Age cited as reason for end of popular Scottish book festival
The 19th Ullapool Book Festival is to be the last, its organisers have saidThe final festival is to be held next MayPublishedA popular Scottish book festival is to be wound up next year because its organisers feel they are getting too old to run it.In a message to the event's fans, organisers said: "The reason we are finishing is simple, none of the committee will see 60 again.
The line-up for the final festival includes novelist Kirstin Innes, poet Christine De Luca and former Scottish government health secretary Jeane Freeman. Other guests will include Michael Pedersen whose book, Boy Friends, is a tribute to Frightened Rabbit singer-songwriter Scott Hutchison,The book festival used to be held at the same time as Ullapool's Loopallu music festival, which was held for the last time in 2019 after 15 years.
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