Upcoming Events
Push the boat out festival: pink witch
23 November 2025
Join the 12, a collective of women writers, and some guests, for a showcase of Pink Witch, a visceral, wry and ever surprising anthology responding to the 2023 Barbie movie and the Witches of Scotland campaign - a campaign for historic justice for the people, primarily women, executed for witchcraft in Scotland. Unearthing the unexpected parallels between these two prompts, the poems question identity, vilification and the names and tropes historically used to constrain women. Expect poems that are intimate and eclectic, sombre and funny, light-hearted and reflective.
The Pleasance courtyard
willy maley poetry reading: she wakes me up and scrap mettle
28 november 2025
Edinburgh launch of Willy Maley’s poetry collections, Scrap Mettle and She Wakes Me Up, with guest poets Jane Goldman and Nicky Melville reading from their own work.