Communities

This year we are hosting several Communities Programme events as part of the August Book Festival, as well as organising several off site…

Ken Cockburn is a poet, translator, editor and writing tutor based in Edinburgh. He has extensive experience of running poetry sessions and…

Over the past several months, Ryan Van Winkle, our Citizen Schools Writer in Residence, has been working alongside a range of young people…

Our Scotland’s Stories Now project is in full swing: we have already received nearly 30 stories to our open callout, while two…

Recently we worked with the Third Year Illustration Students at Edinburgh College of Art, who created innovative visual responses to…

As another, very strange year comes to a close, we want to share some of the highlights from our work with communities across Edinburgh and…

We were delighted to welcome Ryan Van Winkle as our new Citizen Schools Writer in Residence, who started working with us in October. Here,…

While our long-term work with Scottish prisons takes place the whole year round, every August we plan a series of special, stand alone…

While our Citizen programme operates all year-round, August is always a particularly busy time for us as it gives us a chance to showcase…

Preparing for the August Book FestivalThis year we are hosting four Citizen events in the August Festival programme, and using our Story…

Explore the Spartans ZineLeyla Josephine has been working with the young people at Spartans Alternative School to produce a Zine which…

As part of our Story Nation project, writer, performer and professional storyteller Andy Cannon helped take the joy of the Book Festival to…