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A massive thank you to everyone who made WayWORD 2024 extra special with our biggest programme and audiences yet 📚🎨🎭 Many thanks to our funders for making it all possible: Creative Scotland University of Aberdeen University of Aberdeen Development Trust SCIO EventScotland News Aberdeen City Council ❤️ 

Lovely to meet colleagues & readers at a fantastic event WayWORD Festival yesterday! Thank you Timothy Baker for the brilliant interlocution of Louise Welsh & I, as well as Helen Lynch, Alan Warner & @Shane_Strachan ❤️

Colin Farquhar: Can you tell a Whitehills accent from a Banff one? Doric is more than just the one dialect! dlvr.it/TDvKCF

This term, we're celebrating the subjects of the LLMVC! This week's Discipline is English! 📚 The University of Aberdeen has been offering English degrees since 1894. Happy 130th birthday to the English department!! 🎉 abdn.ac.uk/sll/discipline…

Many thanks to Colin Farquhar for this article on spikkin mair Scots inspired by our Friday night headline event with @Shane_Strachan and ✨Lentil Pentil✨ 🙌🏻

Great to have Barbara with us for care home and school events this week focused on her book, “The Boy, the Witch and the Queen of Scots” 📚👑

Calling all teachers! The Walter Scott Research Centre is delighted to announce a new toolkit full of ready-to-use, engaging resources on one of the UK's most influential poets: Walter Scott. Browse the toolkit here: abdn.io/Zg

A new online resource created by the University of Aberdeen aims to introduce school children to the work of 'Scotland's first best seller' Walter Scott abdn.io/ZF

Great to see that the recent schools engagement we supported with author Jen Stout has inspired S3 pupils at PortlethenAcademy to educate younger pupils about the war in Ukraine through storytelling 📚🇺🇦 Many thanks to Jen and Portlethen Academy!

As the nights grow darker, it’s time to curl up on the couch with a great book! Join us for a series of inspiring events with poets and novelists from Doric to nature poetry, fantasy worlds and international queer fiction. More information & free booking: waywordfestival.com

The final Nan Shepherd event of 2024: readings and discussion with Trinidadian Scottish poet Anthony Vahni Capildeo. Polkadot Wounds wrestles with life in our restless times, playing on traditions of travel and nature writing. 6.30pm, 13th Nov. waywordfestival.com to book

In Conversation with L.R. Lam - Here Be Dragons | 18th Nov, 6.30pm As part of Book Week Scotland, L.R. Lam will read and discuss their novel Dragonfall as well as exploring maps and fantasy creatures in relation the ‘Imagined Norths’ exhibition. Book at waywordfestival.com

Queer Indonesian writing with Nuril Basri: discussing his novel 'Not a Virgin', a queer coming-of-age tale set in Jakarta, and Maya, a tragicomic tale of an Indonesian migrant worker's voyage. 26 Nov, 6.30pm. Book at waywordfestival.com

As the nights grow darker, it’s time to curl up on the couch with a great book! Join us for a series of inspiring events with poets and novelists from nature poetry to fantasy worlds and international queer fiction. Morn information & free booking at waywordfestival.com

The final Nan Shepherd event of 2024: readings and discussion with Trinidadian Scottish poet Anthony Vahni Capildeo. Polkadot Wounds wrestles with life in our restless times, playing on traditions of travel and nature writing. 6.30pm, 13th Nov. waywordfestival.com to book

In Conversation with L.R. Lam - Here Be Dragons | 18th Nov, 6.30pm As part of Book Week Scotland, L.R. Lam will read and discuss their novel Dragonfall as well as exploring maps and fantasy creatures in relation the ‘Imagined Norths’ exhibition. Book at waywordfestival.com

Queer Indonesian writing with Nuril Basri: discussing his novel 'Not a Virgin', a queer coming-of-age tale set in Jakarta, and Maya, a tragicomic tale of an Indonesian migrant worker's voyage. 26 Nov, 6.30pm. Book at waywordfestival.com

Find out how you can be involved in the festival and shape our future programming. Do you have a great idea for an event? Or a passion for making things happen? Want to learn new skills in the creative industries? See full details and book your space at waywordfestival.com