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Recent poems in Poetry Scotland, Markings memorial for Adrian Mitchell, Scottish PEN, Nae Bad Ava, (pub. Aberdeen Reading Bus), Scottish Society of Watercolourists.
Addressing the Bard SPL/LTS: Support Notes for Education
In the Event of Fire 2009 Edited by Liz Niven & Alan Bissett for ASLS
Chuckies for the Cairn Luath Press Ltd
Bucket of Frogs A 2008 collection of new poetry & prose from Scottish-based writers. Edited by Liz Niven and Brian Whittingham and published by Glasgow University’s Association of Literary Studies. www.asls.org.uk NWS is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today.
From Darkness to Light: Museum of Lead Mining, Wanlockhead
Migraasje: Migration o wirds - Versions in Scots & Shetlandic from Frisian (Stanza/Happenstance 2008) ed. Eleanor Livingstone
Plays for Scottish Schools pub. ASLS co-ed with Roy McGregor. Six plays for Scottish Secondary schools edited by Liz Niven and Roy McGregor.
Ten Seasons (contrib.) pub. Scottish Poetry Library and Luath Press.
1oo Famous Football Poems (contrib.) pub.Luath Press Ltd. edited by Alistair Findlay
100 Famous Love Poems (contrib.) pub. Luath Press Ltd. Edited by Stewart Conn
Fit Like Yer Majesty?(contrib.) Pub.Reading Bus Press
Projects/events
Series of CPDs for Edinburgh City Council/Scottish Poetry Library
Shawhead Garden collaboration with artists Emma Varley and Jim Buchanan Ongoing Autumn.
Room to Rhyme: collaboration with artist Sam Booth/SPL/CREATE in Castle Douglas Primary School Ongoing Autumn.
Series of CPDS for Angus Council
Belmont Academy : Standing Stone project
West Lothian Creative Writing Conference
National Gallery:Writing Workshop at Tracy Emin Exhibition 3rd Nov. Edinburgh
John Muir/Nevis Partnership CPDs in Strontian/Mallaig/Lochaber Nov.
Thursday 6 November 7.30pm A K Bell Library Perth Writers in Prison: Focus on China To mark Writers in Prison Day Scottish PEN is hosting an event at the A K Bell Library. The focus will be on China.
The featured readers will be the Malaysian-Chinese author Chiew Siah-Tei (author of Little Hut of Leaping Fishes, set in the time of the Opium Wars in China, and of the play Three Thousand Troubled Threads) and the Fife-based author Jo Falla (author of Blue Poppies, concerning the Chinese occupation of Tibet) and the event will be chaired by Liz Niven, who was poet in residence at the Beijing Literary Festival. There will also be readings from the work of compromised Chinese writers.
Poetry Reading at M on the Bund, Shanghai Literary Festival 2008
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