Attention publishers 📢 The 2024 Saltire Book Awards are open for entries! Find out everything you need to know at the link below 👇 saltiresociety.org.uk/the-saltire-so…

✍️Granada City of Literature have opened their literary residency programme to writers connected to #CitiesofLit, including Edinburgh! 🇪🇸 Deadline: 20 June Full Details: bit.ly/4a0b7jl Edinburgh Writers' Forum The Society of Authors Edinburgh Literary Salon

✍️Krakow City of Literature have opened their literary residency programme to writers connected to #CitiesofLit, including Edinburgh! You've just over a week to get your submissions in! 🇵🇱 Deadline: 31 May Full Details: bit.ly/3w2Oxst

A HUGE thanks to everyone who came to the Scottish Book Trade Conference with Booksellers Association last week, particularly our brilliant speakers and generous sponsors. Photos from Sandy Young(feat. @hebridean_baker & Alan Windram here) #scotbookconf publishingscotland.org/what-we-do/sco…

'Or maybe, it simply starts the day you’re born and all the becoming begins right then.' Birding is the haunting second novel by Glasgow-based talent Rose Ruane. Get a taste for this dark and dreamy work with an extract over at BooksfromScotland today 👇 booksfromscotland.com/2024/05/birdin…

Cultural Warriors! A fantastic and thought-provoking discussion with Velia Vidal, Wanjiru Koinange and Lọlá Shónẹ́yìn on the global challenges of fostering arts and culture. 🙏 to wonderful chair Georgina Godwin, Hay Festival, British Council and Colombian Embassy UK.

Writers, translators connected to Edinburgh, I know it's full on Edinburgh International Book Festival this month, but you have 5 days left to get in your applications for Prague City of Literature residencies! Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity! bit.ly/4bP5fdH Scottish Books International scriever

📣Writers, there's still time to apply for a virtual residency with a Melbourne-based organisation? 🌏 Our friends at City of Literature are looking for applications for their 2024 virtual residencies! 📅 2 Sept 2024 For more information: cityofliterature.com/melbourne-city…

DEADLINE EXTENDED! We've heard you, and have extended the deadline to nominate for this year's Creative Edinburgh Awards to next Tuesday 10 September, 9am. There's still time to nominate! creative-edinburgh.com/awards/applica…

An excellent course for anyone looking to develop their copyediting skills 👇

Nanjing UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 City of Literature is offering six residencies in 2024 to #writers, #poets and #translators from all UNESCO Cities of Literature. That includes Edinburgh - deadline: 30 Sept! Full details: cityofliterature.com/nanjing-city-o…

A fantastic offering as ever from our siblings over on Books from Scotland!

Do you provide (or hope to provide) publishing or editorial services to a publicly funded organisation? You need to be Fair Work compliant. Learn more at our free lunchtime webinar with legal experts Harper Macleod LLP next Weds. Register here: publishingscotland.org/event/fair-wor…

Go beyond Burns with this selection of modern collections to discover Scots poetry for the twenty-first century. scottishbooktrust.com/book-lists/sco…

We teamed up with our friends at Scottish Book Trust to compile this list of 20 books, all set in Edinburgh to celebrate our 20th anniversary as a UNESCO City of Literature, one for every year! What are your favourite books set in the capital?📚 scottishbooktrust.com/book-lists/20-…

We're ecstatic to be working with @ScotStoryFest this year for their 35th anniversary edition, coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The festival is on now until 31 October in Edinburgh — you won't want to miss it!

Editors are the vital link in the publishing process, and our Intro to Copy-editing course prepares you for a professional editing career. Book now to secure your spot on next week's course: publishingscotland.org/event/copy-edi… #ProfessionalEditing #AmEditing

📣In the midst of our 20th anniversary #CitiesofLit Conference, we are announcing 3 new Board Trustees to Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature...🥳 We welcome Catriona Boyd, Emma Collins and Rachel Gaughan! 💫 cityofliterature.com/boyd-collins-a…

With the clocks due to go back this weekend, we turned to author and stargazer Anna Levin to tell us all about why we should celebrate the darkness and starry skies. Pop over to BooksfromScotland today to read an extract from her latest book Dark Skies: booksfromscotland.com/2024/10/dark-s…