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Find out what's in store for Scotland's Year of Stories.

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Blast off with the Big Bang science festival in 2022.

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Big DoG is back for another fun-filled programme in 2022.

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Wigtown Wednesdays

Our regular series of author talks

#WigtownWednesday || Adrián Maldonado ~ 2 Feb 2022

17 Jan 2022
Adrián Maldonado takes an intimate journey through the collections of the National Museum of Scotland to reveal a story less told.
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Illustrator-in-residence commission

18 Jan 2022
Wigtown Festival Company is seeking to appoint an illustrator-in-residence for the Story Book Dumfries project.
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Through the Lens with Colin Tennant

12 Jan 2022
An intensive five day video editing course led by industry pro and festival photographer Colin Tennant.
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The Bequest

Dani Garavelli

27 Sep 2021
In 2021, we launched the Anne Brown Essay Prize for Scotland. Dani Garavelli's beautiful reflection on her Italian-Scottish childhood was a worthy winner.
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Galloway Tales: Fairies and plagues

Hugh McMillan

21 Apr 2020
Writer and historian Hugh McMillan views south-west Scotland through the eyes of an unreliable local. First up: the truth about fairy folk and plagues.
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Big Bang: 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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Episode 18: Reading dangerously

10 Sep 2020
Peggy Hughes sits down with Andy Miller, one of the hosts of Backlisted podcast and author of 'The Year of Reading Dangerously'.
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Captain, My Captain

Shaun Bythell

10 Jul 2020
Captain the bookshop cat has become one of the unexpected stars of Shaun Bythell's Diary of a Bookseller. Here the Wigtown-based author describes his love-hate relationship with his feline companion.
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The Ghosts of Wigtown

Karen Campbell

11 May 2020
Commissioned by the festival, author Karen Campbell has written a tale of the supernatural which takes inspiration from Wigtown's women's history.
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Welcome to Scotland's Year of Stories 2022

14 Dec 2021
Wigtown Book Festival will play a key role in the national theme year with two new commissions and an enhanced year-round programme.
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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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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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