Sally Evans was born in London in 1942 and lives in Scotland. Her books include the collections Bewick Walks to Scotland (Arrowhead), and The Great North Road (Diehard Windfall). New work includes the sequence A Burrell Tapestry. She has translated some Gaelic poems, mainly by Christopher Whyte, and has edited the broadsheet Poetry Scotland since 1997. In 2005 she received the Poetry Kit's Ted Slade Award for service to poetry, and in 2007 she won the StAnza slam.

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Morelle Smith is a writer of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and travel articles. Her work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies in UK, Ireland, France and Canada, and has appeared on websites and transport systems. She has also collaborated with visual artists and musicians, and two residencies in the south of France have helped her complete a poetry collection, stories, and an exhibition of words and images. Poetry collections: The Star Reaper (Grade One Press, 1980), Deepwater Terminal (Diehard 1998), The Way Words Travel (UKA Press, 2005) and The Ravens and the Lemon Tree (Diehard, 2008). Fiction: Streets of Tirana, Almost Spring (ORA Publishers, 2004) and Touching the Shell (Editions Arabesques, 2006).

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Although many of Ian Blake's poems celebrate the last of the almost-vanished West Highland way of life, they also reflect more universal themes. Two or three long poems dealing with the destruction of Dresden and the Holocaust could well be classified as "war poems" in the widest sense. He has also published short stories and a novel School Story, "the portrayal of an outwardly revered institution inwardly corrupt with misplaced loyalty, complacency and arrogance". Last year he was invited for Halloween to read The Caretaker's Tale at Muncaster, "The Most Haunted Castle in Britain", where that tale is set. He has also a long-term interest in drama and dramatic writing.

Sheena Blackhall is a poet, short story writer, folksinger and book illustrator who writes mainly in Scots. She has published many books and from 1998-2003 was Creative Writing Fellow in Scots at Aberdeen University's Elphinstone Institute. She has won the Hugh MacDiarmid trophy for Scots and the Robert McLellan Cup for short story writing.

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Spring Tides Poetry Group
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Poetry Scotland
Scottish Book Trust
Aberdeen Library & Information Services
Aberdeen City Council
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