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Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We are now open for New Writers Awards 2027 applications. In the comments, tag the talented writer, poet, or spoken word artist in your life to encourage them to apply for a year of tailored development and support. Deadline: 29 July 2026 ✍️

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Apply for the New Writers Awards

Applications for the New Writers Awards are now open!

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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I'm competing in the I Am Loud poetry slam tomorrow night at the Lemon Tree - please come along and cheer me on! It starts at 7pm and tickets start at £5.50 (if you want to pay more you can!) I'd love to see you ❤️ www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/lou...

Scotland's premiere spoken word night

LOUD POETS

X ABERDEEN PERFORMING ARTS

ABERDEEN HEAT

MAE DIANSANGU SACRIFICIAL POET

ARON SMITH

BILLIE J. SIM

EVE MUMFORD

FINN MERCHANT

FIONA ROBERTSON

LUCY BETH

MUSHI

OCTAVIE DOHERY-HANGH

RACHAEL BEEDIE

SEUMAS DALE

SID OZALID

TISHE

27 MARCH LEMON TREE 7PM £5-£12 PAY WHAT YOU CAN ABERDEEN WWW.IAMLOUD.CO/SLAM

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Katie Ailes @katieailes.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Aberdeen! Friday! This is going to be electric. Tickets: www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/lou...

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Loud Poets Aberdeen Slam | Aberdeen Performing Arts

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 17/03/2026

Very happy to celebrate two books on the Jhalak Prose Prize longlist today! Congratulations to Brian Chikwava & Katie Goh, whose respective novel Shamiso & hybrid memoir Foreign Fruit are longlisted!

Jhalak Prize: Prose Prize 2026 Longlist, in partnership with National Book Tokens

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Mae Diansangu @vavapoetry.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Toni Morrison Ali Smith Octavia Butler Elena Ferrante Angela Carter

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Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Is there any comfort in finding out every person that you thought was a wrong un is indeed a very, very wrong un? No, not really.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

new Mitski album appearing on the hilltop like Gandalf on Shadowfax, but for lesbians going insane during fascist collapse

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

yeup, it's a dog eat dog world out there... not much for the rest of us to do, so mostly we bet on the dogs. is it a great world? of course not, it's covered in wild dogs fighting and eating each other across a landscape smeared with viscera and shit. but hell, i know i'd miss it if i ever left

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POST | Aberdeen Culture @postabdn.com · 14/12/2025

Torry residents face losing St Fittick's Park to an Energy Transition Zone and they're fighting back. A Play for Torry uses words from people who've watched industry reshape their neighbourhood for decades. Read why this fight turned into performance. ⭕ Now on POST

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Torry Residents Take the Stage With Their Own Story

The new theatre show grew out of the fight over St Fittick’s Park.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 26/11/2025

Skint, baw ragged, poackets ful eh ma fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an it’s November. Christmas is close… —William Letford, “This is it” Published in DIRT, @carcanet.bsky.social 2016 #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410200...

This Is It
by William Letford

Skint, baw ragged, poackets ful eh ma
fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an
it’s November. Christmas is close. Av been
away bit noo am back an ivery coarner
is a different colour cause am hame an
memories ur painted wae mischief. Am
outside Gregs eatin a macaroni pie an a
busker picks up eez guitar an plugs in eez
amplifier. The sound fae the strings is
like frost. Eez young an the dreams thit
wur boarn in eez bedroom wake me up.
Am watchin people passin an they know
thit eez good bit they don’t want tae look.
They turn thur heeds an tilt thur ears
an jog on. If a hud a spare pound
a wid throw it bit a don’t so a jist listen.
I’d like tae tell um thit this is it, this is
where the hammer hits the stane an sparks
ur made, standin oan a corner in yur hame
toon, an audience eh one radge eatin a
macaroni pie, bit singin, wee man, yur singin.

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POST | Aberdeen Culture @postabdn.com · 25/11/2025

Aberdeen producer Vagrant Real Estate releases Neither Collar Nor Crown on St Andrew's Day, bringing 25 Scottish artists across genres and generations together. Read our full piece on the ambitious album dropping this weekend. ⭕ New on POST postabdn.com/vagrant-real...

