StAnza: Scotland’s International Poetry Festival

Once upon a StAnza… Stories and narrative have long had an important role to play in our making sense of what it means to be human  and to live in our communities and environment, and in negotiating how this might alternatively look. This will be Scotland’s ‘Year of Stories’: our festival will interpret that in the widest sense, and not only with narrative poets and artists. In this, our 25^th year, our starting point is narrative, and the story of the 2022 festival begins right here!

StAnza happens every March in the beautiful university / seaside / historic (just don’t mention the golf) town of St Andrews. Following the success of our award-winning digital festival in 2021, future events will combine a live festival with a digital offering of livestreamed events for those who are unable to attend in person.