Morag Edward
Mo has short stories published in a variety of anthologies including Read by Dawn II, Read by Dawn III, Imagine Coal, SlingInk Shorts, Recognition, and Weaponizer. Her chapbook collection of cautionary culinary tales ‘Nil by Mouth’, is available from Transreal Fiction and Forbidden Planet independant bookshops, both in Edinburgh, and is also available from the Edinburgh International Book Festival bookshop in Charlotte Square during August.
In 2009, Mo was a guest writer in Story Shop at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August, then won the Highlands and Islands short story award in September. She became one of Lady Lawson’s household at tePOOKa’s Big Red Door, writing stories for drummers, jugglers, magicians and acrobats.
Mo was a guest writer at Story Shop in the EIBF again in 2010, and was also part of the EIBF’s new cabaret ‘Unbound’ with five other member of Writers’ Bloc. That September Mo was one of the writers in ’26 Treasures’ at the V&A, part of the London Festival of Design, also writing guest articles for Guardian Edinburgh.
This spring, Mo was one of the writers on The Bike Station’s Innertube Map, an interactive map of traffic-free routes around Edinburgh featuring stories and news along each route. In March she was a guest at Golden Hour, and at Inky Fingers in May. In August Mo will be reading at EIBF Unbound with Writers’ Bloc.
