Saturday 7th October, 12.15-1.45pm, Library Upstairs

This session hears from three authors who have been employed as writers-in-residence about their experience and how it has influenced their own writing. Doug Johnstone was until recently writer-in-residence to William Purves Funeral Directors, Thomas Clark is currently undertaking a residency with Selkirk Football Club and Janice Galloway was the first Scottish Arts Council writer-in-residence to four Scottish prisons.

Chair: Catherine Simpson, recently Writer in Residence at Dunbar’s CoastWord Festival