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Bring Your Imagination to Life with Will Sliney

Suitable for age 9 - 11

Sunday 17 August 16:30 - 17:30

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Join Marvel comic book artist and SkyKids TV star Will Sliney for an out-of-this-world interactive event! Get ready for Will to take you through a step-by-step droid draw-along and share some artistic tips and tricks. Inspired by his book, Draw with Will…
 

Louise Kenward: Redefining Nature Writing

Sunday 17 August 16:45 - 17:45

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Moving Mountains is a new and compelling anthology of nature writing, from the perspective of disabled and chronically ill authors. Through 25 pieces, deftly edited by Louise Kenward, this is not a chronicle of overcoming and conquering, but rather of…
 

James Kelman: Your Stories are Your Own

Sunday 17 August 17:00 - 18:00

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Join lifelong literary radical James Kelman, whose commitment to the power and truth of 'ordinary' life - sometimes tragic, but always inspiringly tender and human - remains undimmed. Talking today about his new collections of short fiction (The Story of…
 

Rachel Charlton-Dailey: The Ongoing Fight for Disability Rights

Sunday 17 August 17:00 - 18:00

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This year marks 30 years since the Disability Discrimination Act. To mark this significant anniversary, activist Rachel Charlton-Dailey joins Caro Clarke to discuss Ramping Up Rights which brings together inspiring stories of over 100 years of disability…
 

Disrupting the Narrative – A Performance

Sunday 17 August 17:00 - 18:00

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Do you think you know Edinburgh? What about the parts of its story it prefers to conceal? This theatrical poetry performance from Edinburgh's former Makar Hannah Lavery alongside fellow poets Jeda Pearl, Shasta Hanif Ali, Niall Moorjani, and Alycia…
 

Maggie Nelson: How Does a Body Connect with Itself?

Sunday 17 August 17:45 - 18:45

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Maggie Nelson's intellectually nimble works of non-fiction (including The Argonauts) have earned her both Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships along with a reputation as one her generation's most versatile thinkers. Her latest work, Pathemata: Or, The…
 

Reading to repair: Inspiring the Next Generation with SCWBI and Will Sliney

Sunday 17 August 18:15 - 19:15

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How can children’s books help repair a troubled world and support young minds in the process? Join Will Sliney, Marvel artist and creator of Sky Arts’ Draw with Will, for a powerful conversation on how storytelling and illustration can inspire empathy……
 

Anthony Joseph: Precious and Impossible

Sunday 17 August 18:30 - 19:30

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What a delight to welcome Anthony Joseph – one of our greatest living poets – back to the Festival for 2025, sharing his lyrical, incisive new collection, Precious and Impossible: Selected Poems…
 

Bella Mackie: Killing Your Darling Family

Sunday 17 August 18:45 - 19:45

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Following the runaway success of her debut novel, How to Kill Your Family, bestselling author Bella Mackie joins us at the Festival. Her new hilarious murder mystery, What a Way to Go, centres on the thoroughly repugnant Anthony Wistern and his equally……
 

Edwin Morgan: A Legacy from Translation to Liberation

Sunday 17 August 18:45 - 19:45

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Edwin Morgan was many things: the first Makar of Scotland, a prolific writer (with over 60 published works), a passionate translation advocate, and a person with a kaleidoscopic range of interests. Although sensationally generous with his words and…