THE TRANSATLANTIC MAGAZINE
THE TRANSATLANTIC MAGAZINE
Writer and performer Shane Strachan has been awarded the prestigious position of the Scots Scriever residency, hosted by the National Library of Scotland.
This year, the post was designed to promote North East Scots, or Doric as it is known locally. The residency will offer Strachan the opportunity to explore the richness of the National Library's Scots language collections, as well as give him the space and time to produce original work in Doric.
Strachan is a published writer, with a doctorate in Creative Writing from the University of Aberdeen. He is a highly active creative practitioner in his native Aberdeen, working across disciplines and developing work which explores the stories of the North East of Scotland and beyond. His residency starts next week.
He said:
"I'm fair trickit tae be this year's Scots Scriever, especially gettin tae promote the Doric o my hame region Aiberdeenshire tae folk that bide ere and aabody else online. Broucht up in the fishin toons o Fraserburgh and Peterheid, I've been spikkin Doric aa my life and scrievin in it for sixteen years, sae it's an honour tae haud this affa rare position wi the National Library of Scotland across the neist year."
