Press Office

Welcome to Wigtown Festival Company Press Office

If you have a press inquiry of any kind, please contact Matthew Shelley at [email protected]

Beth Please and others sit playing their fiddles in Wigtown Gardens at an outdoor event during Wigtown Book Festival. Beth has a baby in a front sling. Other musicians in the background standing talking amongst themselves.

Press Releases

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Bigwig, our children's book festival mascot, stands with various children in Wigtown gardens reading a book, The children are smiling and holding books up.

Press Image Gallery

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If you have any specific requests for images, please contact [email protected]

Only our official festival photographers are permitted to take photos during events. However, a gallery of high resolution festival images will be available before our main festival and other projects.

Media Partnerships

We are always keen to expand our media partnerships. We have previously been associated with major news outlets, radio stations and convene annual partnerships with regional newspapers and magazines. To inquire about a media partnership agreement, please contact Marketing and Communications Coordinator Bee Williams at [email protected].

Author Interviews

If you would like to arrange an interview with authors, participants, key figures or staff, please send your request to PR at [email protected] or to Marketing and Communications Coordinator Bee Williams at [email protected]. We currently only offer interviews during Wigtown Book Festival and Big DoG Festival but if you are interested in interviewing participants involved in our other projects, please don't hesitate to contact us and we will do everything we can to facilitate your request.

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