jules@texthouse.co.uk

Jules Horne - I'm an award-winning playwright and fiction writer from the Scottish Borders. My plays ALLOTMENT and THREAD have won Edinburgh Fringe Firsts, and I've had 8 dramas produced on BBC Radio. I teach creative writing for the Open University, never stop learning from students and other writers, and write from a former textile mill in Selkirk, with a blues band next door.

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The Big Border Bogle Hunt

The Big Border Bogle Hunt is an interactive story experience created as part of my residency with Alchemy Film & Arts. It culminated in a Halloween play with panto elements at Heart of Hawick, and an augmented reality (AR) film exhibition at Wilton Lodge Park. The Story The play imagines Hawick caught in the epicentre …

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Alchemy Film & Arts Residency

I’m thrilled to be working with Alchemy Film & Arts in Hawick on an artist residency this year, as part of The Teviot, the Flag and the Rich, Rich Soil. The project is funded by Creative Scotland through the Culture Collective and has already led to fantastic community initiatives and artists’ creative work in my …

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Allotment & Thread plays published

My two playscripts, Allotment and Thread are out now as Book 3 in the Texthouse publishing imprint. These Edinburgh Fringe First-winning plays were first commissioned and produced by Nutshell Theatre and directed by Artistic Director Kate Nelson in 2011 and 2012. Recently Allotment toured again in a new Nutshell production reimagined for live performance within …

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Sounding the Border

I live four miles the Scottish-English border, worked for several years in Germany and Switzerland and have spent time in France and Estonia. I’ve long been fascinated with borders and the contrast between the porous borders of this island and much of Europe, and others that limit, control and oppress. Working in a high security …

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