RIP Tony Harrison, playwright & poet. Among other things, he translated the York Mystery Plays into modern English www.amazon.com/Tony-Harrison-Plays-Contemporary-Classics/dp/0571197078/?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=forgottengrou-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=e08dd08d96054252cb54ff89f773805e&camp=1789&creative=9325

Tyne &Esk poets Jock Stein and John Killick are launching their East Lothian inspired poetry pamphlet this weekend. Come along and hear them - details in the attached poster. #poetry

A Good Day Out youtube.com/shorts/FAk21... If you like your poems light hearted and up beat, narrated in a Scottish Highlands voice, filled with nature photography of forests and Scottish Lochs, then this one just might be for you. #poem #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #Scotland #Photography

SCOTTISH POETRY CHOIR is a community project seeking new members which meets during school term times. Members are guided through a collaborative process of developing group spoken word performances that incorporate movement, music & soundscapes to enhance the narrative of selected poetry pieces.

Our 2025 Poetry Competition is ✨ OPEN FOR ENTRIES ✨ Prizes: 1st: £2,000; 2nd: £500; 3rd: £250; Unpublished Poet Prize: £250 Judge: Liz Berry Entry Fee: £10 Closes: 8 December 2025 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

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Have you wondered how each of the Tyne & Esk groups are doing? Here are a few updates from each of the groups: tyneandeskwriters.org.uk/reps-share-g... #amwriting #Tyne&Eskwriters #writinggroups #writingcommunity #writing

Join our Q&A with @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social happening TODAY, where they'll share some top tips and answer your questions about applying for the New Writers Award! BSL is available: scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/qa-applying-...

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Meet our Scots Language Publication Grant Awardees 2025! ✍️ Congratulations to all the brilliant publishers who will receive funding this year, and thanks to the funders that make this grant possible. www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...

We're thrilled to be collaborating with the Leeuwarden UNESCO City of Literature to present our latest online poetry writing workshop with Preston Losack, host of Preston's Poetry Podcast. Join us on Wed 17 Sept as we dive into active reading for poetry writing: www.citizenticket.com/events/push-...

Save the Date! Push the Boat Out is back from 21-23 November 2025. We’re busy behind the scenes crafting an exciting, thought-provoking programme full of poetry, performance, and plenty of surprises. Stay tuned! We can’t wait to share our plans with you 🚤✨

📖Upcoming Carcanet Online Book Launches! Please join us online to celebrate the launches of Alice Meynell, Billy-Ray Belcourt and Steve Malmude! ✨ All online launches are £2, redeemable against the cost of the book, and will feature readings, discussion, and audience Q&A. www.carcanet.co.uk/events/

Summer steps aside for autumn’s arrival, a good time to coorie in and write as the evenings lengthen. Lots of opportunities for poets to learn and develop as winter approaches.

We are honoured to be able to offer you the chance to win a copy of The Empire of Forgetting by the late John Burnside, thanks to our friends at @jonathancape.bsky.social. Enter by 30 September for the chance to win a copy.

As part of ArtWalkPorty, launching on an incoming tide, a multi-artist, multi-artform publication, featuring my new 40-pg poetry sequence, BRAID. 12 Sept 4pm, mouth of Figgate Burn, Portobello beach, Edinburgh - be lovely to see anyone who can make it! www.artwalkporty.co.uk/event/braid-...

Looked at this cracker by @niallpoetry.bsky.social at Marjorie’s Table today - stunning. It’s here, with a couple of others: www.badlilies.uk/niall-campbell

The Scots Whay Hae! podcast speaks to the 5 authors shortlisted for this year’s @bloodyscotland.bsky.social Scottish Crime Writing Debut of the Year award 💙📚 www.scotswhayhae.com/post/the-swh...

John Buchan: the master storyteller 4 Sept @natlibscot.bsky.social Edinburgh Free 2025 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of John Buchan. Ursula Buchan, John Buchan’s granddaughter & biographer, will talk about the range of his fiction & its subject matter www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-bucha...

“To anyone reading this who is just starting out or feeling unsure, I want to say: keep going. Poetry needs your voice” Nazaret Ranea on going from being one of the @byleaveswelive.bsky.social Young Makars to publishing her first poetry collection www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/07/my-j...

“To read his poetry is to feel, just for a moment, as if the world’s edges have been pushed back; as if, by standing beside him, you too can see further and more clearly” — @sarahcrown.bsky.social reviews John Burnside’s THE EMPIRE OF FORGETTING #poetry 💙📚 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Publishers outside of the UK - there is funding available to you for translating the works of Scottish writers! Applications are now open - deadline 18th August. #BookSky #Translation #Publishing www.publishingscotland.org/what-we-do/s...

Join Tara Bergin online at 10am on Monday 28th July for a workshop exploring personal and political poetry! Learn more here: www.carcanet.co.uk/events/tara-...

Quite delighted to have two poems in @blacknorereview.bsky.social today, looking ahead to the changing seasons in Scotland and further afield. Thank you, Black Nore Review! #poetry #blueskypoetry

A CHAOS OF LIGHT New Writing Scotland 43 Ed. by Kirstin Innes, Chris Powici & Niall O’Gallagher “writing that unsettles and challenges, that questions assumptions… A rich, boisterous, tender, charming, angry, sorrowful, gleeful mix” Aug 2025 – available for preorder! 💙📚 asls.org.uk/publications...

