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Hundreds of events for adults, teenagers and children feature authors, illustrators, musicians, poets, policians, thinkers, prize-winners and rising stars every August.
Awarding-winning author Patrice Lawrence returns to the Festival with two heart-warming picture books: Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush and Our Story Starts in Africa. Meet Ava and Paloma in an interactive storytelling session on family histories...
It has been a century since The Waste Land, T S Eliot’s revolutionary poetic vision of modern civilisation, was published. To coincide with this anniversary, biographer and poet Robert Crawford has completed the second volume of his definitive...
Take a deep dive into the work of Alice Munroe and John Cheever with writer Mary Gaitskill. Gaitskill herself is the author of three collections of short stories – beginning with Bad Behaviour in 1988 – as well as novels and essays.
One of three major performances this year looking at today’s Scotland. Homelands is the new memoir by Chitra Ramaswamy and tells the story of the author’s friendship with Henry Wuga, who arrived in 1939 with the Kindertransport fleeing Nazi Germany....
This is one Uyghur woman’s astonishing story of survival. More than a million Uyghur Muslims are incarcerated in Chinese detention units: China describes them as re-education camps while human rights organisations accuse China of genocide. Gulbahar...
Dr Mya-Rose Craig is a legend of climate activism. She started blogging aged 11 and at 17 became the youngest person to see half of the birds in the world. In We Have a Dream last year, she introduced readers to 30 young indigenous people and people of...
Have you ever wondered what your superpower would be? Or what you’d do if you found a magical orb which granted wishes? This is your chance to find out. Jason Reynolds’s Stuntboy goes up against Humza Arshad’s Little Badman – who do you think...
Announcing our Communities Programme and Citizen events this August 
