Sunday 31 May 2009
3pm – 5pm

Review by
Miriama Young

Catriona Yule is an Aberdeen poet, short story writer and playwright.

Her first full length play Birdhouse was staged at the Lemon Tree in February 2009. She has also written two one-act plays. Two Seconds was performed during Wordfringe 2008, and Kitten Heels was given a rehearsed reading at Aberdeen Arts Centre in 2005.

Her first poetry collection Shedding Skin was launched by Koo Press in 2007, and her poems have been published in many other publications. Her short stories have appeared in Pushing Out the Boat and The Eildon Tree.

See www.catrionayule.co.uk for more.

Haworth Hodgkinson is a poet and playwright, composer and improvising musician. Recent collaborations have been with dancers in fast+Dirty lab 2008 and with musicians in the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. He performs as poet and musician with the multimedia Blue Salt Collective, and is the founder of Wordfringe and its offshoot theatre company Wordfringe Festival Players.

See www.haworthhodgkinson.co.uk for more.

Douglas W. Gray lives in Cove Bay; founder member of the Dead Good Poets, former editor of poetry magazines Storm and Spume, published widely. Awards include: second prize in the Northwords Open Poetry Competiton 1998, first prize in the Feile Filiochta Open Poetry Competiton and the Irish Times Perpetual Trophy 2001, second placed in the Scottish International Poetry Competition 2003, and winner of the Ayr 800 Open Poetry Competition 2005.

Promoted by

Koo Press
Wordfringe

Supported by

Left Bank