Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
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The deid-hole’s a sma-boukit place for you.
You need tae be blawn aboot the cosmos
so’s your live matter mells wi the spaces
and you become the stour starns are made o…

—Alastair Mackie: In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)

Christopher Murray Grieve – Hugh MacDiarmid – died , 9 September

asls.org.uk/publications/books

#scots #20thcentury #poetry #literature #scottish #otd

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Stormplay - Scots · @StormplaySCO
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A pit in speech bubbles on tap o NPC rinnin awa tae tell the player no tae shuit thaim.

#scotslanguage #ScotsLeid #scots #retrofpsdev #gamedev #indiedevhour

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Albert Semple, Poet · @albert
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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
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NOTHING BUT A SET OF EYES FOR STARS
New Writing Scotland 41 – 2023
Edited by Kirstin Innes, Marjorie Lotfi, & Niall O’Gallagher

The best new poetry & short fiction in English, , & – available now from all good bookshops! (& the evil one too)

@bookstodon

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asls.org.uk/publications/books

#writingcommunity #shortstories #poetry #literature #scottish #scots #gaelic

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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
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Send your work to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 42!

We want poetry & prose in English, , & from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination.

All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!

1/3

Submit free online via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit

#writingcommunity #shortstories #poetry #literature #scottish #scots #gaelic

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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
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A birthday 🧵 for Violet Jacob (1863–1946) – poet, novelist, short story writer, & key figure in the 20th-century Scottish renaissance & language revival – born , 1 September


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scottishwomenwritersontheweb.n

#womenwriters #20thcentury #19thcentury #literature #scottish #otd #scots

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Gàrradh-cloiche is craobh ga bhuaireadh, còinneach ga chòmhdachadh.

Ceann Loch Rainich.

Dry-stane dyke, disturbed by tree, covered by moss.

#scotland #scots #nature #languages #gaidhlig #gaelic #perthshire #trees #thicktrunktuesday

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Jack (Of Gods and Gamemasters) · @Jackgiantkiller
768 followers · 2346 posts · Server dice.camp

50 monsters from Celtic myth: Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall.
Set up for a whole campaign of legendary proportions, beginning to BBEG.
Save *any* setting from encroaching Fomor, and the threat of Balor Reborn, searching for his lost Eye.

drivethrurpg.com/product/43296

#ttrpg #dnd5e #irish #celtic #mythology #DnD #scots #welsh #horror #fantasy #cosmichorror

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Stormplay - Scots · @StormplaySCO
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Mind tae jyne the Stormplay Discord server fur aw the latest updates on an futur gemms!

discord.gg/BhqAE6H

#scotslanguage #ScotsLeid #scots #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #OperationPinkeye

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Papigoe :trans_heart: · @KiltedQueer
740 followers · 2100 posts · Server mstdn.social

As moast of ye ken, I type and speak in and . Here are some wee fun examples of Shetlandic and Broad Scots.

#gaelic #scots #Shetlandic

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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
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Poet-translator Brian Holton discusses his new collection Aa Cled Wi Clouds She Cam: 60 Lyrics frae the Chinese – Translations in Scots & English with Scotland’s Makar, Kathleen Jamie. From the Scottish Poetry Library, 28 June 2023

youtube.com/watch?v=Beu_BPHe-e

#chinese #scots #translation #poetry #literature #scottish

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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
1080 followers · 972 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Launch: The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
6 Sep, University of Edinburgh – free

After many years in the making, Pauline Cairns Speitel’s The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary will be going live, free & online


eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-t

#dictionary #romani #roma #travellers #language #scots #scottish

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Stormplay - Scots · @StormplaySCO
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A pit thegither a prototeep o the nixt room in oor new gemm, wi enemies gaun throu the metal detectors at the airport.

#scotslanguage #ScotsLeid #scots #retrofps #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
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Oh! Leezie, Leezie, fine and easy
Is a job like yon—
A’ Saturday at gowf to play,
And aye the pay gaun on!

—“The Dominie’s Happy Lot”, by poet & schoolmaster Walter Wingate (1865–1918)

scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/p

#teachers #schools #19thcentury #scots #poetry #literature #scottish

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Ronsboy67 · @ronsboy67
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Note to 21st century American authors of historical romances: If I struggle to read REAL Scots written by an actual Scot who lived much nearer C18, R.L. Stevenson, there's not a whelk's chance in a supernova I'm gonna wade through your faux folly, d'ye ken?

@bookstodon

#scots #ebooks #amreading

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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
1077 followers · 947 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Send your work to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 42!

We want poetry & prose in English, , & from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!


3/3

Submit free online via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit

#writingcommunity #writing #literature #scottish #scots #gaelic

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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
1077 followers · 945 posts · Server mastodon.scot

NOTHING BUT A SET OF EYES FOR STARS
New Writing Scotland 41 – 2023
Eds. Kirstin Innes, Marjorie Lotfi, & Niall O’Gallagher

The best new & in English, , & – available now from all good bookshops! (& the evil one)


1/3
asls.org.uk/publications/books

#writingcommunity #writing #literature #scottish #scots #gaelic #shortfiction #poetry

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marcas · @marcas
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Fantastic to see more coverage of the Rainbow Books, translated into and for the first time, in the Herald. It was a joy to speak to Lennie Pennie about the project and why I felt it was an important book for Scotland and the world.

Thanks to the team at The Herald for making space for our languages and this story to be told. Read more, below:

archive.ph/2023.08.12-161217/h

#scots #gaelic

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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
1073 followers · 934 posts · Server mastodon.scot

I’ll ha’e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur
Extremes meet – it’s the only way I ken
To dodge the curst conceit o’ bein’ richt
That damns the vast majority o’ men.

—from “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”, by Hugh MacDiarmid – born , 11 August, 1892

poetryfoundation.org/poets/hug

#20thcentury #modernism #scots #poetry #literature #scottish #otd

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What I saw in the old shed.
Thought I'd shoot in black and white to capture the timeless clutter by the window, a collection of old saws and cobwebs.



#blackandwhite #scots #wilderness #photo #shed #photography #highland #lake #wood #forest #scotland #woodland #art #wildlife #nature

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