Em Strang
Em Strang is a poet, novelist, mentor, and founder of Scottish charity, Three Streams. Her writing preoccupations are with nature, spirituality and the masculine. 'Bird-Woman' (Shearsman 2016) won the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year 2017. 'Horse-Man' (Shearsman 2019) was shortlisted for the Ledbury-Munthe Best Second Collection Prize. Her first novel, 'Quinn', was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Novel Prize and was published by Oneworld in 2023. She lives on a small hill farm in Argyll.
Victoria MacKenzie
Victoria MacKenzie is a fiction writer and poet based in Fife, Scotland. Her debut novel, 'For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain' (Bloomsbury, 2023), explores the lives of the medieval mystics Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, and was a Guardian Book of the Day and a Times Book of the Month. She has had writing residencies in Scotland, Finland and Australia, and she works as a freelance creative writing tutor. Her second novel, 'Brantwood', about the Victorian art critic John Ruskin, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2025.
Linden Bicket
Linden Bicket is a Lecturer in Literature and Religion in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of 'George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination', (Edinburgh University Press 2019) and with the late Douglas Gifford, co-editor of 'The Fiction of Robin Jenkins: Some Kind of Grace' (Brill 2017). She is also co-editor with Kirsteen McCue of a new edition of George Mackay Brown’s 'An Orkney Tapestry' (Polygon 2021). Her research focuses on patterns of faith and scepticism in twentieth-century fiction and poetry.