This anthology was compiled and edited by Pamela Beasant who held the first GMB Creative Writing Fellowship in 2007. It brings together a year’s worth of creative writing from writers all over Orkney, and includes work by those who visited from London, Edinburgh and Shetland during 2007 to give readings and workshops.
First published 1 May 2008 by The George Mackay Brown Writing Fellowship
in association with Orkney Museums and Heritage, Orkney Islands Council
Contributors
- John Aberdein
- Alex Ashman
- Freda Bayne
- Pamela Beasant
- Frances Bell
- Galen Brown
- Diana Clay
- Elizabeth Coward
- Christina De Luca
- John Edmondson
- Mike Fairbairn
- Bill Ferguson
- Ron Ferguson
- Alison Flett
- Becky Ford
- Clare Gee
- Yvonne Gray
- Emma Grieve
- Annie Harcus
- Sylvia Hays
- Sally Heddle
- Ella Henderson
- Diana Hendry
- Jim Hewitson
- Fran Flett Hollinrake
- Laureen Johnson
- Lynn Johnson
- Dave Linklater
- LC Littlejohn
- Ian McDonough
- John McGill
- Fiona MacInnes
- Morag MacInnes
- Lesley McLeod
- Jennifer MacRae
- Gordon Marriott
- Paul Maxton
- Dorrie Morrison
- Andrew Motion
- Alistair Peebles
- Andrew Philip
- Joanna Ramsey
- Olive Ritch
- Cathy Scott
- KK Scott
- Sinclair Scott
- Doreen Sinclair
- Margaret Storr
- Anne Thomson
- Roderick Thorne
- Kate Townsend
- Helga Tulloch
- Laura Watts
- Nigel Wheale
- Hamish Whyte
- Bill Wilson
Credits
Cover design and page layout:
Iain Ashman
Cover image:
Buried in the Sand (1992) by Erlend Brown
Inside images:
Rik Hammond
Rebecca Marr (Art and Agriculture Artist in Residence, 2007)
Christil Trumpet (Papdale Primary School Artists in Residence, 2006-7)
Lars Abrahamson
Printed by:
The Orcadian Ltd, Hell’s Half Acre, Hatston, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1DY
Product details
Paperback: 176 pages
ISBN: 978-954-8862-91-2
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