Summit ahead for Cairngorms-inspired writers
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PEOPLE who have Cairngorms stories to tell are being urged to put pen to paper as the deadline fast approaches for submissions to a new anthology.
Shared Stories: A Year in the Cairngorms is a creative writing project exploring the relationship people have with their natural environment.
Led by Cairngorms National Park writer-in-residence Merryn Glover, from Kincraig, the year-long project encourages people to share their stories of the ways in which people and nature thrive together in the park.
A new anthology of Cairngorms-inspired writing will be published at the end of the project. The deadline for submissions is Friday, September 27. The project is open to all.
Some of the writing will also feature on the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) website and in displays at park visitor centres.
People are invited to submit work that expresses something of their relationship with the Cairngorms National Park – whether it be a story, an experience, an observation or just a moment. Entries can be poetry or prose, a real experience or imagined, and written in English, Gaelic or Scots.
The anthology will include a work by Merryn, commissioned work from other writers, and contributions from people from all walks of life, including schoolchildren.
Organised and part-financed by the CNPA, with funding of £8,000 from Creative Scotland and £10,000 from the Woodland Trust, the Shared Stories project has proved very popular.
Merryn said: "It has been a privilege to lead workshops across the park and to meet so many creative people, many who have felt encouraged to share their writing for the first time.
"It has inspired new directions in my own work and I look forward to bringing all these voices together in the anthology. We want to be spoilt for choice – so do send us your writing."
More information is available on the CNPA website.
