Texts from yesterday

This week's creative prompt for writers 🐣

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Here are the top links from last week’s events and opportunities newsletter:

• The Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers is open for applications until Monday, December 15. Read the guidelines and FAQs on their website

• Join us tomorrow, Tuesday, December 9, for the Chicken Coop Open Mic special at Lost in Leith. Come support our writers and book a PWYC ticket on Eventbrite

• Modern Fuel’s Syphon is open to submissions of poetry, essays, fiction, and visual works including photography, digital illustrations, design, collages, and high-quality images of physical pieces. Find out more on the Modern Fuel website

• Publishers for Palestine’s Read Palestine Week finished on Friday, December 5, but they’ve created this list of writers to support beyond RPW

• The last Loud Poets open mic of 2025 is on tonight, Monday, December 8, at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, get more information about the event on the SSC website

Read the events and opportunities round-up for more wonderful events for Scotland-based writers and creatives up to Sunday, November 30!

If you’re an organiser or a community member with events or publishing and performance opportunities to highlight, please submit your listings for the newsletter with this Google Form. I’m looking for events for January 2026.

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