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Three award-winning Scottish writers combine to read their work in an exclusive one-off Word event to mark National Short Story Week.
Join Alan Spence, Helen Lynch and Wayne Price, who all teach in the University of Aberdeen English Department, for a Word Festival special event. The writers will each share some of their award-winning short stories in an evening for booklovers that’s not to be missed!
Alan Spence is the University’s Professor in Creative Writing and Artistic Director of the annual Word Festival which he founded in 1999. His many awards include the McVitie Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year and the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award. His novel The Pure Land - set in Aberdeen and Japan - is an international bestseller and has been translated into 19 languages. His short story collections, Its Colours They Are Fine and Stone Garden are regarded as Scottish classics.
Helen Lynch won the Bluechrome Short Story Prize, which resulted in the publication of her first collection of stories, The Elephant and the Polish Question. Her stories have recently appeared in a number of prestigious periodicals and anthologies, including Gutter, Causeway, Even More Tonto Short Stories and The Year of Open Doors. In addition to teaching at the University, she is a member of the popular all-female ceilidh band Danse McCabre.
Wayne Price has published poems and short stories in major journals and anthologies including Stand, Poetry Wales, New Writing Scotland and the Bonne Route and Book at Bedtime anthologies. He received prizes in the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition and Poetry on the Lake and was recently runner-up for the Bridport Short Story Prize, one of the most important awards of its kind in the UK. He has just received a Creative Scotland New Writers Award.
Admission Free. Pick up tickets in-store at Waterstone’s Union Bridge Branch.