Literary-art Events in Edinburgh
Check out happening literary-art events all around Edinburgh, SC
Magical Harry Potter Tour in Edinburgh: German
Tue, 19 May
William Chambers Monument
GBP 12 to 16
Magical Harry Potter Tour in Edinburgh: English
Tue, 19 May
William Chambers Monument
GBP 12 to 16
Ian Rankin in conversation
Thu, 04 Jun at 06:00 pm
French Institute of Scotland
GBP 20
15% OFF Edinburgh History & Food Tour: Hidden Gems, Haggis, Whisky & Fudge!
Sat, 30 May at 01:00 pm
Caffè Nero
GBP 37 to 38
Irvine Welsh's P*RNO
Sat, 10 Oct at 12:30 pm
Leith Theatre
Narratives of the Future II
Fri, 12 Jun at 01:30 pm
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Free
RICHARD THOMPSON with ZARA PHILIPS + HAMISH HAWK (SOLO) - 28th May 2026 - Usher Hall Edinburgh
Thu, 28 May at 07:00 pm
Usher Hall
GLOBAL HARMONY an evening of music featuring YOSA and ESSO Orchestras.
Tue, 23 Jun at 07:30 pm
The Usher Hall
Free
EDINBURGH - HEN HOOSE - QUEEN'S HALL
Thu, 28 May at 07:00 pm
The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Darren McGarvey: Trauma Industrial Complex: The Live Show
Sun, 21 Jun at 07:30 pm
Leith Arches
Penetration / The Voodoo Rooms / Edinburgh / 01.08.26
Sat, 01 Aug at 07:30 pm
The Voodoo Rooms
The Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour
Sun, 14 Jun at 07:00 pm
18 Grassmarket
GBP 28
few and far between: An evening with the award-winning Jan Carson
Wed, 20 May at 07:00 pm
Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop
GBP 0 to 5
Benengeli 2026. A Conversation about Libraries in Literature
Thu, 28 May at 06:30 pm
Edinburgh Central Library
Free
Let The Quiet Ones Rise: AN EVENING of weirdness & wonder with Robin Ince
Tue, 02 Jun at 07:00 pm
Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop
GBP 0 to 5
Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life : Evening with Samar Yazbek
Mon, 01 Jun at 07:00 pm
Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop
GBP 0 to 5
Taste Film presents Moulin Rouge! (2001) in Edinburgh!
Thu, 10 Sep at 07:00 pm
Patina
GBP 100
Fantasy Bookclub Scotland Presents- Crescent City by Sarah J Maas
Sun, 14 Jun at 02:00 pm
Slow Progress Records & Coffee
GBP 20
An Evening with Katherine Arden- Edinburgh West End
Thu, 18 Jun at 07:00 pm
Waterstones
GBP 5 to 25
An Evening with Terry Deary - Edinburgh West End
Wed, 17 Jun at 07:00 pm
Waterstones
GBP 5 to 25
Edinburgh: Sean Collyns Medium | Live with the Spirit World
Thu, 25 Jun at 07:30 pm
Assembly Roxy
GBP 38 to 65
Jane Austen's Love & Freindship [Sic]
Sun, 28 Jun at 07:00 pm
Augustine United Church
GBP 17
Meet Lisa Jewell - Edinburgh West End
Thu, 02 Jul at 12:30 pm
Waterstones
GBP 12
Lin Anderson: The High Island
Wed, 05 Aug at 07:00 pm
Blackwell's Bookshop
GBP 3 to 20
The Migration Menu: Live from Edinburgh with Tony Singh at Kalpna
Sun, 31 May at 10:00 am
Kalpna - Vegetarian and Vegan Restaurant
GBP 7
Forest Bathing at Lauriston: Finding Balance in the Late Summer
Sat, 15 Aug at 10:00 am
Lauriston Castle
GBP 27 to 32
Doctor Faustus
Tue, 18 Aug at 07:30 pm
St John's Church
GBP 10 to 15
Literary Escape Festival - Edinburgh
Sat, 14 Nov at 10:30 am
Ps & Gs (St Paul's & St George's) Church
GBP 0 to 12
ScotlandsFest: Trust issues, fake news, real poems
Mon, 24 Aug at 03:00 pm
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
ScotlandsFest: Between the Stones – Outlander through Scotland
Wed, 19 Aug at 01:30 pm
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
ScotlandsFest: Unfinished Business: Scotland's Political Crossroads
Wed, 26 Aug at 01:30 pm
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
ScotlandsFest: Talking two millennia (of Scotland's history)
Wed, 26 Aug at 10:30 am
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
ScotlandsFest: A Wee Bit Zen – when less is more
Mon, 24 Aug at 12:00 pm
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
An Evening with Mark Edwards & William McIntyre
Thu, 09 Jul at 07:00 pm
Waterstones
GBP 5 to 20
Cut, Paste, & Taste: Queer Zine & Wine Tasting Workshop
Fri, 05 Jun at 07:00 pm
Tribe Porty
GBP 27
