Scottish Writers’ Centre Poetry Masterclass (part 2) with Brian Whittingham

Glasgow author Brian Whittingham shares how to read, criticise and edit your work. Workshop 1 attendees are encouraged to bring in their assignment from the previous week and learn how to criticise work in a group setting and how to consider editing and re-arranging their poem’s structure, with special emphasis on considering free-verse line breaks.

Whittingham is the author of five poetry collections, the most recent being Clocking In Clocking Out (poems and photographs on the subject of work) and an accompanying writing workshop manual, People who work Standing Up, 2012. His short fiction includes The Father Who Bought Fear which was broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 2012 and The Charing Cross Carpet, winner of the Sunday Herald Christmas short story competition in 2000. He has had residencies in New York at YADDO artist’s colony in 1994 & at Lithuania in 2006 & at GREZ in France with the RLS fellowship in 2008. He has read his work on BBC radio and television and appeared at Bumbershoot and the Burning Word literary festivals in Seattle. He’s also a past editor of West Coast magazibne, Nerve magazine and New Writing Scotland.