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Lanre Bakare, Jen Calleja & Ash Sarkar: Changing the Culture

Friday 15 August 18:15 - 19:15

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Three vibrant voices shaking up assumptions on class, race, and culture join us for a perspective-shifting discussion…
 

Retelling Myths with Nikita Gill: A Workshop Inspired by Hekate

Suitable for age 15 - 18

Friday 15 August 18:15 - 19:15

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Join bestselling poet Nikita Gill for a powerful writing workshop inspired by her new book, Hekate - a fierce retelling in verse of the Greek goddess of witchcraft and necromancy…
 

Titilayo Farukuoye, Michael Lee Richardson, Ely Percy, Shola von Reinhold & Ryan Vance: Fierce Salvage

Friday 15 August 18:30 - 19:30

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Fierce Salvage: A Queer Words Anthology is an inspiring snapshot of current LGBTI+ Scottish writing, from memoir to poetry, edited by Michael Lee Richardson and Ryan Vance…
 

Ita O'Brien: Unblurring the Lines

Friday 15 August 18:45 - 19:45

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In Intimacy, O’Brien uses her experiences on shows including Normal People and Sex Education to reflect on how we navigate sex and intimacy within ourselves, and with others…
 

Laurie Bristow: The Ambassador’s Final Dispatch

Friday 15 August 18:45 - 19:45

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After a long career at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), including as director of national security, Laurie Bristow was British ambassador to Afghanistan in 2021 and one of the last civilians to leave when Kabul fell to the Taliban…
 

Ben Okri: Festival for the Broken-Hearted

Friday 15 August 19:30 - 20:30

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Winner of the Booker Prize, Ben Okri doubles the festival spirit on offer with Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted…
 

Maggie Nelson & Oluwaseun Olayiwola: Embodied Interiority

Friday 15 August 20:00 - 21:00

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Our relationships with our bodies can be both intimate and alien at once. How can we feel at home in them? Together, genre-defying writer Maggie Nelson (Pathemata) and poet and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola (Strange Beach) explore how our bodies can…
 

Imani Erriu and Samantha Shannon: The Art of Fantasy

Friday 15 August 20:30 - 21:30

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Join these talented authors as they reveal to Alwyn Hamilton how they create their remarkable fantasy worlds…
 

Tim Key: L.A. Baby!

Friday 15 August 21:00 - 22:00

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Why not try? Rock the Boat: Open Mic Poetry Rock the Boat: Open Mic Poetry Wed 20 Aug 18:00 - 19:30
 

Dream Big with Rob Biddulph

Suitable for age 3 - 5

Saturday 16 August 10:00 - 11:00

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What do you want to be when you grow up? Explore all the things you can be with amazing author and illustrator Rob Biddulph in his newest book, When I Grow Up I’d Like to Be……