Rachel Plummer

Rachel Plummer is a poet, storyteller and children's writer. They are a Scottish Book Trust New Writer's Award recipient, and their work has been published in journals and anthologies including Mxlexia, The Dark Horse, Shoreline of Infinity and New Writing Scotland. They are the author of Wain, a book of LGBT reimaginings of Scottish folklore for young people, published by The Emma Press, and they were awarded a cultural commission from LGBT Youth Scotland for this project. Rachel lives in Edinburgh with their two young children, three guinea pigs, and entirely too many books.

The talk will be a discussion of ways we, as creatives, can use folklore and traditional/cultural stories in new ways, to explore and discuss aspects of our own and others' identities. We'll think about who owns these stories, and what it is about them that speaks to so many people across time and place.