The porn row engulfing Creative Scotland has intensified after the arts body’s failure to support one of Scotland’s leading book festivals forced it to close.
The Aye Write festival in Glasgow will not go ahead this year after it was turned down for funding. The event, which has been running since 2005, regularly attracts leading authors to venues such as the Mitchell Library to discuss their work. The former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, the comedian Janey Godley and the author Ian Rankin are among those who have appeared at the festival.
Last year about 175 authors, including the crime writer Val McDermid and the poet Liz Lochhead, took part in more than 120 events across ten days. The comedian Frankie Boyle and the broadcasters Sally
