FORMER WPM PERFORMERS
Adam Stafford weird wonderful looping live music
Alan Bissett novelist, playwright, performer, occasional doorman
Claire Askew great sexy witty poems
Doug Johnstone muso and thriller writer
Eilidh MacAskill queen of the ukulele, theatre maker
Emily Ballou acerbic, dark, lovely poetry
Ewan Morrison novelist, futurist, busy skewing globalisation
Gary McNair Scottish theatre’s boy most likely to
Iain Campbell eats crisps on stage, and it’s great.
Kieran Hurley rabble-rousing theatre and performance
Miaoux Miaoux the boy wonder of Glasgow electronica
Michael Cassidy soaring songs with a Paisley slant
Rodge Glass biographer, novelist, scholar, gentleman
Ryan Van Winkle magnificently moustachioed poet/force of nature
Sara Thomas performer, writer, sometime living statue
Seafieldroad a new song every week, by Swimmer One’s Andrew Eaton
Sian Bevan comedian, storyteller, right dirty laugh
Simon Sylvester master of the Twitter short story
Sophie Cooke elegant novels, dark satirical stories
Swimmer One like the Pet Shop Boys, but from Edinburgh, and with a girl
Tawona Sithole Zimbabwean-Glaswegian poet and musician
Zorras live music, film and megaphone action, all at the same time
OTHER CLEVER, EXCITING PEOPLE
The Arches our home
Cargo Publishing hungry young turks of Scottish publishing
Fractured West Helen and Kirsty’s flash fiction magazine
Gutter excellent magazine of Scottish writing
Light Up Glasgow’s Skyline our friendly video producers
Neil Thomas Douglas our wonderful resident photographer
The Scottish Book Trust major organisation helping writers in Scotland
Ursula our DJ, and co-organiser of Glasgow Nightwalk
Anita Govan, Edinburgh wordsmith
