This year, the hybrid festival will give festival goers in Stirling the full-on festival experience while allowing authors and readers who can’t be there in person the opportunity to join in the fun.
September17-19, the 2021 festival will include Kathy Reichs, Karin Slaughter, Lee Child, Linwood Barclay and Stephen King
who will be beamed into the Albert Halls via live video link up where
live interviewers will question them in front of a live and digital
audience.
Meanwhile pacing the boards in Stirling itself will be the great and the good of the Scottish crime scene and beyond: including Val McDermid, Ian Rankin, Denise Mina, Chris Brookmyre, Alan Parks, Mark Billingham, Kia Abdullah and Louise Candlish.
They'll be bringing back old favorites like Pitch Perfect and Crime in the Spotlight, a performance by the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers, and a cabaret twist on the normal Quiz
which will see each quizzer (Val McDermid, Chris Brookmyre, Doug
Johnston, Mark Billingham, Luca Veste and Stuart Neville) performing a
musical number.
Up the road at The Golden Lion, panels will be recorded in front of a live audience and broadcast 24 hours later. Hosts of The Red Hot Chilli Writers,
Vaseem Khan and Abir Mukherjee will be on stage with a live version of
their popular crime podcast.
Following last year’s digital first with
The Never-Ending panel featuring 27 Scottish writers from home and
abroad, this year’s marathon digital only event will be an A-Z of Crime starting with Megan Abbott and concluding with Anne Zouroudi. The global element continues with Around the World in 80 Deaths featuring authors from Argentina, the Sicangu Lakota Nation, Russia and Nigeria chaired by Craig Sisterson.
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