Who’s who?
What’s Your Story is brought to you by Scottish Book trust and our StoryBoard of teen writers and illustrators. See who’s taking part this year below.
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Meet the seven passionate and creative young people who'll be working with us on the What's Your Story? programme in 2019.
Ailbhe Murphy
Speciality: Gaelic Short stories
Andrew Pettigrew
Speciality: Novels
Beccie White
Speciality: Performance Poetry
Devin McRoberts
Speciality: Performance Poetry
Nicole Foreman
Speciality: Short Stories
Sara Oussaiden
Speciality: Illustration
Skye Ailun Peng
Speciality: Novels
Mentors StoryBoard 2019
The young writers and illustrators who're taking part in our What's Your Story? 2019 programme are paired up with professionals. These are the fabulous mentors who'll be working with our teens this year.
Alex Nye
Alex Nye is an award-winning author. She has two new titles out this year with Fledgling, Arguing With the Dead, a historical novel about Mary Shelley, and When We Get to the Island… a middle-grade novel about friendship and being lost.
Helen McClory
Helen McClory’s debut story collection On the Edges of Vision won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award.
Other works include a novel-in-flash, Flesh of the Peach, Mayhem & Death, and a collection of microfiction about Jeff Goldblum called The Goldblum Variations. She lives in Edinburgh.
Jenny Lindsay
Jenny Lindsay is one of Scotland’s best known spoken word poets and performers. She has performed at festivals and events including Latitude, the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali. She is the author of one full collection and two pamphlet collections of poetry, was the BBC Slam Champion in 2012 and was longlisted for the inaugural Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship in 2017.
Jules Scheele
Jules Scheele is a non-binary freelance illustrator, comics artist and graphic facilitator based in Glasgow. They specialise in graphic storytelling and illustrations that bring a human touch to difficult concepts. Their recent work includes illustrations for the BBC, The Guardian, VICE, Open University, and Icon’s Graphic History book series, including Queer: A Graphic History and the forthcoming Gender: A Graphic Guide.
Maureen MacLeod
Lewis-born Maureen Macleod writes fiction and non-fiction and is the author of the first ever Gaelic travelogue, A’ toirt mo chasan leam, as well as the novella, Banais na Bliadhna. An avid traveller, she is working on a book about meeting up with seventy-one cousins as she travelled across Canada.
Maureen is a Scottish BAFTA-winning television director who spent many years working on the BBC current-affairs programme, Eorpa.