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A Room with a View – well. not really, but … The Writer’s Room, a paid desk residency designed by Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature and generously hosted by The Writer’s Museum, is now open to applications from published women writers. This opportunity will provide two writers with a two-month residency each, and a £1000 stipend, offering access to a desk in the heart of The Writers’ Museum’s famed collection. All the details are here: Writer’s Room 2026: Call for Applications from Women Writers – Edinburgh City of Literature Trust
This years Counterflows festival has sort of snuck up on us, but here we are, operating out of Woodside Halls and a handful of other venues: “Over the 4 days of the festival there will be live performances, club nights, film screenings, a small publishers fair and discussions. Nae headliners, nae scheduling clashes, nae nonsense. We’re a festival about bringing people together, listening together, dancing together, and opening up possibilities.”
Counterflows On Paper 2026 features new writing by Lola Olufemi, Nisha Ramayya, dundee radio club, Masa Nazzal, Lewis Cook (GLOSS) and Eoin Anderson, alongside a special Beijing-Scotland underground music ‘Shortwave Q&A’, Fielding interviewing Ryu Hankil, poetry from Music Space resident Gem Kinley, and a series of artworks by artists from Project Ability.
Details are here: Counterflows on Paper 2026 Launch – Counterflows
Highland Zine Bothy are collaborating with High Life Highland to offer two FREE zine-making workshops in celebration of Earth Day and Earth Week more widely, at Culloden and Fortrose libraries. This marks the beginning of a wider project which will see more zine-making workshops delivered at library spaces across the Highlands, to help communities creatively engage in climate conversations.
Join them at: Culloden Library [phone: 01349781391] from 4-6pm on April 22nd 2026 (Earth Day) or Fortrose Library [phone: 01381622235] from 4-6pm on April 23rd 2026 (Earth Week). HZL will also be at the Glasgow Zine Fest 2026 : 23-24 May, at The Briggait with events at Glasgow Zine Library, Inkling and Mono from 19th-22nd.
All the details here: Zine Fest — Glasgow Zine Library
