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Hi @NicolaSturgeon . In these gloomy times, any chance of a shout out for the supremely socially distanced and resilient @wigtownbookfestival online?

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No-one is ever going to be as critical as you think they are going to be. ~ @savannxhb on sharing your work in public

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We're thrilled to announce that @randallwrites , writer, journalist and staunch #wigtownbookfest supporter will be joining the team as this year's festival programmer 🥳🥂👏👏👏

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'The Bequest' by @DaniGaravelli1 is the winner of the Anne Brown Essay Prize 2021. Read the full piece here: 👇 #Wigtown

Wigtown Book Festival | The Bequest

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The winner of the inaugural Anne Brown Essay Prize 2021, @DaniGaravelli1 , shows off the trophy by @AstridJaekel . She also receives a £1,500 cheque. #Wigtown

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Extra event: We are delighted to announce that Scotland's First Minister, @NicolaSturgeon , will be joining us on Friday 21 September to celebrate our 20th year, in conversation with @Damian_Barr . Details and tickets here:

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3 years

Hello, stranger. Welcome back. The @WigtownBookFest 2021 programme is live.

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Good morning from Scotland's National Book Town.

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Good morning #Wigtown

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3 years

A towering figure in Scottish books. @valmcdermid

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@WigtownBookFest

6 years

We’re delighted to announce we have been awarded 3-year Regular Funding from @CreativeScots , which will offer the stability needed to deliver both WBF and our year-round, region-wide programmes until 2021. Congratulations, too, to D&G’s @TheStovies , who also maintain RFO status.

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Somebody just came on our website and donated £2. We love that. If everyone on our mailing list did that tonight, we'd have £12,000 - enough to support 40 events - and pay 40 authors and chairs in the coming year. Small is beautiful.

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The winner of the inaugural Anne Brown Essay Prize is ⁦ @DaniGaravelli1 ⁩. ⁦ @jemma_tweets ⁩ receives a commendation. Congratulations to them both and to all the other writers on a consistently excellent shortlist. #Wigtown

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Our festival programme will be launched on 2 September. We’re online this year and events will be free (for you, not for us!😳). We plan to give you the full Wigtown experience as much as possible - the sights, sounds and atmosphere of Scotland’s national book town. #WBF20

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2 years

Thank you to everyone who came along and took the time to enjoy our beautiful town. We hope our speakers inspired and challenged you, and that you've all left with with a sizeable load of books to get you through the winter. #WBF #wigtown #amreading

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5 years

A hearty thank you to everyone who came to @WigtownBookFest 2019 - audience members, volunteers and speakers/performers - and to all our sponsors, supporters and funders. Together you helped make it the most successful and best attended festival yet. We hope to see you in 2020.

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@WigtownBookFest

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@TriciaLockwood This bit of equine art has pride of place in a local pub. We call it Sexy Horse.

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@WigtownBookFest

6 years

If I could make one thing compulsory for politicians around the world it would be to read, and to read fiction. It broadens and changes your perspective. That is invaluable to anyone who is in a position of leadership. ~ @NicolaSturgeon #Wigtown20

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3 years

We are heartbroken at the death of our trustee and former chair Anne Brown. Anne was the definition of selfless. Present at the first festival, she rolled up her sleeves and worked tirelessly to support the staff...

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4 years

That was the final event of a unique @WigtownBookFest . Thank you to everyone who has attended and to all our supporters, large and small, who gave enabled us to run the festival this year. We raise a glass you all. #WBF20 . #Wigtown .

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@WigtownBookFest

4 years

Here's an idea. If we did a celebratory Wicker Man event with @RevRichardColes and @robinince on Midsummer's night (Weds 24 June) with a tweet-along film screening afterwards would anyone be interested? Just asking.

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3 years

Now Wigtown Book Festival 2020 is over, our next project is setting up a new network of Scottish Book Festivals. And what a rich collection they are, from all over the nation. If you’d like to be involved or kept informed as the network comes together, then do let us know.

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Thanks to everyone who helped make this year's 20th-anniversary @WigtownBookFest the best attended and most successful yet - not least the extraordinary artist @AstridJaekel . See you all next year, we hope!

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@WigtownBookFest

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And the winner is... @WigtownBookFest for the #ThistleAwards West of Scotland Innovation in Tourism Award. 🏆🎉

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@WigtownBookFest

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I try to read every night before I go to sleep, even if it’s only ten, fifteen, twenty minutes... I don’t get a lot of time to read but I try to make the most of the time I do get. If you don’t have a lot of time you tend to be more careful with the time you have. ~Sturgeon

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It’s our 20th anniversary this year. And we’re well into planning a very special festival. Save the dates: 21-30 September 2018. #wigtown20 .

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@WigtownBookFest

5 years

And the winner is.... us!

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@WigtownBookFest

7 months

We’re out walking with Strictly Winner and birder ⁦ @HamzaYassin3 ⁩. #Wigtown

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@WigtownBookFest

5 years

Good to start or 21st festival with a bang. Thank you to Mark Mckie for thiss wonderful photograph.