Vagrant Real Estate Brings 25 Scottish Artists Together for New Album. Neither Collar Nor Crown weaves folk traditions through hip-hop with Jackill, Iona Fyfe, Bemz and more. Black and white photograph of Vagrant Real Estate in checked shirt jacket standing in middle of empty Union Street with blurred buildings in background.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 18/11/2025

It's the anniversary of Section 28's demise. By me: "Section 28 was largely a creation of the right-wing press, and many of the people, publications and proprietors who contributed to the anti-gay panic back then are at the forefront of the anti-trans panic today."

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Twenty-Eight – Reconnecting Rainbows Press

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

We’re going to need a bigger little treat

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Louise Welsh @louisewelsh00.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Excited about the return of Aye Write Book Festival to Glasgow & delighted to be taking part in Who Will Be Remembered Here - Queer Spaces in Scotland: Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh, Lewis Hetherington with Carrie Marshall - Glasgow Life share.google/lBEUQpOp8y1Q...

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Who Will Be Remembered Here - Queer Spaces in Scotland: Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh, Lewis Hetherington with Carrie Marshall - Glasgow Life

Aye Write 2025 presents Women Who Dared - From the Infamous to the Forgotten: Jo Shaw, Dr Chisomo Kalinga, Dr Ioulia Kolovou, Margot McCuaig

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Shar A @sharal.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Remember the veil between the dead and the living is at its thinnest tonight so it’s your perfect opportunity to call Cilla Black a cunt.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 27/10/2025

This is a wonderful book that’s full of surprises, a real inhale-in-one-go collection (I’m not just saying this because I’m hosting three of the brilliant contributors at Aye Write next weekend. That’s just a bonus). Powerful, resonant, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.

Carrie’s hand holding the book Who Will Be Remembered Here: Queer Spaces in Scotland

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 26/10/2025

Writer pals! just a wee reminder to join ALCS if you haven't already, and to make sure they have details of your print publications by the end of november - 30/11 is the cut-off for the next royalty payments in March. www.alcs.co.uk

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ALCS

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Jeda Pearl @jedapearl.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Proud book mama stylee! 😁🥹 Three sleeps to launch! Come and meet our amazing contributors on Saturday, and hear poems, real-life and invented stories, a script and a game. 🎫 www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...

A photo of Jeda holding 4 copies of the book, North Bridge: Where We Travelled. She is smiling and wearing a patterned jumper and headband. Her hair is tied up. The book has an illustration of the bridge on it.

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Myshele Haywood @myshele.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Bring your vuvuzelas! Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Saturday 25 October, 4pm, Patio Hotel, 213 Links Road, AB24 5EF (also called Doubletree Hotel, off Beach Blvd).

White background with purple abstract human shapes in welcoming poses, with the headline Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Further text: Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Saturday 25 October, 4pm, Patio Hotel, 213 Links Road, AB24 5EF (also called Doubletree Hotel, off Beach Blvd). Logos for CND, SPSC, Aberdeen Anti-Fascist Alliance, Aberdeen Trade Union Council, Stand Up To Racism and Aberdeen Social Centre.

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Len Lukowski @lenski666.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Glasgow people! I am running a second Queer Sex and Kink-themed writing workshop at Burning House Books in November! ⛓️💦 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1841349789...

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Writing Queer Sex and Kink

Explore the queer possibilities of sex and kink in writing

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

picture of a drill that says THIS IS NOT A DRILL! NEW MAGRITTE EXHIBIT OPENING!

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Mae Diansangu @vavapoetry.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Which type of gay are you? Lady Marmalade, Cell Block Tango or Read U Wrote U?

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Mae Diansangu @vavapoetry.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

those are my emotional support em dashes and you will be prising them from my dead hands!!

