Sep 30, 2026
The biggest ever Upland made weekend will offer the chance to buy beautiful hand-made art and craft as gifts, or to treat yourself. A total of 44 artists and makers, from across Dumfries and Galloway, will be showing everything from jewellery, woodwork, ceramics and...
Sep 29, 2026
Climate change is getting worse, but advances in technology and AI can offer a brighter cleaner future, if we act decisively and fast – according to world-leading economist Nicholas Stern. Delivering the fifth annual James Mirrlees Lecture at Wigtown Book Festival,...
Sep 28, 2026
From a knitted piano to the Wigtown Wiggle – new trails have been unveiled to celebrate Scottish writer and poet Alastair Reid’s joyous sense of silliness. The initiatives are part of Wigtown Book Festival’s commemorations for the centenary of a Galloway man who was...
Sep 27, 2026
Dogs, boats and Agri-Noir – this weekend saw a colourful, quirky and waggy start to the annual Wigtown Book Festival. Bookseller and artist Julie Houston, who owns The Book End Studio, welcomed the amazing Maclean brothers (who rowed the Atlantic and Pacific, raising...
Sep 24, 2026
This weekend, as the full moon rises over Wigtown, folk from across Scotland will gather in Scotland’s National Book Town to hear about witches, elves, faeries and vampires. It turns out that while witches have been merrily riding on broomsticks, and other...
