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

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

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