NEXT EVENT: September Students Salon!

Tuesday the 30^th of September 2025, 7pm, Live and on Zoom 

September is the month we welcome new students to our city, so who better to have as our Guest writer and pedagogue David Bishop.

There are some people we’ve long had on our wish-list as guests, so it’s a pleasure to welcome crime writer D.V. Bishop. David is a creative writing lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. The author of more than twenty published novels and an award-winning screenwriter, he helped found the innovative MA Creative Writing programme at Edinburgh Napier in 2009.

David is a founder member of the Creative Writing Studies Organisation, and a member of the Society of Authors (Great Britain), the New Zealand Society of Authors, the Crime Writers' Association, and the Historical Writers' Association. In 2017 he was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship by Creative Scotland and the Scottish Book Trust.

In 2020 his Doctor Who audiobook The Elysian Blade won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for best dramatic presentation. His historical crime novel City of Vengeance (2021) won the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Novel (2022), while The Darkest Sin (2022) won the CWA Historical Dagger Award (hence the CWA dagger image!)

The ‘Presentation’ section of this Salon will therefore consist of an interview with David conducted by our own in-house crime writer, Stuart Johnstone. We look forward to welcoming our university students, whether studying literary or creative subjects or simply with an interest in literature.

We will be at our usual home, The Outhouse, and tickets are free as always. If you can’t make it to the venue, you can watch on zoom as we’ll livestream the presentation.

How it works

6.30: Doors Open – reception in the Function Room at the Outhouse  

6.50: Open the Zoom meeting (details emailed to all ticket-holders)

7.00: Welcome, and Introduction

7.05: Interview, D.V. Bishop

7.45: Mingling and chat

Registration can be found on Eventbrite – it is free to register for all of our events.

Sadly, we are unable to offer a glass of wine on arrival, but we hope to re-continue this tradition in the future. 

We encourage people to buy us a coffee to help fund our work. If you can’t afford to donate, you are still welcome. Our two anthologies are on sale here, and books will be available to purchase on the night. To help keep our website live and alive, visit our GoFundMe

We look forward to seeing you in person or in the zoom-room.

Accessibility Notice

Edinburgh Literary Salon is open to all those with an interest in all aspects of Literature, whether professional or personal, and to all parts of the industry: writers, publishers, booksellers etc. All are welcome, and events have free registration. While we aim to hold some events at accessible venues, our regular salon is in an upstairs room at The Outhouse. For this reason, we aim to livestream most events. If there is a problem accessing zoom, we will do what we can to assist. We strive to ensure adequate audibility, and straightforward registration. We invite feedback on how we can improve, even within our limitations as a non-funded organisation. We welcome open conversation.