{"id":371567,"date":"2025-08-25T05:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371567\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:39:28","slug":"week-3-winners-the-nen-north-edinburgh-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371567\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3 winners \u2013 The NEN \u2013 North Edinburgh News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nen.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/besties-wk3-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756100367_143_besties-wk3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211787\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>The Skinny and Fest, Capital Theatres and Premier Scotland are delighted to announce the winners of the week three\u2019s The Besties, in the following categories:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>The Spooky Award \u2013 Ghouls Aloud\u00a0<\/strong>for<strong>\u00a0Elysium,\u00a0<\/strong>Gilded Balloon<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>The New Writing Award \u2013 Emma Frankland<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0<strong>No Apologies<\/strong>, Summerhall<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to Scottish publishing<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<strong>404 Ink<\/strong>, Edinburgh International Book Festival<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>The Dissident Award \u2013 Abdolreza Kahani<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0<strong>Mortician<\/strong>, Edinburgh International Film Festival<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>The Radgie Award \u2013 Rosa Garland<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0<strong>Primal Bog<\/strong>, Assembly Roxy<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>The Alt Reekie Award \u2013 Liam Withnail<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0<strong>Big Strong Boy<\/strong>, Monkey Barrell<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>The Fringe Legend Award \u2013 Mark Silcox<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0<strong>The Gold Trader,\u00a0<\/strong>PBH Free Fringe, Voodoo Rooms\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nen.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Bestie-Awards-wk3_13-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756100368_233_Bestie-Awards-wk3_13-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211788\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>The award ceremony took place today (Saturday 23rd August) at the Festival Theatre, hosted by Jess Robinson, whose show\u00a0Jess Robinson: Your Song\u00a0is at Assembly George Square Gardens until Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Besties awards, designed by\u00a0artist Camillo Feuchter a recent graduate of Interior &amp; Environmental Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, use recyclable plastics gathered by the partners and leftover wood sourced locally.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Reflecting the broad and diverse coverage both magazines produce every summer and celebrating the breadth of Edinburgh\u2019s Festivals, The Besties span all the festival activity taking place in the city over the month of August, including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Winners of The Besties are chosen each week by the editorial teams of The Skinny and Fest, drawing on their cross-festival expertise to celebrate the best work happening anywhere in the festivals.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Skinny and Fest, Capital Theatres and Premier Scotland are delighted to announce the winners of the week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-371567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115087800055867931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371567","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=371567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}