Wigtown Book Festival

17/09/2026

🎥🎞🌲🌳🌿 Some great coverage in The Herald of the art documentary Refugia; rare Celtic rainforest in Galloway. The documentary was filmed over a year and brings together the work of naturalist and writer Stephen Rutt, composer Ben Please and filmmakers Saskia Coulson and Colin Tennant.

It forms part of the Artful Migration residency programme, commissioned by Upland CIC and Moving Souls Dance and funded by Creative Scotland.

It's being premiered as part of our festival programme at Newton Stewart Cinema accompanied by a live performance of the original score.

New documentary Refugia: A Celtic Rainforest explores Galloway’s ancient Atlantic woodland.

17/09/2026

🔪🩸 Darkly comic crime and 🌳🌲🌿 Galloway's Celtic rainforest - enjoy two NEW AUTHOR INTERVIEWS on our website.

📖 RMG Parker | A Snow Storm in June, Sat 26 Sep
🎟 https://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/rmg-parker

📖 Stephen Rutt | Nature Writing on the Merse, Sat 26 Sep | The Waterlands, Sat 26 Sep | Refugia: A Celtic Rainforest (Film), 27 & 30 Sep
🎟 https://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/i-fell-in-love-with-a-fern

16/09/2026

📖💙🌟 Did you know we have lots of FREE children's festival events for all ages?

Book your FREE tickets now 👇
🎟 https://tickets.wigtownbookfestival.com/sales/categories/bigwig

16/09/2026

📖 Explore some festival locations with Bentley 🐾🐶.
Welcome to beautiful Wigtown 👋.
💙 Bentley catches up with his friend Big Wig in the gardens where the big marquee will soon stand.
He enjoys a visit to children’s bookshop, Foggie Toddle, sniffs out some wonderful stories and finds some art supplies 🎨 in Wigtown Gallery for his mum, Sarah Louise Artist.
Bentley spots festival venue, The Merse and stops by Wigtown Primary, the venue for the children’s events, including his one, before keekin’ into the County Buildings, where many festival events take place.
A little trot past the bowling green, along South Main Street past venue Sacred Heart Church and a quick pit stop on Mercat Cross, before heading over to the box office at Number Twenty-Six to buy his mum’s tickets🎟️.
Time to play with his best pal Fergus, before heading to the Southfield festival car park 🚘, which is only a very short walk back to the festival centre.
Bentley also enjoys exploring Wigtown Harbour, which is the spot for a number of the festival’s outdoor events and walks 🥾.

15/09/2026

📖📚 We are beginning to look for an experienced, senior-level Festival Programmer to curate and deliver Wigtown Book Festival 2027.

https://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/opportunities/2027-festival-programmer

15/09/2026

🪦📖 ‘If You Think I’m Forgot You’re Mistaken’ - Bre’s Tales from Beyond the Grave.

There’s no place more packed with fascinating stories than a kirkyard – a place where Caribbean pirate hunters and heroes lie silently beside murderers and rogues.

When not behind the counter at his Wigtown bookshop, New Chapter Books, Bre Martin is likely to be discovered – notebook in hand - haunting one of Galloway’s many burial grounds.

Read the full article and purchase tickets for his event on 1 October👇
https://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/bre-martin

14/09/2026

📖🙏 Thank you so much to Daisy Chain Books for having some of our festival flyers and bookmarks on their stall at this year's Stranraer Oyster Festival 🥰

Happy Sunday everyone!

Today is the last day of the annual oyster festival 🦪🎉

Come find us to secure your next read or a signed copy of Julie Lin’s cookbook SAMA SAMA!

We will be here until 4 PM or until the tent closes!!

(Bonus points if you spot Joanne in the pic 👀)

14/09/2026

🩵📖💚 Check out our Big Wig Children's literature events on the second weekend (3 and 4 Oct). Fairytales and ogres, songs, poems and crafts, dragons, dachshunds, pirates and Gaelic adventures; there are fun events for all ages and imaginations!

🎟 Tickets 👇
https://tickets.wigtownbookfestival.com/sales/categories/bigwig

12/09/2026

🌕👨🏻‍🚀🚀 What Snacks and Movies Would You Take to the Moon?

Enjoy our latest blog about the live taping of the MoonSnacks podcast at the festival 👇
https://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/moonsnacks-podcast

Dr Ed Hoffman, a former member of NASA’s top leadership team, is jetting into Wigtown Book Festival to co-host three special editions of the MoonSnacks podcast. With a worldwide following the podcast invites extraordinary leaders to pack their bags and get set for Lunar life.

Ed plus Wigtown-based best-selling author and movie-maker Jessica Fox will be interviewing three guests.

11/09/2026

We’re looking forward to welcoming Robert (aka Scotland Unplugged, aka RMG Parker!) to the festival in a couple of weeks with his debut novel, A Snowstorm in June👌😁.

You can buy tickets for his event here 👇

https://tickets.wigtownbookfestival.com/sales/events/festival-2026/rmg-parker---a-snowstorm-in-ju