Writing Events in Edinburgh

Check out happening writing events all around Edinburgh, SC

KATHRYN STOCKETT: The Calamity Club

 Tue, 09 Jun at 07:00 pm Christ Church Morningside

Narratives of the Future II

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

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

THE BIG BLETHER - SALTIRE SKY THEATRE

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

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

An Evening with Mark Edwards & William McIntyre

 Thu, 09 Jul at 07:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5 to 20

Lin Anderson: The High Island

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

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: 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

Connective Threads: A Trans Archive Writing Workshop

 Tue, 09 Jun at 06:00 pm Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive at the Edinburgh Palette Free

M. John Harrison: The End of Everything

 Thu, 02 Jul at 07:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 17 to 21

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

Rowe Irvin: Life Cycle of a Moth

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

MINI-ZINE-FAIR - Table Registration

 Tue, 30 Jun at 04:00 pm The Outhouse Free

ScotlandsFest: Iona with Love

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

Rainbow Verses: A night of queer poetry from Indie presses

 Thu, 18 Jun at 07:00 pm 43-45 West Nicolson Street, EH8 9DB Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Scottish women writers in Edinburgh walking tour

 Sat, 25 Apr Meadows GBP 28

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

 Fri, 27 Mar University of Edinburgh Library Free

Rottenheart: Launching Kat Dunn's new Gothic Horror with Kirsty Logan

 Tue, 09 Jun at 07:00 pm Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop GBP 0 to 5

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

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

An Evening with Rhiannon Grist: Edinburgh West End

 Thu, 16 Jul at 07:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5 to 13

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

Creative writing: Creative collaboration with ATLAS Arts

 Tue, 14 Jul at 11:00 am National Library of Scotland GBP 17

MINI-ZINE-FAIR

 Tue, 30 Jun at 04:00 pm The Outhouse, Broughton St Lane., EH1 3LY Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Inspiration Cruise

 Wed, 10 Jun at 11:00 am c/o Scottish Canals Office, 23 Lower Gilmore Place, EH3 9NY Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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

Show Some Teeth - Queer Writing Workshop

 Sun, 21 Jun at 06:00 pm August_21 Coffee House GBP 7

National Galleries Writing Group

 Thu, 21 May at 02:30 pm National Galleries of Scotland: Portrait Free

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

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

Blood and Guts: The Twists and Turns of Edinburgh's Medical History

 Sat, 25 Jan at 02:00 pm Surgeons' Hall Museum GBP 10 to 20

Binks Hub Writing Retreat

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