MANIKIN - SALTIRE SKY THEATRE
Fri, 07 Aug at 06:00 pm
Hibernian Football Supporters Club
GBP 12
In Good Taste: Talk and Signing at The Cookbook Shop
Wed, 17 Jun at 07:00 pm
The Cookbook Shop
GBP 6 to 12
Practical Intuition
Sat, 20 Jun at 10:00 am
JA The Bruntsfield Edinburgh
GBP 230
Lake District and Windermere Day Trip
Sat, 17 Oct at 07:00 am
University of Edinburgh
GBP 49
ScotlandsFest: Choose Life Choose Leith – Trainspotting on Location
Thu, 27 Aug at 10:30 am
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
Forest Bathing at Lauriston: Golden Light and Turning Leaves
Sat, 05 Sep at 10:00 am
Lauriston Castle
GBP 27 to 32
Forest Bathing at Lauriston: Transformation and the Art of Letting Go
Sat, 03 Oct at 10:00 am
Lauriston Castle
GBP 27 to 32
ScotlandsFest: No Scotland No Party!
Thu, 27 Aug at 03:00 pm
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
Havisham: Elle Machray delivers a queer feminist reimagining of Dickens
Wed, 27 May at 07:00 pm
Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop
GBP 0 to 5
Co-Created Anthropology: Drag, Disability and Performance
Fri, 29 May at 02:00 pm
Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh
Free
Let's Get Familiar: Author Event with Kirsty Logan
Fri, 19 Jun at 06:00 pm
LGBT Health and Wellbeing
Free
Women of the Enlightenment Walking Tour
Sat, 09 May
Edinburgh Castle
GBP 22
Forest Bathing at Lauriston: Stillness at the Solstice
Sat, 13 Jun at 10:00 am
Lauriston Castle
GBP 27 to 32
An Evening with Isabel Ibañez - Edinburgh West End
Thu, 21 May at 07:00 pm
Waterstones
GBP 5 to 24
A celebration of wild swimming
Thu, 30 Jul at 05:30 pm
National Library of Scotland
Free
The Dawn of AI: Edinburgh
Fri, 19 Jun at 01:00 pm
The National Robotarium
GBP 20
ScotlandsFest: A Scottish Football Odyssey
Thu, 27 Aug at 01:30 pm
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
mini-zine-fair
Tue, 30 Jun at 04:00 pm
The Outhouse
Free
May’s ‘Feline’ Literary Salon
Tue, 26 May at 06:30 pm
The Outhouse
Free
OPEN MIC
Sun, 31 May at 07:00 pm
Typewronger Books
Free
Edinburgh Book Bonanza
Sat, 17 Oct at 10:00 am
Le Monde Hotel
GBP 3 to 55
Don't Forget We're Here Forever: Lamorna Ash
Tue, 19 May at 07:00 pm
Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop
GBP 0 to 5
Jo Lochhead: Mini Matchbox Cross Stitch Workshop
Sat, 30 May at 01:00 pm
Blackwell's Bookshop
GBP 3
Living Writing: Monthly Creative Writers’ Meetup
Sun, 31 May at 01:30 pm
Leith Depot
Free
M. John Harrison: The End of Everything
Thu, 02 Jul at 07:00 pm
Blackwell's Bookshop
GBP 17 to 21
ScotlandsFest: Art Without Borders – Demarco's Europe
Thu, 27 Aug at 12:00 pm
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
Celebrating James Hutton’s lasting impact | In person
Wed, 03 Jun at 09:30 am
The Royal Society Of Edinburgh
Free
Book Launch: "Between Novel and Network" by Suzanne R. Black
Fri, 05 Jun at 05:00 pm
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Free
Antidote to the River of Forgetting: Poetry as (Alternative) Archive
Sat, 30 May at 07:00 pm
Tills Bookshop
Free
Power Up! Film Screening, Discussion And Collective Poetry Making
Wed, 10 Jun at 07:00 pm
Grassmarket Community Project
GBP 0 to 6
ScotlandsFest: Scotland's Darkest Past
Thu, 20 Aug at 12:00 pm
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
Rowe Irvin: Life Cycle of a Moth
Tue, 23 Jun at 07:00 pm
Blackwell's Bookshop
GBP 3 to 10
ScotlandsFest: Fortunes From Flesh – Scotland and Slavery
Thu, 20 Aug at 01:30 pm
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
Artist Talk: Åsa Johannesson In Conversation with Laurie Bassam
Sat, 20 Jun at 03:00 pm
Stills
GBP 5 to 8
ScotlandsFest: Iona with Love
Thu, 20 Aug at 03:00 pm
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
Creative Walks (for tenderhearted humans) *May edition
Sat, 23 May at 11:00 am
Holyrood Park Education Centre
Free
Coming to our senses: the role of science education in an age of polycrises
Wed, 27 May at 05:15 pm
Godfrey Thomson Hall, Thomson's Land, The University of Edinburgh
Free
Zine Club: Tape Transfer Collages Edition!
Thu, 21 May at 05:30 pm
Calton View Cafe (Royal Mile)
Free
Exploring the Jackie Kay archive
Thu, 28 May at 05:30 pm
National Library of Scotland
Free
After the War, Before the Archive
Fri, 29 May at 11:30 am
Chrystal Macmillan Building, The University of Edinburgh
Free
Animating Anthropology
Fri, 29 May at 07:00 pm
Edinburgh Student Housing Co-operative
Free
Young Religious Poets Competition Final
Wed, 19 Aug at 01:00 pm
Canongate Kirk
Free
ScotlandsFest: In Search of Scottish Architecture
Thu, 20 Aug at 10:30 am
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
16th June 2026 - Ali McBride
Tue, 16 Jun at 07:00 pm
The Edinburgh Bookshop
GBP 5
ScotlandsFest: Heel for Heel – Scottish Dance Fever
Wed, 19 Aug at 03:00 pm
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
ScotlandsFest: Northern Spirits, Restless Hearts
Mon, 24 Aug at 01:30 pm
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
Broken Sleep Books Scotland Showcase: Ricky Monahan Brown &Maria Sledmere
Wed, 03 Jun at 07:00 pm
Typewronger Books
Free
ScotlandsFest: Donald Dewar – An Incomplete Legacy?
Wed, 26 Aug at 03:00 pm
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
An Evening with David Goodman - Edinburgh West End
Thu, 04 Jun at 07:00 pm
Waterstones
GBP 5 to 23
Poetic Pathways in Anthropology
Fri, 29 May at 07:00 pm
Tills Bookshop
Free
Braid Burn Creative Writing Walk
Sat, 30 May at 10:30 am
Hermitage of Braid
GBP 10
Beginners Introduction to Book Binding Class
Tue, 17 Mar
EH7 6AE
GBP 65 to 93
ScotlandsFest: Ancient Voices, Living Landscape – Scotland's Geomythography
Wed, 26 Aug at 12:00 pm
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
ScotlandsFest: Tea and Tales
Mon, 24 Aug at 10:30 am
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
Grassland Plant Identification (Edinburgh) NEW FOR 2026
Thu, 25 Jun at 10:00 am
Holyrood Park Education Centre
GBP 105
Creative writing: Spellcasting
Tue, 14 Apr at 03:00 pm
National Library of Scotland
GBP 5
Rhind Lectures 2026 (in person and online)
Fri, 19 Jun at 05:00 pm
Augustine United Church
GBP 0 to 15
William Sancho and the Recovery of a Black Georgian Life in the Archive
Wed, 10 Jun at 04:30 pm
HM General Register House
Free
An Evening with Moorea Corrigan: Edinburgh West End
Wed, 03 Jun at 07:00 pm
Waterstones
GBP 5 to 24
ScotlandsFest: Farmyard Follies
Wed, 19 Aug at 10:30 am
St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
GBP 6 to 12
An Evening with Kate Foster: Edinburgh West End
Thu, 28 May at 07:00 pm
Waterstones
GBP 5 to 23
An Evening of Dark Academia - Edinburgh West End
Thu, 25 Jun at 07:00 pm
Waterstones
GBP 5 to 24
Creative writing: Creative collaboration with ATLAS Arts
Tue, 14 Jul at 11:00 am
National Library of Scotland
GBP 17
An Evening at Hotel Grimm with Mike Nicholson
Wed, 27 May at 07:00 pm
Waterstones
Free
Haunted Happenings with Heba Al-Wasity and MK Hardy
Wed, 24 Jun at 07:00 pm
Waterstones
GBP 5 to 23
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