WayWORD is a youth-led arts festival brought to you by the WORD Centre for Creative Writing, University of Aberdeen. Workshops, author events, panel discussions and performance nights are all FREE wit...

Find out more about our exciting 2025 New Writers Showcase, taking place on 27 February.

Watch Shane Strachan on STV's coverage of the Burns Night Skies project.

We are delighted to announce the 10 winners of this year’s James McCash Competition for poetry in the Scots language. The competition is the…

PRE-ORDER: PUBLISHING JANUARY 2025 Fierce Salvage is a snapshot of current Scottish LGBTI+ writing and a showcase of queer talent, the follow-up to We Were Always Here.

Art & Text Conference - Thursday 6 February 2025

The literary festival promises a thrilling line-up, featuring crime heavyweights like Paula Hawkins and the dynamic duo Nicci French.

As new national poet, the Gaelic speaker is looking at all of the languages spoken in the country, to see ‘what we can learn between them’

PRE-ORDER: PUBLISHING JANUARY 2025 Fierce Salvage is a snapshot of current Scottish LGBTI+ writing and a showcase of queer talent, the follow-up to We Were Always Here.