Brownsbank

Brownsbank

Brownsbank ("Brounsbank" in Scots) is close to the small settlement of Candymill to the north of Biggar in Scotland.

It is best known as the former home of the poet Hugh MacDiarmid. His old house is maintained by Biggar Museum Trust, and is occupied by a writer in residence. Recent holders of the Brownsbank Creative Writing Fellowship have been James Robertson, Matthew Fitt, Gerry Cambridge, Aonghas MacNeacail and Linda Cracknell. The current (2006) resident is Tom Bryan. The main criterion is that the writer be a Lowland Scots language poet, like MacDiarmid.


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