Weekly theatre workshops for ages 3--21.

Gather Creative Workspace is opening their artist studios for an Xmas Market. Artists will be selling paintings, prints, books, objects, Xmas cards and lots of ...

Come along and get ready for the festive season! Repair your broken party outfits that have been abandoned at the back of your wardrobe waiting ...

Paisley-based book festival with the theme Radical New Futures, which centres around the pandemic and our ability to be resilient, re-build and create new narratives.

**Live Event ** Enjoy a warm welcome back to Paisley Book Festival as we introduce our brand-new theme for this year – Stories Mak Us - and ...

**Live Event** In this welcoming session, participants will be invited to use Colouring Renfrewshire colouring book as a tool for story sharing and remembering Renfrewshire’...

**Live Event** Two decades ago, Glasgow-based novelist Louise Welsh thrilled readers with her astounding debut, The Cutting Room, which not only won a series of ...

Live Event A night of vital new poetry from the emerging voice of The Scribbler's Union, a digital writers collective formed by award winning spoken ...

**Live Event** Come hear our teeny tiny stories, packed full of joyful, curious, colourful characters. There are hamster pirates, hopeful aliens and whispering friends… We’...

**Live Event** Daddy needs to wake up and start the day. There are so many exciting things to do but Daddy won't get out of ...

**Live Event** "Your book has been signed up with a publisher: What happens now? What is the work that goes into making a story the ...

**Live Event** Poets are always translators, finding ways to communicate complex realities into words. But poets who translate from one language into another, tackle expansive ...

**Live Event** The history and folklore surrounding witches has provided fruitful ground for writers, and nowhere is this more true than in Scotland. But how ...

**Live Event** From the master of Scottish storytelling comes a new novel that spans the centuries to consider how the stories we make continue to ...

**Live Event** Bookie Boogie Brunch! Family friendly brunch with live music. Join BBC Young Traditional Musician two-time finalist, Grant McFarlane and MG ALBA Scots Trad ...

**Live Event** What happens to our stories after we’re gone and who gets to tell them? This is the question asked by two of ...

**Live Event** Kilmarnock-born author Graeme Macrae Burnet made headlines in 2015 when he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his second novel, His Bloody Project, ...

**Live Event** Scotland's islands are the home of the strongest speaking communities of Scotland's minority languages, and are central to our minority language literature revival. ...

**Live Workshop** In this workshop, facilitator Sandra Ireland introduces participants to the power of folklore as inspiration for their own writing. Expect to dive into ...

**Live Event** Scots were involved in every stage of the slave trade: from captaining slaving ships to auctioning captured Africans in the colonies and hunting ...

**Live Workshop** In this relaxed creative writing session in partnership with Open Book, Lead Reader Lesley Macniven will share stories and poems on the theme ...

**Live Event** Join this conversation about kick starting your career as a writer with two local authors who’ve done just that. Jim Alexander’s ...

**Live Event** Join Dr Tawnya Renelle, founder of Beyond Form Creative Writing, for an experimental writing workshop to get you exploring the art of memoir. ...

**Live Event** Join us as we celebrate this year’s Janet Coats Memorial Prize, an annual poetry award given in remembrance of Janet Coats, who ...

**Live Event** Even in the days of social distancing and self-isolation, many of us live in a world where we are almost constantly surrounded by ...

**Live Event** Who are the unsung heroines of Renfrewshire, where can we find them and how are they celebrated or remembered? How do these hidden ...

**Live Event** This event with local writers Mairi Murphy, Morag Smith, Kathryn Metcalfe and Lesley Traynor was born out of a group who supported and ...

**Live Workshop** No time to write? Only one piece of paper? Flash fiction, or the short-short story, has become very popular. Accessible to beginners, a ...

**Live Event** Join one of Scotland’s best loved crime writers as she delves into one of the darkest moments in Scotland’s history, reimagining ...

**Live Event** Join Gauri Raje, Jess Smith and Clare McNicol, an extraordinary line-up of storytellers who, while belonging to the wider Scottish culture, are also ...

**Tachartas beò/****Live Event** Cora - Gaisgeach nan Gràineag! Tha Cora air ais san eilean, aig taigh Granaidh-aiseig, an t-àite as fheàrr ...

**Live Event** Phantom, the ginger mog, is a braw wee craitur, an a very special yin at that! Ye may sometimes glance oor mog oot ...

**Live Event** When punk-turned-theatre director Andy Arnold walked under the red brick railway arches underneath Glasgow’s Central Station in 1991, not even he could have ...

**Live Event** The position of Scots Makar was established in 2004 by the Scottish Government to celebrate the importance of poetry in Scotland’s culture and ...

**Live Event** Words and stories move us! And they have multiple ways to be told. Join us for a fascinating insight into the mind of ...

**Live Event** Join us to round off this year’s festival with a heart-warming musical celebration of Scottish writers and the world of stories. Songs ...