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The Fear of a Retreat: a blog about the RLS Fellowship for the Scottish Book Trust, 2016; An introduction to Wendell Berry's The Art of the Commonplace for Caught By The River's Nature Book Reader, 2015. The Way to My Grandparents' House, for the Scottish Book Trust's 'Journeys' project, 2015.

The Scottish Arts Club Short Story Competition is open to writers worldwide, for stories on any topic up to 2000 words. Learn more about the Scottish Arts Club Short story competition We are delighted to announce Andrew O’Hagan, author of several Booker-nominated novels and editor-at-large of the London Review of Books, is the new chief judge of the Scottish Arts Club Short Story Competition.

Scottish Book Trust, the national charity transforming lives through reading and writing, has revealed today the shortlist for the 2020 Scottish Teenage Book Prize. In the first year that comics and graphic novels have been eligible for the Scottish Teenage Book Prize, Rok of the Reds by John Wagner.

Scottish Book Trust's award supports a talented, unpublished Scottish writer over 40.. (500 words), a personal statement (300 words) plus a project statement (200 words) and a writing sample (up to 2,500 words or 140 lines of poetry). The closing date is 27 September. For full details, see the website.

Connell Guides Essay Prize. Competitions.. Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award.. The anthology contains the first 500 words of winning entries to the Prize and stories from past judges. We challenge those aged 14-18 to finish one of the stories with a new ending of their own!

Contributors To contact any of the contributors, please write to the Glasgow Review of Books at glasgowreview (at) gmail (dot) com. EDITORS. REBECCA DEWALD is a freelance translator with a PhD in Translation Studies from the University of Glasgow.She has published articles on Jorge Luis Borges and modernist translations, questioning the maintenance of a strict distinction between original.

The International Film Awards submission is now CLOSED. Submitters will be contacted by March 2020.. Creative writing with a factual basis, between 500 and 2000 words. Examples can include diary entries, autobiographical writing, letters, personal essays and literary journalism.. The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival The Mental Health.

Andrew O'Hagan, FRSL (born 1968) is a Scottish novelist and non-fiction author. He is also an Editor at Large of London Review of Books and Esquire Magazine.O'Hagan is currently the Visiting Professor of Writing at King's College London.

The National Short Story Prize is made possible due to the generous sponsorship of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and will be supported and managed by BBC Radio 4, Prospect, the Booktrust and Scottish Book Trust.

Voyage of Intent: Sonnets and Essays from the Scottish Parliament (Scottish Book Trust and Luath Press, 2005) Hem and Heid (Kettillonia pamphlet, 2009) Children's books. In Scots unless indicated. A Scots Parliament (English, Itchy Coo, 2002) Eck the Bee: A Scots Word Activity Book (Ann Matheson and James Robertson, Itchy Coo, 2002).

The Scottish Book Awards are coming. .. but how can schools get involved? Firstly, regarding Scottish Book Trust’s annual Bookbug event, each Primary 1 in Highland will shortly receive a pack with three fantastic books. The Scottish Book Trust are keen for schools to, where possible, bring each of the three stories to life in the classroom.

Scottish authors Kirstin Innes, Malachy Tallack, Alison Irvine and Samina Chaudry to host digital writing workshops ahead of the Trust's 'Your Stories' campaign The Scottish Book Trust have.