Sangschaw winners 2024
We’re delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Sangschaw competition! There were more submissions than ever before, and the quality of submissions was higher than ever before! All the winning entries, and some of the runners-up, will be published in forthcoming editions of Lallans.
Hugh MacDiarmaid Tassie for Poesie
- Winner
- Kythe by Craig Aitcheson
- Jynt rinners-up
- Wee Greta by Alastair McLeish
- Shakin Briggie by Nicola Furrie
- Ruisit
- Garlieston Bay, February 2023 by Colin Mackenzie
- Tynin a Wellie by Colin Mackenzie
- Corbie by Craig Aitchison
- Yon Room by Craig Aitchison
- A Dauner wi Ma Faither by David Bleiman
- A Common Leid by Donald Adamson
- A Poem for St Lucy’s Day by Donald Adamson
- Efter Storm Babet by Elaine Morrison
- New Year Neebours by Lynn Valentine
- Luve Sang o the Hare by Lynn Valentine
- The Language of Walking by Olive Ritchie
- Edinburgh Bedlam 1774 by Robert Duncan
- Luik til the Burds o the Lift by Jock Stein
- Scaffies o Kharkiv by Jock Stein
- C’s Sang by George T Watt
Robert McLellan Tassie for Short Stories
- Winner
- Stephen by Tracy Anne Harvey
- Rinner-up
- Plague by Andy Matthews
- Ruisit
- Henry Haslett’s blinter o siller by Alan Millar
- The Bull by Andy Matthews
- The Ringer by Andy Matthews
- Fowk! by George T Watt
- Brocht up by Warlocks by Jamie Purves
- Sharon by Keith Wood
John MacPhail Law Tassie for Translation
- Winner
- Smirr by Tom Ellett
- Rinner-up
- Dies Irae by Donald Adamson
- Ruisit
- A leein wee puppet by Derrick McClure
- In a Picher by Derrick McClure
- Nae Vyce fae the Bens by Derrick McClure
- Aahin Shifts by Neil Rhind
- Catecheezin Fae a Wirker Fa Reads by Neil Rhind
- Sharnydubs by Neil Rhind