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Edinburgh Literary Salon
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We are the Edinburgh Literary Salon. Based in Scotland's vibrant and historical capital city, we stage a free and inclusive monthly event that is dedicated to supporting the literary community. https://www.edinburghliterarysalon.org/ https://linktr.ee/LitE
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Edinburgh Literary Salon @ediliterarysalon.bsky.social · Nov 15
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Edingburgh skyline from Calton Hill Dugald Stewart monument to left wiht sicty vista lit by sun
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Ho ho ho it's our December Social Salon, a festive return to our original home of the #WashBar #Edinburgh on Tuesday December 23rd from 6.30pm, free as always more info, at www.edinburghliterarysalon.org/post/decembe... #Christmas #Literary #Salon #Books #Writing
Screengrab from Edinburgh Literary Salon events webpage, traditional Georgian window and tenement log in black and white with books forming the walls, holly and ribbons and a bow around the logos to the right, text black on white to right with info on Decembers Social Salon on Tuesday 23rd December at the Wash Bar Edinburgh at 6.30pm
December 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Next week, Tuesday 23rd December at 6.30pm we have our Festive Social Salon back at our spiritual home of the Wash Bar. Free as always, more info at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decembers-...? #EdinburghLiterarySalon #Edinburgh
Screen shot from the Edinburgh Literary Salon Eventbrite page, picture of the Wash Bar lit up in blue light on old stones and windows upper floor, red frontage and silver signage with windows, door and signs on ground floor and text saying Decembers Social Salon December 23rd from 6.30pm to 11pm at The Wash Bar
December 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Salon steering group member @abs.ventures has made an immersive poetry game for @ptbopoetry.bsky.social free to play this weekend.
abs.ventures ABS @abs.ventures · Nov 19
Hey I made a #TemporaryAutonomousPoetryZone experimental psychogeographic #poetry #game for the amazing @ptbopoetry.bsky.social FREE to #play this Friday to Sunday at the #Pleasance #Edinburgh pushtheboatout.org/events/tempo... come along, give it a try! #Scotland #Scottish #Games #Immersive #Poems
Picture of Edinburgh from drone overlooking Canongate Kirl towards Pentland stylised to look like an inverted photo negative, all white with purple accents. Text top left say Temporary Autonomous Poetry Zone in cutout kidnap note style letter with similar text saying - A Flotsam Flourish top right. Botton left is black rectangle with red zx spectrum style pixel text saying morefunwith.games and an X in aforementioned font then the blue and whiteish Push The Boat Out poetry festival logo
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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It's almost time for our student takeover salon! This November, we are going to celebrate St Andrew's Day with our Salon event.
📍Where: The Outhouse, EH1 3LY or online
🗓️When: Tuesday 25th November, 6:30pm
🎟️Eventbrite Free Tickets shorturl.at/8ktIt
🍺Drinks available to purchase from the bar
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Reminder it is our #Spooky #Edinburgh #Literary #Salon tonight info and free tickets here www.edinburghliterarysalon.org/post/next-ev... 7pm, Live at the Outhouse Bar and on Zoom #EdinburghLiterarySalon
Black and white flyer for Edinburgh Literary Salon, logo image left of rounded top Edinburgh Georgian window with pillar and book edges arrayed around it, to the left a picture of a tree to the left branches circling over a helicopter and mountains in the distance and a fire lit cavern with figures walking silhouetted in the trunk of the tree
October 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Our pals @cymerafestival.co.uk are looking for Board members, could this be you? See below for more details!
cymerafestival.co.uk Cymera Festival @cymerafestival.co.uk · Oct 20
As Cymera Festival continues to mature, we are seeking enthusiastic and committed individuals to bring new ideas and knowledge to our board.

Experience in running or programming a book festival is not needed: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/join-the-board
October 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Here's something from the #future 'Next stop #Nor'Bridge followed by #NewNor'Loch. Disembark here for #TheCastle, #HalfMile and #TheRemnants.. #MindTheGap between #Ferry and #Lighthouse' last and definitely not least did I mention the #book has gone in a #TimeCapsule in the #NorthBridge #Edinburgh!
