Citizen Collective
Citizen Collective is a fun, inclusive, online creative writing group for 15-18-year-olds living in or around Edinburgh.
Led by award-winning poet, artist, and producer Ryan Van Winkle, Citizen Collective has been running since 2020. It’s a supportive space that gives young creatives the chance to flex and develop their writing muscles, get feedback from published writers and their peers, hear from guest authors, make friends, and go on cultural trips – plus there’s the opportunity for them all to perform on the Book Festival stage during August.
The latest from Citizen Collective
10 December 2025Reflecting on our Autumn Sessions with Citizen Collective
In October 2025, we welcomed a brand-new group of avid writers and book readers from schools around Edinburgh to form our new Citizen…
16 September 2025Join the Citizen Collective
We are now recruiting for our next year of The Citizen Collective. If you're aged 15-18, live in or close to Edinburgh and are passionate…
27 February 2025Reflecting on our Citizen celebration event
Back in December 2024, we celebrated the achievements of our Citizen project with the community partners and local people who have been…
23 May 2024Citizen at the North Edinburgh Community Festival
As part of our Citizen project, early this month our Communities Team and Adults Writing Group helped take the joy of the Book Festival…
25 April 2024Our First Citizen Trainee Writers in Residence: Hannah Ekekwe and Lintong Zhang
Since 2019, we have appointed Writers in Residence to work with community partners and local people on our long-term creative project,…
11 April 2024Citizen Writers and Edinburgh College of Art: Deliverances from Death
At the end of last year, our Citizen Writers collaborated with illustration students from Edinburgh College of Art to create a set of…
19 October 2022A New Term for The Citizen Collective
As we look ahead to a new term of sessions with The Citizen Collective, we reflect on a few highlights from the past year.The Citizen…
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