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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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
7 March 2024Singapore International Foundation’s Arts for Good Fellowship
Over the autumn and winter, Communities Programme Director, Noëlle Cobden had the privilege of being part of Singapore International…
21 December 2023Communities '23: End of Year Reflection
As 2023 comes to an end, our Communities Programme Director, Noëlle Cobden, reflects on her top five highlights in what has been another…