Creative Writing Workshop at Abriachan Forest Trust

Join us at Abriachan Forest Classroom for a fun and informal afternoon taking inspiration from our surroundings to get writing. Stewart Sanderson, Moniack Mhor Jessie Kesson Fellow 2019, will lead the workshop providing advice, ideas, tips and techniques to help you create a wonderful piece of poetry or prose.

This workshop is free to attend, but spaces are limited.

Glasgow-born Stewart Sanderson is the recipient of several awards and commendations: in 2014 and 2016 he was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, and in 2017 received commendations from the PN Review Poetry Prize and the Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2015. In 2016 he was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, allowing him to spend a month working on new poems in Grez-sur-Loing, France. He completed a PhD at the University of Glasgow, which addresses the role of translation in twentieth-century Scottish poetry; his own versions from French and from Russian have been included in recent publications. His first pamphlet of poems, Fios, was published by Tapsalteerie, who have gone on to publish his second pamphlet, An Offering, in 2018.