Committee POV: Fierce Salvage Aberdeen Launch

Pixie is a mentor for the WayWORD 2025 youth committee. She was previously on the 2023 committee and has volunteered since 2022. She attended the Fierce Salvage Aberdeen Book Launch as part of WayWORD Spring into Summer, 2025

In April, the WayWORD festival celebrated the release of Fierce Salvage, a new anthology of Scottish queer writing. Michael Lee Richardson hosted four of the writers whose works were in the anthology: Mae Diansangu, Robbie MacLeòid, Hannah Nicholson, and Shane Strachan.

The event was a celebration of queer writing in Scotland, but it was also a celebration of the different languages in Scotland, such as Doric, Gaelic, Scots, and Shetland Dialect.

The featured writers read stories and poems from the anthology, as well as writing from their other works. There was a discussion about the book and questions from the audience. At the end, there was a book signing and I got my copy signed by the writers!