Edinburgh international book festival launches publishing project
Collection of specially commissioned work from authors including Roddy Doyle and Amy Bloom will be produced in collaboration with McSweeney'sNew work by around 50 leading authors curated by the Edinburgh international book festival is to be released in...
Comedians and writers lead Amnesty campaign to free jailed UAE activists
Edinburgh festival audiences will be asked to back a petition in support of five activists imprisoned for demanding democracyDozens of award-winning comics and writers, including Anne Fine and Hari Kunzru, are to lead a campaign during the Edinburgh fe...
Edinburgh book festival: record levels of interest cause booking chaos
Director apologises to those unable to book online after high-profile events sell out on first day of full ticket salesMany of the highest-profile events at the Edinburgh book festival sold out on the first day of full ticket sales after an unprecedent...
Edinburgh joins other international events to broaden book festival’s scope
The Word Alliance to bring authors from around the world to Scottish eventA new collaboration between six literary festivals around the world will be bringing a group of critically-acclaimed writers from Asia, the Americas and the Pacific, including t...
Ashes of psychoanalysis co-founder Alfred Adler found after 74 years
Remains of Alfred Adler, a member of Freud's inner circle credited with defining the inferiority complex, found in Edinburgh crematoriumThe long-lost remains of Alfred Adler, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, have been rediscovered in a cr...
Scottish artists offered funds to get away from it all in Highland retreats
• Residential plan hopes to uncover future talent• £1m initiative contrasts with big cuts in EnglandUp to 1,000 artists, musicians and writers are to be offered government-funded residencies on remote Scottish islands, at art centres and Highland ...
Scotland stalls on new poet laureate
Post remains unfilled three months after first makar's death and confusion surrounds selection criteriaEdwin Morgan was Scotland's greatest living poet and the natural choice in 2004 to become the country's first makar – its national poet laureate. I...
Robert Burns museum opens at his former home in Ayrshire
National Trust opens Robert Burns museum after two-year delay, hoping people won't be tim'rous about comingA major new museum celebrating the birthplace, life and poetry of Robert Burns has opened at his former home in Ayrshire, after a two-year delay ...
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay hopes star haiku writers provide the fireworks
Top Scottish writers commissioned to write poems as organisers play up festival's artistic sideIt has become famous around the globe for seeing in the New Year with open-air rock concerts, kilts, kissing and a spectacular fireworks display above the sp...
Most Scottish arts organisations to face deep funding cuts
Creative Scotland review of £18m core funding will bite from Edinburgh to OrkneyMore than 50 of Scotland's best-known arts organisations, including the Edinburgh festival and the Traverse theatre, face deep cuts in their grants from the new government...
Edinburgh book and film festivals to join forces
Architect Norman Foster and author Margaret Atwood to spearhead partial tie-up between festivalsNorman Foster and Margaret Atwood are to star in a collaboration between two of Edinburgh's largest festivals as part of a new initiative to expand the reac...
