Join us from February-June 2025 for this year’s 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.
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Our Writers of Colour group returns for 2025 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 (£10 per workshop).
This course is for Black writers and writers of colour based in Scotland.
About Hannah
Hannah Lavery is a poet and playwright from Edinburgh, named by Owen Sheers as one of the Ten Writers Asking Questions That Will Shape Our Future. Her debut poetry collection Blood Salt Spring (Polygon) was nominated for a Saltire Prize in 2022, her second collection Unwritten Woman will be published by Polygon in August. Hannah is the current Makar (poet laureate) for the City of Edinburgh, co-host of feminist arts podcast QuineCast and an Associate Artist at National Theatre Scotland (NTS). Her plays for NTS The Drift and Lament for Sheku Bayoh have toured extensively. The Protest, a play for children, will tour the UK this year. She has written for a wide range of theatre companies, broadcasters and publications including BBC Radio 4 and The Guardian. Hannah lives, breathes and dreams on the beaches and cliffs of Scotland’s east coast, with her dreaming often taking her back to the streets and closes of Edinburgh.