I did a Substack article that was a list of bookshops in Scotland that are likely to stock Scots language books.

https://chrisgilmour.substack.com/p/list-of-independent-bookshops-that

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List of Independent bookshops that might appreciate Scots books

In the absence of a bricks and mortar Scots language bookshop, what is there?

Perambulations

I have written a SubStack article about my Scots Language Bookshop and some market research stuff that might be useful to publishers and writers

https://chrisgilmour.substack.com/p/presenting-gilmours-scots-language/

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Presenting: Gilmour's Scots Language Bookshop

Frustrated with the Scots language offerings of Amazon and Waterstones, I have created my own bookshop

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Scotslanguage.com - Slava Konoval, Kyiv, Ukraine. Lawyer an poet.

Article by Carla Woodburn, Scots Language Centre Poetry Editor.A'd like tae introduce Slava Konoval. Slava is a Ukrainian lawyer an poet bidin in Kyiv. Slava haes a specific admiration fur the Scots leid.Slava contactit the Scots Language Centre an expressed his desire tae share his poetry wae us …

Edinburgh University offer a writing prize called The Sloan Prize for a prose or verse composition in Lowland Scots vernacular
https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/english-literature/prizes-scholarships/writing-prizes

This prize has been issued annually since at least 1930 (it's mentioned on Robert Garioch's page at the Scottish Poetry Library.

However records of past winners of this prize aren't easy to find.

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Writing prizes

We invite you to submit entries for the University’s three writing prizes, the Grierson Verse Prize, Sloan Prize, and Lewis Edwards Memorial Prize. These prizes have been established to recognise and encourage our students’ remarkable talent in prose and verse.

The University of Edinburgh