Doric Nursery Rhymes for Loons and Quines

Aug 28, 2023

Doric Nursery Rhymes for Loons and Quines Gordon Hay reads fae his book ‘Doric Nursery Rhymes for Loons & Quines’. Filmed bi Graham Read at Alford Heritage Museum. The book wis voted ‘Best Scots Book for Bairns’ at the Scots Language Awards 2022. For Bairnies an...

Wayword Festival – Storytelling & Place

Aug 22, 2023

Fower short films tae be premiered throughout WayWORD. Young French film-maker Anais Fourrier follows four North-East storytellers around Aberdeenshire as they tell their lively folktales in situ.  The first of these, starring North-East Makar Sheena Blackhall, will...

New Book by Mike Gibb – I Had Never Heard a City Cry Before

Aug 19, 2023

I Had Never Heard A City Cry Before is a novel about two fictional men, the shy and gentle Kenny from Peterhead and the jack-the-lad Steven from Aberdeen, set against the background of the world’s worst oilfield disaster on the Piper Alpha platform in the North Sea on 6 July 1988.

Back to the future with Northern Numbers – a Centenary

Aug 4, 2023

Mearns writers Press release 4th  August 2023 Back to the Future Northern Numbers – a Centenary A celebration of new writing in Doric Scots is being launched to mark the centenary of a Scottish literary revolution. A century ago Hugh MacDiarmid’s...