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diff --git a/src/content/news/sco/2024-11-12-sangschaw-2025.mdx b/src/content/news/sco/2024-11-12-sangschaw-2025.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e49611 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/news/sco/2024-11-12-sangschaw-2025.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +--- +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 |
