SCOTS LEID ASSOCIE

SCOTS LANGUAGE SOCIETY

 

AATHIN IN SCOTS - NAE FANTOOSH - NAE CAMSTEERIE

 

SO COME AWA IN AN LEARN AA THERE IS TAE KEN O

SANGSCHAW

ANNUAL SCOTS WRITING COMPETITION

 

AWARDS IN 3 CATEGORIES
Poesie: the Hugh MacDiarmid Tassie: 1st prize £100 rinner-up £50
Cutty tale: the Robert McLellan Tassie: 1st prize £100 rinner-up £50
Owersettin: the John MacPhail Law Tassie: 1st prize £100 rinner-up £50

 

£5.00 per entry 3 entries for £12.00

 

Cheques made payable tae the, Scots Language Society

Ilk scriever gets a written appraisal o their entries an winnin entries

are furthset in Lallans, the magazine o the Scots Leid Associe.

Sangschaw, 

Condeitions o entry: aa submeissions ti be in Scots. Poesie nae mair nor 60 lines, prose nae mair nor 3000 words, owersettins o poesie 60 lines an o prose 3000 words. Send a copy o the original in its ain leid wi ony owersettins. Naething aareadies furthset or submittit itherwhaur, please.
Nem an address on a separate sheet.

 Post entries tae
Sangschaw,
C/o 6 Dryden Place,
Edinburgh
EH9 1RP
CLOSING DATE 31ST Januar 2019 
 
 

 

New Address fur Memmerships an awthin else

 

61 Cliffburn Road,

Arbroath.

DD11 5BA

 

Lallans 93 is noo ready. Gin ye are nae a memmer jyne noo fur a copy o oor latest magazine.

 

 

Visit oor new blog on www.scotsleid.org

 

 new CD on Scotsoun

 

SSCD 812 'Ravines'

 

the Poetry o David C Purdie

 

Davie is ae mony times winner o Sangschaw, an his poesy is o the heichtmaist Staunin. Sae tae his owersettins, aft times frae the Inglis, nae the easiest o leids tae trans-create intil Scots.

 

Ae recordin o Sheena Blackhall raedin her ain tale 'Minnie' is noo available.

Forbye twa CDs o Sheena Blackhall singin Bothy Ballads an raedin her ain poesy in Oot o the Kist. Nae tae be missed for Sheena is the maist kenspecklet an admired o oor preisent dey Makars.

Maist memmerships are noo due. Please ensure ye hae yer Bank Orders up tae date gin ye pey throu a UK Bank. We divnae hae the authority tae dae that for ye. Thanks.

Gin ye'r no a memmer jyne oor Associe noo an get yer copy o Lallans 93. 124 pages o the best o new Scots screivins. For mair anent jynin see FAQs or gae straucht ti the JYNIN page. Why no gie ae gift o ae year's memmershup tae the Scots Leid Associe? Pey by PayPal the dey an the maist recent eidition o Lallans will be posted oot neist week til thaim alang wi ae wee cairdie. Dae it HERE!

  Gawin Douglas' XIII Bukes of Eneados The batellis and the man I will descrive...

Walcom tae the online hame o the Scots Leid Associe which haes amang its objects tae forder an uphaud the Scots leid an tae gie a heize tae Scots leiterature an tradeitional music.

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.