Oct 3, 2022
Upland’s visual art and craft fair is back – giving Christmas shoppers the chance to buy beautiful handmade gifts direct from 34 superb exhibitors – this time with a new name. Upland Made takes place at Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries on the weekend of 5 and 6 November....
Oct 3, 2022
The winners of Scotland’s international three-language poetry prize have been revealed at a special event at Wigtown Book Festival. Each year The Wigtown Poetry Prize attracts entries from around the world in English, Scots and Scottish Gaelic. It consists of The...
Oct 3, 2022
Talking 3D digital reconstructions of a young 14th-century woman and a cleric with a cleft palate will be unveiled as part of this year’s Wigtown Book Festival. The Whithorn Trust Event, which takes place each year in association with the festival, will bring together...
Oct 3, 2022
Meet Gavin Barwell at Wigtown Book Festival – as a former PM’s chief of staff, journalists across the country have been turning to him for insights into the current turmoil at Number 10. Serving under Theresa May he had the closest possible view of what it’s like when...
Oct 3, 2022
The 2022 Anne Brown Essay Prize for Scotland has been launched by Wigtown Book Festival – with the aim of promoting fresh, intelligent, thought-provoking writing. The competition was established last year as a tribute to the former festival trustee and BBC radio...
Oct 3, 2022
David and Wilma Finlay – whose Cream o’ Galloway ice cream is loved across the UK – yesterday launched A Dairy Story, a deeply personal memoir detailing their love, their lives and their campaign for a kinder form of dairy farming. Appearing at Wigtown Book Festival,...
Oct 3, 2022
Galloway Nobel Prize winner Sir James Mirrlees was honoured this weekend when a plaque was unveiled at his birthplace and an annual lecture series named after him was inaugurated at Wigtown Book Festival. Sir James was (1936-2018) was born at Mill Cottage Minnigaff –...
Oct 3, 2022
Wigtown Book Festival has got off to a great start with a host of compelling speakers ranging from Deacon Blue frontman Ricky Ross, TV’s Red Shepherdess Hannah Jackson and actor Gerda Stevenson to Astronomer Royal Professor Lord Martin Rees and Scotland’s National...
Oct 3, 2022
Wigtown Book Festival, a 10-day celebration of stories and literature, starts this Friday with more than 200 events for every age and interest. They include 45 pay what you can and 30 streamed events, plus many that are free. The nine young adult events are free to...
Sep 22, 2022
David and Wilma Finlay’s decades long work to make dairy farming kinder to cows and their calves took on a new urgency when Wilma was diagnosed with cancer. Together they run The Ethical Dairy at Rainton Farm in south west Scotland and make the famous Cream o’...
