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Please book on Eventbrite: newbattleabbeycollege.eventbrite.co.uk Welcome to Midlothian’s first Festival of Words: Literally@Newbattle, taking place on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April 2019, here at Newbattle Abbey College.

Literally@Newbattle is is the third modern Makar; the Scottish poet a collaborative venture laureate. The evening celebrates the importance involving a range of of poetry, storytelling and song in Scotland. partners – Midlothian Council, Queen Margaret Saturday 27 April will offer a diverse programme University, Scottish Mining of events for all ages, including; Gaelic Museum, Newbattle storytelling, poetry and writing showcases, Abbey College and local script-writing, and rap hip-hop workshops, writers’ groups. We will focus on engaging with contemporary fiction and crime panels. children, young people and families in Midlothian Events for children are free. Ticket costs through a diverse two-day programme. for other events will be kept at a reasonable Friday 26 April will be an event for primary rate to encourage the local community to get schools, targeting specific schools in Midlothian. involved. We look forward to welcoming you On Friday evening the college is delighted to Newbattle. We hope that this initiative will to host Karine Polwart, Pathhead-based be the first of many and will extend cultural songwriter, theatre maker, author and winner opportunities in Midlothian for people of all ages. of the 2018 BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of The Year award. Joining Karine will be Scots poet Marian Docherty and novelist Jackie Kay MBE, FRSE. Jackie Principal, Newbattle Abbey College

Foreword Thomas & Adamson are community, and help people discover a true delighted to sponsor the first passion for reading. It’s the perfect escapism ever Newbattle Literary Fayre. from the everyday grind.

The festival features several Literally@Newbattle is both rewarding and events which reach beyond important for our community outreach, a venture the ‘typical’ literary festival which we are sure the local community will and directly engage with people who are underrepresented in the literature and literary embrace, and we are privileged to be part of art sector. the story. We hope our support will help raise awareness of Brian Donaldson just how important initiatives like this are in the Partner, Thomas & Adamson Friday 26 April 2019 7.00 – 9.30pm

Venue: Drawing Room - £15 A Celebration of Scotland in Words and Song Karine Polwart and Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay Karine Polwart is a multi-award-winning was born and songwriter and musician, a theatre maker, brought up in storyteller, essayist,and published writer. She Scotland. The also performs traditional songs and writes to Adoption commission for theatre, film, animation, and © Mary McCartney Papers international thematic collaborative projects. (Bloodaxe) won the Forward Prize, a Saltire prize Karine has won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards on and a Scottish Arts Council Prize. Fiere was shortlisted for the Costa award and her novel six occasions, including twice for Best Original Song. Her fifth solo album was shortlisted Trumpet won the Guardian Fiction Award and Traces for both the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) was shortlisted for the IMPAC award. Red Dust Award and BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Album Road (Picador) won the Scottish Book of the Year Award, and the London Book Award, and was of the Year, and the Guardian chose it as best shortlisted for the JR Ackerley prize. Her third international folk-roots release of 2012. Her debut solo album won Best Album at the collection of short stories, Reality, Reality, was Faultlines praised by The Guardian as ‘ranking among the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards back in 2005, following best of the genre’. She was awarded an MBE in her six year world tour as a traditional Scots 2006 and made a fellow of the Royal Society of singer with Malinky and The Battlefield Band. Literature in 2002. Her book of stories Wish I Was 2018 saw Karine named Folk Singer of The Here won the Decibel British Book Award. Year at the BBC Folk Awards; publish her first Jackie Kay also writes for children and her book children’s book A Wee Bird Was Watching; and release which was selected Red Cherry Red (Bloomsbury) won the Clype Laws Of Motion, award. She has written extensively for stage as MOJO Magazine’s Folk Album of the Year. and television. Her plays, Manchester Lines And 2019 began with the release of the first (produced by Manchester Library Theatre) and single from Karine Polwart’s Scottish Songbook, The New Maw Broon Monologues (produced a re-imagining of some of Karine’s favourite by Glasgay), were a great success. Her most classic Scottish pop songs. Each month will see recent collection (Bantam) was published in a new single, culminating in a full album release 2017 to critical acclaim. She is Chancellor in the summer and a tour of prestigious venues of the University of Salford and Professor of in the autumn, including Edinburgh’s Usher Hall. Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Jackie Kay was named Scots Makar, the National Poet for Scotland, in March 2016.

BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE: newbattleabbeycollege.eventbrite.co.uk Saturday 27 April 2019 10.00 – 11.15am

Venue: Crypt - Free Event Venue: Drawing Room - £2.50 Gaelic Storytelling Scotland in Verse Martin McIntyre Mary Johnson and Hannah Lavery Martin MacIntyre grew up in Poets Mary Lenzie, his father being from Johnston and South Uist and his mother from Hannah Lavery Glasgow. He graduated in will explore medicine from The University of aspects of Aberdeen in 1988 and between Scottish 1990 and 1992 gained qualifications in identity, history, belonging and language. Gàidhealtachd and Media Studies at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye. Martin works as a doctor, writer and Mary Johnston has lived for more than fifty years storyteller and has been a guest at Stanza, The in the Scottish Borders and now Midlothian, but Edinburgh International Book Festival, The her writing is inspired by the native language of Scottish International Storytelling Festivals, her childhood: the Doric of Northeast Scotland. Toronto’s IFOA and Scotland Week in New York. She took up writing after retiring from a career as a teacher and a relationship counsellor, and In 2007 he was crowned ‘Bàrd’ by An Comunn since then has published numerous poems, short Gàidhealach and since 2010 has been an stories, translations and pamphlets, including Edinburgh Shore Poet. He has written six novels, Teuchat Storm (2004), Faa dis she think she is two short-story collections and a volume of (2009) and Angel and the Aipple (2013). She poems. Martin lives in Edinburgh with his wife has won several awards, including The Callum and two children. MacDonald Memorial Award, for Angel and the Aipple, in 2014. Venue: Edwin Muir Room - £2.50 Mary will be sharing a selection of poetry in the Gaelic Place Names Doric (and maybe some in English). Neil McGregor Hannah Lavery is a freelance writer and Born and brought up in performer. Her most recent spoken word Edinburgh with family show, The Drift was part of National Theatre of connections to Strathspey. Neil Scotland’s Just Start Here festival in January started learning Gaelic at 2018 and was previewed at the Tron Theatre with Edinburgh University and also the National Theatre of Scotland as part of Black studied at the School of Scottish History Month in October 2018, and will go on a Studies. After graduating, he continued doing Scotland wide tour as part of National Theatre of field recordings for the school, mostly along the Scotland’s Season 2019. She is also the director last generation of Gaelic speakers in the east of CoastWord Festival and the Scottish Poetry Highlands. He also spent a lot of time in Harris Library‘s Learning and Engagement Coordinator. walking around the island and speaking to folk. Neil started teaching Gaelic in 1995 and now Hannah will share Finding Seaglass, poems from works at Edinburgh College and Newbattle her recent spoken word show The Drift. Her work Abbey College. journeys through history, belonging, love, loss, and a searingly honest portrayal of growing up He has written three papers for the Gaelic Society mixed-race in Scotland. of Inverness and has a continuing interest in place names and other things.

BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE: newbattleabbeycollege.eventbrite.co.uk Saturday 27 April 2019 11.30 – 12.45am

Venue: Crypt - Free Event Venue: Drawing Room - £2.50 Playful Words Coming of Age in Moira Cormack Contemporary Scottish Fiction Unleash your inner child and Ever Dundas and Ross Sayers enjoy this writing session designed to stir your creativity Novelists Ever and get your words flowing. This Dundas and workshop is suitable for writers Ross Sayers of all levels, including those who will explore have not yet dared to put pen to paper. themes of childhood, Moira Cormack writes novels for young imagination, friendship and loss. people, fairytales and poetry. Her first novel, The Witch of Land and Sea, was published Ever Dundas writes literary fiction, horror, in 2016. She is also a relationship coach, has fantasy and sci-fi. Her novelGoblin won the taught children in a myriad of contexts and is Saltire First Book of the Year Award 2017. a mother of four. Moira has been described Growing up in WWII London, Goblin witnesses as the ‘Mary Poppins of creative writing.’ a shocking event and takes refuge in her imagination. In 2011, an unwanted phone Venue: Edwin Muir Room - £2.50 call compels an elderly Goblin to return to London amidst the riots and face the ghosts Off the Wing of her past. Ever is currently working on her Martine Robertson, Enid Forsyth second novel, HellSans, a sci-fi thriller. and Tom Kane Ross Sayers is a writer of contemporary Off the Wing is a gloriously Scottish fiction for adults and teenagers. random collection of words and His first book, , revolves music about birds and bird lore Mary’s the Name around a young girl and her granpa. Orphaned of Scotland, as seen through the Mary lives with her granpa, but after he is poetry, literature and traditional mixed up in a robbery at the bookies where he music of Scotland. works, they flee to the Isle of Skye. Gradually, Martine Robertson – readings and songs Mary realises that her granpa is involved… Enid Forsyth – readings, songs and Ross is currently finishing his second novel, which harp instrumentals is aimed at young adults and set in a Scottish high school, and he may share a sneak preview. Tom Kane – readings, songs and guitar, mandolin instrumentals

