There are events for just about every age and interest at the Book Festival, bringing readers and writers together for inspiration, entertainment and discussion. Over 900 authors appear in around 800 events, including novelists, poets, scientists, sportsmen, illustrators, comics creators, historians, musicians, biographers, Nobel and Booker prize-winners and many more besides.
British Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry last year for The Perseverance. His compelling poetry deals with family life, the death of his father, his diagnosis with deafness and his biracial heritage. Our...
Facilitated by Hannah Lavery and Samuel Tongue from the Scottish Poetry Library, this creative writing workshop provides tools and techniques to help support creative writing in the classroom and beyond. There will be lots of opportunities to explore...
Niall Campbell is a multi award-winning Scottish poet originally from South Uist. His work explores the landscapes, myths and memories of the Outer Hebrides and the altered states of fatherhood. Today's workshop, led by Samuel Tongue from the Scottish...
2019 Programme Launched: We Need New Stories 
