Updated: 24 July
Join us as we celebrate and big up our wonderful SBWN community events this summer!
If you have a literary event, call for submissions, or happening, please complete our opportunities form. We publish a bi-weekly and monthly newsletter and will be adding more community events to this blog.
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SBWN Member Events
Book Fringe – The A.L.T. Edition
More events coming Soon
Hosted by Lighthouse Books, Book Fringe returns in August. Full programme now available.
11 August
13:00 – 13:45
Foreign Histories: Excavating our Past with Katie Goh and Paula Akpan
10 August
10:15 – 11:15
Blast to the Past with Maisie Chan
Featuring: Maisie Chan
11:15 – 12:15
Choosing a Name with Yasmin Hanif
Featuring: Yasmin Hanif
21:00 – 22:30
1995: Grrrls Aloud
Featuring: Chitra Ramaswamy
17:00 – 18:00
Natasha Brown & Hari Kunzru: Fiction for a Fractured World
Featuring: Natasha Brown and Chitra Ramaswamy
11th August
11:30 – 12:30
Leila Aboulela & Karen Campbell: Watch Me Begin Again
Featuring: Leila Aboulela
18:00 – 19:00
Our Mother Tongues
Featuring: Roshni Gallagher and Andrés N. Ordorica
12 August
12:00 – 13:00
Fresh Words: The Kavya Prize
Featuring: Jinling Wu, Theresa Muñoz
13 August
10:15 – 11:15
Mona Arshi, Jackie Kay & Karen McCarthy Woolf: Nature Matters
Featuring: Jackie Kay
13:45 – 15:00
Scottish Writing is Thriving: A Sparkling Showcase
Featuring: Eilidh Akilade and Katie Goh
16:30 – 18:00
Discover Jackie Kay’s Archives at the National Library of Scotland
Featuring: Jackie Kay
19:15 – 20:15
Together We Repair
Featuring: Hannah Lavery (chair) and members of the Writers of Colour Poetry Group – Shasta Ali, Nasim Rebecca Asl, Nikki Kilburn, Andrea Cabrera Luna, Leilani Taneus-Miller, Augustus Nathaniel, Grace H Zho
20:00 – 21:30
Simone Seales and Mele Broomes: Dearest
Featuring: Simone Seales and Mele Broomes
14 August
Aug 18:00 – 19:00
Esa Aldegheri, Linda Cracknell, Alice Tarbuck & Amanda Thomson: The Road She Travelled
Featuring: Amanda Thomson
15 August
10:00 – 10:30
Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Featuring: Bashabi Fraser
12:00 – 13:00
Shani Akilah & Jeda Pearl: Celebrating Andrea Levy
Featuring: Jeda Pearl and chaired by Lisa Williams
12:30 – 13:30
Starry Feelings with Niall Moorjani
Featuring: Niall Moorjani
18:30 – 19:30
Titilayo Farukuoye, Michael Lee Richardson, Shola von Reinhold & Ryan Vance: Fierce Salvage
Featuring: Titilayo Farukuoye and Shola von Reinhold
16 August
10:00 – 11:00
Coorie Doon with Jackie Kay and Jill Calder
Featuring: Jackie Kay
17 August
10:15 – 11:15
Jenny Lau, Chitra Ramaswamy & Sami Tamimi: Food and Home
Featuring: Chitra Ramaswamy
14:45 – 15:45
Who Will Be Remembered Here
Featuring: Mae Diansangu
17:00 – 18:00
Disrupting the Narrative – A Performance
Featuring: Hannah Lavery, Jeda Pearl, Shasta Hanif Ali, Niall Moorjani, and Alycia Pirmohamed.
15:15 – 16:15
Nina Mingya Powles & Stephanie Sy-Quia: Making Matters
Featuring: Nina Mingya Powles
18 August
Aug 10:00 – 11:00
First Edition: The Critics
Featuring: Chitra Ramaswamy
16:45 – 17:45
Poets on Film
Featuring: Marjorie Lotfi
18:15 – 19:15
Start your Writing Journey with Scottish Book Trust
Featuring: Taslin Pollock and Nadine Aisha Jassat
21 August
18:15 – 19:15
OU/UKLA Teachers’ Reading Group Launch
Featuring: Nadine Aisha Jassat
20:00 – 21:30
From Aotearoa to Alba: A Literary Exchange
Featuring: Jackie Kay
22 August
Fresh Words: Women’s Prize Trust Discoveries
Featuring: Nasim Rebecca Asl
15:00 – 16:00
Vijay Khurana & Andrés N Ordorica: Boys to Men
Featuring: Andrés N Ordorica
17:30 – 18:30
Fresh Fiction with Dean Atta, Ashley Hickson-Lovence & Asli Jensen
Featuring: Dean Atta
23 August
12:00 – 13:00
Spellbinding Stories with Nadine Aisha Jassat & Dominique Valente
Featuring: Nadine Aisha Jassat
14:45 – 15:45
Dylan Jones, Miranda Sawyer & Arusa Qureshi: Music Across the Decades
Featuring: Arusa Qureshi
15:00 – 16:00
Being Your True Self with Dean Atta
Featuring: Dean Atta
15:15 – 16:15
Candice Chung & Katie Goh: Food is Life
Featuring: Katie Goh
16:45 – 17:45
Pratyusha, Alycia Pirmohamed, Jessica J Lee & Nina Mingya Powles: Beautiful Experiments
Featuring: Pratyusha, Alycia Pirmohamed, Jessica J Lee & Nina Mingya Powles
18:00 – 19:00
Close Read: Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
Featuring: Titilayo Farukuoye
20:00 – 21:00
Foday Mannah: The Search for Othella Savage
Featuring: Foday Mannah
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Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Farah Saleh:
Lubna Kerr:
Mele Broomes:
Niall Moorjani:
Sanjay Lago:
Edinburgh Art Festival
7th-24th August
Jj Fadaka + Ria Andrews: My Blood Runs Purple
Featuring Jj Fadaka and Ria Andrews
15 August
Bea Webster, Lewis Hetherington + CJ Mahony: We Will Be the New Storytellers
Featuring: Bea Webster
22nd August
13:30—15:00pm
Decolonising the Outdoors: diaspora/sunago
Featuring: Aileen Angsutorn Lees
September
Bloody Scotland
12th September
15:30
Bloody Scotland Debut Prize Panel
Featuring: Foday Mannah
13th September
16:00
Dangerous Minds: Tariq Ashkanani, Carole Hailey, RD McLean
Featuring: Tariq Ashkanani
14th September
13:30
Scotland the Grave: Marion Todd, Foday Mannah, Callum McSorley
Featuring: Foday Mannah
The Islamic Book Fair of Scotland
Festival featuring Muslim kids’ literature including author readings and activities, returns 21 September.
Book Launches & Other Events
Launches
18th September
19:00
Yasmin Hanif launches Abdullah’s Bear Needs a Name! at Waterstones Glasgow.
Workshops
August 9 – August 12
BPOC Poetry Workshop series, hosted by Shondra Bowie Riley.
Stay in touch
Black and PoC writers based in Scotland – let us know what you’re up to! Send info about your events, book and pamphlet launches, plays and other literary happenings to us via email and tag us on Twitter and Instagram so we can reshare.
We’re also happy to hear from publishers, bookshops, festivals, etc.