Sep 19, 2025
An eight-strong shortlist has been unveiled for the 2025 Anne Brown Essay Prize – which champions excellence in short non-fiction by writers from Scotland. The £1,500 prize and trophy will be awarded during a special event on Sunday 28 September at Bladnoch Distillery...
Sep 18, 2025
Can AI allow us to resurrect Charles Dickens? Wigtown Book Festival and author Philip Ardagh aim to find out with an experiment to bring back one of the greatest authors of all time. This special event will see how convincing artificial intelligence can be when asked...
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...
Aug 11, 2025
Slicker than a Western movie gunslinger – Martin Brock dazzles with world-class magic, illusions and sleight-of-hand tricks And, if you’ve ever wanted to win a fortune at poker table he will show you how. But beware, as you might end up getting run out of town...
Aug 7, 2025
Brilliant actress, phenomenal beauty, mistress of the Prince of Wales – Lillie Langtry was an international Victorian superstar celebrity. Indeed, her stardom in America began when she was spotted onstage in Edinburgh and snapped up to go to the States – and when she...
