This was one of my fave WayWORD Festival events ever! 🙌🏻

Excuse the glare on my telly, but enjoying the livestream of WayWORD Festival 's event with Dean Atta أميرة and Leila Aboulela.

A wonderful event this evening for WayWORD Festival! Poetry readings and discussion with Shane Strachan and Len Pennie. Scots and Doric! 😍

Me an Dáibhí The Skeleton King 🎃👻 haed a fine time hearin fae ✨Lentil Pentil✨ an Shane Strachan at the Cowdray Hall as pairt o WayWORD Festival the night 💜 (Shane wis ower busy signin so he's no in the photo)

Great time had the night chairin a blether wi ✨Lentil Pentil✨ & Shane Strachan fir WayWORD Festival. Thanks also te Lesley, oor ace BSL interpreter. I also got te meet Morna Young & Danielle Jam at the event efter oors and fangirl ower how much I loved their Sunset Song adaptation! 🤩

Such a lovely evening talking all things Doric drama - thank you for having us WayWORD Festival 💕

That’s it all over for WayWord 2024! And what a great time it’s been! Fantastic to see Kathy Horne and Donald Hislop at many events! Glad you both enjoyed!

Stacey Harkins Donald Hislop I thoroughly enjoyed all of the WayWORD Festival events Stacey. My outstanding favourites were the psycho-geographical walk, the Toulmin prizewinning short story read by Sheena Blackhall (Wytin), Shane Strachan and Len Pennie's poems... fantastic!

Stacey Harkins Kathy Horne A fabulous diverse range of events. Thanks WayWORD Festival !

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 ❤️

A HUGE congratulations to everyone involved in this year's event! May you all now have some time to rest and recover. 🥳👏🙌

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✨ 🙌🏻

Thanks to Colin at the The Press and Journal for his reflections on Friday’s event at WayWORD Festival, spikkin Scots, and my long poem DREEPIN 🛢️💦

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” 📚👑

Well, HELLO, blue sky over #Aberdeen! Ready for a morning of ##MaryQueenofScots class workshops at Riverbank Primary for WayWORD Festival, and buzzing. 😁👑 Luath Press

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

Finished off my WayWORD Festival events with three class workshops at Riverbank Primary . Thanks so much to all teachers and fab kids for having me, and to WayWORD Festival volunteer Maryann for chumming me for the morning! Luath Press