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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 to complete a unique album project.
+---
+
+## Sangschaw 2025
+
+Our annual writing competition, the _Sangschaw_, is open for submissions until
+the 31st of January! As ever, we will provide feedback for every entry
+regardless of whether or not you win an award. It’s unusual for competitions
+like us to provide feedback on entries, but we think it’s important to help
+writers develop. We have three prizes:
+
+- The **Robert McLellan Prize for Scots Prose**: up to 3000 words of original
+ Scots prose.
+- The **John MacPhail Law Prize for Translation**: up to 3000 words of original
+ translation into Scots from another language. Provide along with a copy of
+ the original text.
+- The **Hugh MacDiarmaid Tassie for Poetry**: up to 60 lines of original Scots
+ poetry.
+
+Writers new and old are all welcome, so don’t hold back! We look forward to
+having your entries!
+
+You can enter for £5 for one category, £10 for two or £12 for all three,
+whether that’s all in the same category or spread across the three. You can
+submit either by email or by post.
+
+### Submitting by email
+
+If you would like to submit by email, first pay by bank transfer to the
+following account. Remember, it’s £5 for one submission or £12 for three.
+
+<dl>
+ <dt>Account name</dt>
+ <dd>Scots Language Society</dd>
+
+ <dt>Account number</dt>
+ <dd>00153458</dd>
+
+ <dt>Sort code</dt>
+ <dd>83 47 00</dd>
+</dl>
+
+Then, send your entries to [failte@go-plus.net](mailto:failte@go-plus.net)
+along with proof of payment. For example, you could send a picture of your bank
+statement, or a copy of the transaction reference.
+
+### Submitting by post
+
+If you would rather submit by post, send your entries with cash or cheque, as
+well as your name and address on a separate sheet of paper, to the following
+address:
+
+<address>
+Sangschaw<br />
+c/o 6 Dryden Place<br />
+Edinburgh<br />
+EH9 1RP<br />
+</address>
+
+Remember, it’s £5 per submission or £12 for three. Address any cheque to the Scots Language Society.
+
+## Orgreave Stations
+
+Wullie Hershaw, editor of _Lallans_, will be hosting the official launch of his
+new poetic sequence, _The Orgreave Stations_, at the Scottish Poetry Library in
+Edinburgh next week.
+
+The sonnet sequence reflects on the 1984 Miner's Strike through the lens of a
+radical retelling of the Stations of the Cross.
+
+Get your tickets on [Eventbrite][orgreave-eventbrite]!
+
+## Avoch album project
+
+Musician and proud Avochie [Grace Stewart Skinner][gs-skinner] has been toiling
+away at an album project which seeks to celebrate the vulnerable dialect of her
+home village of Avoch, near Inverness.
+
+With the help of corporate funders including Creative Scotland, the hard work of
+research and recording the voices of local people is now all but done. All that
+remains is to take it to the studio, but with funding for musical projects being
+rather tight, she's seeking a little more help to get the project over the line.
+
+To learn more or pledge some support for the project, have a look 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