DURA – Dundee Review of the Arts (DURA)

Lorens Holm, ‘Politics of Small Spaces’

Susan Nickalls, ‘Mind the Gap’

WRITING PRACTICE AND STUDY 2019 SHOWCASE: “Moments in Thin Places” BY Loretta Mulholland

Loretta Mulholland was born in Glasgow and studied for an MA (Hons) in Modern History and Economic History at Glasgow University. She worked as an Industrial Archaeologist and Research Assistant to Professor John Hume at Strathclyde University and co-wrote an academic publication on the history of the Scottish Brick and Tile Industry, entitled, Scottish Brickmarks. She Read More

WRITING PRACTICE AND STUDY 2019 SHOWCASE: “Searching” by Christine Hodghton

Christine B. Hodghton was born in Cardiff on St David’s Day; she just wishes her Welsh was as good as her French! She is an avid traveller and enjoys researching places and events. As a child she lived in Bahrain, Hong Kong, Japan and Canada. She has lived in Dunfermline for nineteen years, and often Read More

WRITING PRACTICE AND STUDY 2019 SHOWCASE: ‘Home’ by Hamzah M Hussain

H.M. Hussain is a short story and essay writer who endeavors to cover a variety of themes both universal and those specific to him and his identity. His work has appeared in a range of print and online publications. These include ‘Cruise’ in Prole magazine, ‘The Last Time We Drew Flowers’ for the Vaulted Marvel Read More

WRITING PRACTICE AND STUDY 2019 SHOWCASE: ‘The Den’ by Nicole Gemine

Nicole has spent the last five years studying at Dundee University, gaining her undergraduate degree in English Literature before completing the Writing Practice and Study MLitt. Nicole is a keen reviewer of the arts and several of her reviews are published here on DURA. She has also been actively involved in the organising of literary Read More

WRITING PRACTICE AND STUDY 2019 SHOWCASE: “We Are Still Here Too” by Geraldine Gould

Geraldine Gould was born in Glasgow and studied Italian at the University of Edinburgh. She recently completed an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee. Her previous published work is poetry but more recently she has enjoyed exploring the craft of short story writing and other prose forms. Much of her work reflects the lives Read More

WRITING PRACTICE AND STUDY 2019 SHOWCASE: ‘My Autoportrait’ BY Brenda McHale

Brenda McHale loves to play with words, either as a writer or as a copy editor and proofreader. Her working life has spanned over 30 jobs from making chip pan baskets to childhood practitioner, so it’s perhaps not surprising that her writing is also eclectic. She has featured in The People’s Friend, Northwards Now, Reader’s Read More

WRITING PRACTICE AND STUDY 2019 SHOWCASE: ‘Drumdonie’ by Rhoda Neville

Rhoda Neville has lived in several old houses in Scotland, England, and the States. She’s taken in hand the renovation and preservation of several of them, always sensitive to their relevance as living histories of the people who have occupied them. Much of Rhoda’s writing—she started using her grandfather’s Hermes Rocket field typewriter at thirteen—has Read More

WRITING PRACTICE AND STUDY 2019 showcase: ‘Partings’ & ‘The Darkness Inside’ by Elaine Burke

Elaine Burke is a writer of fiction, with a particular interest in crime. As a child she devoured the Famous Five, Secret Seven and Nancy Drew books and, at secondary school, her English teacher encouraged her to pursue her passion in literature. She left school at 17 to attend the University of Stirling, where she Read More