Sheila Templeton writes in both Scots and English. She was delighted to be nominated as Scots Writer of the Year in the Scots Language Awards 2020. She’s also won a number of prizes, the latest being the Neil Gunn Adult Poetry Competition 2019 and the James McCash Scots Language Poetry Competition 2020, for the fourth time. She often works in collaboration with Maggie Rabatski and A.C. Clarke in their Three Languages of Scotland project, which has resulted in publication by Tapsalteerie Press in its Biggin Brigs series of poetry pamphlets, most recently Drochaid, which appeared in December 2019. She has been widely published in magazines and anthologies, as well as having four previous collections. Her most recent poetry collection is Clyack by Red Squirrel Press, February 2021.
