Govanhill Book Festival 2025
8 & 9 August, 2025
Come along to Govanhill Book Festival and hear from writers near and far!
Launch Event – Nicola Sturgeon in Conversation
Queen’s Park Parish Church, 170 Queen’s Drive, G42 8QZ
Friday 8 August, 6 p.m.
Ahead of the official launch of her memoir ‘Frankly’, local MSP and former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon talks to Govanhill Book Festival Director Jim Monaghan about writing her first book, her love of books and her life as a politician.
Chris McQueer credit Euan Anderson
Chris McQueer in conversation with Peter Mohan (Cheers Govanhill)
On Saturday 9th August, 10.30 a.m.
Queen’s Park Parish Church, 170 Queen’s Drive, G42 8QZ
Peter Mohan, author of ‘Cheers Govanhill’, chats to Scotland’s favourite short story writer Chris McQueer about his debut novel ‘Hermit’, which explores the troubling world of incels and toxic masculinity.
Alycia Pirmohamed
Saturday 9th August 2025 at 12pm
Queen’s Park Parish Church, 170 Queen’s Drive, G42 8QZ
Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet living in Scotland. The 2020 Edwin Morgan Prize winner has published four poetry pamphlets. Her forthcoming nonfiction debut ‘A Beautiful and Vital Place’ won the Nan Shepherd Prize for nonfiction in 2023.
Shane Johnstone in conversation with Martin O’Connor
Saturday 9th August 2025 at 2:30pm
Queen’s Park Parish Church, 170 Queen’s Drive, G42 8QZ
Performer, poet and theatre maker Martin O’Connor talks to Shane Johnstone about ‘Govanhill Mythology’, his poetry collection that peers through the kaleidoscope of Govanhill, Scotland’s most diverse area, through its many years and eyes.
Welcome to the Fringe: Palestine
Saturday 9 August, 4pm
Queen’s Park Parish Church, 170 Queen’s Drive, Glasgow, G42 8QZ
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