John Hudson

John Hudson is an award winning poet and installation artist. He has created work for the French Institute, Edinburgh, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, the Scottish Arts Council, the Forestry Commission, DGAA, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, Jardins de Rospico, Brittany and twice for St Jean d'Art Plasty in Poitou Charente. His publications include Medusa Muse (poems 1996), Round About Burns (ed. anthilogy 1996), The Collected Poems of William Nicholson, GC Books, 1997), The Pumpkin Lantern, selected poems (2008) as well as numerous pamhlets. He is founder and ongoing editor of Markings literary magazine and a director of The Bakehouse poetry performance space based in Scotland and has held residencies as a writer in France, Ireland and China. He created as sequence of 5 films, Solway Fire, on Scottish writers in 2002, and his screenplay Wednesday's Girl was premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1998.

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Chrys Salt

Chrys Salt is an award winning writer and theatre director. She writes theatre and radio plays, books, adaptations, documentaries and features and has published several poetry collections including Inside Out (Pub: Autolycus)Daffodils at Christmas (Pub: Galloway Poets Series) and Greedy for Mulberries (pub; Markings 2008). She is a member of the poetry performance group The Solway Poets and is widely published. She has read her work country wide and in the USA, performing with former Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis, George Melly, Dannie Abse, Ivor Cutler, Ian McMillan, John Hegley and many more. She has been working with John Hudson on various projects over the last fifteen years

National Media Ward (CRS)
New Writing Bursary (English Arts Council)
Work Development Grant (Scottish Arts Council)
Writer's Residency (RHBNC London University)
Fringe First (Edinburgh Festival).
Artist/Writers Residency  (St Jean D'Art Plasty Congnac, Poitou - Charente, France).