Days Like This

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We all have days we'll never forget.
We want to hear about yours.

Days Like This is an exciting new project run by Scottish Book Trust in partnership with BBC Radio Scotland. To take part, all you need to do is write about a day in your life that was a bit extraordinary.

It could be the day you didn’t get married, or the day you got lost in a supermarket. It can be a childhood memory or something that happened yesterday. It could have happened in Scotland, or anywhere else in the world.
If your story is true, and takes place on a single day, we want to hear from you!

Celebrity Curators

Author Irvine Welsh, chef and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli, actress Siobhan Redmond, mountaineer Jamie Andrew, percussionist Evelyn Glennie and Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble have joined the project as celebrity curators. They'll read your stories and choose their favourites to feature in some special programmes on Radio Scotland later this year.

They have also written and recorded their own stories for the project, and you can read all six of them here on our site now. Click on their pictures to read the stories.

How does it work?

Simple. Your story needs to be true, and to be written from your point of view. It also needs to be no more than 1000 words in length. Submit your story:

on the Days Like This website

or by post to:
Days Like This
BBC Scotland
The Tun
111 Holyrood Road
Edinburgh
EH8 8PJ

Download a copy of the leaflet:
* larger file for printing
* smaller file for viewing online

Deadline for submission: 1 November 2008

Days Like This was inspired by Paul Auster’s book True Tales of American Life as well as a project developed by BBC Northern Ireland.