Scottish Books Events: March 2025
StAnza Poetry Festival returns to St Andrews this month, while there's plenty of book launches and poetry readings across Edinburgh and Glasgow
It’s all happening in Fife this month with the 2025 edition of StAnza, St Andrews’ poetry festival (14-16 Mar). This year’s programme is structured around ideas of feeling, so get ready to get into your feels with a cabaret opening night featuring the likes of Tim Tim Cheng and Theresa Lola, a masterclass with Jackie Kay, sound poems with Hannah Silva and Harry Josephine Giles, and a closing night featuring Joelle Taylor.
Over in the Central Belt, things are very feminism-focused at Lighthouse Bookshop: they have an incredible series of launches including Sophie Lewis’ Enemy Feminisms on 4 March, Mary Fissell’s Abortion: A History on 20 March, and The Skinny’s own Xuanlin Tham launching their debut book Revolutionary Desires on 12 March. There’s also more at The Portobello Bookshop with Natasha Brown launching Universality (13 Mar) and River Solomon launching Model Home (18 Mar), and at Waterstones Argyle Street in Glasgow with Heather Parry’s Carrion Crow (6 Mar) and Elissa Soave’s Graffiti Girls (20 Mar).
And for a more hands-on vibe, there’s a poetry open mic at Glasgow Zine Library on 12 March, as well as zine making workshops (8+15 Mar). And for more poetry, head to the Scottish Storytelling Centre for the March edition of Loud Poets on 14 March, featuring Maria Ferguson, Ciara Maguire, Lorna Callery-Sithole and Biff Smith.