Sep 2-7
IOU Hostel
Residential Writing Week: Non-Fiction
Shaping life into writing
Lamorna Ash
Paul Farley
Guest: Amanda Thomson
Amanda Thomson
Amanda Thomson is a writer and visual artist who lives and works in Strathspey (in the Scottish Highlands) and Glasgow and who teaches at the Glasgow School of Art. Her art and writing explores our relationship to places and landscapes, the natural world and our relationships to and within it. Her first book, A Scots Dictionary of Nature is published by Saraband Books, and her most recent, Belonging, Natural Histories of Place, Identity and Home, is published by Canongate Books. Microbursts, a collaboration with Elizabeth Reeder and a collection of lyric and intermedial essays on illness, caring, grief and creativity is published by Prototype Press. She is also a regular contributor to the Guardian newspaper’s Country Diary.