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Welcome Return of Isla Rosser-Owen, New CEO

‘Offbeat brilliance’ attracts Isla back to Wigtown Book Festival

16 Jul 2025
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Pre-orders open for 2025 Wigtown Book Festival Programme

7 Jul 2025
Pre-order the 2025 Wigtown Book Festival Programme online and receive a paper version through your door in mid-August.
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Wigtown Book Festival Director, Adrian Turpin, to Step Down After 20 Years

7 Apr 2025
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2025 Wigtown Poetry Prizes Judges

20 years of Wigtown Poetry Prize

12 Feb 2025
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Creative Scotland Funding Announcement

30 Jan 2025
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January Reading List

Rekindle a love of reading in 2025

21 Jan 2025
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Opportunities for Writers

Wigtown Poetry Prizes

20 years of Scotland's International Poetry Competition
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The Anne Brown Essay Prize

£1500 for the best literary essay by a writer in or from Scotland
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A row of vintage books on a bookshelf in one of Wigtown's second hand bookshops. Most are green and white, a range of penguin and pelican paperbacks.

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Interior of The Bookshop, Wigtown. Armchair by fireplace, bookshelves and lamp. Antiquarian and second hand books.

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- The Guardian