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Oyinkan Braithwaite: Cursed Daughters

Oyinkan Braithwaite’s Booker Prize-longlisted debut, My Sister, The Serial Killer, swiftly became a viral publishing sensation.

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Opening Night Gala

Celebrate the opening of this year’s Festival in this captivating evening of new, specially commissioned writing, hosted by Festival director, Jenny Niven.

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Anne Enright: Attention

For 30 years, Anne Enright has been paying attention – to literature, to Ireland, to the voices and bodies of women – and writing about it all in prose so insig…

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Ask Philippa – Live

Sometimes we need a helping hand to untie life’s trickier knots, be it falling out with a close friend or a messy situationship.

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The Provocateurs: Artificial Wombs / Panic! at the Cortex

The Provocateurs: Artificial Wombs / Panic! at the Cortex at The Stand Comedy Club II, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club II, Edinburgh

Writing for Children: A Workshop with Catherine Coe, Patrice Lawrence & Rashmi Sirdeshpande

Would you like to write for children but don’t know where to start? Or have you been writing for a while but are unsure of your audience, hook or plot?

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Are You Sitting Comfortably?

Join us for a relaxed morning story especially for your littlest readers. Check website for today's author.

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Gavin Francis: The Unfragile Mind

Between 30-50% of GP consultations now concern mental health. As a GP for over 20 years, Gavin Francis has had a front row seat to society’s changing ideas of m…

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Orlando Swayne: How to Use a Fork

A consultant neurologist with a particular interest in neurorehabilitation, Orlando Swayne’s work has taught him that a brain that’s been ‘broken’ has the poten…

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Close Read with Open Book: Poems to Change Your Mind

Join Marjorie Lotfi and Jess Orr from Open Book, a charity organising shared reading and creative writing groups, as they introduce you to some of the brilliant…

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Tom Newlands: Something Like Happiness

There’s an unmistakable buzz around Tom Newlands. Winner of Waterstones’ 2025 Scottish Book of the Year with his debut, Only Here, Only Now, his blistering seco…

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Mark Haddon: Leaving Home

As an artist and multi-million copy bestselling writer, Mark Haddon is known for constructing vivid worlds through his imagery and storytelling.

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The More You Know with the National Museum of Scotland

How does a cyclops become a mammoth, or a tiger become a cat? Come and find out in this drop-in session with our brilliant pals from the National Museum of Scot…

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Daisy Johnson & Doireann Ní Ghríofa: Kindred Spirits

Mixing archive and memory, Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s Said the Dead draws readers into a haunting illumination of Cork’s forgotten women.

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Len Pennie & Sophia Smith Galer: Use It or Lose It

When a language disappears, what else are we at risk of losing – culturally, politically, and personally?

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Have Lunch with Ben Lippett

Amassing a million-strong following with his warm, funny videos on how to nail ‘cheffy’ recipes like sausage and sage pappardelle, Ben Lippett makes the kitchen…

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The Provocateurs: Horror Therapy / Ethical Innovators?

The Provocateurs: Horror Therapy / Ethical Innovators? at The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

Loud Poets Grand Slam Final

Back again for another year of electrifying slam poetry, this heated competition from Loud Poets gives new meaning to the phrase ‘poetry in motion’.

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Brodie Crellin and Susannah Dickey: Under One Roof

Death brings people together, right? For the families at the heart of Brodie Crellin’s A Sense of Occasion and Susannah Dickey’s Into the Wreck, things aren’t s…

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Open House

You’re invited to our Open House! Bring your friends and join Festival director Jenny Niven and Festival guests as they take you through highlights of 2026: fro…

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Abir Mukherjee: The Pinnacle

Welcome to the Pinnacle, Mumbai’s grandest skyscraper, where privilege lives high above desperation, and every floor has its secrets.

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Jill Dawson: Pixie

Thousands consult Tarot cards about the paths they should be taking, but few know the name of Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith, illustrator of the world’s most iconi…

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Sounding Home: A Songwriting Workshop with Emma-Lee Moss

How do we remember where we’ve been? Which songs help shape and preserve our identities?

