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ABOUT BRIAN WHITTINGHAM

Brian Whittingham, poet, fiction writer, editor and playwrite & ex-steelworker/draftsman, born and lives in Glasgow. He has published five poetry collections, the most recent being DRINK THE GREEN FAIRY (Luath Press) and SEPTIMUS PITT & THE GRUMBLEOIDS (also Luath). Brian has written 4 plays and has had various short fiction published. He was recently co-editor of New Writing Scotland.

As a tutor, teacher, facilitator and lecturer he delivers workshops to varied client groups such as primary & secondary school pupils, further education students, community groups, senior citizens, mental health groups, addiction recovery groups, reminiscing groups etc. in venues as varied as schools, colleges, museums, art-galleries, libraries, prisons, WW2 settings and drop-in centres.

BRIAN WELCOMES COMMISSIONS in all aspects of creative writing. He specialises in POETRY, FICTION, DRAMA and EDITING. Commissions can be, for example, one off sessions, or weekly structured courses to vocational or non-vocational standards. Some of his workshops have consisted of teenagers writing poems in the sand on the Normandy beaches, senior citizens writing their memories whilst sitting in tramcars in Glasgow's Transport Museum, youngsters writing plant poems in Glasgow's Winter Gardens and Hawian students writing dialect pieces in Seattle University.

Brian has edited literary magazines and anthologies and has wide experience of reading from his own works both in the uk and abroad.

Image © Jim Dunn 2006

In this photograph Brian and some P7 pupils investigated Ross Sinclar's DEAD CHURCH in Glasgow's Gallery Of Modern Art (pictured above). They walked round it, touched it, sniffed it, listened to the noise of it, tasted the air of it, watched others looking at it, asked the why of it, then gave their imaginations licence to make free reign of it, to reach inside and ask themselves what they saw in it. Then they wrote their poems.