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Rab Wilson of Sanquhar has been commissioned by Cathy Jamieson MSP to write a poem as part of the Scottish Parliament poetry project, Holyrood Poetry Link 2005. Labour appears on the SPL website here.

MSP Elaine Murray has meanwhile commissioned a Holyrood poem, The Canny Moment, from Dumfries-based poet Douglas Lipton. His own site is here.

Vivien Jones has been awarded a New Writers' bursary by the Scottish Arts Council - another success for the multitalented Powfooter, who's also appeared in the Scotsman-Orange fiction anthology.

Crichton Campus

Glasgow University Crichton Campus Writing Prizes 2005:

Kirkpatrick Dobie Poetry Prize:
Joint winners : Jackie Galley for ‘Bearings’ and Laura Helyer for ‘Camera Obscura : a sequence'.
Third prize : Irene Leake for ‘Three Poems’.

Muriel Carmichael Prose Prize:
Ist prize : Jackie Galley for ‘The Rookery’.
2nd prize : Jo Abbott for ‘Rough Magic’.
3rd Prize : Vivien Jones for ‘Still, Small Voice’.

Steven Runciman Prize for Writing :
Pamela Stokes for ‘The historical trajectory of a scientific controversy and a discussion of the factual and theoretical contentions that have fuelled it’.

See previous prize-winners here: