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The Speculative Literature Foundation has chosen Sohini Basak is the winner of the 2023 Gulliver Travel Grant. Basak’s winning piece is Fox in Rain. Sohini Basak is a writer of fiction, poetry and the in-between. Her 2018 poetry collection We Live in the Newness of Small Differences was awarded the inaugural International Beverly Manuscript Prize. Her

The Speculative Literature Foundation has chosen Sohini Basak is the winner of the 2023 Gulliver Travel Grant. Basak’s winning piece is Fox in Rain. Sohini Basak is a writer of fiction, poetry and the in-between. Her 2018 poetry collection We Live in the Newness of Small Differences was awarded the inaugural International Beverly Manuscript Prize. Her

Kalpana Balan, a 26-year-old woman from India, has achieved a Guinness World Record for having 38 teeth in her mouth, surpassing the average adult count by six.

Kalpana Balan has achieved a rare feat by having more teeth; she has 38 teeth in total which is 6 more than the average number of teeth present in human beings. Of the six extra teeth, there are four extra mandibular teeth, present in the lower jaw and two extra maxillary teeth, present in the upper jaw.

It's a poetry heavy month, with the launch of two new poetry nights in Glasgow and plenty of spoken word at Hidden Door and Spit It Out Festival.

Lots of bookish events in December, including Josie Long at The Stand's spoken word night and the launch of Scottish literary magazine Extra Teeth

Festive events are starting to ramp up: Bethlehem Cultural Festival arrives in Glasgow, while Fruitmarket hosts an indie Christmas market and EHFM hold their last club night of the year

This week, the first video installation from filmmaker Mark Cousins, multi-artform poetry festival Push the Boat Out and a load of Scottish film festivals

This month, queer club night 249 has its inaugural party at Summerhall. Elsewhere, Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival wraps up its final days, and Cloth play at SWG3.