My muckle Creative Writing Conference unfurls today at The University of Edinburgh / LLCatEdinburgh. Looking forward to welcoming speakers from Faber Books Polygon Books Jenny Brown Agency Portobello Literary 404 Ink Edinburgh International Book Festival Publishing Scotland NCLA & beyond. 💛💚💜

✍️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 Society of Authors Edinburgh Literary Salon

👏Congratulations to Edinburgh writer Jenni Fagan on being selected for the inaugural Island to Island residency exchange, offered in collaboration with British Council and Edinburgh International Book Festival (@edbookfest) - Moniack Mhor Verb Wellington

🔗verbwellington.nz/island-to-isla…

We are so pleased to hear that Alycia Pirmohamed, whose poetry collection Another Way to Split Water we published in 2022, has been selected to take part in the new City of Literature Writer's Room programme. 🎉

Read more:
cityofliterature.com/writers-room-p…

The Book Week Scotland Emerging Programmers scheme is back! Apply for a £250 stipend, £500 event budget and meetings with me. Deadline 31st of May.

Writers are you coming to our new venue for agent wisdom? Only a few tickets left - be quick 😉

We're very sad to hear about the death of Edinburgh-born CJ Sansom - our thoughts and condolences go out to his family at present.

We're thrilled to host Louise Welsh in conversation with Jenny Niven director of Edinburgh International Book Festival for a conversation on creativity, genre, and Scottish influence in literature.

Book here to secure your ticket: rse.org.uk/whats-on/event…

Reminder to all voting SoA Members - the deadline to register your proxy for next week's EGM is tomorrow (30 April).

If you haven't received your voting info please get in touch - [email protected].

🗳️Don't lose your chance to vote.

www2.societyofauthors.org/2024/03/27/egm…

We're looking for the 18th recipient of the Edinburgh Award to celebrate an individual who has made their mark on our city 🏆

If you know someone who has made a special contribution to Edinburgh then cast your nomination on our website by May 24! edinburgh.gov.uk/events-venues/…

Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature has partnered with the Society of Authors in Scotland to pilot a new programme for writers in Edinburgh 👇 thebookseller.com/news/soa-scotl…

Keep an eye on updates from The Edinburgh Bookshop as it looks like they are changing premises in August 👀

🎙️🥰And 📚 Peggy Hughes 👟 🌱 gave us a shout-out as the first UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 City of Literature - thank you Peggy!

Meet the authors that were selected for our #WritersRoom ✍️

Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature and the Society of Authors in Scotland partnered to pilot the Writer’s Room - we welcome Alycia Pirmohamed and Stuart Johnstone as the selected writers! 👏

📰bit.ly/4b90eNe

Hear from the experts! We 💙 this article giving librarians a platform to share their expertise on reading.
We especially love no.3 'Join your local library.' 😍📚

Read it here: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

📣 #EmergingPoets , would you like to exhibit and perform as part of Nottingham Poetry Festival?

They are looking for applications from poets that use more creative and artistic formats to present their poetry.

📅: 1 May
To apply: forms.office.com/e/fiVVcKG44n and 📩: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL POETRY SYMPOSIUM

20 world-class poets from Newcastle, Scotland, Switzerland, USA, Canada, Ukraine, Lebanon, Iran and Bhutan, including leading international poets CA Conrad, Carolyn Forché, Kayo Chingonyi, Len Pennie, Helen Mort, Imtiaz Dharker and more.

Join us…