Digitally altered image of Edinburgh in the future, a flooded area is straddled by the North Bridge which has a Lighthouse, wind ship, wind mill etc text says 'Next stop Nor' Bridge followed by New Nor' Loch. Disembark here for The Castle, Half Mile and The Remnants.. Mind the gap between Ferry and Lighthouse
October 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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I did all the #collage #CutAndPaste #art #remixing #publicdomain images with my own #drawings & #photos here's something from the #past a close up of a section from A Perspective View of the Bridge and Register-Office Edinburgh, c.1800 see if you can spot what I added 😀
Cropped detail image of black and white drawing View of the North Bridge and Robert Adam's Register House, c.1800 J Donaldson and J Phillips - scanned from a facsimile of an old print A Perspective View of the Bridge and Register-Office Edinburgh, c.1800 it has detail of the side of the bridge with arches, small human figures in bottom right and a digitally added giant tambourin playing monkey in one of the arches in the centre
October 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I also made an #Absacus Universale Ludus Mutante #rpg rosetta stone style translation device if you like it let me know! #Argaxian #StewBum #Gallous #Reekin #Glaikit #GangTaeFreuchieAnFryMice
Gilt picture frame edge to pic with hackground pattern repeated image of The old North Bridge,bfrom the west, with Calton Hill in the background, in 1829 Thomas Hosmer SHEPHERD (c.1810 to c.1842) "NORTH BRIDGE CALTON HILL &c FROM THE BANK OF SCOTLAND", from Modern Athens then a title of Absacus Universale Ludus Mutante then 3 columns % Argaxian and Bridge Bricolage with numbers and words depending on column acting as an rpg rosetta stone style translation device
October 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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My #game #dossier is a series of #story & #adventure prompts for role playing games & playful creative provocation suitable for anyone seeking #stimulation, #FirFaeEyesOnly a #TimeTravel #trip through #Edinburgh past to future with #fantastic #fae #magic twists mixed with real #history #ttrpg #rpg
Sepia toned image of old Edinburgh likely City of Edinburgh Thomas Annan, c. 1856 - in or before 1866## with Scott Monument, National Art Gallery, North Bridge and Waverley Bridge etc, digitally added to picture is monsters and magical creatures around various places and diagonally across picture in black typewriter font is Fir Fae Eyes Only
October 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Hey tomorrow I'm part of the #NorthBridge: Where We Travelled #Book #Launch #Celebration
Sat 25 Oct 2025 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Charteris Centre, EH8 9RR #Edinburgh courtesy of the amazing @jedapearl.bsky.social Tickets www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap... come along, buy a book I wrote a #Game for it!
Image of headshots of story authors and readers for North Bridge Edinburgh anthology launch event
October 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Our reviews of the 78th Edinburgh Film Festival are up. Lots of great, if dark, films; plus a wee beauty called 'The Golden Spurtle.' Come to tonight's Salon, tell us what you've been to, and pick up more treasure in our anthology, 'The Golden Hours.'
www.edinburghliterarysalon.org/post/review-...
Review: Edinburgh International Film Festival
a selection of films from this years Edinburgh International Film Festival
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August 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Here's our first week at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in review... lots of Salon friends and fabulous Scottish writers.
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Festival Reviews: Week 1. at the Book Festival
There’s no better way to get a flavour of a Festival than to attend the Opening Gala. While the Military Tattoo flew a flotilla of fighter aircraft masquerading as entertainment overhead, the Edinburg...
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August 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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We may be in the midst of Festival, but when the mayhem is over there's plenty more to celebrate after seven years of Salon Events!
Check out our website for coming events and Festival reviews.
www.edinburghliterarysalon.org/post/next-ev...
NEXT EVENT: The Seven Year Itch Salon!
August's Birthday Salon
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August 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Our first Festival Review is up on our website: Hanni Liang at the Edinburgh International Festival, exploring dreams and making a little magic.
