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SANGSCHAW  2021

ANNUAL SCOTS WRITING COMPETITION

 Winners 2021

Poesie

1st Prize an Hugh MacDiarmid Tassie: Alan Millar, Wee weaver birdie Jynt rinners-up: Rosa Alba Macdonald, Trettind Day, George T. Watt, ‘Stille Nacht’ Ruisit: W.S. Milne, The Desolate Shore; George T. Watt, Scrievit after the storming o Capitol Hill …; Susan Miller, Yavins Yella; Donald Adamson, Learin the Leid

Cutty Tales

1st Prize an Robert McLellan Tassie: Craig Aitchison, Ower the Mairch Rinner-up: Craig Aitchison, The Set Texts Ruisit: Tony Beekman, Aye, Cooncillor; Hamish Scott, Warks; Hamish Scott, The Talesman; George T. Watt, Fingerprents; Rosa Alba Macdonald, Gaia’s Knicht; Charles P. Connor, Dillemae

Owersettins

1st Prize an John MacPhail Law Tassie: Derrick McClure, A Blaik Wife Waiments her Guidman Rinner-up: Donald Adamson, Althild Ruisit: Derrick McClure, Balou in a Fremmit Kintra; Brian Holton, Wee Words; Brian Holton, The Hairst Wind; George T. Watt, The Buik o Sinera; Robert Maxwell Duncan, Prayer to Aphrodite; A. C. Clarke, Ane Fremmit Chiel; Hugh Pyper, Buried Alive; Hugh Pyper, The Book of Ecclesiastes; Jerry Randalls, Iago’s Soliloquy

Mony thanks to aabody for takin pairt in the competeition.

 

 2022 the catogaries are 

 

Original Poesie -

Owersettins (copy o original source please)

an Cutty Tale

 

£5.00/entry 3 entries fur £12.00

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The Scots Leid Associe wis foondit in 1972 an aye ettles tae pit forrit a feckfu case for the Scots language in formal, informal and ilka day uiss. Scots wis aince the state language o Scotland an is aye a grace til oor national leiterature. It lies at the hert o Scotland's heirskep as ane o wir three indigenous leids alang wi Gaelic an Scottish Inglis.

The Associe furthsets the bi-annual journal Lallans, a 124-page magazine o the best nui screivin in Scots, thare is nae ither journal 100% in Scots (free til Associe memmers). See Lallans. Oor Annual Collogue haes been addressed by kenspeckle writers, actors, journalists, musicians, televeision presenters, scholars an ithers. We haud competeitions tae attract baith adults an bairns tae try thair haun at writin in Scots. Scotsoun CDs can be ordered throu this wabsteid. See Scotsoun.

The Associe is a cherity registrate in Scotland CR 10286.