5-526: The West Port Book Festival was a book festival which was held in Edinburgh from 2008 to 2012. Initially it took place in August during the busy Edinburgh Festival season, but later it was held at different times in the year. The festival was run by Hannah Adcock and Peggy Hughes. It is of note due to its use of many working second-hand bookshop venues, pubs, fish and chip shops, cafés and art venues in
10-528: A book festival or writers' festival , is a regular gathering of writers and readers, typically on an annual basis in a particular city. A literary festival usually features a variety of presentations and readings by authors, as well as other events, delivered over a period of several days, with the primary objectives of promoting the authors' books and fostering a love of literature and writing. Writers' conferences are sometimes designed to provide an intellectual and academic focus for groups of writers without
15-588: The West Port for most of the events, and its insistence on free tickets for entry. Although the West Port Book Festival received some coverage claiming it was a formal rival to the much larger Edinburgh International Book Festival , the organisers stated that it was designed to complement rather than to challenge its much more famous cousin. The first festival included some well known Scottish writers, as well as up and coming authors from around
20-640: The 2009 festival also featured a Celtic contingent in the form of Gaelic novelist, poet and actor Angus Peter Campbell and a group of celebrated Irish writers with translations of bawdy poet Catullus , events highlighting unusual non-fiction and magic, and played host to the world's first literary twestival . In this edition two Spanish poets, Jesús Ge and Rocío Ovalle, also participated, with their event "The Word Whirling". The 2010 festival ran from 24 to 27 June. The 2011 festival ran from 13 to 16 October. The 2012 festival ran from 23 to 26 November. Book festival A literary festival , also known as
25-480: The world, including Ali Smith , Ian Rankin , Douglas Dunn , A. L. Kennedy , Kapka Kassabova , Ronan Sheehan , Rajorshi Chakraborti , Dilys Rose , Dean Parkin , Robert Alan Jamieson , Owen Dudley Edwards , and many others. As well as featuring poets John Hegley , Tim Turnbull , Jack Underwood , Douglas Dunn and 2009 Forward Poetry Prize nominee J. O. Morgan , novelists Alan Bissett , Eleanor Thom , Elaine di Rollo , Mike Stocks and Gregory Norminton ,
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