Hannah Nicholson

Hannah Nicholson is originally from Shetland but now lives in Aberdeen. She holds a BA (Hons) in English with Journalism and Creative Writing from the University of Strathclyde (2010, an MLitt with Distinction in Creative Writing from the University of Aberdeen (2017), and an MSc in Information and Library Studies from Robert Gordon University (2018).

In 2021 she was one of the winners of the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. Her work has been published in Gutter, Northwords Now, Causeway, Silk & Smoke, The New Shetlander, Poetry Scotland and Seaborne to name a few. More recently her short story Wheer was featured in the Queer Words Project Scotland anthology Fierce Salvage. She is also a co-host of the long-running Aberdeen based spoken word night Speakin Weird as well as being a previous guest of the WayWORD Festival.

Hannah usually writes in Shaetlan, or Shetlandic Scots, as well as English. Her work also focuses on themes of queerness, loneliness, isolation and mental health, as well as at times taking inspiration from folklore and history. She also has a completed novel which she is querying, and is working on another.