[8] During this period, he started to produce a body of short stories and poems written in his native Lallans tongue, developing a passion for Scots language dialect representation.
[9] He returned to the Open University in 2019/20 to complete the BA (Hons) arts and humanities with creative writing he had originally started, graduating with first-class honours.
Though he received no formal acting training, he attended night schools at both the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Citizens' Theatre, where he went on to appear as both musician and supporting artist in several studio and main stage productions.
[24] In May 2021, it was announced in The Bookseller that Haddow had made the shortlist for the North Lit Agency Prize[25] with a work in progress tentatively titled When the Curlew Cries No More.
The work in progress novel was picked as the winner of the Pitch Perfect event for emerging authors at the Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival in September 2021.