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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!
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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!
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WRITERS!
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Memory & Moggies: McIlvanney, Muriel & Making a Novel
10 June, free online
Prof Zoë Strachan explores the inspiration behind her latest novel, the historical fiction Catch The Moments as They Fly (2023) – including the work of William McIlvanney, & Muriel Spark’s advice that writers should acquire a cat…
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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!
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i'm so tired reading all those ai generated texts on the internet. it makes me sad to see the open web die so rapidly. it's just annoying, and yes incredibly tiring. so for my own websites i stopped using all of this ai slang entirely for now, let's see how this goes
Words of the Wild
Deadline 12 July 2026
The Scottish Wildlife Trust’s nature writing competition is back for a third year. The 2026 theme is “changing seasons”. Submissions can be in English, Gaelic, or Scots, up to 1,000 words long & written in any form.
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https://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/wordsofthewild/competition/
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Moniack Mhor Creative Writing Centre’s Write Highlands Bursary offers fully funded non-residential places on creative writing courses on life writing, fiction, & poetry for writers living in the Highland Council area. You do not need to be a published writer.
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The small team of rebel commandos had been sneaking through the Overlord's palace for days.
It had started with covertly entering hidden inside a routine delivery of food. They had blocked off parts of the refrigeration units, and hidden themselves there. They could not bring any form of weapon with them, because of the scanners on the palace entrance, and had to be sedated so that their hostile thoughts would not be detected.
From there, they had first infiltrated the kitchen staff, and gradually migrated their way into general maintenance.
Once in general maintenance, they had been able to construct weapons using the palace's own resources. It had been a slow process, as they had had to conceal what they had been doing from the overseers.
Now, though they were armed, and following the old secret passages that had been hidden for decades, they headed for the throne room. They would appear behind the throne, and be able to take the Overlord by surprise.
They snuck out of the secret door, closing it behind them, and then burst out from the wall hangings onto the dias.
The throne was empty.
The entire throne room was empty, except for one old lady, sweeping.
She looked up, and gasped in surprise. Then she shrugged and went back to sweeping.
The commandos looked around. Nothing. Finally one of them walked over to the servant.
"Don't make a mess" she said as he approached, "go that way" she pointed, "I haven't swept there."
He looked and saw there was still dust and grime on the floor there, and walked to her from that direction. "Where is the Overlord? Why is he not here?"
"Oh, deary, this is Thursday."
"Thursday?"
"The Master always takes Thursday off. He's in his studio, throwing."
"Throwing what?"
"Clay, deary, clay. Unless he's glazing today, but I think he's throwing."
"Uh, where is his studio?"
"Oh, I can't tell you that. No one is to disturb him when he's making his pots. I'm guessing you are here to assassinate him. You'll just have to come back tomorrow. After 11. Before 11 he's still getting his neck seen to."
"Neck?"
"You know, his bad neck, from wearing that really quite ridiculous crown."
The commando went back to his team. "Uh, we're to come back after 11 tomorrow. It's his day off."
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Inspired by this post from @NickEast_IndieWriter https://mastodon.art/@NickEast_IndieWriter/117223620969685939
