Craig Aitchison

Craig Aitchison has published fiction in publications including Northwords Now, Tangled Web, Wyldblood, and Southlight. He was commissioned by the Scottish Poetry Library to respond to Sir Walter Scott’s 250^th anniversary. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Scotland, New Writing Scotland, Nutmeg and Tapsalteerie's collection Sleekit. Recently he was chosen as a winner of the Burrell Collection’s Hidden Treasures competition. He received a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust in 2023 for writing in Scots. In 2023 he won both the Badenoch Prize and the Wigtown Poetry Prize for Scots. In 2024 he will appear at the Borders Book Festival. He is currently working on a novella and a poetry project about the River Tweed.

With over twenty years’ experience working in secondary schools, Craig has worked with a diverse range of young people and is able to provide workshops on a wide variety of topics.