Online Short Story Course

DGAA Online Short Story Course is now underway with Virtual Writer in Residence Jules Horne. It's the second time we've run the course, which brings together writers around Dumfries & Galloway who are interested in an in-depth look at aspects of story technique, including character, structure, viewpoint, time and editing. There's also plenty opportunity for feedback on your work in progress.

If you'd like to take part or be added to the list for future courses, ring 01387 253383 for more information.

Wigtown Festival of the Book

Thurs 7 - Sunday 10 June
Wigtown

Wigtown Festival of the Book 2007

The 2007 Festival of the Book aims to bring you a wide angle view of the book - books in as many forms and meanings as we can, including: book binding, book making, paper making, calligraphy, layout & design, printing, libraries, newspapers, archives...

You'll find full information about the Festival of the Book, held in Scotland's Book Town, on the website, www.wigtown.org.uk.

Christine de Luca at the Bakehouse

Saturday June 30th at 7.00 for 7.30
The Bakehouse presents...

Shetland poet Christine DeLuca

Christine DeLuca is published both nationally and internationally, and writes in both Shetlandic and English. Her first two collections won The Shetland Literary Prize and in 2004 Makkin Sooth Eshaness, won the Rhoda Bulter Prize for Shetland Dialect. Poems have been translated into Swedish, Latvian, Polish, Austrian-German, French, Italian, Welsh and English.

"Her Shetland poems, written in the beautiful Scots of those islands - a blend of Old Scots and Norn - seemed to hanker for a simple and pure way of life which was marvellously evoked in image and sound .... They are poems with a sense of place, sympathy, commitment to language, the urge to celebrate life itself."
Douglas Lipton

Tickets £6.00 concs and regulars (includes a glass of wine); £7.50 until you join!
Ring 01557 814196 or email enquiries@thebakehouse.info or chryssalt2@aol.com.
Book early to avoid disappointment.