In this series of four writing workshops we will be looking at ways to make strange the everyday

world around us. Using views from our window, photographs, paintings and objects etc, we will

breathe new life into old familiar places, people and things, and learn to see them as we’ve never seen

them before.

These workshops are for everyone, whatever your level of experience. Whether you are interested in

fiction, life-writing, poetry or performance, Making The Old Hat New will help get your creative

juices flowing.

Stewart Ennis was born in Bridge of Weir in the West of Scotland. He is a writer, performer &

occasional photographer. He co-founded Benchtours Theatre, creating award winning international

touring shows throughout the nineties and noughties. He has worked with many of Scotland’s most

respected theatre companies, and in film and TV, and has collaborated on projects in India, Malawi,

Cuba, USA, Ireland and throughout Europe. He was creative writing lecturer at HM Prison Shotts ,

where he edited Visiting Time, an anthology of prison writing, and currently co-edits the literary

magazine Causeway/Cabhsair. (Aberdeen University Press) His theatre writing includes The

Darkroom, Robert Burns’ Celtic Complex, One Straight Line, The Taking of Zena Charbonne, The

Monster & Mary Shelley, A Soup Song and Instamatic, a photo-audio collaboration created in New

Delhi and Glasgow. His stories and poems have appeared in various publications, including Gutter

Magazine, The Caterpillar, The Curlew, and his first novel Blessed Assurance was published in 2019.

In 2019 he was awarded an Aberdeen-Curtin Alliance scholarship to study a PhD in creative writing

at Aberdeen University and Curtin University in Western Australia. (suspended until 2022 due to

Covid 19) He is currently working as a writer on The Little Auk of Inverkithkin, a collaboration

between theatre co Visible Fictions and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. (RSNO)