Events

Typewronger Books runs a FREE events program, so you can turn up to any of these you like! Should you wish to set up an event with us please click here to find out how that might work! 



TypeCast! The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood - Friday 13/9/24 @ 7pm

We are delighted to announce the next TypeCast!, our play reading group at Typewronger.

All you need is a copy of the play, which you may source yourself or purchase from the shop. We mainly read plays written by living authors to help support their continuing work.

Please email info@typewronger.com ahead of time to secure a spot and order a copy of the play if you are interested in attending, as these events tend to be popular, and we sometimes run out of playscripts (and parts!).

Take a seat on the welcoming stage of this little bookshop as we read aloud The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood. We'll randomly assign parts on the night, and then get reading!

One life in the hands of 12 women. Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley's comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder.

When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of 12 matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she's telling the truth, or simply trying to escape the noose. With only midwife Lizzy Luke prepared to defend the girl, and a mob baying for blood outside, the matrons wrestle with their new authority, and the devil in their midst. The Welkin premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2020, directed by James Macdonald and featuring Maxine Peake and Ria Zmitrowicz.


Palimpsest 2 Launch Monday 16/9/24 @ 7.30pm



PALIMPSEST Arts Magazine welcomes you with warm, familiar arms to the launch of our second issue: Close.

The evening will feature poetry, prose, and visual art from OLIVIA CALDERÓN, FLORA LEASK ARIZPE, JIAYI CHEN, STELLA SEGAR, and YUQUI WANG.

The issue will feature those people's work and even more - including Nazaret Ranea, an article on the Moomins and queerness, and a collaborative interview with artists working across Scotland.

PALIMPSEST aims to showcase dialogue across art forms, artists, and perspectives. In each issue, artists create a response to a prompt and then create a response to each other's submissions.

Join us at Typewronger Books for all of that, copies of the magazine, and to celebrate another issue of PALIMPSEST being out in the world!"


Open Mic Reboot XVII - Sunday 29/9/24 @ 7pm

Edinburgh's anarchic open mic night where there's no limit on what can be performed, only how much time performers get! We run for 90 minutes, and divide that time by the number of performers who sign up to get our set times. There's a bell 30 seconds before the end of each set, and a gong at the end which performers CANNOT go past! Sign up is 7-7.30 - comedy, music, poetry, short stories, film scripts, magic acts - we've had all sorts over the years, so just rock on down! 

Anthony Capildeo, Carrie Etter, Vik Shirley & Alice Tarbuck - Monday 30/9/24 @ 7pm

Four fabulous poets on a single ticket: Anthony Capildeo, Carrie Etter, Vik Shirley, and Alice Tarbuck. Capildeo and Etter will be reading from their new collections, Polka Dot Wounds (Carcanet, 2024) and Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024), respectively, while Shirley and Tarbuck will read from new and forthcoming work. This is Carrie Etter's first reading in Edinburgh since 2014! 

Dark Moon Tales by Amaris Chase - Monday 7/10/24 @ 7pm

You don’t find them

They find you …

As the moon rises, the dark night carries a warning. Death walks in many forms. An ancient wood hides an eternal secret, while in bygone Edinburgh, the sea mist rolls in and the leerie — a lamplighter — hears an unusual whisper in the shadows. Contestants at a lonely hearts event give answers that may carry a bite, and the rites of an arranged marriage weave their own dark bonds beyond the grave ...

Twenty nine original frights seeped in myth and mystery, from the new voice in gothic horror

Praise for Amaris Chase:

‘Classic spooky horror’ - Five Stars

‘Really caught my breath’ - Goodreads reviewer

About the author:

Amaris Chase grew up on a healthy diet of Hammer Horror TV and films, Sapphire and Steel and Victorian ghost stories which fuelled her passion for all things supernatural. Her short stories and poetry have been published in numerous anthologies, including Spooky Ambiguous (2022), Festival of Cats (2023), The Wild Night Sky (2023) and Home Ground (2024). Dark Moon Tales is her first short story collection.

She currently lives in Edinburgh where she supports her local bookshops, independent cafes (where her stories are often first crafted), stationery stores, and dabbles in book art and painting.

TypeCast! Faustus: That Damned Woman by Chris Bush - Friday 18/10/24 @ 6:30pm

We are delighted to announce the next TypeCast!, our play reading group at Typewronger.

All you need is a copy of the play, which you may source yourself or purchase from the shop. We mainly read plays written by living authors to help support their continuing work.

Please email info@typewronger.com ahead of time to secure a spot and order a copy of the play if you are interested in attending, as these events tend to be popular, and we sometimes run out of playscripts (and parts!).

Take a seat on the welcoming stage of this little bookshop as we read aloud Faustus: That Damned Woman by Chris Bush. We'll randomly assign parts on the night, and then get reading!

Award winning playwright Chris Bush reimagines the Faust myth to explore what we must sacrifice to achieve greatness, and the legacy that we leave behind. Faustus: That Damned Woman is a radical new work in which the iconic character of Faustus becomes a woman who makes the ultimate sacrifice in order to traverse centuries and change the course of history. It is premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in January 2020, in a co production with Headlong and Birmingham Repertory Theatre, prior to a UK tour.

An epic, ambitious, gothic, baroque fever dream of a piece that takes a well known classic and inverts it to say something truthful about the contemporary female experience.



Open Mic Reboot XVIII - Sunday 27/10/24 @ 7pm

Edinburgh's anarchic open mic night where there's no limit on what can be performed, only how much time performers get! We run for 90 minutes, and divide that time by the number of performers who sign up to get our set times. There's a bell 30 seconds before the end of each set, and a gong at the end which performers CANNOT go past! Sign up is 7-7.30 - comedy, music, poetry, short stories, film scripts, magic acts - we've had all sorts over the years, so just rock on down! 

Noriaki by Endre Ruset, translated by Harry Man - Monday 28/10/24 @ 7pm

What does it feel like to travel down a ski jump hill at more than 60mph before leaping into the air over Winter Olympic crowds? In a new book of poems translated by Harry Man, Endre Ruset documents the highs and lows of one of ski jumpings most celebrated (and oldest-still competing) athletes, Noriaki Kasai. Using a mixture of haiku and haiku-esque three line poems that reflect the three stages of a ski jump, the in-run, the "hop" and the landing, travelling in from his home town of Molde in Norway, here to Edinburgh, Endre Ruset takes readers on a a playful and meditative journey through the one of the most admired and dangerous winter sports. Featuring a foreword by bestselling crime writer Jo Nesbø. 

Short King Story Hour - Wednesday 30/10/24 @ 7pm

Here at Typewronger, we love a short king-- a sharp and snappy piece of prose that draws us in and leaves us changed. This new book group will highlight a different short story or essay collection each month, and you don't need to read anything in advance! Simply turn up to the shop and sit back while a story or essay is read aloud, and then everyone is welcome to linger to explore the story further or disappear into the other stories on the shelves. We loved being read to as kids, and we want to share that delight with folks of all ages!