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diff --git a/src/content/news/en-GB/2024-11-12-sangschaw-2025.mdx b/src/content/news/en-GB/2024-11-12-sangschaw-2025.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f6e2695 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/news/en-GB/2024-11-12-sangschaw-2025.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +--- +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 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 |