Sheena Blackhall

Currently, Sheena Blackhall works on projects in schools with the Aberdeen Reading Bus. - She can work from nursery up to secondary level, delivering tasters in Scots (poems, songs, stories, culture), or on specific tasks such as helping a class storyboard for animation work, or to produce a class renga/song. She accepts commissions to write books for specific age groups (eg Loon ( Scots, secondary level- Itchy Coo), Minnie (Scots, nursery-Pr 3 level- Aberdeen Reading Bus)and Apardion (English, pr6-s2- Aberdeen Reading Bus. She was commissioned to write 2 plays for schools TV (The Nicht Bus, The Broken Hairt), and 36 of her short stories for bairns (younger level) were broadcast on Radio Scotland’s Nickety Nackety (producer Frieda Morrison). She reads her work across Scotland, and intersperses this with storytelling and balladry. She has been chosen to judge the 2012 Scots poetry competition in the Wigtown Festival. Recently, she visited Care Homes as part of an over 55 festival, and performed in Glasgow at the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival in Glasgow. She also runs one off creative writing sessions in schools or with adult groups.