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Chrys Salt

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Contact: [email protected]
Local authority: Dumfries and Galloway
Languages: English
Chrys Salt's headshot

Chrys is primarily a poet, but has combined a successful career in theatre, television, and radio, with her poetry writing and performance, writing and directing in the theatre and the publication of seven books for actors (Methuen Drama).

She has run workshops for professional actors at the Actors Centre in London for 20 years, experience she now brings to her Make Your Writing Speak performance workshops. She has produced four full poetry collections and four pamphlet collections, and read at venues and festivals across the UK, in the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Finland and India. She will be the International Poet at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival October 2019 with a subsequent tour of Australia.

Among other awards and residencies she has been the recipient of two Creative Scotland Bursaries, one for completing her collection Dancing on a Rock and the most recent for research in The Yukon for her next collection based on the Klondike Gold Rush. This is due to be published by Indigo Dreams Pub, with subsequent readings in The Yukon.

She is Artistic Director of both Bakehouse Community Arts and BIG LIT: The Stewartry Book Festival. She received an MBE in The Queen's Birthday Honour List 2014 for services to The Arts. (Photo credit: Claire Newman Williams)

Local authorities will visit

Aberdeen City; Aberdeenshire; Angus; Argyll and Bute; Clackmannanshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Dundee; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Highland; Inverclyde; Midlothian; Moray; North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Orkney Islands; Perth and Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; Shetland; South Ayrshire; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire; West Lothian

Events will deliver

Mentoring; Panel event; Reading; Residency; Workshop; Professional development, CLPL or CPD; Chairing events

Topics of work

Activism & protest; Politics; Wars & conflicts

Age groups published for

Adults

Age groups will work with

18+

Audience size

11-30