This year's Book Festival Dates :
23 Sep - 2 Oct 2022
Box Office: 01988 403 222
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This year's Book Festival Dates :
23 Sep - 2 Oct 2022
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The Return of the Brownie

25 Jan 2022
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.
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The Spring Kist

14-15 May 2022

28 Feb 2022
The Spring Kist will take place in the County Buildings, Wigtown on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 May 2022 from 10am-4pm. We look forward to welcoming customers and exhibitors, returning and new.
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Be part of Wigtown Book Festival

4 May 2022
Six temporary jobs are available with Wigtown Book Festival – offering wonderful opportunities to be part of one of Scotland’s best loved events.
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Wigtown: Scotland's National Book Town. Road signage on a grassy verge
Scotland's Book Town

A community regenerated by books

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Wigtown's bookshops

More than a dozen to explore

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A panel event during Wigtown Book Festival
History of the festival

Two decades of literary celebration

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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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