“I don’t remember when it happened –
when I didn’t need the attention,
admiration, or validation.”
From Enough by Felicia Sabartinelli
Amanda Hahn
Amanda Hahn is a writer from rural Montana by way of Colorado. She is currently obtaining her Master’s degree in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling in Scotland. With a background in marketing and communications, she decided to turn her hobby of writing into a craft. Embracing the weird, she writes realistic fantasy and historical fiction with some poetry mixed in.
Ashley Aitken
Born and raised in the harbour town of Irvine, Ashley’s work invites people to escape into her different fantasy worlds. Wring has been a comfort for her for many years and an escape from small-town life. Her work may include some unique spellings, but her worlds and characters will enrapture your mind so you won’t notice. Against all odds, she completed her undergrad at Stirling, and she is now studying Creative Writing at the Master’s level; she is working on honing her skills to finish a story centered around people-watching, which she started as an undergrad, and eventually develop a fun fantasy young-adult series.
Aubrey Aloi
In 2017, Aubrey Aloi quit her job managing restaurants in Richmond, Virginia and finally tossed in the dishrag. The time she spent in the “real world” helped her rediscover an innate passion for character-driven storytelling. However, it took a quarter-life existential crisis and raw oysters to take that passion seriously. With a focus in both Writing and Filmmaking during her undergrad, Aubrey’s academic aspirations expand to her plan of teaching in higher academia. She is currently aspiring toward a PHD in Creative Writing. Her writing work focuses on dark historical and mythological women’s fiction.
Ewan Angus
Ewan Angus, an English & Journalism graduate, considers himself a poet but rarely proves it. After various attempts at different jobs, and hating them all, Ewan has compiled a portfolio of stories and novels that revolve around a wandering poet sorcerer. Raised in Perthshire, with a few years in Japan, Ewan now oversees three bars, cycles a lot, and plays DND on Tuesdays.
Guadalupe Pereira Pinar
Guadalupe “Lu” Pereira Pinar is a writer who was born in Extremadura, Spain. Her mother taught her how to write when she was just three years old, and she has been writing ever since. In 2019, she moved to Scotland where she graduated with a Bachelor of Honors in English Studies and Journalism Studies from the University of Stirling. She is currently pursuing an MLitt in Creative Writing at the same university. Lu is fluent in four languages and has edited scripts for the drama club Molamanta Teatro. She also won the Best Extremena Actress Award in 2019. Lu writes both fantasy and romance, and in her free time, she enjoys taking pictures for her Instagram, indulging in cheese and wine, and fangirling over Emily Henry’s books.
Haesel Dayton-Oxland
Haesel Elizabeth Dayton-Oxland is a Weird Fiction writer from Argyll on the West Coast of Scotland. She has a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Psychology, and is now working on a MLitt in Creative Writing. She has helped run the Creative Writing Society at the University for 4 years now, and is the current President. She loves writing in most genres, particularly speculative fictions, and even dabbles in poetry from time to time. Outside of writing she spends her time playing D&D or video games. She also likes arts and crafts like painting or crocheting.
Isaac Hattam
Isaac graduated Stirling University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Digital Media in 2023. He specialized in filmmaking during his Dissertation Project for which he wrote and directed a short film. With his previous experience of creative writing – including a blog post for Children in Scotland’s ‘Living Museums’ Project – he decided to pursue this passion further through Stirling’s Creative Writing Master’s course, where he hopes to develop his creative work into a vocation.
Jodie Collin-Ward
Jodie Collin-Ward graduated from the University of Stirling in 2023 with a combined degree in History and Law. Her experience with creative writing began as a personal hobby. However, she has recently incorporated this interest into her historical research project under the MRes Humanities course at Stirling. Jodie’s passion for fun, creativity, culture and self-reflection shine through in her writing and research.
Lorraine McLelland
A writer of short stories. Lorraine lives in the beautiful countryside of Stirlingshire and enjoys crafting tales of the everyday and the human condition.
Marion Archibald
Marion is a visual artist and book binder who graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2013. Despite studying Fine Art Photography, she mainly creates artists’ books and is hoping that by doing the MLitt in Creative Writing, she’ll finally have something to put in them! Marion lives near Perth, and she and her partner run book binding and large-format photography workshops from their studios, The Old Printing Works, in Fife.
Utku Soyal
Utku is a short fiction writer from Istanbul. He has a bachelor’s degree in English Literature. His writings often focus on trying to make sense of the emotions that are embedded in his subconscious mind. He believes that almost any work of fiction can give context to the vague thoughts that are detached from reality and floating in the void of the mind ever discontentedly. To that extent, he plans to keep on writing until the last restless thought he has finds a new plane of existence in the form of a story.
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