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Venue: Crypt - Free Event Venue: Drawing Room - £2.50 Poetry/Spoken Word Showcase Bloody Stories: Various Scottish Crime Fiction An opportunity for local writers, Jackie McLean and Lesley Kelly poets and spoken word artists to showcase their work, in the Two Scottish atmospheric surroundings of crime novelists Newbattle’s Crypt. Slots will be will share awarded on the day, on a first readings from come, first served basis. Please bring readings of their most no more than seven minutes. recent work and discuss dark imagination, research, real life This event is free, on a drop-in basis, so you may inspiration and the importance of keeping a attend for all or part of the session. sense of humour. has a varied background, Venue: Edwin Muir Room - £2.50 Jackie McLean including being a government economist, a Hip Hop Workshop political lobbyist, and running a pet shop. She started a mathematics PhD counting fish, and with Heavy Sound currently works with East Ayrshire Council, Jordon Butler counting more things. She has appeared at numerous crime writing festivals and events in Explore the poetry, the power Scotland and beyond. and the sounds of hip hop in this participative workshop. Jackie is the author of two crime novels, featuring DI Donna Davenport: Toxic, which was shortlisted Young people and those for the Yeovil Literary Prize, and its sequel, who are young in spirit are all Shadows. She is currently working on the third welcome. No previous musical novel in the series. expertise is necessary. Lesley Kelly has worked in the public and Heavy Sound is an award-winning social voluntary sectors for the past twenty years, enterprise that runs alternative music dabbling in poetry and stand-up comedy along programmes and projects for young people, the way. She has won a number of writing including rapping, hip hop, DJ-ing, electronic competitions, including The Scotsman’s Short music production, band/instrumental work, sound Story award in 2008. recording and music technology. Her first novel,A Fine House in Trinity, was published by Sandstone Press in 2016, and was longlisted for the William McIlvanney Prize. Her second novel, The Health of Strangers, was published by Sandstone Press in 2017. This event will be chaired by Jackie Gramosci Collins.

BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE: newbattleabbeycollege.eventbrite.co.uk Saturday 27 April 2019 10.00 – 10.30am 3.15 – 4.30am + 11.00 – 11.30am Venue: Drawing Room - £2.50 Venue: Crypt - Free Event Trying New Hings: What is Bookbug? Poetry and Short Stories Free, friendly, fun sessions of Chris McQueer and Russell Jones songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, preschoolers Two up and and their families and carers to coming young enjoy together. Scottish Each session lasts around authors will 30 minutes and has been discuss the

© Sinead Grainger Photography designed to support children’s importance development while having fun. They take place of boundary-breaking and experimentation in a very relaxed environment and are a great in writing. opportunity to spend some quality time with Chris McQueer is a 27-year old writer from your little one, and meet other families. Glasgow. He has published two collections of short stories, Hings and HWFG, which have seen him compared to the likes of Limmy and Irvine Welsh. Blogger in residence Chris will be reading out a mix of old new work as Kelly Lacey well as some ‘B-Sides’ which didn’t quite make Award-winning book the final cut of my books. blogger Kelly Lacey will be Russell Jones is the UK pet poet laureate. He our blogger in residence has published 5 collections of poetry and edited for the weekend. 3 anthologies. He is deputy editor of Scotland’s For author features and only sci-fi magazine and has a PhD in Creative reviews, follow Kelly’s Writing. He is also currently the Creative Writing Love Books Group on: Fellow for Tyne and Esk Writers in Midlothian and East Lothian. Facebook: @LoveBooksGrp Twitter: @LoveBooksGroup Russell will share a variety of poetry, including www.lovebooksgroup.com traditional forms (sonnet, haiku, villanelle) and modern approaches (concrete, comic, video games and film poems).

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