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StAnza 2027 · 12-14 March · St Andrews

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2026/27

Key funders

2026/27

Event partners

Our enormous thanks to the following organisations who are supporting our festival and other events throughout 2026/27.

  • Bad Betty Press
  • Carcanet Press
  • Fife College
  • Fife Contemporary
  • Fife Writes
  • Gaelic Books Council
  • Goethe-Institut Glasgow
  • Haus für Poesie 
  • I Am Loud Productions
  • Inklight Creative Writing Society
  • off-page vispo
  • Open Book
  • Poetry Book Society
  • Poetry London
  • Young Scot

Festival bookseller

Lighthouse Books

Our bookstall partner at the festival

Previously

Funders in 2025/26

We are grateful to the organisations who funded StAnza during 2025/26:

  • Creative Scotland
  • Hawthornden Foundation
  • The University of St Andrews
  • Old Possum's Practical Trust
  • Conundrum Charitable Trust
  • Garrick Charitable Trust
  • The Cervus Fund, administered by Foundation Scotland
  • St Andrews Settlement Trust
Partners in 2025/26

Thank you to the partners whose support enabled our festival and other events to take place throughout 2025/26:

  • Bad Betty Press
  • Fife Contemporary
  • Fife Writes
  • Glasgow Zine Library
  • Goethe Institut
  • I Am Loud Productions
  • Inklight Creative Writing Society
  • Lochgelly Centre
  • Mariscat Press
  • Moniack Mhor
  • NORLA: Norwegian Literature Abroad
  • North East Fife Community Hub
  • off-page vispo
  • OnFife
  • Open Book
  • Poetry London
  • Scottish Book Trust
  • St Mungo's Mirrorball
  • Wardlaw Museum
Funders in 2024/25

We are grateful to the organisations who funded StAnza during 2024/25:

  • Creative Scotland
  • The University of St Andrews
  • Fife Council
  • Old Possum's Practical Trust
  • The Edwin Morgan Trust
  • Dr David Summers Charitable Trust
  • Hugh Fraser Foundation
  • The Stafford Trust
  • William Syson Foundation
  • Scottish Book Trust
Partners in 2024/25

Thank you to the partners whose support enabled our festival and other events to take place throughout 2024/25:

  • And Other Stories
  • Bad Betty Press
  • Dialect Press
  • Fife Contemporary
  • Fife Writes
  • Flanders Literature
  • Francis Boutle Publishers
  • Glasgow Zine Library
  • Goethe Institut
  • Guillemot Press
  • I Am Loud Productions
  • Inklight Creative Writing Society
  • Lochgelly Centre
  • North East Fife Community Hub
  • off-page vispo
  • Open Book
  • OnFife
  • Poetry London
  • St Mungo's Mirrorball
  • The Gaelic Books Council
  • The University of St Andrews, School of English
  • Wardlaw Museum

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