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1 December 2022Illustration Collaborations with ECA Students: Part 1
In a series of posts, we are delighted to share the artworks that third year Edinburgh College of Art illustration students created in…
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…
24 February 2022Our Partnership with Edinburgh College of Art
Recently we worked with the Third Year Illustration Students at Edinburgh College of Art, who created innovative visual responses to…
16 December 2021A Look Back at our 2021 Communities Programme
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…
2 December 2021Introducing Ryan Van Winkle: Our Schools Writer in Residence
We were delighted to welcome Ryan Van Winkle as our new Citizen Schools Writer in Residence, who started working with us in October. Here,…