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title: Sangschaw winners 2024
summary: Announcing the winners of the 2024 Sangschaw!
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We’re delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Sangschaw competition! There were more
submissions than ever before, and the quality of submissions was higher than ever before! All the
winning entries, and some of the runners-up, will be published in forthcoming editions of _Lallans_.

## Hugh MacDiarmaid Tassie for Poesie

<dl>
  <dt>Winner</dt>
  <dd>_Kythe_ by Craig Aitcheson</dd>

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<dt>Jynt rinners-up</dt>
<dd>_Wee Greta_ by Alastair McLeish</dd>
<dd>_Shakin Briggie_ by Nicola Furrie</dd>

  <dt>Ruisit</dt>
  <dd>_Garlieston Bay, February 2023_ by Colin Mackenzie</dd>
  <dd>_Tynin a Wellie_ by Colin Mackenzie</dd>
  <dd>_Corbie_ by Craig Aitchison</dd>
  <dd>_Yon Room_ by Craig Aitchison</dd>
  <dd>_A Dauner wi Ma Faither_ by David Bleiman</dd>
  <dd>_A Common Leid_ by Donald Adamson</dd>
  <dd>_A Poem for St Lucy’s Day_ by Donald Adamson</dd>
  <dd>_Efter Storm Babet_ by Elaine Morrison</dd>
  <dd>_New Year Neebours_ by Lynn Valentine</dd>
  <dd>_Luve Sang o the Hare_ by Lynn Valentine</dd>
  <dd>_The Language of Walking_ by Olive Ritchie</dd>
  <dd>_Edinburgh Bedlam 1774_ by Robert Duncan</dd>
  <dd>_Luik til the Burds o the Lift_ by Jock Stein</dd>
  <dd>_Scaffies o Kharkiv_ by Jock Stein</dd>
  <dd>C’s Sang by George T Watt</dd>
</dl>

## Robert McLellan Tassie for Short Stories

<dl>
  <dt>Winner</dt>
  <dd>_Stephen_ by Tracy Anne Harvey</dd>

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<dt>Rinner-up</dt>
<dd>_Plague_ by Andy Matthews</dd>

  <dt>Ruisit</dt>
  <dd>_Henry Haslett’s blinter o siller_ by Alan Millar </dd>
  <dd>_The Bull_ by Andy Matthews</dd>
  <dd>_The Ringer_ by Andy Matthews</dd>
  <dd>_Fowk!_ by George T Watt</dd>
  <dd>_Brocht up by Warlocks_ by Jamie Purves</dd>
  <dd>_Sharon_ by Keith Wood</dd>
</dl>

## John MacPhail Law Tassie for Translation

<dl>
  <dt>Winner</dt>
  <dd>_Smirr_ by Tom Ellett</dd>

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<dt>Rinner-up</dt>
<dd>_Dies Irae_ by Donald Adamson</dd>

  <dt>Ruisit</dt>
  <dd>_A leein wee puppet_ by Derrick McClure</dd>
  <dd>_In a Picher_ by Derrick McClure</dd>
  <dd>_Nae Vyce fae the Bens_ by Derrick McClure</dd>
  <dd>_Aahin Shifts_ by Neil Rhind</dd>
  <dd>_Catecheezin Fae a Wirker Fa Reads_ by Neil Rhind</dd>
  <dd>_Sharnydubs_ by Neil Rhind</dd>
</dl>