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Stewart Ennis

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Contact: [email protected]
Local authority: Glasgow City
Languages: English, Scots
Stewart Ennis's headshot

Stewart is a novelist, playwright, poet, performer, storyteller, tutor and occasional songwriter & photographer.   

He works with adults and children in English and Scots, but is always happy to work with folk in their ain mither tongue.  His work has taken him throughout Europe, India, East Africa, Cuba, the USA and Western Australia.

He co-edited Causeway/Cabhsair Magazine of Irish & Scottish Writing and was a creative writing tutor in Scottish prisons, where he edited the Visiting Time anthology of prison writing.

His novel Blessed Assurance, was published in 2020. His stories and poems have appeared in  a variety of anthologies  Recent work includes 'The Toaty Coo Wi The Muckle Moo' for BBC Radio Stories in Scots, the animation Yoyo and the Little Auk with Visible Fictions and Royal Scottish National Orchestra, 'The Museum of Stories' with the Museum of Western Australia and Bandyup Women’s Prison, and  Yaltji Ngayuku Papa?/Where’s My Dog? a bilingual book project in collaboration with children in Tjuntjuntjara Remote Aboriginal Community School, in the Great Victoria Desert, to be published by the Indigenous Literacy Foundation in 2024.

Stewart uses all aspects of his creative practice – writing, performance, storytelling, photography and songwriting to make workshops fun and rewarding.   

(Photo credit: Flora Robinson Ennis)

(Works in Scots)

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; Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles); 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

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

Audience will work with

Adult learners; Intergenerational learning; Adults with additional support needs; People experiencing mental health problems; Prisoners & young offenders; Reluctant readers; Vulnerable adults; Young people in the community (e.g. Youth clubs, Guides, Scouts)

Topics of work

Adolescence; Ageing; Biography & memoir; Childhood; Contemporary fiction; Death, grief & bereavement; Editing & editing your own work; Emigration & immigration; Fairy tales, folklore & mythology; Family; First experiences for younger readers; Friendship; Historical fiction; Loneliness & isolation; Performance training; Religion & beliefs

Age groups published for

Children; Adults

Age groups will work with

6-8; 9-11; 12-14; 18+

Audience size

0-10; 11-30; 31-100; 100-500; 500+