Wordplay 2006

James Robertson

James Robertson

Sunday 10 September 2006

2pm (Doors open 1.55pm)

Clickimin Leisure Complex: Multi-Function Room

Admission Free


James Robertson is a poet, novelist and short story writer. His novels are The Fanatic (2000), Joseph Knight (2003) which won both the Saltire and Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year awards in 2003/04, and The Testament of Gideon Mack (2006). He set up and runs the pamphlet-publishing imprint Kettillonia, and is a co-founder of, and writer and editor for Itchy Coo, which produces books in Scots for children and young people. In 2004 he served as the Scottish Parliament's first writer-in-residence. He lives in Angus.