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New Project wants your true life stories
New Project wants your true life stories
31 July 2008
Days Like This is a nationwide writing project being run by the Scottish Book Trust and BBC Radio Scotland. It aims to gather thousands of extraordinary tales from across Scotland, written by everyone from born-and-bred Scots to newly-arrived immigrants, based throughout the country 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 a childhood memory or something that happened yesterday. It could have happened in Scotland or anywhere else in the world. If the story is true and centres on a single day, this writing project will want it. A number of celebrity curators have joined the project, including actress, Siobhan Redmond and percussionist, Evelyn Glennie.
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, and 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. For more details (including the curators' own stories), visit
www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland/dayslikethis.
The deadline for sending in stories is 1 November 2008.
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