{"id":667,"date":"2011-06-14T14:43:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T14:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/?p=667"},"modified":"2011-06-14T14:44:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T14:44:26","slug":"scots-words-and-place-names-swap-writing-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2011\/06\/14\/scots-words-and-place-names-swap-writing-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Scots Words and Place-names (SWAP) writing competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

The novelist Louise Welsh has joined the Scots Words and Place-names competition as a judge, alongside the writer Amal Chatterjee!<\/p>\n

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\nLouise Welsh is author of several books, including \u2018The Bullet Trick\u2019 and \u2018Naming the Bones\u2019 and won several awards for her debut novel, \u2018The Cutting Room\u2019. She lives in Glasgow and is currently the Writer in Residence at the University of Glasgow and Glasgow School of Art. Her website is at: http:\/\/www.louisewelsh.com .<\/p>\n

The SWAP competition asks pupils to write a story, poem or essay relating to Scots words and\/or place-names. There are four age categories: P1-3, P4-7, S1-3, S4-6 and prizes to be won.<\/p>\n

Click here [link] for more details about the competition and how to enter.<\/p>\n

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The novelist Louise Welsh has joined the Scots Words and Place-names competition as a judge, alongside the writer Amal Chatterjee! Louise Welsh is author of several books, including \u2018The Bullet Trick\u2019 and \u2018Naming the Bones\u2019 and won several awards for her debut novel, \u2018The Cutting Room\u2019. She lives in Glasgow and is currently the Writer … Continue reading Scots Words and Place-names (SWAP) writing competition<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1030],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages-and-literacy-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}