Living Writing Reading Series

This series is held quarterly, featuring work in progress from our community of established and emerging writers.

Our April event will feature readings from:

Sam Vutov

Sam made his writing debut in uni days when he joined a theatre group as their playwright. Following on from then, he developed a keen interest in theatre and improv, leading him to split his time between improvising in a long form narrative group and writing as much as he can. His main areas of interest are: screenwriting, sketch and short stories.

Caitlin McDonald

Caitlin is a writer and artist based in Edinburgh. She reviews regularly for Everything Theatre and her multimedia memoir artworks have travelled for exhibition as far afield as Venice and Durban, South Africa. When not writing, Caitlin coaches with Coaching for Creatives, empowering everyone working in the creative industries to achieve fulfilling careers.

M. J. Mallon

M. J. Mallon writes YA fantasy (Bloodstone, book 1, and Golden Healer, book 2) various anthologies including: best-selling/award winning horror, supernatural/paranormal short stories, plus flash fiction, and poetry. Her poetry/ flash fiction collections include: Shh Purely Poetry, Do What You Love, The Hedge Witch and the Musical Poet, Mr Sagittarius Poetry & Prose and Lockdown Innit. Her eclectic blog shares her love of reading, reviewing, writing, poetry, photography, and travel.

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Living Writing is a monthly creative writers' meetup at Leith Depot. Together we exchange prompts as a way to live into creative practice.

At our sessions, practitioners of all genres are welcome and bring a creative writing exercise that can be done in 15 minutes. We draw these prompts at random and, though we don't workshop pieces, at the end we share a brief sample of what we've written as a result of the prompts.

The Living Writing Reading Series is an opportunity for members of our community to present their work at greater length. Writers are invited to share up to 20 minutes of poetry or prose that was started at our meetups and other projects they’re working on.

Come celebrate this work with us! Family and friends are welcome, as well as newcomers interested in joining or supporting our community of writers.

Leith Depot

138-142 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 5DT

https://leithdepot.com/events.html

These readings are held in the spirit of the oracle card drawn at our first session:

All the Willows Know Your Name

'It's such a beautiful feeling to know that you are truly seen by another or by a whole community. When you are known, accepted, and witnessed by others, you have a wonderful sense of connection and communication. You feel the grounded safety of belonging.

These are the kinds of relationships present in your life now, and they provide you with plenty of room to grow. This sense of connection rises from a space of transparency, honesty, trust, and radical self-acceptance. You naturally invite others to see you as you see yourself, in the fullness of your expression. When you shine, it comes from a true desire to share, and that is compelling and attractive to others who can appreciate you.'

(from The Dream Weaver's Oracle by Colette Baron-Reid and Joel Nakamura)

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