New Writers Showcase Tickets – Thursday 27 February 2025

Date: Thursday 27 February 2025

Location: Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED  

Join Shane Strachan for readings from our 2024 New Writers Awardees, then take their words home with our New Writing sampler.

Every year, the New Writers Awards spotlight an amazing array of new writing talent in Scotland. Now is your chance to hear the 2024 Awardees read from their own work at our fabulous showcase.

On the night

Doors will open at 7pm. After the readings you are welcome to stay for drinks and a dance until 11pm.

Masks are welcome and socially-distant seating will be available near the back of the room.

Lift access is available and accessible seats can be reserved – please select whether you need accessible seating when you purchase your ticket so we can facilitate your seating reservation with the front of house team. The Traverse Theatre have listed their available facilities and access information on their website.

Directions for travel are also available on the Traverse Theatre’s website.

You will be able to buy books from previous and current Awardees on the night, thanks to help from the incredible Lighthouse Books and Gaelic Books Council.

Spotlighting our new writers

The prestigious judging panel had the hard task of selecting our talented Awardees from hundreds of entries.

Our panellists for 2024 included respected writers Okechukwu Nzelu, Kathleen Jamie and Zaffar Kunial on Poetry, Shane Strachan and Liz Niven on Scots, as well as Vivian French and Maisie Chan on Children’s and YA and Leyla Josephine and Hannah Lavery on Spoken Word. The Gaelic Books Council selects the Gaelic New Writers Awardees.

Photos by Kat Gollock.

The New Writers Awards is more broadly supported by Creative Scotland, the Russell Trust, the Dr David Summers Trust, Garrick Charitable Trust, Badenoch Trust and the William Grant Foundation.