Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: Workshops

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Our popular workshops are back: get hands-on with activities, learn new skills and participate in engaging conversations.

About Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: Workshops

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Our popular workshops are back: get hands-on with activities, learn new skills and participate in engaging conversations. In the Close Read series, authors invite you to dive beneath the covers of their favourite books. Liner Notes is the musical companion, offering a close listen to iconic artists.

Workshop: Jon Gray & Rafaela Romaya on Creating Beautiful Covers
Saturday 13 August 10:30 - 14:00

Close Read: Merve Emre on To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Saturday 13 August 17:00 - 18:30

Close Read: Richard Holloway on the King James Bible
Sunday 14 August 10:30 - 12:00

Close Read: Daniel Hahn on Asterix by Goscinny & Uderzo
Sunday 14 August 17:00 - 18:30

Close Read: Jess Brough on Octavia E Butler’s Parable of the Sower
Monday 15 August 13:00 - 14:30

Workshop: Daniel Hahn on Translation
Monday 15 August 17:00 - 19:00

Close Read: Daniel Hahn on the International Booker Prize Winner
Tuesday 16 August 13:00 - 14:30

Workshop: Lizzy Stewart on Illustrating Your Reading List
Wednesday 17 August 10:30 - 12:30

Close Read: Open Book on Poetry
Wednesday 17 August 13:00 - 14:30

Workshop: Andy West on The Morality Clause
Thursday 18 August 10:30 - 12:00

Workshop: Dan Richards on How to Ask the Right Questions
Thursday 18 August 13:00 - 15:00

Liner Notes: Kate Molleson on Bartók, Maceda and Miller
Thursday 18 August 17:00 - 18:30

Workshop: Andy West on Freedom and Imprisonment
Friday 19 August 10:30 - 12:30

Workshop: Omar Musa on Writing from Images
Friday 19 August 13:00 - 15:00

Songwriting Workshop with Christine Pillainayagam - AGE 12+
Friday 19 August 17:00 - 18:00
Saturday 20 August 14:30 - 15:30

Close Read: Joy Williams on Wood Sorrell House by Zach Williams
Saturday 20 August 13:00 - 14:30

Workshop: Lizzy Stewart on Making Your Own Zine
Saturday 20 August 17:00 - 19:30

Close Read: Mary Gaitskill on Alice Munro's Vandals and John Cheever's The Five Forty-Eight
Sunday 21 August 13:00 - 14:30

Workshop: Nikita Gill on Finding Your Words - AGE 12+
Sunday 21 August 16:30 - 17:30

Close Read: Chitra Ramaswamy on Austerlitz by W G Sebald
Monday 22 August 10:30 - 12:00

Close Read: Open Book on Memoir
Monday 22 August 13:00 - 14:30

Close Read: Fiona Paterson, Alan Riach & James Robertson on the Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid
Monday 22 August 17:00 - 18:30

Workshop: Nikesh Shukla on Telling Your Story
Tuesday 23 August 10:30 - 12:00

The Poetics of Conjuring: A Generative Workshop with Ada Limón
Wednesday 24 August 10:30 - 12:30

Close Read: Katherine Rundell on Paddington by Michael Bond
Wednesday 24 August 13:00 - 14:30

Workshop: Joelle Taylor on Queering the Page
Wednesday 24 August 17:00 - 19:00

Workshop: Nikesh Shukla on Telling Your Story
Thursday 25 August 10:30 - 12:00

The Afterlight: A Workshop on Revision with Ada Limón
Thursday 25 August 13:00 - 15:00

Close Read: Oliver Bullough on Rather Be the Devil by Ian Rankin
Friday 26 August 10:30 - 12:00

Close Read: Chris Power on Denis Johnson's Emergency
Friday 26 August 13:00 - 14:30

Close Read: Lola Olufemi on Preti Taneja and Hannah Black
Friday 26 August 17:00 - 18:30

Close Read: Daniel Mulhall on Ulysses by James Joyce
Saturday 27 August 10:30 - 12:00

Close Read: Julia Armfield on The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Saturday 27 August 13:00 - 14:30

Workshop: Beyond the Body with Andrew McMillan
Sunday 28 August 10:00 - 13:00

Listen and Draw Sona Sharma with Chitra Soundar - AGE 6-10
Sunday 28 August 10:00 - 11:00

Workshop: Ellen Renton on the Power of Political Writing
Sunday 28 August 14:00 - 15:30

Close Read: Iain Morrison & Nat Raha on the Poetry of Callie Gardner
Sunday 28 August 17:00 - 18:30

Close Read: Open Book on Maggie O’Farrell
Monday 29 August 10:30 - 12:00

Close Read: Stuart Kelly on Chesteron, Peake and Powys
Monday 29 August 13:00 - 14:30

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