1pm, 25/9 | Live Online

Louisa Adjoa Parker, Khairani Barokka, and Dr. Durre Shahwar come together to discuss their deeply personal and moving contributions to Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature, a collection of essays by women of colour, reflecting on their relationships with nature, decolonisation, and healing.

3.30pm, 25/9 | Livestreamed from King's Pavilion

Celebrate the launch of the long-awaited fifth in the Verbal Remedies series of Creative Writing by Medical Students. How many amazing pieces will we cram into this bumper edition? What terrible pun will we come up with for the title? Hear student writers read their work and talk about the process of creating it.

5pm, 25/9 | Livestreamed from King's Pavilion

A panel discussion with Aberdeen-based artists and writers responding to climate change: UoA Interdisciplinary Fellow, Dr Rebecca Macklin, will chair sound artist Maja Zećo and curator Rachel Grant, to discuss their Soundwalk series about Torry's St Fittick’s Park, and poet Genevieve Carver, whose work explores ecology and interactions between human and non-human worlds.

7pm, 25/9 | Live Online

Margot Livesey has been hailed as ‘one of the strongest and subtlest voices in Scottish fiction' (Glasgow Herald). This is a rare opportunity to hear her discuss her newest novel, The Road from Belhaven, a rich portrait of twentieth-century Scotland inspired by Nan Shepherd and Willa Muir, which is one of her best yet.

5pm, 26/9 | Livestreamed from King's Pavilion

Journalist Jen Stout’s Night Train to Odesa charts her time in war-torn Ukraine while Aleksandra Hnatiuk has written on Ukrainian women’s courage in World War II and Ukraine’s struggles for independence and identity. Come along to hear them discuss women in war zones, cultural identity, unearthing truths and battling falsifications of history.

1pm, 27/9 | Livestreamed from King's Pavilion

How does an identity formed of multiple cultures inform the art you create? This panel with writer Leila Aboulela, actor, playwright and artist Amira Al Shanti, and poet Dean Atta, will discuss identity, expression and acceptance across cultures.

1.30pm, 28/9 | Livestreamed from King's Pavilion

Know all your kings and queens? Richie Webb, lead songwriter for CBBC’s Horrible Histories, gives a glimpse into the creative process behind all your favourite hits. Find out what it takes to create not only an ear-catching tune, but also funny, historically accurate lyrics from a master craftsman.

3pm, 28/9 | Livestreamed from King's Pavilion

Delve into the rich and complex world of crime fiction writing with New York Times bestselling author James Lovegrove, in an engaging and enlightening discussion,  exploring his reimagined Sherlock Holmes series The Cthulhu Casebooks and investigating the world of speculative fiction.

5pm, 28/9 | Livestreamed from King's Pavilion

The Centre for the Novel is proud to host Ben Aaronovitch and Maud Woolf, who will be discussing their latest books and reading some of their favourite extracts, followed by an audience Q&A. A must for fans of speculative fiction, sci-fi, and re-imaginings of the world we think we know.

12 noon, 29/9 | Live Online

‘’I’m a neurodivergent author. I write about anything and everything, but I always write about neurodiversity’’ - Elle McNicoll, bestselling author of A Kind of Spark, in conversation with Sarinah O’Donoghue, recent UoA PhD graduate researching representations of autism in literature and popular culture. 

5pm, 29/9 | Livestreamed from King's Pavilion

Acclaimed Scottish writers Zoë Strachan and Louise Welsh discuss their latest novels, common themes, differing genres, and creative collaborations. Set in Glasgow and Kilmarnock and spanning the 1930s-60s, Zoë Strachan’s Catch the Moments as They Fly is her most personal novel to date. Louise Welsh’s latest gritty novel, To The Dogs, explores organised crime, institutional corruption and moral compromise in Glasgow with much dark humour.