Looking back at a semester of literature
Each year, the autumn months take the ready-rich tapestry that is Edinburgh’s literary scene and take it to new heights. The last four months have been an unrelentingly busy time…
Exploring Edinburgh’s Bookshops: Lighthouse, a space for all your radical needs
You don’t even have to enter Lighthouse Bookshop to guess at its political leanings. A sign by the door declares that the shop is an “activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, LGBTQ…
In conversation with Eris Young, writer-in-residence at Lighthouse Books
Eris Young is a writer, bookseller, events programmer, book reviewer, and all-round bookish person who has just released their first solo book, They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary & Genderqueer Identities.…
‘Language is given a violent potential’: The Unquiet, read by L. Kiew
The debut poetry pamphlet by L. Kiew, The Unquiet, is a unique collection from a writer of great promise, whose connection with this city goes back to her Creative Writing Masters degree at…