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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.
One of three major performances this year looking at today’s Scotland through the lens of its past, present and future, Hear No Evil is based on the debut novel by Sarah Smith. This production uses a fusion of sign language, image and performance to...
A truly uplifting emotional journey; a tender, wise, brutally funny novel.’ So says the Guardian about The Coward, Jarred McGinnis’s autobiographical debut. After an accident leaves Jarred, the book’s narrator, in a wheelchair he is forced to...
Join bestselling authors Sinéad Burke and Rosie Jones as they talk about their respective books, Break the Mould and Edie Eckhart and discuss how to empower young people to find confidence in their own identity, claiming their space in the world....
Is Little Bear ignoring his friends when they say hi, or is something else going on? A discovery opens new doors in this poignant tale for Deaf people and all children learning to navigate their world. Join author Raymond Antrobus for a reading of this...
Stomp, stamp and growl along in this immersive sensory event created specially for people of all ages with learning disabilities. Authors Anne and Steve Brusatte have been working with inclusive arts specialists The Arts End of Somewhere and the PAMIS...
She’s ‘an inspiration’ and ‘so brave’ and so tired of hearing about it. The protagonist in the one-woman poetry performance Within Sight is a disabled athlete who has narrowly missed out on making the GB Paralympics team. This is the...
Frustrated by literature events not being made accessible, disabled writers Julie Farrell and Ever Dundas conceived the Inklusion Guide, a useful resource for event organisers. This event celebrating the launch of their guide is chaired by Sinéad...
Announcing our Communities Programme and Citizen events this August 
