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Wigtown Book Festival 2025:

26 September - 5 October

Dan Richards and Elizabeth Tindal in silhouette against a sunset sky. Elizabeth is holding up binoculars.

Press Image Gallery

Big Dog Children's Book Festival 2024

Philip Reeve and Sarah MacIntyre at the Big DoG Schools Gala Day. They are both standing in front of the audience of children with their arms raised up. Sarah is wearing a bright orange flower hat and flowery dress.

Big DoG Round-up

Big DoG and the Moat Brae Storyweavers, dressed as pirate, are stood in front of a book case, holding Big DoG festival titles.

Meet Big DoG

The Refs, two children's street entertainers, are stood in a city square in front of a bus. They are wearing black-and-white-striped referee t-shirts and black curly wigs with striped headbands. One is holding an orange cone towards the camera, the other is holding an orange and yellow flag and blowing a red whistle.

What's On at Big DoG

Two children stand talking outside Big DoG HQ in front of a large window decoupage featuring the character Big DoG, an orange dog, with the caption 'Where everybody has a tale' above.

Big DoG Programme Launch

Wigtown Book Festival 2023

Beano Kids with Big Wig MED RES 10

Wigtown Becomes Beano Town

The Anne Brown Prize Winner Rodge Glass stands holding his prize between Adrian Turpin and Gavin Esler, on stage at the Wigtown Book Festival.

Anne Brown Essay Prize Winner

Hamza Yassin seated on a wall with Wigtown Bay in the background.

The First Weekend

Left to Right: Liz Smith, Henry McLeish, Nicola Sturgeon and Brian Taylor, seated on stage at Wigtown Book Festival, around a table with flowers on. Audience blurred in foreground.

Clash of the First Ministers

Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta speaks at a lectern.

Economist Condemns Sunak at Festival

A crowd of staff and volunteers stand in front of a view over the Wigtown marshes. Each of them is holding a 2023 programme brochure.

Volunteer Army Ready for Festival

Wigtown Book Festival author Michael Morpurgo sitting at his desk.

Big Wig Children's Festival 2023

Rural location, looking through a gate into a field. Blue skies with a setting sun.

Galloway at the Heart of the Festival

Lee Randall, Guest Programmer at Wigtown Book Festival sitting on a bench in a park. In front of her spread out on a blanket are the 25 year anniversary titles for the book festival. A man and a woman sit either side of her holding up books to obscure their faces.

Programme Launch 2023

Author jo Caulfield stands smiling wearing a black jacket and blue and white striped t-shirt.

Programme Preview 2023

News

During the Wigtown Book Festival various staff members, bookshop owners and stall holders from The Kist sit and stand together in Wigtown gardens. They are holding books, pictures and bottles of alcohol.

Wigtown Book Festival Generates £50M for Region

A gathering of Wigtown Festival Company staff, trustees, volunteers and Wigtown booksellers standing in front of the Mercat Cross in Wigtown, holding books and silver balloons to celebrate twenty five years as Scotland's National Book Town.

Wigtown Book Town is 25

Lee Randall stands in a bookshop smiling and holding open a book. The bookshelves behind her are full of books.

Wigtown Welcomes Lee Randall as Guest Programmer for 25^th Festival

Wigtown Poetry Prize 2023

Big DoG 2023

A group of children dressed up as various book characters stand waving and smiling at a Children's Book Festival event. Green railings are behind them.

Stock Images

Authors, Book Jackets and Events

Wigtown Book Festival 2022

Dan Richards and Elizabeth Tindal in silhouette against a sunset sky. Elizabeth is holding up binoculars.

Events and Guests

Bigwig, the Children's Book Festival mascot stands in the Wigtown Gardens holding an open book. Arms holding books are surrounding Bigwig.

Children's Programme