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Heather Palmer is a Scottish writer with a passion for exploring nature and the stories of the long-dead or undying. She loves writing queer characters, unpicking the status quo and making people laugh.
In 2019 she won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers’ Award – the first writer ever to win with a comics script. Her first foray into prose won a place on the Selkie Magazine’s mentorship programme and in 2021, the opening chapters of her novel The Nightmarket were shortlisted for The Book Edit’s Writer’s Award. In 2020, she successfully funded a Kickstarter for a self-published graphic novel, SMITHERS&WING, in collaboration with artist Kirsty Hunter.
Aberdeen City; Aberdeenshire; Angus; Argyll and Bute; Clackmannanshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Dundee; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Highland; Inverclyde; Midlothian; Moray; Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles); North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Orkney Islands; Perth and Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; Shetland; South Ayrshire; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire; West Lothian
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