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October winners 2024 – adults
In our October competition, we asked for stories featuring a plant pot.
Congratulations to the winners of our October competition. Feeling inspired? Have a go at this month's prompt.
Adult writers winner
Kirsty McKay
The last thing he remembert, he couldnae fund his keys, then borrowing thon ladder fi’ Big Jazza next door tae get in the bathroom windae. Next, he’s in the hospital wi’ a stookie, a sair heid and the wife shouting, “Ya big galoot! The keys wis under the plant pot!”
Gaelic writers winner
Grace Proudfoot
Phòg Anna ùir bhlàth na Comraich sa phoit-lusa a bu mhotha a bh’ aice mus do chuir i a’ chraobh-chaorainn air an stairsnich, agus dhùin i gu cùramach doras an taighe air gàrradh cruaidh concrait a’ bhaile mhòir air eagal ’s gun gearradh i na freumhan aice fhèin.
Translated by Gaelic Books Council
Anna kissed the warm Applecross soil of the biggest plant pot she had, before placing the rowan tree on the doorstep and very carefully closed the front door on the hard concrete garden of the city, in case she cut her own roots.