Owen Sutcliffe is a writer, musician and youth worker based in Glasgow. Holder of an Mlitt in Creative Writing he was awarded the 2011 Sorley MacLean National Poetry Prize; was a winner of the Little Stories of Kindness micro-fiction competition 2024; has had work appear in Northwords Now magazine and as a hip-hop artist has performed across the UK and Europe. Among his commissioned works are modern adaptations of the poetry of Robert Burns and the play Òran, award-winner at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, which transferred to London in November ‘24 and will tour the UK in 2025. Owen spent August 2024 in residence with the Hugo Burge Foundation and is a Writer in Residence with the Edinburgh International Book Festival.