Wigtown Book Festival

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Hugh McMillan

Learning about the Religious Wars, Wigtown Book Festival 2022

by Hugh McMillan

On the Covenant

Rodge Glass

Stephanie Green

Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize Winner

Robin Leiper

Dumfries and Galloway Fresh Voice Award Winner

Craig Aitchison

Wigtown Scots Poetry Prize Winner

Seonaidh Charity

Wigtown Gaelic Poetry Prize Winner

John Wheway

Wigtown Poetry Prize Winner

Wigtown Poetry Poetry Prize 2023

Prize Giving Event Livestream

Iceberg A68

Julie Laing, Wigtown Poetry Prize 2022 Winner

Julie Laing discusses her winning entry 'Calving', inspired by the dissolution of an iceberg. She explores the stark visualisation of Global Heating and the deeper metaphors of fragmentation experienced during the pandemic. In post-lockdown freedom, Julie spent her winnings on a trip to Iceland to experience icebergs firsthand.

Mermaid Indoors

Basil du Toit

The winning poem of last year's Wigtown Poetry Prize to celebrate the launch of this year's competition.

Are you sitting comfortably – let StAnza 2022 begin!

As we approach this year's StAnza festival, Lucy Burnett, the new festival director, shares some of her thoughts on the the upcoming programme, what makes StAnza so special and more.

The Return of the Brownie

For Year of Stories 2022, we asked Hugh McMillan to write a sequel to William Nicholson's much-loved 'The Brownie of Blednoch'. The result is joyful but also a lament for a vanishing tongue.

Hello, Stranger Poems

The Visitor by Su Palmer-Jones

Hello, Stranger Poems

Hello Me by Sezen Taka

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