https://nitter.cf/t.co/6ZIVcrQFFj - leaving here end of Dec 2024. Writer: poetry, plays, interdisciplinary. LONG FIELD LOOP (Tapsalteerie 2024). She/her.
Fife via Glasgow
Joined January 2009
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Final workshop of the year, and *what* a year...
RIDDLING THE ASH: Sun 1 Dec, 2-4pm GMT
on Zoom - details in the🔗
Booking📩[email protected]
rebeccajoysharp.com/creative…
ALT A fresco from 1380 shows the seated figure of an alchemist at a furnace, pointing inside and wondering WTAF is going to come out the other side.
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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
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This Friday!
Your penultimate chance to join us at Forth Friday in @BookNookStir
I cannae wait to read and listen to
@sharpette’s much-praised poetry. And we’re building a fab open mic set of readers too!
thebooknookstirling.co.uk/Fo…
Pop me a message if you’d like to perform!
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The #SaltireBookAwards shortlist is out in just two weeks' time! Here's another look at our longlists in Fiction, Non-Fiction, First Book and Poetry. What titles do you hope to see on the shortlists? #SaltireBookAwards #booktok #bookawards #literaryawards #TheSaltireSociety
Up next, I'll be in Stirling reading for Forth Fridays at the @BookNookStir Fri 25th Oct. 7pm ➰
tinyurl.com/ForthFridaysLFL
This week, Thursday 10th - a Loopshop ➰ Edinburgh 1-4pm: tinyurl.com/Loops-SPL
Honoured & thrilled that LONG FIELD LOOP is included in this mighty fine list for the #SaltireBookAwards in Poetry ➰
Delighted also for Tapsalteerie to have 2 titles there 🙌 @tap_poetry @EthicsEnergy @CreativeScots
Congratulations to the #SaltireBookAwards longlisted authors 2024 in the Poetry category! This year our Poetry longlist features 12 books.
See the link for more information: saltiresociety.org.uk/the-sa…
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1) Gaelic is not practically extinct.
2) No, they don’t.
3) Scots is recognised as a language.
4) It’s not a dialect of Middle English.
5) Over 1.5m people reported they can speak it in 2022.
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Culture Funding Crisis, Scotland:
This goes some way to show the level of stress Creative Scotland’s decision to close Open Project Funding for Individuals caused. Six months of work crammed into eleven days.
Now being paid for in burn out, by people who can’t afford to rest.
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An update from Scotland's Culture Minister on our Government's plans for a review of the infrastructure of grant giving in the arts along with an announcement of the reinstatement of short-term funding support.
Culture Update: Welcome confirmation that Scottish Government culture spending is increasing, including support for the Open Fund, Screen Scotland and youth music. Thanks to all culture campaigners and govt colleagues for supporting the sector. #culture
Coming up, 10 Oct at @ByLeavesWeLive - a poetry workshop exploring loops & cycles, how to support or disrupt them. In partnership with SPL, @EthicsEnergy & @StAModLangs Centre for Poetic Innovation.
Booking now➰
eventbrite.co.uk/e/loopshop-…
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🚨 Exclusive: Screen stars Alan Cumming & Sam Heughan are demanding a rethink on Scottish Government cuts which have led to the shutdown of Creative Scotland’s key fund for artists, describing its demise as “devastating” & “really tragic.” 🚨
scotsman.com/arts-and-cultur… @TheScotsman
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Just like that, the @creativescots Open Fund for Individuals is closed indefinitely and marginalised artists lose a major lifeline. Good time to bring back this quote from Carrie Hope Fletcher: "If you don’t think this is important then you shouldn’t be allowed to enjoy it."
Day 4: submitted. Reflecting on how much freelancing flattens you, even when you have other (really nice) work on the horizon I'm aware it's only getting a fraction of my best. We're all pouring from empty cups. #NoArtWithoutArtists @CreativeScots @scotgov
Day 3: the heartbreak of reading your own project and getting excited all over again. Heartened by support from other artists and arts workers. #NoArtWithoutArtists #StopTheCuts @scotgov @CreativeScots
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In light of the decision by Creative Scotland to close the Open Project Fund for Individuals this Friday, we have compiled the following document of support currently being offered to artists, alongside campaigns that have been set up. You can view it here:
Day 2 of being thrown under the bus: budget & RA feel like speculative fiction. Trying to find the sweet spot of trimming so they'll say yes, and not trimming so much they'll say no. Considering career change. Something with animals. @CreativeScots @scotgov #NoArtWithoutArtists