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Part of Book Week Scotland, join writer and musician Helen Lynch to discuss her writing of stories for adults and children, her role in traditional music composition in the North-East, and her research into seventeenth-century literature & politics.
Helen Lynch is an author and academic based in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Aberdeen. She published The Elephant and the Polish Question, a collection of interlinked short stories set in Poland during the collapse of Communism, in 2009. Her second collection, Tea for the Rent Boy, completed with the help of a Creative Scotland Writer's Bursary, was published in 2018. Some may also know her as the whistle player and dance caller in the popular North-East, all-female ceilidh band, Danse McCabre.
Her research, on politics and poetry in the 17th Century, resulted in the book Milton and the Politics of Public Speech in 2015, and she has written interactive online educational resources for schoolchildren, Beowulf for Beginners and The Knight with the Lion.Teaching for Scottish Culture & Traditions Association for many years, she co-edited The Aberdeen Collection: 250 Contemporary Scottish Tunes in Traditional Style in 2017.
In this event, timed to coincide with Book Week Scotland, Helen will be offering insights into her varied life as a writer as well as reading from some of her work.
Ticket are £3 payable at the venue on the night. Online booking is also available.
- Speaker
- Helen Lynch
- Venue
- Stonehaven Library
- Contact
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Email: langlit.school@abdn.ac.uk