Wigtown Book Festival

Mermaid Indoors

Basil du Toit

The winning poem of last year's Wigtown Poetry Prize to celebrate the launch of this year's competition.

Are you sitting comfortably – let StAnza 2022 begin!

As we approach this year's StAnza festival, Lucy Burnett, the new festival director, shares some of her thoughts on the the upcoming programme, what makes StAnza so special and more.

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Solway

Alan McClure

The eleventh, and final, in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

eleven poets for wigtown

Solway Shore

Annie McCrae

The tenth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

eleven poets for wigtown

Gear Shift

Gill Butler-Orli

The ninth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

eleven poets for wigtown

Me and Katie Morrison, The Watergaw

Josie Neill

The eighth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway and a special exclusive for National Poetry Day.

eleven poets for wigtown

The Sadness of Second Hand Books

Anndra Wilson

The seventh in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

eleven poets for wigtown

Climbing Criffel

Gillian Mellor

The sixth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

eleven poets for wigtown

Vanishing Point

Martin Joseph O Neill

The fifth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

eleven poets for wigtown

The Gardener’s Diary

Jeanette Abendstern

The fourth in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

eleven poets for wigtown

Beyond Criffel

Peter Roberts

The third in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

eleven poets for wigtown

Scenes of The Solway

Celia Donovan

The second in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

eleven poets for wigtown

Water birth

Fiona Lindsay

The first in our 2020 festival series of readings by poets from Dumfries & Galloway.

Captain, My Captain

Shaun Bythell

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.

Peter Pan revisited

Stuart Kelly

As part of our series about books with Galloway connections, author Stuart Kelly revisits Peter Pan and finds a layered, complex and occasionally cruel fable about our relationship to time.

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