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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…
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…
5 November 2024Long Reads Issue 01: Why does reading matter?
Hello and welcome to Book Fest Long Reads: a monthly email series where we delve into our archive, bringing you back the words of…
26 September 2024On site with the Communities Programme at the August Book Festival
This year, we welcomed several groups to the Festival site, held special author visits with our community partners and there were daily…
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,…