Welcome – Fàilte – Walcome
Our Purpose
Our broad aim is to promote the arts, heritage and culture with a distinctly Scottish flavour!
Who Are We?
The ‘Fed’ is Registered Charity and is run by volunteers, some of whom are elected by members onto a Board of Trustees to manage the business of the Fed and others who take on a range of other roles bringing essential skills, time and commitment to help make it all work.
Our aim
Our specific aim is to provide opportunities for writers at all stages of their careers and development to associate, learn and develop together, through performance, development activities, events, publications and the general celebration of Scottish writing across genres and all three of Scotland’s languages, English, Gaelic and Scots.
Jo Gilbert
Jo Gilbert is a spoken word artist and writer from Aberdeen. Writing in their native tongue of Doric (or North-East Scots) and English, Jo’s work has featured on BBC Radio 4 show Tongue and Talk, in art exhibitions, installations and short films, as well as spray painted on a mural at Aberdeen Beach.
Catherine Ogston
Catherine lives near Perth and writes in a range of genres. Her short stories have been published by New Writing Scotland, Scottish Arts Trust, Leicester Writes, Firewords, Postbox and others. Flash fiction has been published by Bath Flash, The Phare, National Flash Fiction Day, Flash 500, Best Microfiction 2025 and others.
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