Tag: Scottish Book Trust

With only just under a week to go until Scotland’s second national celebration of books and reading, communities across the country are gearing up for a week-long programme of events, activities and projects that...

 There is going to be a Live Internet Storytelling Relay next week on Halloween. The event is invitation only and being staged at BBC Scotland in Glasgow. You can join in on the internet...

Seven Edinburgh residents who penned stories about their most treasured possessions for a national writing competition have had their submissions chosen to be published in a book. Bethany Anderson, Udita Banerjee, Nicole Brandon, Peggy Hughes,...

To launch Book Week Scotland, divers read to the sharks at Deep Sea WorldBuilding on the success of last year's inaugural Book Week Scotland, Scottish Book Trust are to deliver a week-long, Nationwide focus...

Picture by Gareth Easton PhotographyIt seems only yesterday we were at a star studded awards ceremony in Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre hearing the results of the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2011, but actually it was...

An Edinburgh job is being advertised by The Scottish Book Trust (who have a really lovely office in Trunks' Close). The advert on their website says this:-Writer Development Administrator Job DescriptionSalary: £18,000 pro rata, full-time permanent BackgroundScottish...

Last Thursday The Reporter went to the Scottish Book Trust’s New Writers Award Showcase, celebrating the work of eight writers awarded money and mentors to support their work during 2010-11.Since winning the award, four...

The three winners of the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2011 were announced at a prize giving ceremony in Edinburgh today.  600 children from across Scotland visited the Lyceum Theatre this afternoon to find out...

Scottish Book Trust has launched an exciting new venture designed to get book lovers from all over Scotland talking about their favourite topic.Book Talk is an online community that allows people who love books...

An Edinburgh schoolgirl has come one step closer to her dream of becoming the Next Big Thing in Scottish writing, after being named as the winner of a Scottish Book Trust Young Writers Award.Chloe...

Local writer Nicola Morgan is one of 9 authors to be shortlisted for the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2011, the Scottish Book Trust announced today.Nicola has had around 90 books published, including home learning...

Glasgow’s Tramway Theatre underwent a transformation yesterday. The metamorphosis saw the state-of-the-art venue in the city’s South side become a virtual circus, complete with clowns, fire-eaters, stiltwalking butterflies, and acrobats. What better environment to...

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop has been named the winner of the £3M Arts Funding Prize for Edinburgh.The £3M prize will fund the creation of ESW's Creative Laboratories, a world class research and production...

Budding writers from across Scotland are being offered a rare opportunity to access the expertise and knowledge of published writers and experts from within the industry.Scottish Book Trust’s first Young Writers Conference will take...

Scottish Book Trust and BBC Radio Scotland today launch an exciting, new, national writing project to encourage ordinary Scots to write their extraordinary family tales.Family Legends aims to capture the tall tales, murky memories...