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Young Poets Religious Poetry Competition

This year the programme for the 2025 Festival of the Sacred Arts includes the final of a competition for young poets. Details about the competition can be found on the Edinburgh Sacred Arts Festival website.

The judges are Robert Crawford and Christine De Luca, and it is being run in collaboration with the Scottish Poetry Library. Entry is restricted to people aged 30 or under living, working or studying in Scotland.

Upcoming Events

The Influence of British Romanticism on Nineteenth-Century Religious Vocabulary

Date: Thursday 13 March, 4:30-5:45pm

Venue: Martin Hall, New College

Many great figures in nineteenth-century theology stress the importance for them of Romantic writers and poets such as Walter Scott, S.T. Coleridge, William Wordsworth and Robert Southey. Yet the importance of the vocabulary of Romanticism on nineteenth-century religious thought has been little examined. A philologist and a theologian seek to remedy this in this presentation.

Speakers: Proffessor Jeremy Smith and Proffessor David Jasper

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Myth, Speculative Fiction and Verse: A Creative Workshop with Dr Oliver K. Langmead

Date: Tuesday 18 March 2025, 3-5pm

Venue: Edinburgh Futures Institute, Room 1.55

Contemporary authors such as Vajra Chandrasekera (The Saint of Bright Doors), Aliya Whiteley (Three Eight One) and Marlon James (Dark Star trilogy) are using science fiction and fantasy as a creative approach to reflecting on faith and myth. Join speculative author, Oliver K. Langmead, as he discusses faith and myth in his own work and beyond it – and invites you to creative speculations of your own.

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