Rebecca Sharp

- leaving here end of Dec 2024.
Writer: poetry, plays, interdisciplinary. LONG FIELD LOOP (Tapsalteerie 2024). She/her.

[Rebecca Sharp @sharpette]

https://t.co/8uPycCqiIK

[Rebecca Sharp @sharpette]

Final workshop of the year, and *what* a year...
RIDDLING THE ASH: Sun 1 Dec, 2-4pm GMT
on Zoom - details in the🔗
Booking📩[email protected]
https://t.co/hlTvXXQhqT

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

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

[Laura Fyfe @FigmentLaura]

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!

https://t.co/OaNMHBEWv9

Pop me a message if you’d like to perform!

[SaltireBookAwards @SaltireBook]

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

[Rebecca Sharp @sharpette]

Up next, I'll be in Stirling reading for Forth Fridays at the @BookNookStir Fri 25th Oct. 7pm ➰
https://t.co/VT1EEEZiq7

[Rebecca Sharp @sharpette]

@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...! ➰

[Rebecca Sharp @sharpette]

This week, Thursday 10th - a Loopshop ➰ Edinburgh 1-4pm: https://t.co/K4GogO9xON

[Rebecca Sharp @sharpette]

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

[Rebecca Sharp @sharpette]

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

[Rebecca Sharp @sharpette]

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

[SaltireBookAwards @SaltireBook]

Congratulations to the #SaltireBookAwards longlisted authors 2024 in the Poetry category! This year our Poetry longlist features 12 books.

See the link for more information: https://t.co/qufigZcyN7

[✨MizLiot//NicTeàrlach✨ @MizLiot]

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.

[Emma Jayne Park @somekindofchaos]

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.

[Scottish Poetry Library @ByLeavesWeLive]

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.

[Rebecca Sharp @sharpette]

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➰
https://t.co/AslV4GWgMU

[Brian Ferguson @brianjaffa]

🚨 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.” 🚨
https://t.co/27C7F3YqPa @TheScotsman

[F-BOMB THEATRE @fbombtheatre.bsky.social @fbombtheatre]

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."

[Rebecca Sharp @sharpette]

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.

[Rebecca Sharp @sharpette]

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