Rebecca Sharp

Final workshop of the year, and *what* a year... RIDDLING THE ASH: Sun 1 Dec, 2-4pm GMT on Zoom - details in the🔗 Booking📩info@rebeccajoysharp.com rebeccajoysharp.com/creativealchemy

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

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/Forth-Friday-T… Pop me a message if you’d like to perform!

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

@EthicsEnergy It was brilliant! Such a great group - busy making poems as objects-to-think-with, and as tools for change. We might have to do more...! ➰

Event News 📣 Tickets for today's 'Loopshop' have sold out! Congratulations, Rebecca (@shaprette), we cant wait for it.

This week, Thursday 10th - a Loopshop ➰ Edinburgh 1-4pm: tinyurl.com/Loops-SPL

@Marcas_Mac @LeughLeabhar @Saltire_Society @scotlit @scottishbktrust @EdinCityofLit @bbcnaidheachdan @bbcalba @BBCScotlandNews @aberdeenuni @natlibscot Wahey!!!

Abair oidhche! Tha mi nam Cho-bhuannaiche de Dhuais Bàrdachd Eadar-nàiseanta Bhaile na h-Ùige. 'S e an dàn sa Bheurla agam 'Homosexual' a shoirbhich. Meala-naidheachd air a' Cho-bhuannaiche eile. Leigidh mi leatha a cuid naidheachd innse, ach tha mi nam ghlòraidh leis an toradh! What a night! I'm Co-winner of the Wigtown International Poetry Prize with my English-language poem 'Homosexual'. Congratulations to my fellow Co-winner. I will let her tell you her own news, but to say I am overjoyed at the result is an understatement! #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Wigtown #WigtownBookFestival #WigtownInternationalPoetryPrize #ScotLit #ScottishPoetry @WigtownBookFest @ByLeavesWeLive @BBCRnG @CG_Lodainn

@studiospaceart @StJohnsOfficial @rebeccabaird_ @CreativeScots @thecourieruk See you tomorrow!!❤️

Overwhelmed with love & generous feedback in the home toon of #Dundee for our new work #DudHopesKryptonite To be able to pay & involve local artists & my ex high @StJohnsOfficial I’ll start crying in a minute! Large up our whole team & @rebeccabaird_ for beautiful article! SX❤️

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

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.

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.

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.

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-a-w…

🚨 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-cultu… @TheScotsman

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."

And if anyone is tracking the economy of working this way - that was 3 full days and evenings of unpaid work I had planned to spread out more economically over 3 months.

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