Looking for more in Author Directory?

John Burns

All of the information on this page has been provided by the author. If you need an author to have specialist skills, experience or knowledge beyond their creative work, please ask for more information about this ahead of booking them for an event. Please note that authors do not have to have a PVG to be listed.
Contact: docb77@hotmail.com
Local authority: Dumfries and Galloway
Languages: English, Scots
Author type: Poet, Writer
John Burns's headshot

I teach English and tai chi, and write stories and poetry in Scots and English. I have also written critical works on Neil Gunn and Bob Dylan. In 1979 I was a founding editor of Cencrastus magazine and am currently one of the editors of Southlight magazine. I have translated A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night into Scots and am interested in using Scots to explore classic literature. The Chinese classic Monkey has also been put into Scots.

I am available for readings and for workshops. As an English teacher I am used to working with groups of young people. I can help generate creative work for folios. I am interested in exploring themes like memory, family and people in landscapes in workshops. I am also interested in developing new writers' confidence. (Photo credit: Roger A. Lever)

Local authorities can visit

Aberdeen City; Dumfries and Galloway; East Lothian; Edinburgh City; Glasgow City; Midlothian; North Ayrshire; Perth and Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; South Ayrshire; Stirling; West Lothian

Events can deliver

Reading; Talk; Workshop

Audience can work with

Adult learners

Topics of work

Adolescence; Ageing; Biography & memoir; Childhood; Coasts, seas & oceans; Contemporary fiction; Family; Loneliness & isolation; Music

Age groups published for

Teens; Adults

Age groups can work with

12-14; 15-18; Adults

Audience size

0-10; 11-30; 31-100; 100-500

Get involved

Find out how to get involved in our Live Literature programme.

View all authors