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.
27 June
The Mirror is Lying to You, Online Workshop with Deborah de Oliveira Xavier
Understanding and working through impostor syndrome as a BPOC Writer.
1 July
Poetry Editing Workshop with Marjorie Lotfi
SBWN Member Events
Book Fringe – The A.L.T. Edition
More events coming Soon
Sat 15 Aug
Meet the featured poets at EIBF and enjoy a conversation with Emma-Lee Moss with events featuring Marjorie Lotfi and Katie Goh.
Close Read with Open Book: Poems to Change Your Mind
Featuring: Marjorie Lotfi
Emma-Lee Moss: My Cantopop Nights
Chaired by: Katie Goh
Sun 16 Aug
Enjoy poetry, folklore, food, and conversation with events featuring Jay Gao, Katalina Watt, Chitra Ramaswamy, Marjorie Lotfi, Q Mannivanan, Alycia Pirmohamed, Nyla Ahmad, and Abir Mukherjee.
Jay Gao & Małgorzata Lebda: Embodied Natures
Featuring: Jay Gao
Naomi Ishiguro & Katalina Watt: High-Octane Folklore
Featuring: Katalina Watt
Featuring: Chitra Ramaswamy
Featuring: Marjorie Lotfi, Q Mannivanan, and Alycia Pirmohamed.
Annie Lord, Elle McNicoll & Bobby Palmer: Love, or Something Like It
Chaired by: Nyla Ahmad
Featuring: Abir Mukherjee
Mon 17 Aug
Don’t miss conversations about crime fiction, migration, feminism, plus more poetry featuring Dean Atta, Muminah Koleoso, Tariq Ashkanani, Hannah Lavery,Clementine E Burnley, Andrés N Ordorica.
Featuring: Dean Atta
How Can We Build a Feminist Scotland?
Featuring: Muminah Koleoso.
Tariq Ashkanani & Kirsty Lockwood: Breaking the Silence
Featuring: Tariq Ashkanani
Colin Grant: What We Leave We Carry
Featuring: Clementine E Burnley
Featuring: Clementine E Burnley, Hannah Lavery, and Andrés N Ordorica.
Tue 18 Aug
Come hear readings and discussion of his forthcoming adult novel Big Man featuring Dean Atta.
Bring Back the Smile with Dean Atta
Featuring: Dean Atta
Featuring: Dean Atta
Wed 19 Aug
Thur 20 August
Check out kid-lit focused events with Maisie Chan, and a conversation led by Chitra Ramaswamy.
Make Friends with a Panda with Maisie Chan
Featuring: Maisie Chan
Chaired by: Chitra Ramaswamy
See Yourself in Writing with Maisie Chan
Featuring: Maisie Chan
Fri 21 Aug
Sat 22 Aug
21:00 – 22:30
404 Ink: Ten Years of Publishing Loudly
Featuring: Nadine Aisha Jassat, Andrés N Ordorica, and Arusa Qureshi.
Sun 23 Aug
Get a mix of fiction and non-fiction conversations led by Tomiwa Folorunso, Chitra Ramaswamy, and Nyla Ahmad.
Ione Gamble & Philippa Snow: Icons Only
Chaired by: Tomiwa Folorunso
Chaired by: Chitra Ramaswamy
Niamh Hargan & Kiran Millwood Hargrave: Soulmates and Sliding Doors
Chaired by: Nyla Ahmad
Tue 25 Aug
26 August
Thur 27 August
Check more conversations and performances about food, migration, home and even more poetry featuring Hannah Lavery, Alycia Pirmohamed, Mohamed Tonsy, Chitra Ramaswamy, Katie Goh.
Hannah Lavery, Jennifer Wong & Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe: Migratory Patterns
Featuring: Hannah Lavery
Hoda Barakat, Alycia Pirmohamed & Ece Temelkuran: Hope when Home is Lost
Featuring: Alycia Pirmohamed
Chaired by: Mohamed Tonsy.
Five Tastes: A Table Talk with Fuchsia Dunlop
Chaired by: Chitra Ramaswamy
Fri 28 August
Sat 29 August
Sun 30 Aug
Enjoy more literary discussions led by Chitra Ramaswamy.
Chaired by: Chitra Ramaswamy
For the Love of Agnes: A Celebration of Agnes Owens
Chaired by Chitra Ramaswamy
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Edinburgh Fringe Festival
For more events featuring BPOC performers, check out the 2026 Fringe of Colour Database curated by Jess Brough, Founder and Director of Fringe of Colour CIC.
Niall Moorjani
4 August
13:30
Lubna Kerr
16 August
12:15
Jackie Kay
Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh Deaf Festival
September
Bloody Scotland
Fri 18th September
13:30
In Conversation: Chris Brookmyre and Abir Mukherjee
Featuring: Abir Mukherjee
Saturday 19th September
11:30
Across the Pond: Gavin Bell, Edel Coffey, Tariq Ashkanani
Featuring: Tariq Ashkanani
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Book Launches & Other Events
Launches
29th July
19:00 – 20:00
Alycia Pirmohamed in conversation with Andrés N. Ordorica
Performance
5th Aug – 30th Aug
A Better Memory featuring Lubna Kerr with Kerr Arts Collective
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.
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