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The University of Edinburgh's three creative writing prizes, open for 2024 submissions
 
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Meghan Link: The Sound o Hame

Runner-Up for the 2023 Sloan Prize Meghan Link is a Spanish and English Literature student at the University of Edinburgh, from rural Angus. Taking inspiration from her family connections to Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England, she is fascinated by the themes of language and identity. She writes in her spare …

Heather Dunnett: let mi spik

Runner Up for the 2022 Sloan Prize Heather Dunnett is a queer Aberdonian poet currently working towards her MSc in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Edinburgh University. She has lived in Edinburgh for the past five years and writing poetry in the dialect of her hometown is one way she stays …

Alice Orr

Alice is a writer and academic from Edinburgh. She has been published in Scottish Review, Nomad, Extra Teeth, Like the Wind and Forum. Her short story, ‘The Return’, won The Sloan Prize in 2021 and is currently being adapted as a novel. Alice currently works as a Staff Writer and …

Declan Kelly: Woodburn

I was born in Edinburgh and have lived there my whole life, especially enjoying the city for it’s atmosphere and people. I first began writing in high school and continued to do so after winning a school writing prize. I am currently studying law at the University of Edinburgh and …

Charles Lang: Clairvoyant

Charles Lang is from Castlemilk in Glasgow. He studied English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast. He won the Sloan Prize in 2019. His published work includes Aye ok (Speculative Books, 2020) and …

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