Celebrate Scotland’s rich literary heritage and vibrant future during 2009

Scotland’s rich literary and cultural heritage will be debated and celebrated during the year of Homecoming at Scotland’s principal literary festivals including:

Aye Write (March 2009, Glasgow). In 2009, Aye Write will celebrate, investigate and debate the literary connections of the Scottish Diaspora and the impact this has had on Scottish writing.

StAnza (March 2009, St Andrews). Scotland's only established festival that focuses on poetry in all its many forms featuring core Homecoming themes in 2009 such as reassessments of Robert Burns and Lord Byron.

Word 09 (May 2009, Aberdeen).  Scotland's second largest annual literary festival, boasting a packed programme in 2009 of readings, lectures and debates as well as musical events, art exhibitions and film screenings showcasing how the Scottish word had changed the world

The Edinburgh International Book Festival (August 2009, Edinburgh). Including events such as Scotland: Culture and Identity - a unique opportunity to celebrate and debate Scotland's rich literary and cultural heritage, in particularly the importance of Burns and the Scottish Enlightenment.

The Stenaline Wigtown Book Festival (September / October 2009, Wigtown). In 2009, this festival will celebrate literature's long love affair with whisky, welcome home the Ulster Scots and hail the national poet in Scotland's National Book Town at "The Last Burns Supper".