Thursday 25th February - 7 p.m.
Cheryl Follon was born in Ayr in 1978, where she grew up. She studied Law and then English and Scottish Literature at Glasgow University before taking anMPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin, and now teaches at acollege of further education in Glasgow. She has received two writer’sbursaries from the Scottish Arts Council, and has published one previouscollection with Bloodaxe, All Your Talk (2004). Tonight she will be

launching her new collection with them Dirty Looks.


Emily Ballou is an Australian poet, novelist and screenwriter. A previousrecipient of the Judith Wright Prize for her poem 'Enter', her firstcollection, The Darwin Poems, a verse-portrait of Charles Darwin waspublished in 2009. It was recently awarded the Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry.

Ryan Davidson's first book Under What Stars was published in July byAmpersand Books. His work has appeared in The American Book Review, MastodonDentist, Open Letters, The Arabesque Review, Temenos Review and NerveCowboy. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of Glasgow.