This year’s August Festival saw the most extensive array of communities activities yet. Find out more about our off-site activity.
Taking the Book Festival to Scottish Prisons
Find out more about our engagement with prisons across Scotland during the Book Festival this August
‘A Place Where Reading and Writing Became Not Just Pastimes but Lifelines’
Our Project Manager Jess Orr shares her experiences taking Book Festival authors and events into some of Scotland’s prisons this August, with sessions for male and female prisoners as well as special events enabling parents and their children to enjoy events together.
Little Acts of Rebellion and Love
We 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.