Borders Book Festival

12/09/2024

🌸 Our incredible team made the Bloom Media project a huge success at Borders Book Festival / 13-16 June, 2024!

✨ They supported an amazing group of young people who enjoyed every minute of their work experience. The chance to get stuck into genuine media opportunities in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.

🎥 Special thanks to our top broadcast mentors, Sally Magnusson, James Naughtie, and Stephen Jardine. Our young content creators also received high praise from BBC's Clive Myrie and Louise Minchin, Beano's Mike Stirling and Craig Graham, author and Craftivist Collective's Sarah Corbett, Scot's poet Len Pennie, plus many more.

🌟 Left to right: Chris McCall, Lisa Cowan, Bethany Lee, David Chipakupaku, and Eddy Charlton. Thanks also to our youth worker Chas Cowan.

22/08/2024

The amazing Ailie Finlay of My Kind of Book who does our sensory storytime sessions at the book festival is part of the team behind the Accessible Book & Story Festival, taking place at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh on 13 and 14 September. What a brilliant initiative - don’t miss it!

We have lots of amazing sensory story skills workshops at the Accessible Book and Story Festival (led by Oily Cart, Pamis, CALL Scotland, Nicola Grove, My Kind of Book and many others) and lots of opportunities for teachers and others to share their sensory story ideas. Any questions email [email protected] 😁

Funded by Creative Scotland

09/07/2024

SURVEY

Help us plan for 2025...

A HUGE thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s wonderful weekend at Borders Book Festival.

We will be back, same time, same place, next year, with the festival scheduled for 12 - 15 June 2025. There’s lots to do before then, and we’d be very grateful if you could help us.

If you attended this June’s festival, we would love to hear all about your experiences. It will only take a few minutes to complete our survey and your answers will be invaluable in assisting us to secure essential funding and support, and in helping us to plan for next year’s festival and beyond.

The survey closes at midnight on 12 August. All answers you give will remain confidential.

Thank you for your participation - we look forward to hearing from you.

TAKE SURVEY: www.surveymonkey.com/r/BBF2024

01/07/2024

We are proud to stand beside eight of the UK’s leading literary festivals in issuing the following message about our collective impact and shared mission.

A combination of sponsorship, private donations and arts funding allows the Borders Book Festival to thrive, enriching the cultural life of the Borders in all sorts of ways. Recent times have seen both business budgets constrained and arts funding axed, so we’re now appealing for support.

Please consider becoming a Friend, Patron or Benefactor, making a donation, leaving a legacy, or building a corporate partnership that enables us to work with schools and create a positive lasting impact on our community.

FIND OUT MORE: www.bordersbookfestival.org

25/06/2024

22/06/2024

Thanks everyone for coming in record numbers. ###

TORRENTIAL rain, particularly on the final day of the Borders Book Festival, didn’t dent the enthusiasm of lovers of printed and spoken words.

19/06/2024

17/06/2024

17/06/2024

17/06/2024

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The A team for the last evening shift 2024 😍 What a weekend! Thanks everyone for popping by, even in the rain for an 🍦

It was an absolute pleasure to be back at Harmony house ❤️

17/06/2024

16/06/2024

FESTIVAL SUNDAY
Four seasons in one day but everyone's happy and we're having a great final festival day with all our authors, guests and audiences.

16/06/2024

Our stars in the cars have been travelling in style, thanks to Volvo and their fleet of electric vehicles ..beep beep...

16/06/2024

Dreams do come true at Borders Book Festival! Here's the lovely Tejas meeting Olympic gold medallist Allan Wells and getting his hands on a real gold medal. 🥇

15/06/2024

Saturday's swinging! More pics from around the festival.

TICKETS: www.bordersbookfestival.org

15/06/2024

15/06/2024

It's been a busy Saturday morning here at the Borders Book Festival.

TICKETS: www.bordersbookfestival.org