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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.
Andrés N Ordorica’s debut collection, At Least This I Know, heralds the arrival of a fully-formed poetic talent onto the Scottish literary scene. Constructed around his identity as a queer, Latinx immigrant to Scotland, Ordorica’s poems offer a...
Written in Wiradjuri and English, How to Make a Basket won Jazz Money the David Unaipon Award for its exploration of existence under a colonial state and its celebration of queer love. Andrés N Ordorica’s debut collection, At Least This I Know,...
How does identity shift through generations? Can we ever write free from historical trauma? How do we live in the moment? These are just a few of the questions posed by Alycia Pirmohamed and Jay Gao in their anticipated debut collections, Another Way to...
Meet two writers who are forging their own paths. Claire Askew’s second collection, How to Burn a Woman, is a tale of power and resilience. She’s joined today by poet and writer Salena Godden, whose debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death is a daring,...
When Lemn Sissay’s The Fire People was published in 1998 it brought a group of talented Black British poets to public attention. 24 years on it is being republished. Kayo Chingonyi’s anthology More Fiya nods to the importance of Sissay’s original...
Revel in the possibilities of art with Signe Gjessing and Selby Wynn Schwartz. Prize-winning Danish poet Signe Gjessing presents Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus, reimagining Wittgenstein’s seminal philosophical text of 1922 to make language and...
Returning for its third year, Stories and Scran celebrates the dynamic and thought-provoking work created by participants in Citizen, our long-term creative programme offering local people a platform to explore identity and place. Enjoy a snack and a...
Marjorie Lotfi and Claire Urquhart from Open Book, a charity which organises shared reading and creative writing groups, explore work from the poets who are sharing new collections at this year’s Festival. Expect an open discussion from the start –...
Ocean Vuong has garnered international critical acclaim for his novel and two poetry collections. Born in Saigon and raised in the USA, Vuong’s writing draws heavily on his experiences of queerness, migration and class, especially in his new...
The hosts of brand new podcast Quines Cast bring us an evening of feminist thought, music, theatre and literature to provide retreat, renewal and solidarity for women and other marginalised genders. In a special Book Festival event, hosts Caitlin...
Announcing our Communities Programme and Citizen events this August 
