Acclaimed writer, Choman Hardi will be returning to Shetland in March 2010, to take up a month long Creative Writing Residency.
Choman Hardi is a poet, translator and painter, born in Iraqi Kurdistan. She arrived in the UK in 1993, having twice had to flee to Iran with her family, in 1975 and in 1988…
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Writer in Residence for March
Posted by Donald Anderson on February 16th, 2010 No CommentsAn Evening of Poems and Stories with John Hudson
Posted by Donald Anderson on November 24th, 2009 No CommentsShetland Arts Writer in Residence, John Hudson will make the final appearance of his residency in Room 5 of Islesburgh House at 7.30pm on Friday 27th November.
Mr Hudson will be joined by a coterie of the local writers who have been involved in the string of workshops, who will give readings of their own…
Adrian: Scotland Remembers Adrian Mitchell – Book launch
Posted by Mary Smith on November 3rd, 2009 No CommentsMEDIA RELEASE
Tuesday 10th November will see the launch of a poetry anthology published in memory of, and in tribute to, the late Adrian Mitchell aka the Shadow Poet Laureate, who died in December 2008. The event will take place in Shetland Library and will begin at 7.30pm. An invitation is extended to all who…
Writer John Hudson’s November Residency in Shetland
Posted by Donald Anderson on October 22nd, 2009 No CommentsNovember 1st will see the arrival in Shetland, of award winning writer, editor and film-maker, John Hudson who will take up a month long Creative Writing Residency in the Booth in Scalloway.
John Hudson has been working as a freelance writer since 1980; he is extra mural lecturer in English for the University of Glasgow…
Chaucer Made Modern – Youth Theatre Summer Production
Posted by John Haswell on August 19th, 2009 No CommentsA version of one of the all time classics of English literature will be presented at the Garrison Theatre next week when Shetland Youth Theatre presents its take on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
The show, written by Phil Woods is a modern version of the 14th Century original. In Chaucer’s Middle English work, some two…