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10 March 2026Launch and on sale dates for 2026 Festival announced
It takes ten months to cook up the Festival, and you're invited to the feast. We're getting ready to reveal the nearly 600 events we've…
24 February 2026Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 0 goes on tour
We're delighted that that Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 0 - our acclaimed original production created by Hamish Hawk and…
13 January 2026Looking back on three weeks of zine-making!
In November and December 2025, we completed a series of exciting Zine-Making workshops with S1 students at our Paper Trails partner,…
12 December 2025Major new partnership with Celtic Connections
Two of Scotland's most dynamic festivals are joining forces to create ambitious new work at the intersection of literature and music. We're…
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…
4 December 2025Global Ink 2026: Call for Festival Directors Worldwide
The Edinburgh International Book Festival invites expressions of interest from leaders of book, multi-artform, and ideas festivals across…
7 November 2025Paper Trails: Autumn 2025 Residential Care Home Sessions
Paper Trails is our ambitious multi-year libraries project, celebrating the work that these vibrant cultural hubs do in the local…
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…
25 August 2025Celebrating the 2025 Book Festival
We’re thrilled to have wrapped up a landmark year, celebrating a two-week long ‘Repair’ themed programme of events for all ages and…
10 June 2025Full 2025 Book Festival programme is announced with key theme of Repair
We’re delighted to announce our 2025 programme, with close to 700 events featuring 641 writers from 35 countries, across 6 continents.…
29 April 2025Guest blog: Spartan's Writer in Residence Owen Sutcliffe
Owen Sutcliffe is an award-winning writer, musician, and community worker. Since late 2024 he has been our Writer in Residence at The…
25 March 2025March author visits to Edinburgh Sick Kids
Since 2021, we’ve been working with the Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity to bring authors and illustrators onto the wards of the Royal…