A top lineup of events including a conversation with the former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and comedian Janey Godley leads this year's Aye Write Festival.
The much-loved celebration of books and literature, which runs from Friday, May 19 and runs until Sunday, May 28, is returning to the city with a vibrant, packed programme featuring 120 events and 175 authors from Scotland and around the world.
The comedian and former First Minister will join a line-up of authors including Val McDermid, Chris Brookmyre, Sara Sheridan, Charlie Connelly, Layla-Roxanne Hill, and Callum McSorley.
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Audiences will have a chance to hear them talking about their work and recent titles: Chris Brookmyre’s The Cliff House , Sara Sheridan’s The Fair Botanists , Layla-Roxanne Hill’s Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland , Charlie Connelly’s Attention All Shipping , and Callum McSorley’s Squeaky Clean.
Other well-known names in this year’s festival include Alastair Campbell, Ruby Wax, Cameron McNeish, Josie Long – in conversation with Frankie Boyle, Robin Ince, Aasmah Mir, Darren McGarvey, Polly Toynbee, and Sally Magnusson.
Spanning fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, biographies and poetry, the Aye Write programme covers an extensive range of topics. The diverse range of content themes cover true crime, music, inequalities and prejudice, inspirational women, politics, health and wellbeing, the environment – and much more.
In addition to entertaining book-loving audiences with events exploring written work, the programme’s Getting Creative workshops are designed to nurture and encourage literary talent, with sessions for beginners’ giving guidance on structure, plot, character and dialogue.
For more experienced writers there are masterclasses as well as insights from a panel of publishing industry experts, and two sessions to support individuals interested in submitting creative work for this year’s Kavya Prize.
Full details of Aye Write’s programme and events, with links to book tickets: can be found on the website.
Print copies of the programme are also available from Waterstones branches.
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