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Launch of Fife Cantata CD
The St Monans Community Choir launched its Fife Cantata CD at the Mayview Hotel in St Monans on Friday 6 April 2012. The Fife Cantata was a creative collaboration between the composer Brian Craib and myself. Brian put five of my poems to music in a composition that was showcased at the St Monans Community Arts Festival in 2011. It was an exciting and moving experience to be involved in this project. You can read more about the Fife Cantata CD here, and listen to it here. Launch of the 2011 William Soutar Writing Prize Book It was a pleasure attending the launch of the 2011 William Soutar Writing Prize Anthology Stone Tide. The event took place on Saturday 17 March 2012 at the North Inch Community Campus in Perth. Writing Workshop at The Serenity Cafe Project In March I ran a creative writing workshop at The Serenity Cafe Project in Edinburgh. There was an excellent turnout, and it was great to meet and work with the folk who came along. I would like to thank everyone involved, especially the organiser Gillian Gibson. Writing Workshops at Dundee Primary Schools I had an enjoyable time in March teaching creative writing at Blackness Primary and Ancrum Primary in Dundee. I would like to thank the staff and pupils for their support and participation, as well as Margret Blow, Chairperson of the Dundee and Area Children's Book Group, for organising the events. | Winner of the 2011 William Soutar Writing Prize
I am honoured that my poem am aa din has won the 2011 William Soutar Prize. I was there to hear the great news at the AK Bell Library in Perth on Saturday 26 March 2011, where the judge, Helena Nelson, announced the winning and commended poems. It was a pleasure meeting everybody on the day, and I would like to thank everyone involved. You can read my poem here. Joint Second in the Neil Gunn Writing Competition 2010-2011 I am pleased that my poem sae faur fae ma faither was Joint Second/Highly Commended in the Neil Gunn Writing Competition 2010-2011. Unfortunately I was unable to attend the award ceremony in Inverness, but I would like to thank Andrew Greig and the other judges and organisers of the event. You can read my poem here. Highly Commended in the Bipolar Scotland Verse Factor Poetry Competition 2011 I am happy that my poem War Photographs, Corris Institute, Wales was Highly Commended in Bipolar Scotland's recent national poetry competition. I was at the awards ceremony in Glasgow and enjoyed meeting and hearing the other poets. I would like to thank the organisers and judges Tom Leonard and Anne Donovan. |
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