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2006
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2005
Artists
Competitions
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2004
Literature
Poetry
Winners
Children
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Perthshire
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2005 Artists
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Christopher Brookmyre
Variously categorised in the thriller, tartan noir and Paisley bampot genres, Chris' work has now been
televised. His fantastically popular titles now number 9 novels, ranging from the debut Quite Ugly One
Morning through A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away to Be My Enemy. |
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Colette Bryce
Derry-born poet whose first book The Heel of Bernadette won the Aldeburgh
Prize for best first collection and the inaugural Strong Award in Ireland.
The Full Indian Rope Trick won the National Poetry Competition 2003. She is the current fellow in Creative
Writing at the University of Dundee. |
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Elizabeth Burns
Lancaster-based poet, winner of the 2005 Myeloma prize with The Butterfly House. Numerous publications
and anthology credits, including Ophelia and Other Poems and The Gift of Light. |
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Ron Butlin
Prize-winning international novelist (The Sound of My Voice won the Prix Mille Pages 2004 and
the Prix Luciole 2005), and prominent Scots poet, commissioned to work with Scottish Chamber Orchestra,
BBC Scottish Symphony and Edinburgh String Quartet. His music theatre piece Good Angel, Bad Angel
was premiered at the Traverse in 2005. |
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Margaret Elphinstone
Award-winning author and Professor of Writing at Strathclyde University. Author of seven novels as
well as short stories, poetry and academic tracts. Titles include A Sparrow's Flight, An Apple from
a Tree, Islanders, The Sea Road, Hy Brasil, Voyageurs and Gato. |
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Julian Goodacre
Peebles-based English bagpipe maker and musician (one of three Goodacre brothers performing traditional
pipe music in three-part harmony). Also a specialist in Scottish bellows, small, Highland and Borders pipes. |
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Brian Johnstone
Fife-based poet and co-founder and director of Stanza, the annual poetry festival in St Andrews.
Has published two collections, The Lizard Silence and Homing, and has been translated into
Catalan, Swedish, German and Polish. In 2003, he won Poetry at the (Edinburgh) Fringe and the
Writers' Bureau Poetry Competition. |
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Brian McCabe
Currently writer in residence at Edinburgh University, and previously in Perth and St Andrews. Noted short
story exponent (The Lipstick Circus, In a Dark Room with a Stranger, A Date with my Wife), poet
(Spring's Witch, One Atom to Another, Body Parts) and novelist (The Other McCoy). |
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Nick Nairn
Internationally renowned chef and tv presenter, and youngest winner of the Michelin Star in Scotland.
Runs a cookery school near Port of Mentieth in the Trossachs. Titles include New Scottish
Cookery, Island Harvest, Wild Harvest, Top 100 Chicken and Salmon Recipes. |
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Christopher Rush
St Monans-born retired schoolteacher, winner of two SAC book awards and shortlisted for the McVitie Prize.
Titles include A Twelvemonth and a Day (semi-autobiographical, and made into the film Venus Peter), A
Resurrection of a Kind (poetry), Peace Comes Dropping Slow and Into the Ebb (short stories), and Last Lesson
of the Afternoon (novel). |
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Rab Wilson
Lallans poet, former miner and now psychiatric nurse based in Sanquhar. Winner of the McCash Prize,
and a regular at Edinburgh, Wigtown and Burns Festivals. Titles include Somerfield Checkout Counter
and the Scots translation of The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam. |
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