So many events to reflect on as the new week begins, but this one w/✨Lentil Pentil✨ Sarah Grant Louise Oliver (she/her) was particularly special & is brilliantly captured by our Festival blogger Joe PaisleyBookFest

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Follow the dragon footprints in Lochwinnoch Library to the Dragon Storm event with Alastair Chisholm - Lochwinnoch Primary pupils loved it - especially drawing and naming their own dragons with special powers! Thank you Alastair Chisholm Lochwinnoch Primary School and ELCC 🐉🐲

a proper magical little moment at PaisleyBookFest yesterday. spring is finally deciding to spring

Electronic music is complimentary to the intimacy of poetry. Imogen Stirling discusses her enthusiasm for collaboration in art and her admiration for the work of composer Susan Bear #ImagineSomethingDifferent #PBF2024

Previous PaisleyBookFest writer in residence Imogen Stirling transfixes the audience with her performance of 'Under', a Greek tragedy reimagined. With haunting and uplifting electronic musical arrangement by artist Susan Bear #ImagineSomethingDifferent #PBF2024

Lovely write up from last night’s event

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Overjoyed to have won the Janet Coats Memorial Prize at PaisleyBookFest last night! Huge thank you to the festival, judges & other poets - what a shortlist to be part of! Also, a big recommendation of '52' by Jo Bell - The Poetic Licence & Nine Arches Press - the 1st prompt of 52 inspired this poem ❤️

And the winner of the Loud Poets poetry slam is EmmaClaire Brightlyn #PBF24 I Am Loud Productions

Day 4 @bookpaisley: Book Festival comrades (you know who you are) it's Sunday morning & today we're channelling...coffee!

ALSO it's Ireland in Focus day, w/ Jan Carson Martin Doyle Dawn Watson Sheila Armstrong & Noel O'Regan joining us for a stellar line up of discussions!

A big thank you to Clarke Wallace from the Paisley Thread Mill Museum for all of his fascinating stories about Paisley's thread industry at the Red Runs the Witch's Thread launch at the PaisleyBookFest Festival yesterday, and to everyone who attended 😊 Paisley Thread Mill Silver Thistle Press

After street stall we headed to Paisley Food and Drink Festival, then onto PaisleyBookFest to hear Victoria Williamson reading from “Red Runs the Witch’s Thread.” Guest appearance from Clarke Wallace of @paisleythread who was equally informative and entertaining! Great day! 🥰

Wild Card-ing at the Paisley Book Festival in the historic Town Hall with Andrew Cotter. Quite possibly the perfect host. 📖 🎾 Orion Publishing PaisleyBookFest Andrew Cotter

Huge thanks to the staff and organisers of the PaisleyBookFest Festival for making the Red Runs the Witch's Thread launch such a success yesterday, to The Book Nook Stewarton for selling the books, and to all the lovely people who attended and stayed for cake and a chat! Silver Thistle Press

Literary scholar Christopher Law Christopher Law and artist Joey Simons @joeysimons discuss the link between poetry and landscape in the work of Scottish poet David Gray #PBF24

Winner and runner-up of the Loud Poets Poetry Slam. EmmaClaire and Spencer Mason I Am Loud Productions #PBF24

And the winner of the Loud Poets poetry slam is EmmaClaire Brightlyn #PBF24 I Am Loud Productions

Glasgow you were amazing.
A table, a window and a sellout. Signed loads of copies⁩ and we ran out of tickets and books at ⁦PaisleyBookFest⁩ 💓

The contestants await...their poetry fate #PBF24 I Am Loud Productions @graycrosbie Katie Ailes Mark Gallie

Discussion turns to the omnipotent elephant in the room. Capitalist systems don't support independent artists. We need spaces to meet. Libraries should not be defunded Cecilia Knapp Simone Seales (they/them) Gemma Cairney 'Moments of radical Joy' #PBF #ImagineSomethingDifferent

Victoria Williamson Strangely Magical explains the background to the Bargarran witch trials at #PBF24