Sep 16, 2025
Wigtown Book Festival has come full circle as its original birthplace has become its new HQ, just in time for the 2025 event. Wigtown Festival Company (WFC) has just completed a hight-speed flit from 11 North Main Street to 26 South Main Street to benefit visitors at...
Sep 9, 2025
In a tale worthy of a romantic fiction bestseller the first ever wedding has taken place at the Open Book Airbnb bookshop. Located in Wigtown, Scotland’s National Book Town and home to its world-famous annual festival, the Open Book is rented to people who adore the...
Sep 2, 2025
As humans come up with ever-more inventive ways to wipe themselves out the question may not be if the world will end but when, how and what to do when the lights finally go out? Author and adventurer Robert Twigger is convinced that people are getting too downhearted...
Aug 29, 2025
A Thai poet shortlisted for the prestigious Wigtown Poetry Prizes is appealing for funds so she can attend the awards ceremony – and provide care for her elderly parents while she’s away. Molly Thapviwat’s What We Did With The Miner’s Jacket, reflects on family memory...
Aug 19, 2025
Take That, Boyz II Men, Backstreet Boys, Westlife, New Kids on the Block and most fabulous of all 4MATT – the very best of the of the 90s boy bands. Who could forget 4MATT’s mesmerising single Hypnotised hailed by critics as “three and a half minutes of pure,...
Aug 19, 2025
It’s not just the violence – it’s how our systems erase women with PTSD from the narrative. Gwen Coburn’s Edinburgh Fringe debut Sad Girl Songs, running until 23 August, is a drama set within the framework of a musical comedy show – a...
