Sheena Blackhall is a writer, illustrator, traditional ballad singer and storyteller in North East Scotland. From 1998-2003 she was Creative Writing Fellow in Scots at the Elphinstone Institute. She has published four Scots novellas, fifteen short story collections and over 200 poetry collections, which are listed here (most recent first). In 2009 she became Makar (poet laureate) for Aberdeen and the North East, and Makar for the Doric Board in 2019.
Tuesday, 9 May 2006
The Short Stories: A Hint o Granite
A Hint o Granite (Hammerfield Publishing, 1992) contains twenty stories, with an introduction by the poet David Ogston. Ten are written in English, the remaining ten are in Scots. Themes range from daffodils to Maharajahs, from pianos to childbirth. Some of the stories were published in Chapman, Three’s Company, Edinburgh Review, Northwords and Lallans.
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