Qualifications:
MA (History) University of Edinburgh 1980
MLitt in Creative Writing (with Distinction) Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde 2003
PhD (Creative Writing) University of Glasgow 2006
Previously creative writing tutor University of Strathclyde, Open College of the Arts and Borders College
Awards:
Winner of the Macallan/ Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition 2002
Scottish Arts Council Writer’s Bursary 2003/04
Arts and Humanities Research Council Postgraduate Award 2004-2006
Scottish Arts Council small research grant 2007
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Postdoctoral Research Fellowship October 2007 – June 2008 (University of Edinburgh)
Commissions:
Inscriptions (poems) for various sculptures by Dick MacTaggart including ‘Zeus’ which won the N.S.MacFarlane Charitable Award for best first exhibit at the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art’s 140th Annual Exhibition in 2001
Short story for Festive Edition of Southern Reporter 2002/03
Short story for Scottish Borders Tourist Board/Tweed Foundation Pocketbook, Summer 2004
Poems for SHIFT Exhibition Catalogue, Lighthouse, Glasgow, 2007
Work for Artlink exhibition, Telling Tales, Pelican Gallery, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Jan – Mar, 2010
Collaborations:
Alison Allison (bookbinder/shortlisted for Calum MacDonald Award 2001): Organdie (2001); Crow (2002); A Diurnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day (Variations done for Tom Leonard) (2003). [Poetry pamphlets]
Catherine Sargeant: Lift Riffs, syncopation feathers us close and please excuse skull in bleach [thetextisthetext exhibition: Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, October 2011]. Sic transit Gloria mundi: installation of found poetry for Society of Scottish Artists’ Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, February 2012.
maiden feather/cartoon bird, a collaborative film installation with Linda Kosciewicz-Fleming, Written Image, Edinburgh Printmakers, 2013.
Free Flow, a collaborative film installation with members of MIMC for Put Down The Remote, a collective exhibition of film as part of YES Festival, Haining, September 2017.
Previous publications:
Novel: 'The Mauricewood Devils', Freight, February 2016.
Poetry and prose:
‘How She Came to Write a Poem Called Apostrophe’ (short story) in Macallan Shorts, Polygon, 2002, and Written Remedies, Luath, 2007.
‘Dr. Fenton Dozes in a Shaft of Sunlight That Dusts its Parallels Down From a High Window’ in ‘North’ (anthology of inaugural Scotsman/Orange Award), Polygon, 2004.
‘Sensing the ratio of grief to joy in not being alone’ (poem) in ‘The Knuckle End’ (Anthology of writing from University of Glasgow’s Creative Writing course), Freight, 2004.
‘Life is Sweet’ (short story) in ‘Tweed Rivers’, Pocketbook/Luath Press, 2005.
Online workshop on found poetry for Dumfries and Galloway Arts association, March 2006.https://www.dgcommunity.net/dgcommunity/miniweb.aspx?id=263&menuid=4127&openid=4126
‘my daughter will go’ and ‘Downriver (Tweed)’ (poems) in ‘Both Sides of Hadrian’s Wall’, Selkirk Lapwing Press, 2006.
‘Joan is sitting very still’, (poem from Cage*) in Wigtown Poetry Competition inaugural anthology, 2006.
‘Mined’, four poems for SHIFT Exhibition Catalogue, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, 2007.
‘We have ignition’, (from Final Warning, a series of ecopoems) in Product, Winter 2007-08.
‘Ashamed’, ((from Final Warning, a series of ecopoems)) in Product, Summer, 2008.
‘Americities’, (poem) in Product 15, 2009.
‘ugh, oOps and EXIT:EXTINCT’ (from Final Warning, a series of ecopoems) in HOW2, online writing journal for women, feature on ecopoetics http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_2/index.html
Excerpts from ‘Cage’ in Black Box Manifold, Issue 1 www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/
‘the great man’, monologue in Scots (from Cage) in Border Voices: An Anthology from Borders Writers’ Forum, December 2008.
‘La danse d-urgence’ and ‘recant sequence’ (from Final Warning, a series of ecopoems) in Black Box Manifold, Issue 3, July 2009 www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/
‘Four Borders Micronarratives’, Stone Going Home Again, New Writing Scotland, ASLS, Glasgow, August 2010.
‘Fifty word hospital stories’, in Gutter 3, Freight, August 2010.
‘Ruins Triptych’, in Border Voices on Border Ruins: An Anthology from Borders Writers’ Forum, November 2010.
‘Three ante war poems’, in Black Box Manifold, Issue 6 March 2011. www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/
‘A Surplus of Possible Reintegration’s, (poem) in Gutter 5, Freight, August, 2011.
‘Lucia Longmore responds to Titian’s Man with a Glove’, Border Voices on Scottish Borders and Beyond, An Anthology from Borders Writers’ Forum, September 2012
‘Lips sigh red’, (poem) part of Tom Raworth tribute, Black Box Manifold 18, Summer 2017.
‘the seven ages’, (poem) in Scotland Anthology, Peter Manson (Ed), FREE POETRY booklets. https://petermanson.wordpress.com/2018/03/14/free-poetry-scotland-anthology/, 2018 Excerpts from ‘Cage’ in ‘stand by your work’: in memoriam Tom Leonard curated by nicky melville in Black Box Manifold, Issue 24, Summer 2020 http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/issue24/index24.html
Exhibitions:
Poems from Final Warning, a series of eco poems, were exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter, June 6-28, 2009 as part of an event based on ecopoetics and landscape http://www.mediaalive.co.uk/ecopoetics
Final Warning also exhibited as part of thetextisthetext exhibition, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, October 2011, The Yellow Bench, Edinburgh, August 2013, and in Palimpsest, as part of the Outside-in/Inside-out Festival October/November 2016, MANY Studios, Ross Street, Glasgow.
sermons hurt/curb me (from Final Warning) exhibited in Visual Arts Scotland Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, February 2012.
Filmography: Jenny Corbett April 2015, Alchemy Film Festival (AFF); Sunday School April 2016, AFF; Lips sigh red October, 2016, Off the Peg/Creative Coathanger, and March 2017, AFF; Remedy March 2017 Moving Image Makers’ Installation The Power to Tell, AFF; We sewed them into the hems of our skirts and walked through the town to the sea where we threw them into the oncoming tide (installation) 3-6 May 2018, AFF; We are Creatures (Expanded Cinema collaboration with Nicoletta Stephanz) May 2018, AFF; White Point (film collaboration with Annette Philo) May 2018, AFF; Perilous May 2018, AFF. For selection of films see Vimeo.
Events/Readings/workshops – see events archive.
Also
Spilt Colours, (poetry pamphlet), Scottish Borders Council, 1999. Poems previously published in various literary magazines (e.g. Poetry Scotland, painted, spoken, Eildon Tree)
Cage, a prosimetrum, unpublished.
Participated in BBC Radio Drama Writers Lab, January 2004 and Page to Stage sessions, Scottish Borders, 2015-16.
Participated in seminar on Experimental Poetics at Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Annual Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2005.
Conference papers on experimental poetics given June 2004, October 2005, June 2006, July 2006.
Seminar paper, In the shade of the Eildon Tree: experiments in the oral tradition of the Scottish Borders, given at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 30th January, 2008.
Founder member of Borders Writers’ Forum