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Ann MacKinnon

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Local authority: West Dunbartonshire

Languages: English, Scots

Author type: Poet, Writer

Ann MacKinnon writes in both Scots and English. A New Writers Award led her pamphlet titled Nae Flooers, published by Tapsalteerie. She is widely published in anthologies and magazines.

She has placed in the McCash Poetry Competition several times. In 2022, Modren Makars: Yin was published by Tapsalteerie. It is a collaboration with two other poets of poems in Scots.

She was nominated for the Scots Writer of the Year in 2022. Her most recent pamphlet, Warp and Weft, is published by Red Squirrel Press.

She enjoys performing her poetry and doing workshops and giving talks. She is a co-founder of Balloch Open Mic.

In 2025 she was the Makar for the Federation of Writers. She is working on a second pamphlet based on the Great Tapestry as well as a collection on the islands of Scotland.

Her latest publication is a novel, A Week in May, published by Next Chapter and available on Amazon.

Ann MacKinnon

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