✍️Krakow literary residency programme is open to writers and translators connected to #CitiesofLit ! 🇵🇱

Deadline: 31 May
Full Details: bit.ly/3w2Oxst

📢 Two weeks left to apply!

Join our friendly, dynamic team in the new role of Digital Marketing & Content Coordinator.

🕰️ Full-time, fixed term post until July 2027.
💼 £28,000.

Find out more: buff.ly/3t5GnxT

Nominations for the Edinburgh Award 2024 are now open! 🏆

We are looking for its 18th recipient so if you know someone who has made a unique contribution to our city please get in touch!

Find out more about the Award and how to nominate someone here: edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/1…

Book your place for this year's Scottish Book Trade Conference, in partnership with Publishing Scotland.

#ScotBookConf will take place 15 – 16 May 2024 at Central Hall in Edinburgh.

Find out more: booksellerevents.org.uk

📣Moniack Mhor open for applications for their Irish/Scottish Gaelic Writers Residency on Monday!

📅: Monday 6 May 2024
🔗: rb.gy/vvopkg

This Sunday, 10am!

Come and join me for a relaxed 5K run from The Portobello Bookshop along the promenade with readings from Fray.

Easy, conversational pace with support from fitandhappy Personal Training and Outdoor Fitness. All runners welcome!

Book now: theportobellobookshop.com/events/a-run-w…

📚Edinburgh booksellers, do note that you have until 15 May to send your testimonials in for the The Bookseller's Rising Stars 2024. ⏱️

Find out more here: thebookseller.com/news/the-books……

A generous donor has provided funding for 4 full #CILIPS24 places, specifically for those working in Specialist Libraries. 👥⭐️

Submit 200 words about why you'd like to attend by the 30th of April to qualify!

Apply here: cilips.org.uk/specialist-bur…

We are honoured to have been even a small part of Scotland's Library Advocacy Story.

This latest episode from the CILIPScotland podcast about the Save Aberdeen Libraries campaign is well worth a listen.

🎧 cilips.org.uk/podcast-specia…

Congratulations to all on the International Booker Prize shortlist, particularly to Scottish publishers Charco Press ✨🥳

JOB! Severn House, part of Canongate, are seeking a Sales and Operations Manager (based in Edinburgh or London), deadline 22 April canongate.co.uk/about/jobs/

Do you have a story about the old Edinburgh Royal Infirmary? We want to hear it.

Edinburgh Futures Institute (our new home) is a dynamic venue built on the grounds of the old hospital. Our Words from the Word project celebrates its rich heritage.

Info: bit.ly/4aL9NSf

What will you write for Scotland's Stories: Hope?

Tell us about a guiding light, your hope for the world or even a pocket of joy. Maybe you're entering a new dawn or is the best is yet to come?

All entries are published on our website, so get writing!

scottishbooktrust.com/reading-and-st…

✍️ There's still tickets left for the launch of Martin's exciting new poetry collection! It's sure to be a night to remember, so book for free now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-book-…

🎏Congratulations to the 2024 Fellowship, but particularly to writer Sally Magnusson ✨

See below for the full list!

👀Edinburgh-based literature organisations, have you seen that the The City of Edinburgh Council have brought back their Community Grants Fund, for requests of up to £5,000?

Deadline: 20 May
Full details: edinburgh.gov.uk/community-plan…

VERSES FOR CHANGE

Date: Wed 17 April
Venue: SPL
Time: 6.30-8pm

An evening of solidarity and celebration of the resilience of Iranian women and their poetry, featuring local Iranian poets Marjorie Lotfi Marjorie Lotfi and Nasim Rebecca Asl Nasim Rebecca Asl نسیم اصل

eventbrite.co.uk/e/verses-for-c…

🎉 Early Booking for #Cymera2024 is NOW OPEN! 🎉

Early booking access is available to Weekend Pass holders and Cymera members from 10am TODAY (Monday 8 April).

Don't have a Weekend Pass yet? You can still get one: cymerafestival.co.uk/weekend-pass