Forthcoming events
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February 2025 Event
AGM and Poetry Open Mic in collaboration with the Scottish Highlands and Islands Poetry Society
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Please note details of the new venue - the Chieftain Hotel, Millburn Road, Inverness
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Here’s advance news of the first HighlandLIT event of 2025, the first on a Monday evening, and the first at our new venue, the Chieftain Hotel! It takes place on Monday February 17 at 7pm, and will preceded by the HighlandLIT AGM at 6.30pm.
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Both parts of the evening will be live-streamed via Zoom – to attend either or both on Zoom, please email highlandlit.com@gmail.com by 12 noon on 17 February. Please note that it’s important that as many HighlandLIT members as possible attend the AGM.
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The main event is particularly exciting: a Poetry Open Mic staged in collaboration with the Scottish Highlands and Islands Poetry Society. It’s aimed at poets of every level of experience writing in the Highlands and Islands, and at anyone who loves poetry. It will be led by Cáit O’Neill McCullagh and Sharon Black – they are both established and critically acclaimed poets, and will begin the session with a brief introduction to SHIPS, before the Open Mic.
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There will be ten five-minute reading slots, five for SHIPS members and five for HighlandLIT. To book a slot to read, either in person or on-line, please email highlandlit.com@gmail.com as soon as possible, and certainly by 12 noon on February 17.. Please mention if you are a member of SHIPS. First come, first served!
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The Scottish Highlands and Islands Poetry Society (SHIPS) is a society for poets of every level of experience writing in the Highlands and Islands. The society was launched in 2023 with support from UHI Inverness College and is currently a ‘stanza’ of the National Poetry Society. SHIPS has been steadily running workshops, poetry readings, open mics, and shared writing sessions over the last two years, and is keen to create a community that will support and promote the diverse poets and voices that (Gaelic, English, Scots) that are such a significant part of the region.
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Hybrid HighlandLIT events: privacy note
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In order to facilitate access to events from HighlandLIT members and friends across the Highlands they will be livestreamed on Zoom. It will be visible only to those who have requested the URL.
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The camera may pan across the audience at the venue at times during the event. Please note that in attending the event you are deemed to be accepting this procedure, unless you tell us at the start, in which case you can sit in a part of the audience which the camera will avoid.