Stert Scrievin with Kris Haddow

21 November 2023, 11:00, Londonderry

Runs to 21 November 2023

Ulster-Scots is first and foremost a spoken language. So how do you start a creative writing project when working in dialect?

In this workshop, Scottish writer and performer Kris Haddow will guide you through storytelling exercises and flash fiction prompts. Listening for the language elements and building blocks that makes your voice uniquely yours, you will throw out all the sticky rules of English grammar and spelling that can cause writer’s block – an afore ye ken it, ye’ll be gettin gey guid et scrievin yer ane toty tales yaisin yer ane wurds!

About Kris Haddow: Kris Haddow is a Scottish playwright, poet, performer, and author who writes predominantly in Scots. His short stories are published in New Writing Scotland, Gutter Magazine, and on the Scottish Book Trust website. Born and raised in Dumfries & Galloway, he writes a popular satire column, Haud the Bus, for one of the region’s papers. A graduate of Glasgow University’s MLitt Creative Writing programme, Kris is currently writing a novel set in rural Scotland under their DFA programme, where his PhD thesis looks at Ulster-Scots dialect representation (or lack thereof) in contemporary publishing.

The event takes place at the Green Room, Guidhall, Londonderry on Tuesday 21 November 2023 as part of Ulster-Scots Language Week. 

Admission is free and light refreshments will be provided.