The City of Edinburgh Council’s 2006 Festival of Scottish Writing begins this weekend. Don’t think I’ll manage to get to much, if any, of it. It’s a varied line-up. There are a few Gaelic events on the programme, but I didn’t notice any specifically Scots-language events. There ought to be one or two at least. (Admittedly, I had only a quick scroll through the pdf, so I might have missed something.) There are a few poetry events, one of which focuses on Asian writing. Sounds interesting, though I’m not entirely clear from the brochure whether it’s all in Urdu.