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BIG DOG

Catch Up

If you'd like to catch up on Big DoG, our children's book festival, you'll now find all of the events on our YouTube channel. 

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HOOKED

Catch Up

If you'd like to catch up on Hooked, our festival for young creatives, you'll now find all of the events on our YouTube channel. 

Catch Up
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BIG BANG WEEK

Catch Up

If you'd like to catch up on Big Bang, you'll now find all of the events on our YouTube channel. Why not visit our Library and Blog for stargazing podcasts, interviews with speakers, Star Poets, and more. Helena Cochrane's astrophotography 'Where Stars Are Born' can be found in the Exhibitions section of our website. 

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BIG BANG WEEK

Audience Survey

Feedback about your experience of this year’s Big Bang is important to help us grow and develop for the future. Please let us know what you thought of our first digital Big Bang Week by completing this online form. 

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HOW TO WATCH OUR EVENTS

Facts and FAQs

Find information here about how to watch our events and other questions.

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HOW TO DONATE

We need you

Normally, more than half our event income comes from ticket sales. Find out how you can support us this year.

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Visit our online bookshop

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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Wigtown Wednesdays

Our regular series of author talks

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#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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Featured content

Tender

Invitation to tender: website design for Story Book Dumfries

27 May 2021
Find out about our website 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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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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5 Questions

Jasmine Cooray

13 May 2021
Ahead of her Words and Wellbeing event on Saturday, Jasmine Cooray answers some of our pressing questions.
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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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Writers' Gathering D&G Online Showcase

16 Apr 2021
A chance for Writers' Gathering participants to showcase their published work at our online bookstall.
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Podcast Episode 44

Inklings with 404 Ink

8 Apr 2021
We go behind the scenes with publishers 404 Ink and their forthcoming new non-fiction series, Inklings.
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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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Sensory Stories and Rhymes

Ailie Finlay and Kate Leiper

17 Nov 2020
A series of sensory stories and rhymes developed by storyteller Ailie Finlay and illustrated by Kate Leiper. New stories and resources released monthly November-April.
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Southlight

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

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We need you

Wigtown Festival Company is commited to engaging new and existing audiences throughout the current crisis. Please consider donating to support our work

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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.

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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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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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