Rhiannon Walsh – ‘November’
Arkbound is very proud to introduce you to the work of the aspiring writer Rhiannon Walsh! Rhiannon has been working on her writing with experienced mentor Madeleine Mankey for the past six months and offered us the fabulous first chapter of her novel to share with you all: Chapter 1 ‘November’ It was a bitterly […]
Trey Kyeremeh – Poetry & Fiction
The Arkbound Foundation and the Bridging Literary Divides team are delighted to introduce you to the works of poetry and fiction of Trey Kyeremeh, mentored and edited by Matthew Azoulay. Why I write, #1 (Radical Love) Community, that’s where I root radical love. It was where I first felt love and where I learnt to […]
Ryan McMullan – ‘Just One’
Our Bridging Literary Divides programme is proud to showcase our mentee Ryan McMullan and his incredible novella Just One. He was mentored by experienced writer Matthew Azoulay. Just One is a social realist novella about a queer disabled person’s coming of age experiences in Edinburgh. Sean, the protagonist, has a severe speech impairment and physical […]
Liam Kirk – ‘Crashing By Design’
The Arkbound Foundation and the Bridging Literary Divides team are delighted to share an extract of the work of the aspiring writer Liam Kirk. The project of Liam, who was mentored by Kayla Kemhadjian and Michèle Smith, was to write a fictionalised memoir with the working title of Crashing By Design. It is a story […]
‘Call of the Void’, Natalie Campbell’s novel to be published by Jasami
Arkbound and the Bridging Literary Divides team are delighted to announce that Natalie Campbell, one of the mentees participating in this Creative Scotland funded project, has recently signed a publishing contract with Jasami Publishing. Only two months after the beginning of the six-month program, Michèle Smith, Natalie’s mentor and the managing director of Jasami Publishing, […]