Days Like This

Story of the Day:
I Will Survive by Wendy Muzlanova

"It was the late seventies and I had just moved to a new town. My new friends from school told me about a disco on the other side of the town. It was to be held at the Community Centre that night. My side of town didn't have a strange and exotic building called a Community Centre. I suppose that the residents there were considered too rich to need one. I was up for going..."
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NEWS! 

The Days Like This book is close to completion, and the finished product will be arriving in all good bookshops at the end of January 2009. 

Click here to see the list of stories featured in the book

Click here to see the list of stories featured in the BBC broadcast

Remember, although you can't now be included in the book, you can still send a story - it will appear alongside the others on our website.

 

  

 

Days Like This Adult Learning Resources

Download detailed notes here, specifically for facilitators, teachers and tutors who wish to engage their adult learners in the Days Like This project.

 

Celebrity Curators

Irvine Welsh Hardeep Singh-Kohli Siobhan Redmond
Jamie Andrew Evelyn Glennie Roddy Woomble

 

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

 

Irvine WelshIrvine Welsh's Top Tips

The bestselling author and Days Like This curator suggests ways to get started in writing your story.

Read Irvine's story writing tips

 

  

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 by email at info@scottishbooktrust.com

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

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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