Wigtown: Scotland's National Book Town. Road signage on a grassy verge
Wigtown Book Town

A community regenerated through books

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Bookshops

Wigtown is home to more than a dozen bookshops

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A panel event during Wigtown Book Festival
History of the Festival

We celebrated with our 20th Festival in 2018

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Visit our bookshop online

Looking for your next read? Our online bookshop stocks all the titles from our current and recent online programmes, bestsellers and new publications. We can also order any new title we don't stock to have delivered to your door within 3 working days (subject to availability). Each sale helps support the work of Wigtown Book Festival.

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Find us in Wigtown, Scotland’s National Book Town

Designated Scotland's National Book Town in 1998 - by an international panel - Wigtown is home to a community of booksellers and literary events.

More than just a festival: what we do

Since the first Wigtown Book Festival in 1999, we have expanded to become an energetic arts organisation working through the year to deliver a programme of literature development activities in the Dumfries & Galloway region of south-west Scotland.

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Every Brilliant Thing

28 Oct 2021
You’re seven years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy. You make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything worth living for.
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Gazing

Carolyn Yates

28 Oct 2021
Gazing – a play by Carolyn Yates, skilfully weaving musings, memories, poetry and provocations.
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Opportunities

Freelance opportunity: Scottish Book Festivals Network

18 Oct 2021
We're looking for someone to help shape the next phase of the Scottish Book Festivals Network and its programme of activities from November 2021 to the end of March 2022.
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The Bequest

by Dani Garavelli

27 Sep 2021
The Anne Brown Essay Prize 2021 Winner
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Wild Goose Festival 2021: The Riverrun Series

18 Oct 2021
The Stove Café is proud to present, as part of this year’s Wild Goose Festival and in partnership with Wigtown Festival Company, the RIVERRUN SERIES.
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Emma Soames

Mary Churchill's War

1 Oct 2021
Mary Churchill’s War, the newly published diaries of a truly remarkable woman, are packed with insight and anecdote. Some entries are joyful jottings about small delights, such as buying an absolute “honey of a hat at Harvey Nichols”. Others betray personal angsts about looks and style – typical teenage worries.
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Galloway landscape - dry stane wall, hills and pasture
We need you

Wigtown Festival Company is commited to engaging new and existing audiences throughout the current crisis. Please consider donating to support our work

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The sort of festival people become possessive about

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