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Mae Diansangu @vavapoetry.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

It really is such a treat when I get to take part in very cool bookish events with very cool bookish people 💜

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

All the plants I have half-grown by Linden K McMahon (Stewed Rhubarb, 2024) From the inevitable anxiety of ecological crisis, the ecopoems in All the plants I have half-grown follow the strange, uncomfortable, glorious, glittering threads that link us to our ecologies, …

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Publicity shot for a stage production of 'The Wizard of Oz', 1902. Arthur Hill as the Lion and Anna Laughlin as Dorothy

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Mae Diansangu @vavapoetry.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Oh, Fiona, so sorry for your loss. Sending you lots of love 💜

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I've put together a pack of ghostly, biological, ecological & geological grain textures for use in any art/design projects you might have. 25 files, 300dpi, free for download via Dropbox - if you find them useful, show your appreciation via Ko-fi! www.ryanvance.co.uk/resources

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Big & joyous news: Mae Diansangu's Bloodsongs has been longlisted for the Poetry Debut prize in the Saltires, Scotland’s National Book Awards! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🎉 Congratulations, Mae! 👏 @vavapoetry.bsky.social We're so happy to see this incredible book continuing to get the recognition it deserves! 🥹 🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 07/09/2025

🚨 BREAKING! The Scottish Government has announced that it will back our bill to ban greyhound racing! This cruel sport resulted in the deaths of hundreds of dogs in the UK last year. It's time to end it in Scotland for good.

Scotland closer to ban on greyhound racing. Government backs Green bill at stage 1.

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Love & Other Cancers by Olivia Thomakos. Deeply personal—yet universally resonant—this book deftly exploring the struggles of life journeys as we discover ourselves & navigate familial, friendly, & romantic relationships through seasons of illness, loss, & change. stewedrhubarb.org/product/love...

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Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Titular poem from Shane Strachan’s 2024 collection Dwams. 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷 In a spectrum of voices across Scots and English, the poems in DWAMS concern themselves with the climate emergency and just transition, rising xenophobia, and with queer romance and sex, in a groundbreaking debut collection…

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

They’re right, you couldn’t make Life of Brian today; the director would be thrown in jail for setting a scene in Palestine and shouting “action!”

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Mae Diansangu @vavapoetry.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Infinitely grateful to have lived in the same universe as James Baldwin.

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In My Good Books Podcast @inmygoodbookspod.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

In episode 10 of In My Good Books I spoke to 4 writers who withdrew their nomination from this year’s Polari Prize. They are @vavapoetry.bsky.social @sachacoward.bsky.social Rhian Elizabeth and Robert Hamberger. Then in episode 11 I caught up with @kingsley-pearson.bsky.social author of Flat 401.

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POST | Aberdeen Culture @postabdn.com · 26/08/2025

FINE social is a relaxed evening with no set agenda. Take along games, cards, or creative prompts to share – or just go for a chat with other freelancers. Back on Wednesday at the Arts Centre Cafe Bar, it’s free and open to all, no booking required. More 👇🏼 buff.ly/lXQcJtO

Bold poster with blue and yellow background. Large yellow text reads “FINE.” Below in smaller text: “Creative Continuum monthly social for creative freelancers. Last Wednesday of the month. Aberdeen Arts Centre 6–8pm. All welcome!” Small red text “POST” at the bottom.

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

One can remain happily alive for long periods of time by being vaguely interested in what tomorrow's tiny treat may be.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

got to read a favorite poem to some adorable farm friends

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Myshele Haywood @myshele.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Westhill welcomes refugees, not racism! Community groups & local residents are gathering on Saturday 23 August, 5-7pm, for a peaceful event outside the Hampton Hotel on Straik Rd, Westhill. There will be food, music, colourful banners and messages of hope for the refugees living there. (1/6)

Westhill welcomes refugees, not racism! Saturday 23 August, 5-7pm, Hampton Hotel, Straik Rd, Westhill, AB32 6TL. Peaceful community event with food, music, colourful banners and messages of hope for refugees. All welcome. With cartoon image of three people smiling and waving, and logos of Disabled People Against Cuts, Aberdeen Trades Union Council and Aberdeen Social Centre.

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LJ @coffeecurls.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Stupid sexy Flanders...

Image shows pavement cracked in the image of a shapely bottom - wording relates to a Simpsons episode in which Homer finds Ned Flanders sexy

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Mae Diansangu @vavapoetry.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

BLOODSONGS has been nominated for Scots Book of The Year(!) The public decides the winner, but you don't need to live in Scotland to vote - just follow the link 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💖 projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotslanguag...

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Vote Noo!

The Scots Language Awards will be on Saturday 6th September in Dundee. Vote using the form below or click here. Voting will end Sunday 31st August at midnight. Create your own user feedback survey

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