In Germany they had Volkswagen but in #Orkney we had Goatswagon. 🐐

WRITERS! New Writing Scotland seeks a new co-editor for English- & Scots-language work. Applicants should be currently based in Scotland & have a strong publishing record, with a focus on prose. Post is up to 3 years: stipend £1500 per issue. #writers #writing Pls RT 👇 asls.org.uk/new-writing-...

Support independent bookshops and Scottish Book Trust with our picks for novellas you can read in a weekend, including laugh-out-loud titles and quick reads for all ages! uk.bookshop.org/lists/great-...

“Comfortable and able to participate.” Anneka Chambers First ever #CutToTheBone #EditingYourPoetry #Workshop ★4.9/5 rated facilitator. It’s this Sunday. For 50% discount, use the code: Concessions shorturl.at/ymgcj

A great night ahead! With amazing authors 🥳 Join Lyndsey Croal, Lorraine Wilson, and Angie Spoto for a night of #ScottishFolklore 🌳 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 at Blackwell's Edinburgh South Bridge, July 24 7PM. ❤️‍🔥 @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social

📣 Live Literature is a Scotland-wide programme that helps fund and support author events in communities all over the country. Find out everything you need to know about applying for, running and making the most of Live Literature events.

This August, join us at Edinburgh International Book Festival to celebrate emerging literary talent – including some familiar faces from our New Writers Awards programme!

Last day to enter! tyneandeskwriters.org.uk/2025-writer-... #Tyne&EskWriters #amwriting #WriteroftheYear2025 #WOTY

Just 2 days left to enter! #Tyne&EskWriters

Closing date rapidly approaching! Are you a Tyne & Esk Writer? Have you sent your entry (poetry or prose) in to Writer of the Year (WOTY) 2025? Entries close 15 July! #amwriting #Tyne&EskWriters #WOTY2025 #writingcompetition #Lothianwriters #writers #blueskywriters

Less than 2 weeks left to enter! Closing date 15 July!

📢 Calling writers in mid and East Lothian! 📢 Our annual Writer of the Year (WOTY) competition is open for entries until 15 July 2025 - two categories: prose and poetry. Entry is free, open to members - details on the website: tyneandeskwriters.org.uk/2025-writer-... #TyneandEskWriters #amwriting

📢 Calling writers in mid and East Lothian! 📢 Our annual Writer of the Year (WOTY) competition is open for entries until 15 July - 2 categories: prose and poetry. Entry is free, but you must be a member of #TyneandEskWriters. Details of WOTY and membership are on the website. #writingcommunity

#ScottishPoetryEvents 🎤 Stanzalone Presents Date: Wed 25 June, 7pm Venue: Auchterarder Picturehouse Featuring Biff Smith (current slam poetry world cup champion)

Exciting submission opportunity! #microfiction #poetry #amwriting #writersofbluesky

We’re thrilled to share the very first official issue of The Hoolet’s Nook! A gathering of #poems, #microfiction, and gentle reflections—we invite you to read and linger. #SUBMISSIONS are open through July 31st! 🦉✍️📩 #readersofbsky #free2read #writersofbsky www.thehooletsnook.com/stories--poe...

Between Two Beaches: Poetry Night 25 July, Auckengill. Free, ticketed Poet & author George Gunn presents readings from Between Two Beaches, a collection written during his time as Caithness Makar & inspired by the landscapes & stories of the Far North lytharts.org.uk/event/betwee...

If you are in Dunbar or close by on Thursday 19 June, do pop in to Dunbar Tyne & Esk Writers Group who are holding a taster session. Come and give it a try! #amwriting #writingcommunity #tyneandeskwriters #onourdoorstep #newwriters

Are you following #NorthSeaPoets on Substack? Subscribe for reflections on poetry, poetics and the writing life that compliment our online courses and events delivered straight to your inbox ✉️ Sign up at northseapoets.substack.com 🌊 #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity

Congratulations to Judith Younger of our Haddington group, winner of the Federation of Writers Scotland bi-monthly Flash Fiction competition! Read her story here: www.federationofwriters.scot/flash25 #TyneandEskWriters #FlashFiction #FederationofWritersScotland #writingcommunity #scottishwriters

The #SilverBranch series writer of the month for June. 💎 ❤️‍🔥 London born @vikkicwrites.bsky.social with a suite of romantic, oblique, bittersweet poems. We’ll be sharing this creative’s distinctive work throughout the month. www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1

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The Long Shadow of Scottish Gothic 31 July, Glasgow – £13.44 Dr @valbold.bsky.social & Prof @liammcilvanney.bsky.social discuss Liam’s new psychological thriller THE GOOD FATEHR, the enduring appeal of Scottish Gothic, & our fascination with the dark side www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-...

Spent a sunny Edinburgh day on Thursday visiting bookshops to sign copies of I AM RAVEN. It's always lovely to get a chance to chat with booksellers – hello all! @nosycrow.bsky.social #ToppingsEdin @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social @blackwells.bsky.social @typewronger.bsky.social #IAmRaven #KidLitUK