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Krystelle Bamford

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Contact: [email protected]
Local authority: Edinburgh City
Languages: English
Author type: Poet, Writer
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My first novel, Idle Grounds (Hutchinson Heinemann & Scribner US 2025), was a Bookseller Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year, NPR Book of the Day, and was shortlisted for the Saltire Prize (Debut Fiction).

My poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, bath magg and a number of anthologies including the Best New British and Irish Poets (Eyewear). I was a 2019 Primers (Nine Arches Press) poet and received a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. I've performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Shakespeare and Company in Paris, London's Rich Mix, and a Neolithic theme park in Erbil, Iraq.

I run poetry and fiction workshops for all ages and interest levels, helping to open up writing and the messy work behind it. Interactive, collaborative and sometimes silly activities aim to tear down barriers and help readers and writers truly engage with new creative projects.

Websites featuring the author

Local authorities will visit

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

Events will deliver

Mentoring; Panel event; Professional development, CLPL or CPD; Reading; Residency; Workshop

Audience will work with

English as an additional language (EAL); Reluctant readers

Topics of work

Adolescence; Biography & memoir; Childhood; Class & society; Contemporary fiction; Death, grief & bereavement; Editing & editing your own work; Emigration & immigration; Fairy tales, folklore & mythology; Family; Friendship; Horror; Nature; Publishing & getting published

Age groups published for

Children; Teens; Adults

Age groups will work with

0-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-11; 12-14; 15-18; 18+

Audience size

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