{"id":141245,"date":"2025-05-29T11:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141245\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T11:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:15:12","slug":"dates-confirmed-for-return-of-aye-write-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141245\/","title":{"rendered":"Dates confirmed for return of Aye Write book festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Organisers Glasgow life have now revealed that the literary bash will celebrate its milestone 20th anniversary across 11 days from Thursday 6 November until Sunday 16 November, ahead of Book Week Scotland taking place later in the month.\u00a0\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    However, the junior version \u2013 Wee Write \u2013 will not return until March 2026. \u00a0\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    In the lead up to this year\u2019s Aye Write, the festival will again host a series of pop-up events. \u00a0\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    The first of these, Liam McIlvanney in conversation with Scottish literature expert Dr Valentina Bold, inspired by his new psychological thriller The Good Father, will take place at The Mitchell Library on Thursday 31 July. \u00a0\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    <img   alt=\"The book festival is returning after a year's absence\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>The book festival is returning after a year&#8217;s absence (Image: NQ) Tickets for this event are on sale now and available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ayewrite.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.ayewrite.com<\/a>.\u00a0\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    The wider programme for Aye Write 2025 as well as ticket and venue information will be unveiled in the coming months.\u00a0\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Aye Write is produced by Glasgow Life, the charity that leads culture, events and active living in Glasgow, with support from Creative Scotland. \u00a0\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    In January this year, Glasgow Life was awarded \u00a3262,500 from Creative Scotland\u2019s 2025-28 Multi-Year Fund for the delivery of Aye Write in 2025, 2026 and 2027.\u00a0\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Bailie Annette Christie, Chair of Glasgow Life, said: \u201cWe\u2019re really looking forward to the return of Aye Write this year and marking an incredible 20 years of Glasgow\u2019s much-loved celebration of books, storytelling, and the love of reading.\u00a0\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    \u201cWe are grateful to Creative Scotland for their support and our festival team is busy planning an inspiring and diverse programme of pop-up and festival events. \u00a0\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    \u201cWe can\u2019t wait to welcome readers, writers and book lovers back to Aye Write over the coming months and during November.\u201d\u00a0\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Organisers Glasgow life have now revealed that the literary bash will celebrate its milestone 20th anniversary across 11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-141245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114590837927692514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}