BIO

Craig Aitchison is a writer from Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. He writes poetry and prose in both English and Scots. He has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. He has had short stories published in Northwords Now, Tangled Web, Pushing Out The Boat, Southlight, Wyldblood and in the Fly on the Wall Press anthology, ‘Demos Rising’. His poetry has featured in Poetry Scotland and he was one of the poets commissioned by the Scottish Poetry Library to write a poem to celebrate 250 years of Sir Walter Scott. His work in Scots has featured several time in Lallans magazine and has won the Scots Language Centre’s Sangschaw Prize. In 2022 his poem in Scots, ‘Sea Room’, was shortlisted for both the Wigtown Prize and the Wigtown Scots Prize. He became a Scottish Mountaineering Creative because of poetry inspired by walks around the Scottish Borders and elsewhere in the country. He has also written poetry for the matchday programme of Gala Fairydean Rovers Football Club.

Craig was awarded a Scottish Book Trust New Writers' Award for writing in Scots in 2023. 

He is open to offers of commissions and workshops. He would be delighted to hear from anyone who would like to discuss writing.