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North Bridge: Where We Travelled
Fiction, poetry, memoir, a script & a game inspired by the North Bridge from 22 Edinburgh writers.
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A multi-genre anthology inspired by Edinburgh’s North Bridge. Genres include historical, sci-fi, fantasy, contemporary, and memoir. We have experimental forms, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art, a script and a game!
Contributors
Contributors include: ABS, Brynn P, Catherine Wilson Garry, Elspeth Wilson, Ema Smekalová, Jay Garfield Oliver, Jeda Pearl, Kate Wilkinson, Leilani Taneus-Miller, Lesa Ng, Margherita Still, Maria Conte, Nazaret Ranea, Rachel Gorry, Rachel McBrinn, Sandy Bennett-Haber, Sonny, Tamzin McDonald, Toni De Luca, Zain Rishi.
Edited by Jeda Pearl. Cover artwork & design: Kezia Lewis. Interior Layout: Duncan Lockerbie.
About the book
Author bios
ABS is a creative technologist, game designer, producer and writer. An interdisciplinary collaborator in live events, immersive experiences, game development and genre fiction/psychogeography/TTRPGs. He enjoys engaging with people/places and history/culture – accessibly and sustainably. He is the founder of the Edinburgh based morefunwith.games and can be found going on abs.ventures. BlueSky: ab5.bsky.social | Mastodon: @ABS | Instagram: @_a_b_5_ | Websites: abs.ventures morefunwith.games
Brynn P is a Scottish artist and aspiring author. They like to explore themes of trauma and self-discovery and will play with the genres of surrealism/ absurdism, sci-fi, fantasy and comedy.
Catherine Wilson Garry is a poet and writer. Her debut poetry pamphlet Another Word for Home is Blackbird was published by Stewed Rhubarb Press. She has been highly commended by the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2024 and the Bridport Poetry Prize. Instagram: @CWilsonPoet | Website: cwilsonpoet.co.uk
Elspeth Wilson is a writer interested in exploring the limitations and possibilities of the body. Her pamphlet, Too Hot to Sleep, is published by Written Off Publishing. Her debut novel, These Mortal Bodies, is forthcoming with Simon and Schuster in 2025. She can often be found in the sea. Instagram: @elspethwrites | Website: elspethwilson.co.uk
Ema Smekalová is a writer from Prague based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Their work explores ideas of belonging and alienation through speculative fiction, food and memes. Their writing has appeared in The Skinny. Instagram: @emaaa.s
Jay Garfield Oliver… British born, Jamaican raised, Scottish based, polymath and magpie. Their work emphasises a fascination with layers, colour, texture, time, process, waste, interrogating ‘sustainability’ and the value of THINGS. Jay believes in the Socratic method… ‘the more we think we know, just proves that we know so little’.
Jeda Pearl is a Scottish Jamaican writer and arts programmer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work was shortlisted by RSL Jerwood Poetry Award 2024 & Sky Arts RSL Award 2022, and longlisted by BSFA 2024 & Women Poets’ Prize 2022. Her poems and stories appear in art installations and several anthologies, and her debut poetry collection, Time Cleaves Itself, is published by Peepal Tree Press. BlueSky: jedapearl.bsky.social | Instagram: @JedaPearl
Kate Wilkinson is a writer based in Edinburgh, who writes creative non-fiction about violence, nature and home. Her work has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction and published by Bandit Fiction. She is currently on the MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. Instagram: @_kate.wilkinson
Leilani Taneus-Miller is a Haitian-American writer based in Edinburgh. An Alexander Dixon Scholar at University of Glasgow’s creative writing programme, her work has appeared in public campaigns, bookshops and anthologies. She is drawn to research and programming on: the art of migration communities, regeneration of Afro-Caribbean archives, and narrative voice in diasporic literature and theatre. Instagram: @leilani_taneusmiller
Lesa Ng is an Edinburgh based Glaswegian, librarian, poet, and writer. Her work is published in the Responders of Colour Annual (2022) and Covert Literary Magazine (2024). She appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2022 and 2023 and at Book Fringe: the ALT Edition in 2024. Instagram: @mrmacwolfy
Margherita Still is an Italian Scottish writer who lives in Edinburgh. She has an MA Creative Writing from Napier University, where she studied Industrial Design in the eighties. Her desire to write was sparked when she recognised her accent in Bill Forsyth films, and realised her voice was validated. Instagram: @maggiestillwrites
Maria Conte is a Spanish writer based in Edinburgh. She has worked in dance and was co-director of Hispanic Festival over a period of ten years.
Nazaret Ranea is a poet and zine maker recognised as one of Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makars. Her poetry is known for its lyrical exploration of themes such as nostalgia, memory, and the concept of home. She is the author of the zines My Men & My Women and editor of For Those Who Tend the Soil. IG: @nazareterreese | X: @NazaretRanea | FB: Nazaret Ranea | nazaretranea.com
Rachel Gorry is a keen writer of short stories. Currently living in Glasgow, she is developing her debut novel. As well as writing, Rachel is a lover of anime, video-gaming and music-making.
Rachel McBrinn is an Edinburgh-based artist and filmmaker. Her projects often build upon long term site-responsive and archival research. Recent work has formed around themes of land management, town planning, urban and rural ecologies. Alongside collaborator Jonathan Webb, in 2024-25 she is developing a moving image commission in response to the North Bridge refurbishment. Instagram: @rachel_mcbrinn | Website: rachelmcbrinn.com
Sandy Bennett-Haber is an Edinburgh based Australian writer, mother and wild swimmer. She is currently writing a speculative fiction novel. Sandy is a founder member of the Women Writers Network and has previously been selected for the Creative Scotland Our Voices program and longlisted for the Primadonna Prize. BlueSky: @sandybennett-haber.bsky.social| Instagram: @sandybennetthaber | Website: sandybennetthaber.com
Sonny is a proud team member at Invisible Cities. He enjoys giving walking tours of his city, Edinburgh, that show sides of the capital that will amaze you! Sonny writes about his life experiences, including homelessness, and is working on his memoir. Website: invisible-cities.org
Tamzin McDonald is a Trinidadian writer, artist and activist based in Scotland. She uses her lived experience to consult on a variety of issues ranging from racism, poverty, disabilities to substance abuse and mental health. Her work highlights the Indo Caribbean experience in the UK. She lives with her family in Midlothian
Toni De Luca is a Scottish Italian poet and writer of creative non fiction. She writes about inner journeys, our relationship with ourselves and others and nature. Instagram: @toni_she_writes | Substack: tonideluca.substack.com
Zain Rishi is a writer based in Edinburgh. He won First Prize in the Earthings, Buildings Competition through the Young Poet’s Network and Third Prize in the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize. His poetry has featured in Gutter, Propel and The Inkwell. He is working on his debut poetry pamphlet. Instagram: @zain.rishi
This book is the culmination of a project called Bridging Time, part of the North Bridge Refurbishment Arts Legacy and Community Benefits Programme and ‘If this bridge could talk: past, present, future’ , supported by the City of Edinburgh Council.
