Ruby Elizabeth Littlejohn is a visual artist whose work includes sculpture, textiles, installation and performance art, and most recently, acrylic painting on the theme of healing energy, both personal and environmental. Her paintings are currently displayed at Medicalternative, a holistic medical practice in Dean Village, Edinburgh.
She provided the image Return to Eden for the heading of this site and the original textile was displayed at St. John's Church, during the readings.
Her blog is Forest Dream Weaver
Toby Mottershead is a songwriter, singer and musician, who performed at St John's.
He plays with the Black Diamond Express, an eight piece alternative blues band based in Edinburgh.
myspace.com/theblackdiamondexpress
Anne Murray was born in Glasgow where she currently lives and works as a poet and a tutor/facilitator in Creative Writing for Glasgow Life, an adult learning initiative. She has had several poems published in various magazines and anthologies including New Writing Scotland. Her poetry pamphlet, From Galilee to Gallicantu - a record in sonnets and photographs of her recent visit to Israel and Palestine – was short-listed for this year's Calum MacDonald Memorial Award.
William Hershaw’s latest book is Johnny Aathin, a collection of prose and poetry describing the life of a Fife Mining Village. It is available from Windfall Books, 2 Railway Cottages, Westcroft Way, Kelty KY4 OAT or 39 McKenzie Crescent, Lochgelly, KY5 9LT. Priced £10, all proceeds are donated to Leukaemia Research.
Pam Beasant was born in Glasgow and now lives in Orkney. She has been widely published as a poet, and her collection, Running with a Snow Leopard, was published by Two Ravens Press in 2008. She has also published many non-fiction books, including Stanley Cursiter, a life of the artist, and has had three scripts commissioned by and performed at the St Magnus Festival. She wrote the libretto for a children’s rock opera, Voice, performed in 2008. In 2007, Pam was the first George Mackay Brown Writing Fellow in Orkney and is now Chair of the GMB Fellowship. Her collaboration with photographer Iain Sarjeant, Orkney: a celebration of light and landscape, was published in May 2010
Tessa Ransford (www.wisdomfield.com) is an established poet, translator, literary editor and cultural activist on many fronts over the last forty years, having also worked as founder and director of the Scottish Poetry Library. Tessa initiated the annual Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for publishers of pamphlet poetry in Scotland, now approaching its eleventh year, with the attendant fairs and website:
www.scottish-pamphlet-poetry.com. She has had Royal Literary Fund fellowships in recent years at the Centre for Human Ecology and Queen Margaret University. Tessa’s Not Just Moonshine, New and Selected Poems was published in 2008 by Luath Press, Edinburgh
Pauline Prior-Pitt's website can be found at
www.pauline-prior-pitt.com
Chrys Salt has performed her poetry country wide, in France and the USA . Her poetry has been published in a wide variety of journals, magazines and anthologies and broadcast on both Radios 3 and 4. Collections include Inside Out (Pub: Autolycus) Daffodils at Christmas (Pub: Galloway Poets Series), Greedy for Mulberries (Pub: Markings) and Old Times (Pub: Roncadora).) She writes books, theatre and radio plays, features and documentaries. She has been the recipient of numbers of Bursaries, Grants and Awards including a National Media Award, a New Writing Bursary, a Work Development Grant and a Writers Residency at RHBNC, London University and most recently in France funded by Poitou-Charente Region. Chrys divides her time between London and Galloway, south-west Scotland.
www.thebakehouse.info
www.toutesdirections.info (an installation)
Alexander Hutchison published Scales Dog: Poems new and selected with Salt in 2007. In September 2010 the distinguished Italian journal In Forma di Parole dedicated a whole issue to his poems translated by Alessandro Valenzisi, along with Hutchison's versions in Scots and English of selected carmina from Catullus and early Friulian poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini. He lives in Glasgow and is currently Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD).
Dawn Wood is originally from
Morelle Smith has published several collections of poetry, the most recent being The Ravens and the Lemon Tree. She has translated the work of French and Swiss poets including Dominique Sorrente and Annemarie Schwarzenbach. Her work has been translated into French, Albanian, Slovenian and Romanian.
Walter Perrie lives in Perthshire where he co-edits an independent small magazine named Fras, which means seeds or dispersal in Gaelic. Walter had published many books over the last four decades. His Lamentation for the Children, based on the sufferings of mining commnities in Scotland is one of his early books, a love-song to nature and the children of men. He has also translted La Fontaine's Fables into Scots and written many lyrical, philosophical poems of great craftsmanship. He has a new Selected Poems forthcoming shortly.
Nalini Paul was born in India, grew up in Canada, and has lived in Scotland since 1993. Her poetry chap book collection, Skirlags, was shortlisted for the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award in 2010. She graduated with a PhD on Jean Rhys from the University of Glasgow in 2008, and has taught Creative Writing and English Literature there since 2004. Nalini has collaborated with artists in Glasgow and South Lanarkshire. Her poetry/art book, Leaf Fall, Seeing by Touch, was published in 2006 by Grimalkin Press. In 2008 she received Scottish Arts Council funding to conduct research on her family history in India. She recently completed a year in Orkney, working as the George Mackay Brown Writing Fellow.
Hazel Buchan Cameron, born in Greenock in 1959, currently lives in North Yorkshire. She has published five pamphlet collections, including The Currying Shop, which was joint winner of the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award, 2008, and most recently, Finding IKEA (Red Squirrel Press 2010).