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Eating and Waiting to Eat: Podcast Live – with Ben Lippett

Two Americans walk into a bakery and leave with a podcast. Not the start of a joke, but the origin story of Kevin Rivers and Carlos Miranda’s beloved, Edinburgh…

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Cory Doctorow: Enshittification

Tech critic, sci-fi author, and seer of digital dystopia, Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It is a blist…

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When Rights Collide

How can we use the law as a framework to protect the rights of all? Today’s event, featuring a panel of legal experts, explores the Supreme Court’s recent rulin…

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Our Many-Voiced Country

Now in his second year as Makar, Peter Mackay brings together contemporary poets working in Scotland who showcase the range of languages being spoken and writte…

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Irvine Welsh: Can Nothing Save Us?

Scotland’s grittiest writer returns to launch Can Nothing Save Us? – a ferocious saga of moral freefall, set in a blisteringly hot Las Vegas.

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Jay Gao & Małgorzata Lebda: Embodied Natures

Two poets turn their singular attention to the human body’s relationship with nature.

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Reimagining Fairy Tales with Craigmillar Literacy Trust

Join Katie Swann from Craigmillar Literacy Trust for a magical, hands-on event all about your favourite fairytales from around the world – but maybe not quite a…

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Have Lunch with Gurdeep Loyal

Have you tried spicy harissa lasagne? Or added sesame oil to a sundae? In Flavour Heroes, Gurdeep Loyal combines his expertise as a food and travel writer to di…

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Beano: The Funniest Dennis the Menace story EVER!

Dennis the Menace has a special birthday wish – he wants to break the rules of reading!

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Philippa Perry: Shrink Solves Murder

When a man’s body washes up near Beachy Head, the police call it suicide – but his therapist is not convinced.

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Charlotte McConaghy: Wild Dark Shore

What does it mean to raise children in an ecological crisis? New York Times bestselling author Charlotte McConaghy felt the weight of this question while pregna…

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The Provocateurs: A Disease by Any Other Name / Forget the Alzheimer’s Test?

The Provocateurs: A Disease by Any Other Name / Forget the Alzheimer’s Test? at The Stand Comedy Club II, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club II, Edinburgh

qntm: There Is No Antimemetics Division

An antimeme is an idea you can't hold onto – a dream, a dirty secret, a complex equation. Now imagine one that's hunting you.

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Rob Drummond, Dave Hook & Orla O’Loughlin: Hip-Hop Wallace

An exhilarating collision of Scottish rap and historical mythmaking, Wallace: A Musical is a playful, humour-filled retelling of the story of William Wallace th…

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Essie Fox & Jess Kidd: Modern Gothic

Catherine Earnshaw rises from the grave to set the record straight. An orphan with electricity in her fingertips is sent to a house where inventors build living…

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Rachel Aviv: Strangers to Ourselves

Join long-time New Yorker journalist Rachel Aviv, renowned for her in-depth reporting on topics ranging from police shootings in Albuquerque to the complex case…

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Chopping and Changing: A Poetry Workshop with Peter Mackay

National Makar Peter Mackay knows that words come to us slightly battered and dented. What do we do with these imperfect tools?

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In Conversation with... Jackie Kay

In Conversation with... Jackie Kay at The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

Beeban Kidron & Sarah Wynn-Williams: Safety in an Online World?

Leading online safety campaigner, legislator, and filmmaker Baroness Beeban Kidron reveals how unchecked tech giants are exploiting young minds in both her accl…

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The Provocateurs: No Booze, No Boogie? / What’s the Point of Trees?

The Provocateurs: No Booze, No Boogie? / What’s the Point of Trees? at The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, Edinburgh

Patrick Gale & Lisa Ridzén: Before It’s Too Late

Family frailty and how ageing fathers ache for connection as the clock ticks down: these are the threads linking Patrick Gale’s Love Lane (the follow-up to his…

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India Alba & William Dalrymple: The Golden Road

Historian William Dalrymple’s The Golden Road draws on decades of research about India’s pivotal role in shaping the ancient world.

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Meet Pip and Posy

Our favourite mouse and rabbit BFFs are back! Pip and Posy would love to say hello and introduce you to their brilliant new trail around the Children’s Tent.

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Annie Lord, Elle McNicoll & Bobby Palmer: Love, or Something Like It

Packed with stories that take on love in unconventional ways, contemporary romance has got hot again.

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Rachel Aviv & Catherine Carr: It’s All Relative

Two skilled storytellers meet to mine the rich vein of family dynamics. In You Won’t Get Free of It, The New Yorker journalist Rachel Aviv collects real stories…

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