Scottish Writers' Centre: In Process Masterclass with Magi Gibson

Acclaimed poet, author of Wild Women of a Certain Age and founder of the Wild Women Writing Workshops, Magi Gibson talks about poetry and young adult writing, creativity and finding your true voice.

Magi has held three Scottish Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowships and one Royal Literary Fellowship, has taught Children’s Writing with the Arvon Foundation and the University of Glasgow, and has published four collections of poetry. Her sequence, The Senile Dimension, won the Scotland on Sunday/Women 2000 Writing Prize, and her work appears in Scottish Love Poems, Modern Scottish Women Poets (both Canongate) and The Twentieth Century Book of Scottish Poetry (Edinburgh University Press), as well as in numerous other anthologies and literary magazines. Her third poetry collection, Wild Women of a Certain Age (Chapman) is now in its third print run. Magi has also written three novels for children aged 9 – 14; the Seriously Sassy series (Puffin) features the fun and feisty eco-warrior/singer-songwriter Sassy Wilde. Seriously Sassy was a Green Book Festival Prize finalist in the US in 2010, and was a Waterstones Book of the Month. The series has been translated into French and German and the online Sassy Gang has members all over the world. Magi has just finished a teen novel set in the future, FLAME, part of a trilogy dealing with the aftermath of climate change catastrophe.