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Assoc for Scottish Literature

WRITERS!

Submissions are invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, Gaelic, & Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!

@writingcommunity

Submit free via Submittable 👇

nws.submittable.com/submit

nws.submittable.comNew Writing Scotland Submission ManagerNew Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (monochrome only). We have a maximum recommended length of 3,500 words in total. The work must be neither previously published nor accepted for publication and may be in any of the languages of Scotland.
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

From 2020 – Prof Kirsteen McCue, Prof Nigel Leask, & Dr Craig Lamont discuss the importance of the Kilmarnock edition of POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT for Burns, & the significance of the copy of the volume donated by Craig Sharp to Glasgow University’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies

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youtube.com/watch?v=L1LzFCI1bNs

YouTubeCraig Sharp's Kilmarnock Edition - then and nowBy Centre for Robert Burns Studies
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

Robert Burns’s POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT was published #OTD, 31 July 1786.

Copies are 3 times rarer than the Shakespeare First Folio: Patrick Scott & Allan Young are tracking the histories of surviving Kilmarnock Editions

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thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/ki

The Bottle Imp · The Kilmarnock Burns and Book History - The Bottle ImpAllan Young and I have just published the first-ever attempt to track down all surviving copies of Burns’s first book, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Kilmarnock: Wilson, 1786), the Kilmarnock Burns.  Mr Young started working on this project fifteen years ago, and I have been collaborating with him for the past two years.  We […]
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

The latest issue of NORTHWORDS NOW (#46, Summer–Autumn 2025) is available free online – featuring poems, short stories, articles & book reviews, in English, Gaelic & Scots

New writing, fresh from Scotland and the wider North
Sgrìobhadh ùr à Alba agus an Àird a Tuath

northwordsnow.co.uk/Issue46

www.northwordsnow.co.ukIssue 46 | Summer-Autumn 2025 | Northwords NowNew writing, fresh from Scotland and the wider North
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye’re sleeping.”

—The Laird of Dumbiedikes, on his death-bed, to his son (in THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN, by Walter Scott)

28 July is World Conservation Day. Here’s “Dumbiedikes”, by James Robertson – you can listen to him read the poem online here:

youtube.com/watch?v=0z2ZrMu__OY

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Martin Rundkvist

Having discussed "fjärd", here's another landscape feature that's super common around Stockholm but apparently nowhere in the #English-speaking world: "häll". It's an almost horizontal, smooth, slightly convex expanse of gneiss or granite bedrock. It's what's left of a taller outcrop after the inland ice has ground it down. Maybe there's a #Scots word for it?

#language#geology
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Knut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸

@NeilDrysdale I have heard...heard (from very reliable sources since I am a light for #Canadians and #scots...oddly. Don't ask me why). That the grass on his golf course keeps growing these dead spots because people go out and piss on it, among a million other things.

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