Citizen: Women of Wester Hailes
20th March 2019In this audio blog, Eleanor hears from the women of the Create group which meets at WHALE Arts in Wester Hailes, one of our Citizen partners. These women share their stories of home and community, food, family, work and more....
Citizen: Making Zines with Claire Askew
11th February 2019"When I needed to get to know them, I asked the three Citizen schools groups to make zines. I wanted to find out which issues and activities most interested the students; I wanted to give them a creative activity to do and ideally, one...
Meet The Hate U Give Author Angie Thomas
4th February 2019The author of the bestselling, award-winning The Hate U Give launches new novel On the Come Up in Edinburgh with the Book Festival....
Citizen: Meet Eleanor Thom
14th January 2019Our community writer-in-residence for Citizen, Eleanor Thom, introduces herself and her approach to this new creative programme - read on to find out how you can get involved in sharing stories and shaping events that will take place...
Announcing Citizen
4th December 2018Today we announced the next phase of our year-round programme taking the Book Festival On the Road. Following on from the extremely successful ReimagiNation series across Scotland’s five New Towns, Citizen is a new long-term creative p...
Echoes of ‘Home’ | Nalini Paul
6th November 2018A new sequence of poems inspired by our New Passages creative exchange programme from Glasgow-based poet Nalini Paul...
Fragmentaria: a book of notions | Sampurna Chattarji
26th October 2018A new sequence of poems inspired by our New Passages creative exchange programme from poet, novelist, translator and editor Sampurna Chattarji....
Homecomings | Sandip Roy
22nd October 2018A new piece of writing by Sandip Roy, the award-winning Kolkata-based author of Don’t Let Him Know, and a contributor to NPR in the U.S. as well as the New York Times, the Guardian, BBC, the Telegraph and more. Part of New Passages....
New Beginnings | Abir Mukherjee
19th October 2018A new short story from award-winning author Abir Mukherjee, inspired by his journey from Edinburgh to Stornoway to Kolkata, India, as part of our New Passages project, supported by the players of People’s Postcode Lottery....
New Passages at the Book Festival
11th October 2018New Passages, a project conducted in partnership with An Lanntair, Stornoway, and the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival, which enabled us to unite Scottish and Indian writers and take them on a round trip from Edinburgh to the Isle of Le...
Little Acts of Rebellion and Love
5th October 2018We held a series of events in Scotland's Prisons this summer, expanding a programme which in 2017 led an attendee to say the experience made them ‘feel recognised as human beings’. Read on to find out more....
Two special events in November
21st September 2018Yesterday we announced two exciting new events for the autumn. Jeff Kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, and bestselling writer of The Essex Serprent, Sarah Perry, both come to Edinburgh in November....
ReimagiNation brings the New Towns to the Book Festival
2nd August 2018Alongside some of the biggest names in global literature, sport and politics, we're thrilled to bring the voices of Scotland's New Towns to the stage as part of our ReimagiNation events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival....
ReimagiNation: Livingston – On the Buses
11th July 2018Daniel Gray shares sights and stories from a day spent exploring West Lothian's New Town by bus and speaking to fellow travellers....
ReimagiNation: Livingston – Moving Voices
4th July 2018Daniel Gray leads the final stage of our tour of Scotland's New Towns. He's been speaking to Livingston locals at various locations and events, finding out about life in the area. Here he reflects on the beginning of this process and...
Success in Glenrothes
22nd May 2018See photos and read all about our latest ReimagiNation festival in Fife's New Town, Glenrothes....
Glenrothes from the Sky
8th May 2018Get a bird's eye view of the history of Glenrothes and of the nation as author and presenter of Scotland from the Sky, James Crawford takes to the air......
The Making of Glenrothes
4th May 2018Find out what the National Library of Scotland are bringing to Glenrothes as we celebrate 70 years of Scotland's New Towns....
Livingston, Let’s Talk
23rd April 2018Join in with community conversations around Livingston over the coming weeks and make your voice heard on the last stage of our ReimagiNation tour of Scotland's New Towns....
Reimagining Glenrothes’ Public Art
12th April 2018Check out these gorgeously illustrated activities based around some of Glenrothes' notable public art, created by Edinburgh College of Art students with primary school pupils from Glenrothes....
Gathering Glenrothes’ Stories
10th April 2018Writer and TV historian Daniel Gray is leading our ongoing ReimagiNation residency in Glenrothes, which sees him work with local teenagers and adults to distil their tales of life in the town across its seven decades of existence, and wh...
New Passages: Nalini Paul pt 2
21st February 2018Following an initial writing residency on the Isle of Lewis in August 2017 – reflections on which you can read on this site – last month novelist Abir Mukherjee and poet Nalini Paul travelled to Kolkata to work with two India-based w...
New Passages: Abir Mukherjee pt 2
19th February 2018Following an initial writing residency on the Isle of Lewis in August 2017 – reflections on which you can read on this site – last month novelist Abir Mukherjee and poet Nalini Paul travelled to Kolkata to work with two India-based w...
New Passages: Sampurna Chattarji
16th February 2018The following piece is the first response from Sampurna Chattarji, a poet, novelist, translator and children’s author of fourteen published titles. She is currently the Poetry Editor of The Indian Quarterly. In my most recent poetry bo...
New Passages: Sandip Roy
16th February 2018Following an initial writing residency on the Isle of Lewis in August 2017 – reflections on which you can read on this site – last month novelist Abir Mukherjee and poet Nalini Paul travelled to Kolkata to work with two India-based w...