The 2023 Anne Brown Essay Prize for Scotland has been awarded to author Rodge Glass. The £1,500 prize, established in 2021 by the family of the late BBC Scotland journalist and Wigtown Festival Company chair Anne Brown, celebrates the best literary essay by a Scottish...
Former First Ministers Nicola Sturgeon and Henry McLeish today clashed over Scottish devolution during a Wigtown Book Festival panel discussion. The sold-out event, which was chaired by former BBC Scotland political editor Brian Taylor and also included Conservative...
Scotland’s National Book Town, with a population of under 1,000, is mustering an army of 120 volunteers to make this year’s 25th Wigtown Book Festival the most memorable yet. The staging of the annual 10-day feast of storytelling, literature, poetry, debate, music and...
Upland’s third annual visual art and craft fair will give shoppers the chance to buy beautiful handmade gifts direct from 39 superb exhibitors. Upland made once again takes place at Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries and is on the weekend of 4 and 5 November. It’s a superb...
Wigtown Book Festival was set up to help regenerate one of rural Scotland’s most economically-challenged regions. Now, with the 25th annual event soon to start, it is providing a national showcase for the region’s writers and storytellers and does much to highlight...
The shortlist has been unveiled for the annual Wigtown Poetry Prize – with 25 entries now in the running for the five different awards. Each year Scotland’s annual award for poetry in the country’s three indigenous languages attracts entries from around the world –...
A potter in a 1950s railway carriage and a botanical painter in a flower shop – two of the delightful artists and makers welcoming in the public during this week’s Perthshire Open Studios Festival. Liz Paterson, who is based in Victoria Bloom Design Florist, Crieff,...
Some of the most celebrated contemporary children’s and young people’s storytellers will be taking part in this year’s Wigtown Book Festival. Among them are Michael Morpurgo – whose latest book will have been published just two days before – Katherine Rundell, A F...
An exhibition featuring more than 230 pieces will highlight the creativity of artists and makers from all across Perth and Kinross. The POS Festival Showcase is a chance to see examples of work by most of the 120 participants in this year’s Perthshire Open Studios...
The memory of President Lincoln is widely revered – there is even statue of him in Edinburgh – but the First Lady who supported him through the Civil War is forgotten in Scotland and reviled in America. A new play, which has its international premiere at the Fringe...
