Festivals

Irregular is a literary club night, which runs, yes, irregularly, and is put on by Canongate publishing. Canongate’s Francis Bickford told us, “W... Read more »

A chat with renowned author Alan Bissett about Discombobulate, his work in general, and storytelling Read more »

Within the abandoned aircraft hangar Joy Orbison has his set ruined and Aeroplane starts flying solo Read more »

The Year of Open Doors is an upcoming collection of new Scottish writing, edited by Rodge Glass (properly: Dr Rodge Glass, novelist and eminent Gravian) and published by Mark Buckland (properly: Mr M. Buckland esq, head of Cargo Publishing), which will showcase a selection of its stories at Unbound on 22 August. The Skinny met up with the pair to talk books, events and Tory names Read more »

Unbound events happen every night from 15 to 30 August in the Highland Park Spiegeltent in Charlotte Square, part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. All events bar the closing party are free and unticketed. To get in, simply turn up on the night. We suggest arriving in advance of the start time for a better chance of securing a seat. Events start at 9pm and the bar is open until 1am Read more »

That's Gutter Magazine, so don't get too excited. Or maybe you should, because they've a very unusual event planned... Read more »