Scottish Books Events: March 2026

Book festivals resume this month with the return of StAnza, St Andrews' poetry festival (13-15 Mar). Find the likes of Marjorie Lotfi, Andrés N. Ordorica, Ken Cockburn and Anthony Vahni Capildeo performing, giving workshops and even leading coastal poetry walks, and if getting to St Andrews proves tricky, they also have an online programme. Over in Edinburgh, there's a whole bunch of book launches: Virginia Evans launches The Correspondent on 7 March, Pim Wangtechawat launches sweet Edinburgh romance I Dreamed Of You on 10 March, Isabel Waidner launches her latest novel As If on 23 March, and Kiran Millwood Hargrave launches Almost Life in conversation with our own Rachel Ashenden on 25 March, all at The Portobello Bookshop.

Over at Lighthouse Bookshop, meanwhile, writing project and collective Me mother other launch their zine on International Women's Day (8 Mar), indie poetry press Tapsalteerie hold a poetry evening with three of their poets Sarah Stewart, Taylor Strickland, and Stewart Sanderson (5 Mar), and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah launches Seeking Sexual Freedom, the follow up to their critically acclaimed book The Sex Lives of African Women (24 Mar). And at Mount Florida Books in Glasgow, the incredible So Mayer discusses Bad Language with Adam Benmakhlouf (4 Mar) and Kirsty Dunlop launches their novella Centrefolding (20 Mar).