Every year, the Edinburgh International Book Festival serves up an extraordinary programme, celebrating literature from around the globe. We pick just ten events from 2018's programme that we're excited about.
You may have heard that the Glasgow Women's Library has been shortlisted for the Art Fund's Museum of the Year Prize. In fact, you almost definitely have heard, since social media has been ablaze with support for this terrific organisation and their bid to win the £100,000 prize.
This month, writer Kirsty Logan, songmaker Kirsty Law and contemporary harpist Esther Swift will bring Lord Fox to the Scottish Poetry Library. This new show has been billed as 'a fable with music,' but it promises to be so much more than that.
Emerging Critics is a scheme run by Scottish Review of Books in partnership with Creative Scotland. We caught up with Laura Waddell: a writer and publisher based in Glasgow, who took part in the programme's first round.
Seven years ago this December, Michael Pedersen and Kevin Williamson were planning their first Neu! Reekie! event. Now, they're busy planning a festive show which also doubles up as something of a greatest hits show, with artists including Irvine Welsh, Bill Drummond, Aidan Moffat, Charlotte Church and Hollie McNish all (...)
The Scottish International Storytelling Festival programme explores an ancient art form across 12 days of live storytelling, family events, talks, tours and more. This autumn, 69 events will take place in Edinburgh, with a further 29 events happening throughout Scotland. Here, we take a look at just five.
The Wigtown Book Festival is one of the UK's best-loved literary events. Now in its 18th year, the programme is packed with over 200 events and activities for all ages, including music, theatre, food and visual arts. After a sucessful trial in 2016, Wigtown has now fully implemented StageText: an (...)
Readers, writers and bibliophiles of all stripes have been flocking to this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival since it opened on 12 August. And while the last week-and-a-bit has been packed with impressive events, there are still plenty of talks and readings to attend before the festival wraps up on (...)
It's been one whole year since independent publisher 404 Ink launched, and boy, what a year it’s been. The ladies behind 404 (Laura Jones and Heather McDaid) spoke to us about some of the highlights of the past 12 months, including having their Nasty Women anthology praised by Margaret Atwood, (...)
