Oct 5, 2025
The 2025 Wigtown International Poetry Prize was last night awarded to Thai English teacher Molly Thapviwat – who travelled from her home in Bangkok to be in Scotland’s National Book Town for the ceremony. Thapviwat’s winning entry for the £1,500 prize is What We Did...
Sep 28, 2025
Wigtown Book Festival got underway with an appearance from Justin Currie, singer with the Scottish band Del Amitri, who spoke about the challenges of living with Parkinson’s disease. Currie, who was in discussion with former BBC journalist Rory Cellan-Jones, who also...
Sep 22, 2025
Visit Wigtown Book Festival and you might find yourself appearing in a new Scottish movie billed as “a love letter” to Scotland’s National Book Town. Wigtown’s biggest-ever 10-day annual festival of literature and storytelling kicks off this Friday with more than 230...
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,...
