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Here are our top links from last week’s events and opportunities round-up:

• The Pentlands Book Festival announced its 2025 dates and programme last week, you can get all the details on their website

• The Chicken Coop Writing Group returns to Lost in Leith on Tuesday, October 28. Book your pay-what-you-can tickets on Eventbrite

• Join Victoria Chang for Poetry Lab on Saturday, November 22, an online generative writing lab exploring Push the Boat Out’s 2025 festival theme: The Unseen World. Find out more on the Push the Boat Out website

• Book your place on the Yin Yoga and Therapeutic Writing Workshop series starting Saturday, October 18, at Blue Morpho Edinburgh. Tickets available on Eventbrite

• Sad Song Club is at Sketchy Beats this Wednesday, October 15, for an evening of celebrating sadness. Get more information on Facebook

There’s lots to do this week from open mics and workshops, to writing groups and showcases. You can check out the listings up to this Sunday, October 19, to plan your writing week. I’ll be putting out a brand new newsletter next Monday, October 20!

If you’re an organiser or a community member with events to highlight, please submit your listings for the newsletter with this Google Form. I’m looking for events going from Monday, October 20 to Sunday, November 2.

If you’d like to come get words on paper with us, Good Egg events are back from this Thursday, October 16, with our collaborative event with A Nice Day Out, A Nice Way With Words, at Brass Monkey Shore from 7 pm.

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