Writing Events in Edinburgh

Check out happening writing events all around Edinburgh, SC

Ian Rankin in conversation

 Thu, 04 Jun at 06:00 pm French Institute of Scotland GBP 20

Narratives of the Future II

 Fri, 12 Jun at 01:30 pm Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Free

Benengeli 2026. A Conversation about Libraries in Literature

 Thu, 28 May at 06:30 pm Edinburgh Central Library Free

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

THE BIG BLETHER - SALTIRE SKY THEATRE

 Fri, 12 Jun at 07:00 pm Hibernian Football Supporters Club GBP 8

An Evening with Terry Deary - Edinburgh West End

 Wed, 17 Jun at 07:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5 to 25

An Evening with Katherine Arden- Edinburgh West End

 Thu, 18 Jun at 07:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5 to 25

Lin Anderson: The High Island

 Wed, 05 Aug at 07:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 3 to 20

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: 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

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

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

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

Zine Club: Pride Zines Edition!

 Thu, 18 Jun at 05:30 pm Calton View Cafe (Royal Mile) Free

A celebration of wild swimming

 Thu, 30 Jul at 05:30 pm National Library of Scotland Free

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

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

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

Rowe Irvin: Life Cycle of a Moth

 Tue, 23 Jun at 07:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 3 to 10

ScotlandsFest: Iona with Love

 Thu, 20 Aug at 03:00 pm St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church GBP 6 to 12

Imagine a gender equal world - help write women onto Wikipedia!

 Fri, 27 Mar University of Edinburgh Library Free

Creative Walks (for tenderhearted humans) *May edition

 Sat, 23 May at 11:00 am Holyrood Park Education Centre Free

Zine Club: Tape Transfer Collages Edition!

 Thu, 21 May at 05:30 pm Calton View Cafe (Royal Mile) Free

Buds of May

 Sun, 24 May at 03:00 pm OMH Therapies Yoga & Meditation Studio Edinburgh GBP 23 to 30

Exploring the Jackie Kay archive

 Thu, 28 May at 05:30 pm National Library of Scotland 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: 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

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

Creative writing: Spellcasting

 Tue, 14 Apr at 03:00 pm National Library of Scotland GBP 5

[synonym] session: The dead don't go until we do

 Sat, 23 May at 11:00 am Talbot Rice Gallery, The University of Edinburgh Free

Plant Communication Workshop

 Sat, 30 May at 10:00 am Chrystal Macmillan Building, The University of Edinburgh Free

An Evening with Kate Foster: Edinburgh West End

 Thu, 28 May at 07:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5 to 23

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

An Evening with Callum McSorley - Edinburgh West End

 Fri, 22 May at 07:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5 to 20

Inaugural Lecture - Professor Jill Burke

 Wed, 20 May at 05:15 pm Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School - Doorway 4 Free

Book Launch - Markus Stitz - Gravel Rides Edinburgh, Fife & the Lothians

 Wed, 20 May at 06:30 pm Gamma Transport Division

Edinburgh Sparks Open Mic

 Thu, 18 Jun at 07:00 pm The Canons' Gait Free

Churchill, Scotland and the Great War. A talk by Andrew Liddle.

Sun, 06 Sep at 02:00 pm The Scots Guards Club

Scottish women writers in Edinburgh walking tour

 Sat, 25 Apr Meadows GBP 28

Write Club

 Sat, 30 May at 02:00 pm Leith Library Free

Creative writing group

 Sat, 30 May Levels Cafe & Lounge Free

VISION QUEST: A SCRATCH NIGHT

 Wed, 27 May at 07:00 pm The Wee Red Bar GBP 12

POETRY BY THE RIVER

 Fri, 15 May at 10:00 am St Bernard's Well on the Water of Leith GBP 6

Effie the Midge Book Launch- Edinburgh

 Sat, 11 Jul at 04:30 pm HARVEY AND WOODD Free

HSK 4 Reading and Writing 1

 Mon, 11 May at 09:20 am Scottish Confucius Institute for Business and Communication, Post Grad Building GBP 33

Nurture Circles for Wellbeing Practitioners

 Sat, 08 Nov at 01:30 pm The Salisbury Centre Free

Queer Men for Queer Literature

 Sun, 08 Dec at 12:15 pm Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive at the Edinburgh Palette Free

Work that Reconnects - a series of 5 workshops

 Mon, 02 Jun at 06:30 pm St Mary's Cathedral Free

Edinbirds CommuniTEA Evening - Writing Club

 Tue, 11 Feb at 06:00 pm Bird & Blend Tea Co. Free

Binks Hub Writing Retreat

 Wed, 28 May at 09:00 am Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh Free