YouTube video by Edinburgh CityofLiterature
Great Scott! Responses to Sir Walter Scott's quotes in Edinburgh's Waverley station
Waverley is Edinburgh’s main railway station, & it’s named after Walter Scott’s bestselling 1814 novel WAVERLEY; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. In 2014 the @edincityoflit.bsky.social celebrated the novel’s 200th anniversary in Waverley station
#BookWormSat #C19th 💙📚 🚂
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOBE...
27.09.2025 12:34 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Delighted to share the Future of Books and Reading paper, which combines research insights, professional expertise, and readers' voices to highlight the enjoyable, engaging, empowering and enriching effects of reading across the lifespan. Access here: blogs.ed.ac.uk/literacylab/
22.09.2025 13:48 — 👍 27 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 1
Do you want to help us celebrate literature in Edinburgh? We are recruiting 2-3 new Trustees to join our Board!
Visit our website to find out more and download the Applicant Information Pack.
Deadline for applications is Sunday 5th October.
Please share widely!
shorturl.at/yRcXW
17.09.2025 16:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WOMEN POETS WANTED
For a new collection that "scans the breadth of lived experience across identities, cultures & generations reflecting the richness of women’s experiences today."
Deadline: 12 Oct 25. For details/how to submit visit the RSF website:
www.rebeccaswiftfoundation.org/anthology-of...
28.08.2025 10:11 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
The Big Scottish Book Club
The biggest names in fiction, non-fiction and poetry talk inspiration, influences and the joy of a good book with Damian Barr.
Lovers of books, cruisers of shelves, sniffers of hardbacks, my books tv show is back on telly tonight. Join me John Niven, Desiree Burch and Hallie Rubenhold on the Big Scottish Book Club. 1030pm. A joyful bastion of civilised chat. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
28.08.2025 09:08 — 👍 49 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 4
Director of the Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social; previously @theUL.bsky.social; Clore Fellow; FRSA. I like books, libraries, culture and cake.
Hybrid sci-art ex-astronomer now-author. Writes fiction, poems, essays, reviews. Latest two are 'Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)' from Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF, and 'Night Vision' from Broken Sleep Books. https://www.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk
The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/
The RSL celebrates and nurtures reading and writing of all kinds. We're a charity that believes literature is for everyone. ✨ 200 years young. 🌟
Writer and Historian ✍️
Dr of Carols (yes, really) 🎓
Arts Development & Cultural Advocate🎭
Currently writing about how we can transform arts funding ✨
An Tobar and Mull Theatre Cafe and Gallery will re-open 3 March 2025 then Mon-Fri 10am-4pm. Serving soups, coffees, teas, cold drinks and snacks.
https://www.antobarandmulltheatre.co.uk/
Season 25/26 now on sale:
https://lyceum.org.uk/
https://www.persistentandnasty.co.uk/
Home of Tron Theatre Company, producing and presenting outstanding contemporary theatrical work that entertains, inspires and empowers.
Champion of stories and storytellers.
Registered Scottish Charity (SC002368)
This account is monitored Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm.
Stellar Quines creates theatre, supports creatives and engages communities, all with the aim of achieving greater equality.
Central Scotland's leading arts venue. A hub for all genres of cultural events, including exhibitions, creative classes & our very own Filmhouse.
Hi 👋🏻 We’re Creative Scotland, the national agency for the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland.
🔎 www.creativescotland.com
📸 Tiree Music Festival, image by Kevin Kerr
Scotland's leading laboratory theatre company
Performance / Training / Community
The Bacchae at #edfringe 31 Jul-24 Aug 2025:
https://assemblyfestival.com/whats-on/1019-the-bacchae
On stage, on screen, on tour
Fringe First winners! 🏆 Theatre that’s bangin’ 💣 We aim to celebrate and support women and people of marginalised genders 💖
Scotland's support organisation for emerging and early-career theatre makers.
We are Scotland's national development organisation for youth theatre.
https://linktr.ee/ytartsscot
Scotland's leading theatre company for actors and theatre makers with a learning disability and autism.
https://www.lungha.com/
https://linktr.ee/lunghatheatre
