Blog: young-people

Judges' Comments

Wigtown Poetry Prize 2023

Wigtown Poetry Prize 2023 Winners

On Judging the Wigtown Gaelic Poetry Prize

Rody Gorman explains his process

Winning the Anne Brown Essay Prize

Rodge Glass

BBC Radio Scotland Broadcasting Live From The Wigtown Book Festival

Poetry in Motion

The pain and the pleasure of judging poetry

Angling For Change

Fishy tales from a Galloway guest house

Who really was James VI and I?

Steven Verrapen examines this complex, idealistic and misunderstood monarch

The Sinking of the Princess Victoria

The UK’s biggest peacetime maritime disaster

Anne Brown Essay Prize Shortlist

Time, Water and Planetary Paradigm Shifts

Andri Snaer Magnason on myth, memoir and climate change action

A Killing in Kirkcudbright

Sayers, sleuths and six suspects

Do you have photo memories of Wigtown Book Festivals past?

Festival 25 Exhibition

Steeple to Steeple

Award-winning author Peter Ross chats about his journey discovering the fascinating stories from Britain's Christian churches.

Beano's star mischief-maker chats about Wigtown, wigs and zombies