Newsletter January 2018: Final Call for submissions to Stravaig
Happy New Year! This newsletter is a reminder about upcoming deadlines and contains some new information about events and opportunities in 2018.
FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Stravaig is the online journal for the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics.
We invite you to submit essays, poems, artwork and images for the next issue on the theme of ‘Expressing the Earth.’ We would especially welcome papers, articles and creative work from those who attended our June Conference. Essays max. 4,000 words, no more than 4 poems/images.
Our editorial group consists of Norman Bissell, Mairi McFadyen, Ullrich Kockel, Elizabeth Rimmer and Caroline Watson.
FINAL CALL
Deadline: 15 January 2018
Please email submissions to normanbissell@btinternet.com
N E W S & E V E N T S
Highland Stravaig, Saturday 26 May 2018
Our next event will be a Highland Stravaig in Abriachan above Loch Ness (near Inverness) on Saturday 26 May. The event will be in association with Moniack Mhorand the Abriachan Forest Trust. Following our discussion on Nan Shepherd, we will reflect on the work of Jessie Kesson, explore the local cultural landscape and its biodiversity and celebrate Abriachan’s role in land reform (2018 is the 20th anniversary of Abriachan’s community buy-out). Full details to follow. Email Mairi McFadyen for more info.
Katharine Stewart Bursary
In celebration of the life and work of Abriachan-based Katharine Stewart, who was a former member of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre Moniack Mhor are offering the prize of a place on either the Nature Writing or Historical Fiction course to a writer in 2018. Open to unpublished/published writers living and working in the Highlands who have or would like to have a piece of work in development. Read more here.
Please send information about geopoetics related publications, news and events for our next Newsletter to normanbissell@btinternet.com.
