Each resident has the opportunity to present publicly material that relates to the activities, research and making they engaged in while in residence.
On 31 May at Cortachy Castle, we hosted several guests to hear our inaugural writer in residence, Vanessa Onwuemezi in conversation with Glasgow-based poet, Colin Herd. Vanessa began the event reading an extract from her second book that she started while in residence. After, Colin and Vanessa discussed writing about elusive identities, atmospheres and phenomena, which they explored by looking at UFOs, the ‘haar’ (a sea fog), and the expressive possibilities of language when written in translation and in relation to artworks.