2010 speakers
Jason Donaldson
Jason Donald was born in Dundee, Scotland but grew up in Pretoria, South Africa. He returned to the UK in 1990 and now lives in Glasgow. Choke Chain, his first novel, was shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the Saltire First Book Award.
Ella Hickson
Ella Hickson is a writer/director whose multi-award winning debut play, Eight, opened in Edinburgh in 2008 and went on to play in New York, Florida and London's West End. Since then she has been working with the Traverse as their inaugural Emerging Playwright on Attachment. Her new play, Hot Mess, enjoyed a sell-out run at this year's festival and this Autumn she will participate in the Royal Court Young Writers programme.
Ella writers for TV and radio and is under commission to the BBC for various new projects. She is also writing a novel and is the youngest playwright to be published by Nick Hern
Ryan Van Winkle
Ryan Van Winkle is currently Reader in Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library and Edinburgh City Libraries. He runs a monthly “Literary Cabaret” called The Golden Hour and is an Editor at Forest Publications. His work has appeared in New Writing Scotland, The American Poetry Review, AGNI and Northwords Now. He lives in Edinburgh but is still an American. In 2010 he won Salt’s Crashaw Prize and his first collection will be released by the end of the year.
Francis Bickmore
Francis Bickmore is Senior Editor at Canongate Books, where he has worked for the last ten years specialising in fiction. In that time he has worked with novelists including Yann Martel, James Meek, Louise Welsh, Alasdair Gray, Philip Pullman, Scarlett Thomas and Nick Cave.
Lucy Juckes
Lucy Juckes represents writers and illustrators for children at the Jenny Brown Agency. She was previously co-founder and Managing Director of Barrington Stoke, the children's publisher specialising in books for reluctant readers. Lucy has also worked as Sales Director of Bloomsbury.
Words Per Minute
Words Per Minute is a spoken word/film/live music and performance event run by Glasgow-based writers Anneliese Mackintosh and Kirstin Innes. It aims to introduce audiences to new types of work, in an informal setting. Past performers include novelists Ewan Morrison, Sophie Cooke and Alan Bissett, musicians Adam Stafford, Bigg Taj, Miaoux Miaoux and the band Swimmer One, poets Emily Ballou and Tawona Sithole, performance from Iain Campbell and Martin O'Connor.
Words Per Minute is on the first Sunday of every month, in Creation Studios, Trongate, Glasgow, 3.30pm. For more information, see www.wordsperminute.org.uk
Anneliese Mackintosh
Anneliese Mackintosh writes novels, short stories and drama, and regularly performs her work in and around Scotland. She has been published in anthologies and magazines including The Year of Open Doors, edited by Rodge Glass, literary magazine Gutter and Outside of a Dog. She has had a story broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and is currently editing the work of several fantastic writers for an exciting new e-publishing venture with Cargo Crate.
Kirstin Innes
Kirstin Innes is a Glasgow-based writer and journalist. Her short fiction has been published in Gutter Magazine, New Writing, the Cargo anthology The Year of Open Doors, and the Edinburgh International Book Festival anthology Elsewhere. Kirstin won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2008, and has performed her work at the Hydro Connect Festival, at regular nights Discombobulate, Manifesto and The Golden Hour, and on BBC Radio Scotland.
