LesleyMay Miller
LesleyMay Miller
LesleyMay Miller
LesleyMay Miller is an artist and and has carried out commissions, exhibited internationally and collaborated on the ‘Stones of Scotland’ in Edinburgh. Her poetry has been published by Red Squirrel Press and also in anthologies and magazines. She combines her words and visual art in artist books, sculpture and soundscapes. She created
LesleyMay Miller is an artist and and has carried out commissions, exhibited internationally and collaborated on the ‘Stones of Scotland’ in Edinburgh. Her poetry has been published by Red Squirrel Press and also in anthologies and magazines. She combines her words and visual art in artist books, sculpture and soundscapes. She created a sculpture garden in the Scottish Borders and now draws inspiration from living by the coast at Dunbar.
Vicky Allen
LesleyMay Miller
LesleyMay Miller
Vicky Allen is an illustrator/artist, retreat guide and spiritual director. She’s been widely published in print and online by journals including Mslexia, Stravaig,
The Storms Journal, and Writers’ Cafe, as well as anthologies published by Proost, Dove Tales, Fevers of the Mind and Black Agnes Press. Wonder Lines has been performed at the
Vicky Allen is an illustrator/artist, retreat guide and spiritual director. She’s been widely published in print and online by journals including Mslexia, Stravaig,
The Storms Journal, and Writers’ Cafe, as well as anthologies published by Proost, Dove Tales, Fevers of the Mind and Black Agnes Press. Wonder Lines has been performed at the Edinburgh Book Festival Fringe in 2018 and Fringe at the Yard in 2019.
Vicky is the 2016 Faith/Unbelief poetry quiet slam winner, twice a Pushcart Prize nominee, and the author of the micro collection Stickleback and pamphlet Broken Things and other tales, both published by Hedgehog Poetry Press.
Jean Taylor
LesleyMay Miller
Jean Taylor
Following a career in Industrial Publishing and Human Resources Management, Jean Taylor came to poetry through an Open University Creative Writing Course. She writes to explore new ways of looking at the world and sometimes just to find out what she thinks. She has been a member of the Words on Canvas writing group since its inception and
Following a career in Industrial Publishing and Human Resources Management, Jean Taylor came to poetry through an Open University Creative Writing Course. She writes to explore new ways of looking at the world and sometimes just to find out what she thinks. She has been a member of the Words on Canvas writing group since its inception and her work has been published in a range of publications including Orbis, Northwords Now, Freak Circus and Poetry Scotland. Her poem ‘Four Boys’ was highly commended in the Inspired to Write Competition run by Jupiter Artland in 2015.
Emma Møller
Emma Møller is the author of the poetry, prose and video blog Rosemary for Remembrance and has recently had her poetry published in Snakeskin with her very first submission to a magazine.
Ruth Gilchrist
Ruth Gilchrist has worked as poet in residence. fulfilled commission for museum and marine conservation projects. She has been recorded for radio, film and podcast. Ruth has had success with flash fiction, winning the Federation of Writers (Scotland) award for flash fiction 2020 with Nereid. As well as facilitating workshops for the Scottish Poetry Library, and East Lothian Library Services, she is also a lead reader with the Open Book charity.
Jo Gibson
Jo Gibson began writing as a teen and never really stopped. She co-founded Dunbar Writers, a group she was active in for over ten years. She is the author of pamphlets such as The Heart is Always Full and Everything I Thought I Knew. Jo says that although it can be hard to find time, she loves playing with words and the challenge of puzzling a poem together.