Diana Hendry
Poet and Children's Author
Photo: Gerry Cambridge
WELCOME
About Diana Hendry
Primarily a poet, Diana also writes short stories and is the author of many children’s books. She’s worked as a journalist, English teacher and a tutor at the University of Bristol, University of the West of England and the Open University. She has tutored many creative writing courses for the Arvon Foundation and for a year was writer-in-residence at Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary.
She is an honorary member of Shore Poets, Edinburgh. From 2008-2010 she was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow based at Edinburgh University, and from 2015 to 2017 she was co-editor of New Writing Scotland. She regularly reviews fiction for The Spectator and is Assistant Editor at Mariscat Press, Edinburgh.
A New Book from Diana
A DANGEROUS JOB & OTHER ESSAYS
Diana writes:-
Only when I'd put these essays together did I realise that they encompass my writing life from my early twenties as a gauche Young Thing in the Literary Department of The Sunday Times to my slightly cranky eighties reviewing fiction for The Spectator.
'Sharp, funny, independent-minded, these essays and reminiscences are a pleasure to read. Whatever the topic - insomnia, literary journalism, working with cancer patients, interviewing the great and good (Bertrand Russell, Stevie Smith and LS Lowry among them) - Diana Hendry offers an original perspective. Above all, she delights in appraising poems and quietly includes a few of her own.' - Blake Morrison
SHOESTRING PRESS BOOK LAUNCH
Diana Hendry, A Dangerous Job & Other Essays
Hamish Whyte, A Spell of Watching: New & Selected Poems
Fruitmarket Gallery, Market Street, Edinburgh
Thursday 2 May 2024, 6.30 pm
Music from The Self Righteous Brothers
All welcome
