Name Brian Whittingham | Role Writer | |
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Books Bunnets 'n' Bowlers: A Clydesid, Clocking in Clocking Out: Poe, Drink the Green Fairy, Septimus Pitt and the Grumbleoids, The old man from Brooklyn | ||
The three queens by brian whittingham
Brian Whittingham is a Scottish writer, editor and lecturer on creative writing.
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Early life and career
Brian Whittingham was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1950. He lived in a council tenement in Drumchapel until the early 1970s. Before becoming a full-time writer he worked as a steelworker/draftsman in Glasgow shipbuilding yards close to the Titan Crane. He worked on the squad that built the QE2, launched 1967 and attended a gala dinner on board in 2008 to mark the ship's retirement to become a floating hotel in Palm Jumeirah, Dubai.
Personal life
He has two children. He enjoys the Scottish climate and travel.He is an art fan with a preference for Post impressionists work.
Works
He recorded Edwin Morgan's poem, "The Loch Ness Monster Song" as a tribute along with other invited poets, to celebrate Edwin's 80th Birthday.
His workshops have consisted of teenagers writing poems in the sand on the Normandy beaches, senior citizens writing their memories whilst sitting in tramcars in Glasgow's Transport Museum, youngsters writing plant poems in Glasgow's Winter Gardens and Hawaiian students writing dialect pieces in Seattle University.
He has worked as Writer in Residence for East Lothian Council. He has enjoyed long term fellowships at Yaddo in Seattle and Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship at Chevillon Grez in Paris.