Find a Book Festival
Book Festivals in Scotland
| MONTH | DATE | EVENT | WEBSITE |
|---|---|---|---|
| JANUARY | TBC | Burns&Beyond | burnsandbeyond.com |
| FEBRUARY | 12 - 15 | Winter Words Festival | winterwordsfestival.com |
| 14 - 15 | Artists' Bookmarket | artistsbookmarket.com | |
| 17 - 22 | Granite Noir Aberdeen | aberdeenperformingarts.com/granite-noir/ | |
| 25 Feb | Gray Day | grayday.info | |
| MARCH | 13 - 15 | StAnza Poetry Festival Scotland's International Poetry Festival, St Andrews | stanza poetry.org |
| APRIL | 13 - 17 | Assynt Book Festival | lochinverbookshop.co.uk |
| 24 April - 8 May | First Date Festival | lighthousebookshop.com | |
| 25 - 26 | Colonsay Book Festival | colonsaybookfestival.org.uk | |
| MAY | 1 - 3 | Cromarty Crime and Thrillers Weekend | website |
| 8 - 10 | Boswell Book Festival Dumfries House, Ayrshire | boswellbookfestival.co.uk | |
| 15 - 17 | Paisley Book Festival | paisleybookfest.com | |
| 23 - 24 | Glasgow Zine Fest | website | |
| TBC 2026 | Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival | ayewrite.com | |
| 30 May - 7 June | Imaginate - Edinburgh International Children's Festival | imaginate.org.uk | |
| JUNE | 5 - 7 | Cymera Book Festival | cymerafestival.co.uk |
| 11 - 14 | Shetland Noir | Shetlandarts.org | |
| 12- 15 | Borders Book Festival | bordersbookfestival.org | |
| 19 - 21 | Solas Arts Festival @ Errol Park, Perthshire | solasfestival.co.uk | |
| 19 - 28 | St Magnus Festival, Orkney | stmagnusfestival.com | |
| JULY | 1 - 5 | East Neuk Festival | eastneukfestival.com |
| 4 - 5 | Glasgow Comic Con | glasgowcomiccon.com | |
| AUGUST | 31 July - 9 August | Fringe by the Sea North Berwick | fringebythesea.com |
| 1 - 16 | Govanhill International Festival and Carnival (Glasgow's Southside) | govanhillbaths.com/festival | |
| 7 - 9 | Bute Noir Crime Writing Festival Isle of Bute | Website | |
| 14 - 30 | Book Fringe Edinbrugh | Website | |
| 15 - 30 | Edinburgh International Book Festival | edbookfest.co.uk | |
| 29 - 30 | Beyond Borders International Festival of Literature and Thought | beyondbordersscotland.com | |
| 27 - 30 | Islay Book Festival | islaybookfestival.co.uk | |
| SEPTEMBER | 29 Aug - 6 Sept | Nairn Book & Arts Festival Inverness | nairnfestival.co.uk |
| 3 - 6 | Balfron Book Festival | balfronbookfestival.com | |
| 11 - 12 | The Accessible Book and Story Festival Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh | mykindofbook.org.uk/festival | |
| 8 - 13 | St Duthac Book & Arts Festival Tain, Easter Ross Peninsula | stduthacbookfest.com | |
| 18 - 20 | Bloody Scotland Scotland's international crime writing festival, Stirling | bloodyscotland.com | |
| 24 - 27 | Tidelines Irvine, North Ayrshire | tidelinesbookfestival.com | |
| 24 Sept - 4th Oct | Findhorn Bay Festival Moray | findhornbayfestival.com | |
| 25 - 27 | Braemar Literary Festival | braemarliteraryfestival.co.uk | |
| 25 Sept to 4 Oct | Wigtown Book Festival Scotland's national book town's literary festival | wigtownbookfestival.com | |
| OCTOBER | 2 - 4 | Portobello Book Festival @ Portobello Library, Edinburgh | portobellobookfestival.com |
| 3 - 11 | WayWORD Festival Aberdeen | Waywordfestival.com | |
| 10 - 11 | Bookmark Book Festival, Blairgowrie | bookmarkblair.com | |
| 6 - 12 | Libraries Week | librariesweek.org.uk | |
| 6 - 12 | Berwick Literary Festival Northumberland | berwickliteraryfestival.com | |
| 15 | Orkney Storytelling Festival | orkneystorytellingfestival.co.uk | |
| 21 - 31 | Scottish International Storytelling Festival Edinburgh | sisf.org.uk | |
| 23 - 24 | Tobermory Book Festival | tobermorybookfestival.co.uk | |
| 24 | Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival | edwomensficfest.co.uk | |
| 24 Oct - 21 Nov | Rutherglen Book Festival | ||
| NOVEMBER | TBC 2026 | Auchterarder Book Festival | Facebook Page |
| 5 - 8 | Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair | radicalbookfair.com | |
| 6 - 8 | Mallaig Book Festival A Write Highland Hoolie! | a-write-highland-hoolie.com | |
| 13 | Robert Louis Stevenson Day Annual week of events in Edinburgh and online in run up to RLS' birthday on 13 Nov | ||
| 15 - 21 | Book Week Scotland | bookweekscotland.com | |
| 12 - 15 | Push The Boat Out Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival | pushtheboatout.org | |
| TBC 2026 | Pentlands Book Festival | pentlandsbookfestival.org |