Have a read, and please keep our website alive - that would be magic too!
www.edinburghliterarysalon.org/post/festiva...
August 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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This is a bit meta: a post on our website asking for help to save our website! Please visit our funding page and give what you can. www.edinburghliterarysalon.org/post/save-ou...
Save Our Website!
Help fund this website!
www.edinburghliterarysalon.org
July 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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It's our Festival Preview Salon this month, and we have a request to fund our website. We are looking ahead to all three International Festivals!
All our events are free registration but we rely on the generosity of our friends and attendees.
Please visit our Funding Page and donate what you can.
July 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Steering Group member ABS appear in this local anthology about the North Bridge
abs.ventures ABS @abs.ventures · May 30
I made (words&art!) an #Edinburgh #NorthBridge #TimeTravel #Fae #Folklore #TTRPG story prompt #game inc. inventing an #ABSacus for this amazing anthology by @jedapearl.bsky.social if you want a full colour version (you do :) you must preorder by Mon. June 2nd so gogogo jedapearl.com/north-bridge...
Image of cover of book and details of it, green border and white background of image, book cover inset shows North Bridge Edinburgh Green, purple and white colour scheme with image of the bridge and title 'North Bridge Where we travelled' and advice to pre order by 2nd June 2025 for full colour copies https://jedapearl.com/north-bridge-where-we-travelled/
June 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Hey tomorrow is our #Edinburgh Literary #Salon #Genre edition we're talking to Ann Landmann from @cymerafestival.co.uk and Francesca Barbini from @lunapress.bsky.social free tickets for in person at the Outhouse Bar or online www.edinburghliterarysalon.org/post/next-ev... #Scotland #Writing
Black and white flyer for Edinburgh Literary Salon, logo image left of rounded top Edinburgh Georgian window with pillar and book edges arrayed around it, to the left a Venn diagram of genre fiction styles
May 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) - as accessibility.day pithily puts it 'The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access/inclusion and people with different disabilities' #Accessibility #GAAD
Screen grab from https://accessibility.day/ webpage white background and blue dot matrix symbolic world map on the right of page, info including ' Today is the 13th Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Thursday, May 15, 2025, marks the 14th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access/inclusion and people with different disabilities.' on page left
May 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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We're going to have a short literary quiz this month, at The Outhouse as usual. We'll livestream for those who wish to join on zoom from 7pm. Prizes will be ovoid, ellipsoid, and pyriform... in other words, egg-shaped!
This Tuesday, tickets (free) on Eventbrite: easterquizsalon2025.eventbrite.co.uk
April’s Easter Quiz Salon
Since our April Salon falls in the Easter Season, we’re keeping our tradition of a ‘light’ quiz that may or may not contain easter eggs.
EasterQuizSalon2025.eventbrite.co.uk
April 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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You can also attend #ScottishParliament #Scotland #Games Ecosystem Cross Party Group scottishgames.net/2025/03/06/s... your chance to engage with #MSPs on #games #videogames #immersive #TTopRPG #BoardGames #GameDev open to everyone working in, around or interested in games across Scotland.
View of Scottish Parliament meeting room, 2 screens at back showing video feed, popup banner for Scottish games Week in centre, teardrop wooden table with microphones, lights and vaulted ceiling overhead. cameras around walls
March 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Involved/interested in #Games in #Scotland then engage with scottishgames.net/2025/03/26/s... Zoom sessions over tnext fortnight or feedback directly to @scottishgames.bsky.social not just #videogames but #immersive #TtopRPG #BoardGames too #ScotlandsGameActionPlan have your say! #Scottish #GameDev
white background, large black text Action Plan! over a oil paint rainbow map of Scotland with text bottom right in black Scotland’s Games Strategy: Industry Consultation Drop In Sessions
March 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Tomorrow! Please join us if you can free in person in Edinburgh or online #Edinburgh #Writing #Screenwriting
March 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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This should be a fascinating event, whether you have seen the series or not:
March 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM