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Samuel Best

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Contact: sam@octaviusmagazine.com

Local authority: Glasgow City

Languages: English, Scots

Author type: Writer, Zine Maker

My novel Shop Front is a story of shelf-stacking, friendship and knife crime, and my short fiction tends to focus on nature, horror, and violence. I also founded the literary magazine Octavius, and have experience proof reading and editing.

My sessions typically focus on providing prose inspiration through music and images but can be tailored to any requirement and for any age range from 12 years+. I am also a qualified English teacher and have experience working with EAL and ASN individuals, as well as delivering CLPL/CPD sessions.

(Works in Scots)

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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