This weekend: WayWORD at the Cowdray Hall!

Women in Nature: Karen Lloyd and We Are Nature Collective

11.30–12.30pm, Sunday 17 May 2026 – Cowdray Hall (Aberdeen Art Gallery)

Following recent walks supported by WayWORD, we bring together members of We Are Nature Collective with nature writer Karen Lloyd to share their work and reflect on their engagements with nature, ecology, and climate and land justice. 

Douglas Stuart: John of John Book Launch

2.00–3.00pm, Sunday 17 May 2026 – Cowdray Hall (Aberdeen Art Gallery)

WayWORD are thrilled to host this special event with Booker Prize-winning author, Douglas Stuart to launch his third novel, John of John, following the mammoth success of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo.

John of John is the heartbreaking story of a young man’s return home and how the bonds of family life are torn by the weight of expectation. Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him…