NEXT SALON: July’s Festival Preview Salon

Tuesday the 29th of July, 2025, 7pm, Live and on Zoom 

Once again, it’s Festival Season in Edinburgh, so we’ll have our annual preview of the August Festivals, and looking beyond too...

Our July Salon is a ‘simple salon’ where we invite friends from the various Festivals to tell us what’s in store. This year we’ll share information on all three of August’s major International Festivals, as well as our local poetry Festival later this year.

We’re delighted to welcome Paul Ridd, from the Film Festival, Tamara Zimet, from the Book Festival, and from Push the Boat Out, which runs in November (with other events along the way) we have Emma Collins to share news.

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 instead 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: Festival Previews

7.35: Mingling & 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. Our 2023 fundraising page is here.

We ask for donations and 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.

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 positive feedback on how we can improve, even within our limitations as a non-funded organisation. We welcome open conversation.