Liz Lochhead has been appointed as an associate playwright for Scotland's £75,000 Playwrights' Studio alongside David Grieg and Nicola McCartney. According to the Scotland on Sunday, Julie Ellen has commissioned them to run workshops, comment on scripts and act as mentors to writers coming through the studio system that is being established this year. The library and Internet archive has still to be put in place.

'Safe haven for writers at play'. Scotland on Sunday, 20 June 2004. (Requires free site registration).