Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Association for Scottish Literature
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Of Mice & Mountain Daisies: Robert Burns & Nature
17 June, Ellisland – tickets by donation
Examining how Burns experienced nature not simply as an observer, but as a poet whose existence was shaped by the land, the River Nith & the rhythms of rural life
#C18
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As part of the Govan Book Festival, we're open to visitors until 5pm this Saturday!
📚 The GBF event starts at 4:30pm and lasts until 5:30pm, after which attendees to Dr Tom Horne's chat about his book, Treasures of the Vikings, will be able to buy signed copies or browse our v cool Viking Age shop.
Already shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize & the Scots Book o the Year, as well as being a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, FOWER PESSOAS by @brambrella.bsky.social has also just been shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize
www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/fower-pessoa...
📣 One week left to apply!
We are seeking applications for our Scots Scriever residency - and this year, the focus is on Shetland. This is a unique opportunity for a writer to create original work in Shaetlan while championing the language across communities.
Fuck’s sake! Right:
Charlie’s nae The King,
Charles Kennedy’s Prime Minister
ae the first Independent Republic ae Caledonia…
—Colin Bramwell, “Manifesto ae Álvaro de Campos”
FOWER PESSOAS: a reimagining of Fernando Pessoa’s 🇵🇹 #poetry in Scots
#WyrdWednesday #poem
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017464...
Moniack Mhor Creative Writing Centre’s Write Highlands Bursary offers fully funded non-residential places on creative writing courses on life writing, fiction, & poetry for writers living in the Highland Council area. You do not need to be a published writer.
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#Romanticist friends, listen to this from Muriel Spark's bio of Mary Shelley: "it is the function of a biographer to diagnose, and not to indulge in vain retrospective prescribing. None the less I seriously suggest that if there had been more wine in Mary's life there would have been fewer tears."
