of the Cromarty Film festival.