DG Unlimited is delighted to welcome Alycia Pirmohamed to the wider team for a year as she takes up her role as the Gavin Wallace Fellow. The Fellowship is an annual residencey formed and suported by Creative Scotland, to honour the late Dr Gavin Wallace. We are delighted to have Alycia spend a year focussing on Dumfries and Galloway and spending time with us in the region as she explores the themes of UNFOLDING Scotland during her year as fellow.
Alycia Pirmohamed shared recently, “It’s an absolute honour to have been selected as The Dr Gavin Wallace fellow and I very much look forward to exploring the theme, UNFOLDING Scotland. My proposed project, tentatively titled Even Now the Waterline Wavers, is a cross-genre collection that explores hybridity both as a subject and in form. It considers the connections between homeland – with all of its slippery definitions – ecology, and the Anthropocene, and is guided by questions of how embodiment and the legacies of colonialism and capitalism affect how we interact with the natural world.”
A little about Alycia…
Alycia is a Canadian-born poet based in Scotland. She won the Nan Shepherd Prize for her nonfiction debut Shorelines, forthcoming with Canongate in 2026. She is the author of the poetry collection Another Way to Split Water. In 2026, Alycia received the Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship with Creative Scotland and DG Unlimited.
She is part of ‘field notes collective’, a nature writing project alongside Jessica J. Lee, Nina Mingya Powles and Pratyusha. this too is a glistening, their collaborative pamphlet, was published by Bitter Melon 苦瓜 in 2024. Her other works include the pamphlets Hinge and Faces that Fled the Wind, and Second Memory, which was co-authored with Pratyusha. Alycia is the co-founder of the Scottish BPOC Writers Network, a co-organiser of the Ledbury Poetry Critics Program, and she currently teaches on the Creative Writing master’s programme at the University of Cambridge.
If you would like to reach out to Alycia please email comms.dgu@gmail.com