Background image: a trickle of blood against solid black. Text: SBWN at Granite Noir. 23 February: 23 February: Masterclass with Tariq Ashkanani. 6-8pm, online. 25 February: Panel discussion with Anna Cheung, Eliza Chan, Katalina Watt and Zebib K. Abraham. 8:30pm, The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen.

SBWN at Granite Noir – 23 February and 25 February 2023

Past Events by scotbamewriters

Join us on 23rd and 25th February as we make our debut at this year’s Granite Noir festival!

A small number of free and half-price tickets are available. Please contact us at scottishbpocwriters@gmail.com if you need one!

Black and white photo of a South Asian man with short hair, looking at the camera. Background image: black and white photo of trees in the mist. Text: Intro to crime writing. Thurs 23 February. 6-8pm, online. For Black writers and writers of colour in collaboration with Granite Noir.

We’re excited to be showcasing an amazing lineup of writers of colour at Granite Noir, Aberdeen’s festival of crime writing!

On 23rd February, 6-8pm, we’ll be hosting an online masterclass in crime writing for Black writers and writers of colour, led by Tariq Ashkanani.

Tickets are £6.50 and are available from the Aberdeen Performing Arts website here. 

Read on below to learn more about Tariq.

Register for our masterclass here

Photo of an East Asian woman with long brown hair and a dark red top, smiling at the camera, Photo of an East Asian woman with glasses and shoulder-length black hair, wearing a sleeveless black top and grey vest, looking at the camera. white/Filipino person with shoulder-length brown hair and a blue and white patterned top, looking out from behind a bookshelf. Photo of a Black woman with black curly hair and a denim jacket, smiling at the camera. Text: SBWN at Granite Noir: Nighttime Noir. Anna Cheung, Eliza Chan, Katalina Watt, Zebib K. Abraham. 25 Feb 2023 | 8:30pm | Lemon Tree, Aberdeen.
  • Then on 25th February, 8:30pm, at the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen, we’ll be hosting a live panel discussion about all things noir with Anna Cheung, Eliza Chan, Katalina Watt, chaired by Zebib K. Abraham. We’ll hear all three panellists read their work and chat about folklore, mythology, horror and speculative literature.

Tickets are £9.50 and are available from the Aberdeen Performing Arts website here. We can’t wait to see you there!

Read on below to learn more about our speakers.

 

Register for Nighttime Noir in person here

Or Register for Nighttime Noir livestream here

Facilitator/Speakers

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Tariq Ashkanani is a solicitor based in Edinburgh, whose debut novel Welcome to Cooper was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger and won the Bloody Scotland Debut Award. He also helps run Write Gear, a company that sells high-quality notebooks for writers, and co-hosts Write Gear’s podcast Page One.

Photo of an East Asian woman with long brown hair and a dark red top, smiling at the camera,

Anna Cheung is a poet based in Glasgow. Her debut poetry collection, ‘Where Decay Sleeps’, was published by Haunt Publishing. 

She has been published in literary magazines such as Banshee Journal, Geist, Dreich, Koening Zine, Zarf, and Dusk and Shiver. 

Anna also has forthcoming publications with Edinburgh Literary Salon and the British Fantasy Society and is currently working on her second poetry book.

She was highly commended by the Forward Prize in 2022.

Photo of a mixed white/Filipino person with shoulder-length brown hair and a blue and white patterned top, looking out from behind a bookshelf.

Katalina Watt is published in magazines and anthologies including Haunted Voices, Unspeakable, Reclamation, and Extra Teeth. They were Longlisted for Penguin Write Now 2020, awarded a 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant, and 2022 Ignyte award-winning founding Audio Director for khōréō magazine. She is represented by Robbie Guillory at Underline Literary. (Photo credit: Jim Walker.)

Photo of an East Asian woman with glasses and shoulder-length black hair, wearing a sleeveless black top and grey vest, and writing in a notebook and leaning against a wall while looking at the camera.

Eliza Chan is a Scottish-born speculative fiction author.  Her short fiction has been published in The Dark, Podcastle, Fantasy Magazine and The Best of British Fantasy. Her debut novel FATHOMFOLK — inspired by mythology, ESEAN cities and diaspora feels — will be published by Orbit in Spring 2024. Find out more on her website www.elizachan.co.uk. (Photo credit: Sandi Hodkinson.)

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