Five days of features for Alistair Moffat
Alistair Moffat’s The Scots: A Genetic Journey is the subject of five features, one to appear every day in the Scotsman newspaper this week. We start the week with a magnificent double-page spread on the first Scots. Alistair is also on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Wednesday morning, talking about the book with James Naughtie and encouraging him to spit into a sample tube on air, in order to get his own DNA tested. Alistair’s fellow author Dr Jim Wilson will be on Radio Shetland’s book programme on World Book Day, 3 March.
The Great Tapestry of Scotland is on the Move (but there's still time to make your Mark!)
Members of the public are to be given a chance to make a stitch on new welcome panels for the Great Tapestry of Scotland before it moves to its new, purpose built home in Galashiels.
Writing Scotland's Future – July 1999
In 1999 the winner of a national writing competition, Writing Scotland’s Future, was only 11 years old. But her winning entry was strong and on 1 July that year, her poem was read out at the Official Opening of Scotland’s new Parliament. Jan Rutherford was present.
Shortlisted for Major Award
PPW’s Jan Rutherford has been shortlist for the UK’s Publishers’ Publicity Circle Annual Award.