On Thursday the 29th of October, join us for an evening of poetry with Saskia McCracken with readings, Q+A and book signing. Saskia will be joined by fellow poet JL William. More info and FREE tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/let-me-car... #BookSky💙📚 #Edinburgh #Poetry

Witness Dead Poets come back to life right before your eyes! DEADLINE FOR PERFORMER SIGN-UP IS 28 OCTOBER! It's competitive poetry with a twist - these performers embody dead poets and bring them back to life for one night only. Sign up as a performer via the link on the Eventbrite page.

THE EDINBURGH ZINE FAIR IS GOING AHEAD AT ST MAG'S!!! As always it's the first weekend of November - 7/11/26 noon - 5.30pm / 8/11/26 noon - 4.30pm. Please make a point of coming to this last hurrah at a grass roots cultural hub that has made space for so many, including us.

Join students in support of the UCUE Strike THIS THURSDAY with a night of poetry & performances celebrating Scotland's rich culture of oral storytelling! FREE tickets and info 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/2002458923... #BookSky💙📚 #Edinburgh #UCUEStrike

Not to blow our own trumpet, but our booksellers have excellent taste (toot toot!) Check out our new staff picks display chock-full of interesting, weird, funny, uplifting, and moving literature!

DEADLINE EXTENSION - Submissions are STILL OPEN for the (slightly late, ahem) Autumn Edition of Wrong Directions! Email work of no more than 300 words to print@typewronger.com - no love poems - check the Wrong Directions page on our website for full submission details - NEW DEADLINE MIDNING 8/10/26!

We are excited to welcome @bridgetoofarband back to Typewronger this Wednesday. Jordan Goodwin and Sarah Conniff will be playing folk covers and original songs for you to enjoy as you read and browse. This is not a formal concert, so feel free to come for part of or all of this free event!

Join us for a series of readings, live music from a cello and a flute and joyful improvisations from Muted Minds! Come and celebrate the work co-created by a wonderful group of contributors and enjoy some complimentary drinks and refreshments along the way.

Next month's No Homework Book Club tickets are out! 🎟️ This month, come celebrate the most horrific month of the year by bringing your favourite monster story! All monsters & genres welcome. Tickets free but limited, get yours here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/typewronge... #BookSky📚💙 #BookClub

October Zine Making Workshops are LIVE typewronger.com/product-cate... ! Suitable to all levels, you get two hours making a duochrome cut and fold zine in the Typewronger Studio! Check out our website for more info!

LIGHTS! LIGHTS! LIGHTS! They're back, now beaming out into Bruntsfield & Tollcross. May they give comfort. May you be welcomed. May Tee NEVER go up Big Ladder again! . Typewronger is a third space - we deliberately stay open late (9pm) to provide somewhere you can hang out, drink tea, and read!

Please join us for the launch of A Wee Bit Zen, Alan Spence's latest poetry collection! This delightful new collection of short-form poetry from former Edinburgh Makar Alan Spence is a descendant of his bestselling cult classic Glasgow Zen.

@edinburghcastle looms above us! The new shop is on the very picturskew Bruntsfield Place just up from Tollcross. Our bus stop is Whitehouse Loan served by the 10,11,15,16,23,36&45, more info on how to find us available on the "Contact Us" page under the "About" dropdown on typewronger.com

Sci-fi, Fantasy & Horror is growing! We posted a while ago about running out of space on these shelves, so we decided it was time to expand! Also, if you saw our stationery post and wondered what was on the other side of that shelf... now you know! #BookSky💙📚 #bookshop

Join us for an evening of poetry with Alice Keeling and Mark Howitt! Alice Keeling and Mark Howitt are breathing new life into The Ramsay Head Press, the Edinburgh publishing house founded in 1970 by Norman Wilson. This event is currently SOLD OUT!

Join Josh Holton in conversation with Rhiannon Grist in conversation for the Scottish launch of his debut novel 'Fledgling'! Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fledgling-...

On the 23th of September, we invite you to hear the story of a collaboration between artist Jules Bradbury and writer Lynn Davidson that took flight on Orkney and led to an intriguing creative journey that shaped a book cover. Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/do-you-sti...

Join us on September 17th for an evening celebrating the Scottish launch of Clara-Læïla Laudette's debut pamphlet, Appetite, with readings from Nasim Luczaj, Tom Bailey, Zainab Imran and Zain Rishi. Get tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...

OUR STATIONERY SECTION IS GROWING! It's now housed in a fancy new rolling bookcase and features a tonne of different pens, notebooks and letter writing systems - come have a wee browse! . . #typewronger #stationery #notebooks #fountainpens

On Friday, September 18th, join novelist and poet Charlie Roy for an evening of poetry and conversation celebrating her new companion pamphlets, Grit and Flesh (Red Squirrel Press). Head over to typewronger.com/events for more info and to book your free ticket! #BookSky💙📚 #Edinburgh #Poetry

On September 16th at 7pm, join host Iain Morrison for an evening with Scottish poets David Kinloch and Colin Herd. Hear them read from their latest books and talk about what queer poetics means to them today in Scotland. Info & Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-scot... #BookSky💙📚#Poetry

Next month's No Homework Book Club tickets are out! 🎟️ This month's theme is SAD BOOKS! Bring the titles that made you cry, sniffle and weep, and tell us all about them! Tickets free but limited: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/typewronge... Not your vibe? Check in next month for a new theme! #BookSky💙📚

SEPTEMBER WORKSHOPS ARE LIVE!!! We've only got a few risograph zine making workshops coming up on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings - check out the website to view times and book spaces! . . #typewronger #risoworkshop #risograph #zine #workshop

You can bring your used books to Typewronger for store credit! If you've bought a book off our shelves and it's still in good nick you can use it to get money off your purchases, and we resell them as TW 2nd Hand!

We're closing EARLY today - 7.30pm - for a private party to celebrate one of our booksellers hitting a significant milestone. We'll be back same as usual tomorrow!

WE HAVE A PROPPER SIGN! Many thanks to @journeymansigns for fitting us in yesterday evening and for painting a propper Typewrongerish sign on our facia and picking out our 22s - absolutely can't miss us now! Swipe across to see Tatch adding the drop shadow and the finished shop as of this morning!

This week Rupert Wolfe Murray (@wolfemurray.bsky.social), author of 12 Jobs in 12 Months, will be busking outside the new Bruntsfield location of Typewronger books while working on his next book, so if you see him, feel free to say hi and peek through his book as you're coming in to browse!

We have gone a bit overboard and have almost completely run of out space in Sci-fi, Fantasy & Horror! We might need to add extensions soon, there are almost no face-outs! Help us out of this dire situation - come take some of these amazing titles off our hands! (Especially Alex's...)

The cosiest event of the festival - Jordan Goodwin and Sarah Conniff play as Bridge Too Far ( @bridgetoofarband ) with guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and lots of vocal harmonies! We're going to make the shop super-comfortable and the idea is you can sit and read and enjoy the warm friendly vibes.

Bella Abraham - The Holistic Poet - is offering Intuitive Poetry on a pay-what-you-feel basis at the shop today and tomorrow (and next Thursday!) 3pm-5pm. Bella sits one-on-one with strangers and creates personalised poems inspired by what is most alive and present for the person in that moment.