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27 April 2023Guest Blog: Eleanor Thom
In this guest blog our Citizen Writer in Residence Eleanor Thom shares her experience working with the North Edinburgh Over-50s Drama Group…
29 March 2023New Project with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
Recently we worked with young people and staff from NHS Lothian’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) on a three-day…
21 February 2023Story-sharing with Streetreads
Over the autumn, our Citizen Writer in Residence, Eleanor Thom visited Streetreads to deliver story-sharing and creative writing sessions.…
25 January 2023Guest Blog: Spartan's Writer in Residence - Chris Barkley
Chris Barkley is an award-winning fiction writer, whose work is concerned with belonging, place, myth, and reality. Since August 2022 he…
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…
5 October 2022Scotland's Stories Now at the August Festival
Throughout 2022, we’ve been celebrating Scotland’s Year of Stories. The August Festival was a highlight for our ‘Scotland’s Stories Now’…
21 September 2022On site with 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…
15 September 2022Off site communities events this August!
This year’s August Festival saw the most extensive array of communities activities yet. Read on to find out more about how we brought the…
13 July 2022Communities at Edinburgh International Book Festival
This year we are hosting several Communities Programme events as part of the August Book Festival, as well as organising several off site…
22 June 2022Guest Blog: Ken Cockburn
Ken Cockburn is a poet, translator, editor and writing tutor based in Edinburgh. He has extensive experience of running poetry sessions and…
13 April 2022Guest Blog: Ryan Van Winkle
Over the past several months, Ryan Van Winkle, our Citizen Schools Writer in Residence, has been working alongside a range of young people…
16 March 2022Scotland's Stories Now
Our Scotland’s Stories Now project is in full swing: we have already received nearly 30 stories to our open callout, while two…