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Mapping the North-East

Mapping the North-East is the project title for various creative and research activities taking place within the WORD Centre for Creative Writing.

Research

Aiming to create a cultural map of the North-East, the project explores themes of cultural geography, and the relationship between place and identity, through cross-arts, interdisciplinary activities.

The project seeks to engage writers, artists and public with the North-East territory and its communities, languages, music, history and traditions.

You can read about some of our recent and current projects, as well as our Postgraduate opportunities, below.

Publications

Judith Weir, blue hills beyond blue hills (after poetry by Alan Spence). Classical composition for choir and string quartet, 2019.
Sheena Blackhall, 'The Owersetts': series of Doric translations of classics and children's literature, including Fey Case o Dr Jekyll & mR h, O Mice & Men, and Jean Eyre (all Evertype, 2018).
The Aberdeen Collection, ed. by Helen Lynch and Carley Williams. Aberdeen University Press, 2017.
A Puckle o Sangs: A Collection of Favourite Scottish Songs Chosen by North East Singers, ed. by Grace Banks. Aberdeen University Press, 2015.
Passages, ed. by Shane Strachan, Edition Vulpes, 2015. An anthology of new writing in Scots, Doric, English, German and Bavarian arising out of the Write Aberdeen-Write Regenbsburg project, in partnership with and funded by Aberdeen City Council.
David Wheatley, The Reed Bunting Unseen: A Camouflage Garden for Ian Hamilton Finlay. Wildhoney Press, 2013. Poetry collection.
Stewart Ennis (Joint Aberdeen-Curtin PhD graduate), Blessed Assurance. Vagabond Voices, 2019. Novel.
Pause: New Writing About Time and Change, ed. by Wayne Price, 2019. An anthology of creative writing by Aberdeen and Curtin postgraduate students and recent alumni.
Special edition of literary journal Axon (Issue 3, 2018), co-edited by Wayne Price and Rachel Robertson. Featuring contributions by members and directors of the Centre including Wayne Price, David Wheatley, Helen Lynch, Alexandra Lewis, and Shane Alcobia Murphy. Available to read.
Edge to Edge: Aberdeen Curtin Student Writing Anthology, ed. by Wayne Price and Rachel Robertson. Perth, Western Australia, 2017.
In partnership with the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies, the Centre has played a key editorial role in the production of Causeway/Cabshair, a literary magazine publishing new writing in all the languages of Ireland and Scotland.