"Margymore" [Margy-more] Meaning: Disorder
Alan Millar
Alan Millar is originally from east Donegal but is now working as a journalist based in Ballymoney, Co Antrim.
Alan is a writer and poet in Ulster-Scots and English. In 2021, he was the winner of Hugh MacDiarmid Tassie for Scots poetry and the inaugural Linen Hall Library Ulster-Scots short story competition. He was the 2023 winner of Linen Hall Library Ulster-Scots poetry competition.
His first collection of poetry ‘Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally’ was published in May 2023 and he was nominated for Scots Writer of the Year, 2023 Scots Language Awards.
Alan is currently completing an ACNI assisted second poetry collection, Frae Erris tae Wrath. He commenced a Doctorate with Ulster University in September 2024 on the United Irish newspaper, Northern Star. Most recently, Alan is working as a joint editor of the Flann O’Brien trilingual schools’ creative writing collection ‘Abhainn Burn River’.