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+title: Sangschaw 2025
+summary: >-
+  The Sangschaw opens for entries,  Wullie Hershaw launches his poetic
+  reflections on the 1984 Miner's Strike, and Grace Stewart-Skinner needs your
+  help tae complete an aesome project.
+---
+
+## 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.
+
+<dl>
+  <dt>Account nem</dt>
+  <dd>Scots Language Society</dd>
+
+  <dt>Account number</dt>
+  <dd>00153458</dd>
+
+  <dt>Sort code</dt>
+  <dd>83 47 00</dd>
+</dl>
+
+Syne, send your entries til [failte@go-plus.net](mailto: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:
+
+<address>
+Sangschaw<br />
+c/o 6 Dryden Place<br />
+Edinburgh<br />
+EH9 1RP<br />
+</address>
+
+
+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][orgreave-eventbrite]!
+
+## Avoch album project
+
+Musician and proud Avochie [Grace Stewart Skinner][gs-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][avochie-crowdfunder].
+
+[avochie-crowdfunder]: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/auchies-spikkin-auchie---debut-album#start
+[gs-skinner]: https://gracestewartskinner.co.uk
+[orgreave-eventbrite]: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-edinburgh-launch-of-the-orgreave-stations-by-william-hershaw-tickets-953488699367