We are delighted to announce that Creative Scotland has approved our Large Project Community Project funding.  This funding will allow us to work in ten

At the end of a long and energetic day at the Book Festival, Open Book brought over 100 of our women and children readers from

Marjorie’s poem about Iran up at Rattle.com, one of our favourite journals! “The Wrong Person to Ask” by Marjorie Lotfi Gill

Open Book’s Marjorie Lotfi appeared on Radio Scotland’s Afternoon Show talking about Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. Hear what she has to say here before

Open Book Lead Reader Em Strang appears in the March edition of Dumfries and Galloway Life talking about her flourishing shared reading groups in our

In partnership with the Wigtown Book Festival, Open Book has started new groups in Dumfries and Galloway, at The Stove Dumfries and at the youth Kaos Café

BOOK FESTIVAL OUTINGS: In August, Open Book took over 140 of our readers to 18 events during the course of Edinburgh International Book Festival, using over

PRESS RELEASE: Edinburgh-based reading charity Open Book has announced it has been awarded a Big Lottery Awards for All grant of £8000 to help fund

Over the next few days, we’ll be publishing some of the work produced in our six Book Week Scotland Creative Writing and Reading workshops on

This year, Open Book readers used 130 tickets across 8 events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, including Alice Oswald,  Alexander McCall Smith, Jo Baker and Nina