Professional news & resources
Professional news & resources
National Poetry Day 2012 theme is... STARS
Whether you've got visions of space travel, or an all-star inter-school X-Factor Poetry Slam, start dreaming and planning for Thursday 4 October 2012.
From June, we'll be emailing order forms for NPD12 postcards to every school in Scotland, and there'll be order information right here in 'Learn'.
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards 2012
With Creative Scotland (the ones that used to be the SAC Book Awards). The poetry shortlist this year is:
John Burnside, Black Cat Bone (Jonathan Cape)
Angus Peter Campbell, Aibisidh (Birlinn)
Carol Ann Duffy, The Bees (Picador)
Andrew Greig, As Though We Were Flying (Bloodaxe)
J O Morgan, Long Cuts (CB Editions)
And Rachel Boast's Sidereal (Picador) is on the First Book shortlist.
Read the shortlists for Fiction, Non-fiction and First Book here.
Scottish Storytelling Centre training
The new training programme for April to December is ready to download.