Alan Millar, 56 years old, from the Laggan area of east Donegal, working as a journalist, writer and poet, in Ballymoney, Co Antrim. Been writing verse and prose in English and Ulster-Scots for a number of years. Winner of the Scots Language Society’s Hugh MacDiarmid Tassie, and inaugural Linenhall Library Ulster-Scots Writing Competition, Prose Section, both in 2021. First collection, Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, imminent.
