Major collaboration between BBC Radio Scotland and Scottish Book Trust

This is an email I received that I thought might interest writers in the area. It sounds like a really interesting project.

Hello

I am writing to let you know about Days Like This, an exciting nationwide project run by Scottish Book Trust and BBC Radio Scotland, that may be of interest to you, your staff and other organisations you work with!

Days Like This will give people across Scotland the chance to be a part of the nation’s history by writing about a special day in their life which made a strong impression on them. The project aims to gather thousands of extraordinary tales, from born-and-bread Scots to newly-arrived immigrants, from Moffat to Orkney.

To take part in Days Like This, all people need to do is write about a day in their life that was a bit extraordinary: It could be the day they didn’t get married, or the day they got lost in a supermarket. It could be a childhood memory or something that happened yesterday. If the story is true and centres on a single day, we want to hear it!

Author Irvine Welsh, broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli, mountaineer Jamie Andrew, actress Siobhan Redmond, percussionist Evelyn Glennie and Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble have joined the project as celebrity curators, writing and recording their own story as an inspiration for people to do the same.

Anyone can send a story - content is what matters! Stories should be no longer than 1,000 words and can be about anything as long as it’s true! All stories will appear on the BBC website for everyone to read. The celebrity panel will choose their favourites to be recorded and discussed in a series of radio programmes and published in a book in 2009. The deadline is: 1 November 2008

For more details (including the curators’ stories), click on www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland/dayslikethis

For the project leaflet, click on http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/files/days%20like%20this%20low.pdf (smaller file for viewing) OR go to http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/files/dayslikethis.pdf (larger file for printing).

With best wishes

Clare