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Hannah Lavery
Hannah Lavery is a poet and playwright. Her poetry pamphlet, Finding Seaglass: Poems from The Drift was published by Stewed Rhubarb Press (May 2019) and her poem, Scotland You’re No Mine was selected as one the best Scottish poems for 2019. The Drift, her autobiographical play, was produced by the National Theatre of Scotland for a nationwide tour in 2019. She was also awarded a New Playwright Award from Playwrights Studio Scotland and was named as one on BBC Writers Room Scottish Voices of 2020. In May 2020 she was selected as one of Owen Sheer’s Ten Writers Asking Questions That Will Shape Our Future For The International Literature Showcase, a project from the National Writing Centre and the British Council and she is one of Imaginate’s Accelerator Artists and an Associate Artist with the National Theatre of Scotland. Her most recent play The Lament for Sheku Bayoh is being produced by The National Theatre of Scotland, Lyceum Theatre and Edinburgh International Festival for a live stream from the Lyceum Theatre in November 2020 in which Hannah will also direct. www.hannahlavery.com
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Callum O’Dwyer
Callum is an Aberdeen based poet and writer who likes to weave science and drama into his poetry. He was a founding member of the Loud Poets back in 2014, and still writes for exuberant performance to this day. He has spent most of this year recovering from a nasty bout of covid, but intends to begin work on a deput pamphlet next year.