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We go live with our guest host and curator Anthony Anaxagorou in 30 minutes!

Join us: bit.ly/3wKjdi9

Please donate what you can to Medical Aid Palestine.

🚨Glasgow pals, do any of you lovely folks have recommendations for a wee meeting space, somewhere either Central or West End Glasgow? Just for a couple of people for an afternoon next week 🙏

Poets, submit your work NOW to our performance category!

This is the ONLY category of the #ForwardPrizes for which we accept submissions directly from poets. We'd love to see your videos. You can check out our guidelines here 👉 forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-prizes…

#spokenword #poetryprizes

🤩This is the first of our weekly highlights, outlining some of the storytelling events across the city.

Don't forget, if you're a bookshop, library, writer or event producer do drop us an email about your events happening in February:

📩[email protected]

culture cannot, and will not, be stopped

theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/…

Edinburgh writer pals ⁉️ I've had a fiction-writer-friend ask if I know of any open writers' groups that are currently running regular, in-person workshops (giving feedback/getting feedback!) Do any of you lovely folks have some recommendations? 🙏

my brilliant friend Toni V. is fundraising for Deaf Action ❤️ if you have a spare moment and few pounds, it'd mean the world to support them!

Time to lean, time to clean 😠 (I shout, as we finish packing up the house for The Big Move!!)

Merry Christmas, tweeting pals ❤️ Santa says 2024 is the the year of Ulysses, and who am I to argue!!!!

Tomorrow is the first day of my last week at Bradford Lit' Festival 🫨 Gonna miss my beaut colleagues, but for 2024 we're heading back to Edinburgh for New Adventures 💙 I'll be working on my own projects, but do reach out for support in programming/producing/chairing/hosting 🤩

If I must die, let it be a tale.

#FreePalestine
#Gaza

Hay-bales (round) in A Castle for Christmas. Those autumn puppies are the true inaccuracy of an otherwise factually accurate film

It's a wrap! 🫸🚣‍♂️🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

Win 2 #PushTheBoatOut festival passes with The Skinny!

Answer just one simple question to win access to all the poetry goodness you could wish for. 

The competition closes at 11.59pm on Sun 19 Nov. 

Good Luck 🍀

Enter the competition here👉theskinny.co.uk/competitions/w…

📣📣Launch day 📣📣
The Anne Brown Essay Prize for Scottish writers launches today. Find out more and send in your entry here: wigtownbookfestival.com/our-projects/t…

#scottishwriting #writingcompetition #WritingCommunity

📣 ✍️ The Emerging Writer Award is now open for entries!

More info here: buff.ly/3O3sVkm
Bridge Awards

We've acquired the #archives of Alasdair Gray, James Kelman and George Mackay Brown — but we need your help to to catalogue and curate these important documents.

Learn more and support us at nls.uk/writers-archiv…