Join us from Feb-Jun 2026 for another round of our Writers of Colour writing group!
We have a few data (£8), caregiver/childcare (£30) and travel (£20) bursaries for participants on low incomes – please email us at scottishbpocwriters@gmail.com if you will need a bursary to attend, and we’ll do our best to help.
This course is for Black writers and writers of colour based in Scotland.
All SBWN events will adhere to our Safer Spaces Policy. You can learn more about our policy here.
Our Writers of Colour group returns with a focus on poetry writing, led by poet and former Edinburgh Makar, Hannah Lavery.
The course is fully hybrid, with all workshops being conducted in person and online simultaneously. Our in-person venue is the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.
Suggested registration fee for the course is £50 – £100 (£10-£20 per workshop).
Please only book 1 ticket per workshop – do not book an online ticket and an in-person ticket for the same date. In-person participants will also be sent Zoom links in case unable to join online.
Dates and times:
Moving to the second Thursday of the month except April:
- February 12th, 12:00pm – 1:30pm
- March 12th, 12:00pm – 1:30pm
- 23rd April, 12:00pm – 1:30pm (to allow for Easter holidays)
- May 14th, 12:00pm – 1:30pm
- June 11th, 12:00pm – 1:30pm
About Hannah
Hannah Lavery is an award‑winning poet, playwright, performer and experienced workshop facilitator. She served as Edinburgh Makar from 2021 to 2024 and is an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Scottish Literature. Her poetry has been widely published, and her poem Scotland, you’re no mine was selected by Roseanne Watt as one of the Best Scottish Poems 2019.
Her autobiographical play The Drift toured Scotland as part of the National Theatre of Scotland’s 2019 season. In 2020, she was named one of the Scottish Voices for BBC Writers’ Room, won a Peggy Ramsay/Channel 4 bursary, and received a Creative Edinburgh Award for her work with the Writers of Colour group and Fringe of Colour.
Her highly acclaimed play Lament for Sheku Bayoh, which she directed, was produced in collaboration with the Royal Lyceum Theatre, the National Theatre of Scotland and the Edinburgh International Festival. Hannah is a former Imaginate Accelerator Artist and a former Associate Artist with the National Theatre of Scotland.
Her debut poetry collection Blood, Salt, Spring was published in 2022 and shortlisted for the Saltire Award. It was followed by Unwritten Woman in 2024. Her forthcoming collection, Everything Everyday, will be published by Polygon in May 2026.