Rachelle Atalla & Vikki Patis
Join us for a thrilling start to our main festival week as two of Scotland’s most exciting writers return to WayWORD to discuss the art of writing twist-filled suspense novels across different genres. Aberdeen alumnus Rachelle Atalla’s third thriller, The Salt Flats , takes readers on a horror-tinged trip to the Bolivian salt flats where the protagonists attempt to escape climate anxiety and past demons. Aberdeenshire-based writer Victoria Hawthorne's latest historical suspense, The Darkest Night , flits across time as an old curse haunts a family in Fife centuries later. These authors are guaranteed to have you on the edge of your seat!
Rachelle Atalla is a Scottish-Egyptian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter based in Glasgow. Her debut novel The Pharmacist was shortlisted for Best Fiction at the Scottish National Book Awards. In 2023, she published her second novel Thirsty Animals . In 2024, she was appointed as the Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow hosted by the University of Stirling. In screenwriting, her first short film Trifle was commissioned by the Scottish Film & Talent Network, her first feature was developed with BBC Film, and she is now developing a film adaptation of The Pharmacist with Compact Pictures and the BFI.
Vikki Patis is a bestselling suspense author who also writes historical fiction as Victoria Hawthorne. Her latest novel, The Darkest Night , was published in April. She lives in North East Scotland with her wife, two wild golden retrievers, and an even wilder cat.
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