Wigtown Wednesdays

Our regular series of author talks

#WigtownWednesdays

#WigtownWednesdays | Stephen Rutt ~ 30 June 2021

10 Jun 2021
With his new book, The Eternal Season, award-winning author Stephen Rutt brings us a poignant and evocative journey into the changing nature of a British summer.
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#WigtownWednesdays | Kathleen Hart ~ 2 June 2021

13 May 2021
Local author Kathleen Hart talks to us about her memoir of recovery, resilience and starting over in Wigtown, book capital of Scotland.
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#WigtownWednesdays | Cal Flyn ~ 19 May 2021

29 Apr 2021
Author and journalist Cal Flyn talks to us about her latest book, Islands of Abandonment, a non-fiction book about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places, and what happens when nature is allowed to reclaim its place.
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Our online bookshop stocks all the titles from our current and recent online programmes, bestsellers and new publications.  You'll also find our exclusive Book Bond range along with Vintage Bookshop Air from Scotland's National Book Town and the chance to 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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No 11 Main Street, the Wigtown Festival Bookshop

Featured content

Wigtown Festival Company seeks new Trustees

16 Jul 2021
We are looking to recruit new trustees to join our Board. In addition to our signature Book Festival, WFC also provides year-round activities including writer development, a science festival, and programmes for children and young people.
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Anne Brown Essay Prize

13 Jul 2021
Wigtown Book Festival announced today the launch of a new national essay prize for Scotland in association with the BBC. The £1,500 Anne Brown Essay Prize will be awarded for the best literary essay, published or unpublished, by a writer in or from Scotland.
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Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils

1 Jul 2021
Wigtown Festival Company is delighted to be working with Cheltenham Festivals in delivering the Festivals’ network of teacher book groups in Dumfries & Galloway.
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Tender

Invitation to tender: visual arts commission for Story Book Dumfries

25 Jun 2021
Find out about our visual arts commission for Story Book Dumfries, an exciting new initiative that aims to establish Dumfries as Scotland’s home of children’s stories.
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Writer Development

Jan Carson and I: the unforgettable mentoring experience

24 Jun 2021
Having Jan to lead me through the writing process, to see my stories from different angles and to feel my characters as themselves rather than a writer-creator myself, I feel like I drew a lucky straw.
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Writers' Gathering

5 Questions

E.S. Thomson

15 May 2021
Before she leads the Poison Pen Workshop as part of this year's Writers' Gathering, E.S. Thomson answers some of our questions.
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Writers' Gathering

Industry 101

Q&A with Viccy Adams

14 May 2021
Viccy Adams, Literature Officer with Creative Scotland, gives us a peek behind the scenes of the organisation.
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Writers' Gathering

Writing Forgotten Women by Saeida Rouass

29 Apr 2021
Ahead of her participation in this year's Writers' Gathering D&G, Saeida Rouass gives us an insight into her own writing and the fascinating tale of the 'Moorish Jack the Ripper'.
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Audio | Big Bang Stargazing: Orion and the Seven Sisters

Elizabeth Tindal

6 Mar 2021
In the last of her stargazing podcasts, Biosphere Dark Sky Ranger Elizabeth Tindal talks to us more about Orion and the story of the Seven Sisters.
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Southlight Magazine 2020 - cover image. 1970s photograph of man with horses

Southlight

The latest edition of the Dumfries & Galloway new-writing magazine

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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.

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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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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The sort of festival people become possessive about.

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