Sangschaw 2025

Our annual scrievin competeition, the Sangschaw, is open for submeissions until the 31st o Januar! As ey, we will provide feedback for ilka entry nae maiter whither ye win a tassie or no. There’s no mony competeitions provide feedback on entries, but we think it’s important tae help writers develop. We hae three tassies:

The Robert McLellan Tassie for Scots Prose: up til 3000 wirds o oreiginal Scots prose.
The John MacPhail Law Tassie for Owersettin: up til 3000 wirds o oreiginal owersettin intil Scots frae anither leid. Provide alang wi a copy o the oreiginal text.
The Hugh MacDiarmaid Tassie for Poesie: up til 60 lines o oreiginal Scots poesie.

New writers and auld haunds ar aa walcome, sae dinnae be blate! We luik forrit tae haein your entries!

It’s £5 for ae submeission, or £12 for three, whither in the same categorie or in different categories. Ye can either submit by email or by post.

Submittin by email

Gin ye want tae submit by email, first pey by bank transfer til the follaein account. Mind it’s £5 per submeission or £12 for three.

Account nem: Scots Language Society
Account number: 00153458
Sort code: 83 47 00

Syne, send your entries til failte@go-plus.net alang wi pruif o peyment. For ensaumple, you could send a photae o your bank statement, or a copy o the transaction reference.

Submittin by post

Gin ye want tae submit by post, send them wi cash or cheque as weill as your nem and your return address on a separate sheet o paper til the follaein address:

Sangschaw
c/o 6 Dryden Place
Edinburgh
EH9 1RP

Mind it’s £5 per submeission or £12 for three. Address ony cheque til the Scots Language Society.

Orgreave Stations

Wullie Hershaw, eiditor o Lallans, will be hostin the offeicial launch o his new poetic sequence, The Orgreave Stations, at the Scottish Poetry Library in Embro neist week.

The sonnet sequence reflects on the 1984 Miner’s Strike throu the lens o a radical retellin o the Stations o the Cross.

Get your tickets on Eventbrite!

Avoch album project

Musician and proud Avochie Grace Stewart Skinner haes been tyauvin awa at an album project that ettles tae celebrate the vulnerable dialect o her hame toun o Avoch, naur Inverness.

Wi the help of corporate funders including Creative Scotland, the chief darg o research and recordin the vyces o local fowk is else aa but duin. Aa that’s else tae be duin is tae tak it til the studio, but wi fundin for musical projects bein raither ticht, she’s seekin a bittie mair help to get the project ower the line.

For tae lairn mair or pledge some support for the project, hae a keek at Grace’s Crowdfunder.