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@WigtownBookFest

2 years

For #InternationalWomensDay and as part of Scotland’s Year of Stories, author @sarasheridan has created a fascinating map of the nation’s lost, neglected and forgotten women writers. Read it this Sunday in the pages of our media partner @scotonsunday . #YS2022 #TalesOfScotland

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7 years

A big thank you to everyone who came to WBF2017. Hope to see you next year.

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5 years

Huge congratulations to our operations director Anne Barclay who becomes an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to charity and the arts.

Region recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours List | ITV News

Community figures from the region are among those being recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours list. | ITV News Border

www.itv.com

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7 years

It's our 20th anniversary next year. Heads up - we may be having a bit more of a party even than usual. #wigtown .

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3 years

Sunshine in Wigtown. Repeat. Sunshine in Wigtown.

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5 years

@Joannechocolat I'm a festival director, you may recognise me from my greatest hit "Please don't ask me what I do for the rest of the year."

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4 years

The “Ghost Marquee” marks the spot where our main tent usually sits - and where we hope it will return next year. #WFC20 . #Wigtown .

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@WigtownBookFest

6 years

20 years ago today: towns people gather to hear Wigtown proclaimed Scotland’s Book Town. (But it looks more like 1978 than 1998, no?)

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@WigtownBookFest

2 years

Wigtown Book Festival is back - 23 Sept to 2 Oct. Here’s a little teaser of this year’s design while the programme is finalised.

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@WigtownBookFest

7 years

Not too much longer to wait for the programme. In the meantime, here's a sneak peak at this year's brochure cover...

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@WigtownBookFest

3 years

Shelf life — my dream weekend running a bookshop | Financial Times

Shelf life — my dream weekend running a bookshop

Book Towns are thriving around the world but Wigtown in Scotland goes one better, giving visitors the keys to their own shop

www.ft.com

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@WigtownBookFest

5 years

It's just a week to go until Wigtown Book Festival and the tents are going up! #wigbookfest

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Amazing what you can find in Edinburgh charity shops...

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@WigtownBookFest

5 years

And here is @filmfoxwrite with the trophy at Scotland's national tourism awards, the #thistleawards . Our second overall Thistle Award in the history of @WigtownBookFest .

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@WigtownBookFest

3 years

That's all folks. Thank you to everyone - audiences, writers volunteers, sponsors, funders, friends and supporters - who made Wigtown Book Festival happen this you. Together we got the show back on the road. Now onwards and upwards!

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@WigtownBookFest

8 months

Forecast says it'll be a rainy day, but the weather improves as we get ever closer to kicking things off on Friday 22nd! The excitement in town is palpable. We look forward to greeting all our authors, chairpeople, and visitors! Book lovers of the world, prepare to assemble.

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8 years

This is a lovely idea from the Book Palace in Canterbury. Blind date with books. Only the plots are written on the brown paper.

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@WigtownBookFest

4 years

Desperately sad to hear about the cancellation of @edbookfest . Awful for @nickbarleyedin and his team and everyone who cares about books in Scotland. But they will be back stronger than ever. Sending our love.

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@WigtownBookFest

4 years

The cat's out of the bag. Our 2020 digital programme is now live at . See you from 24 Sept to 4 Oct.

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@WigtownBookFest

2 years

The Wigtown Book Festival 2022 programme is now LIVE! See you in September.

What's On

tickets.wigtownbookfestival.com

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@WigtownBookFest

4 years

As we can't run physical events at the moment, our income is precarious. One easy way you can help us - and find your next best read - is to shop in our pop-up online bookshop. We hope to get a full range of titles up later in the summer.

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@WigtownBookFest

3 years

A chance to read this heartrending essay by ⁦ @jemma_tweets ⁩, which was highly commended by the judges of the Anne Brown Prize 2021. 👇👏

Wigtown Book Festival | Away with the birds

www.wigtownbookfestival.com

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@WigtownBookFest

4 years

If you are buying books while hunkering down, please consider buying them from the many wonderful independent booksellers in Scotland's National Book Town. We'll be profiling them individually over the next few days. But you can get a preview here 👇

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@WigtownBookFest

6 years

Did you know we now run a bookshop, which sells only new books? It’s the first of its kind in Scotland’s Book Town. And every purchase helps support Wigtown Book Festival and our year-round programmes.

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@WigtownBookFest

4 years

Good morning. Wigtown calling.

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@WigtownBookFest

4 years

This is what we're up to next Wednesday (24 June, 7pm) when @RevRichardColes and @robinince take on that great Galloway film The Wicker Man. Join us! A warm welcome awaits all.

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@WigtownBookFest

7 months

Welcome to the 25th Wigtown Book Festival! 📚🎉

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@WigtownBookFest

3 years

Programme update! We hope you're as excited as we are for the launch of the 2021 Wigtown Book Festival programme. All being well, we're expecting the launch to take place later on this evening, so check back then for more info.

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@WigtownBookFest

4 years

We won an award...

Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway

@thirdsectordg

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And the final category in the DG Leader Rural Awards is the Legacy Award. The winner is @WigtownBookFest .

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Did you know that @WigtownBookFest has more than 100 volunteers (the town's population is under 1,000)? Tonight we celebrate their contribution over 20 years, at a civic reception in Wigtown co-hosted by @dgcouncil . Without them there would be no festival. @CreativeScots 🎉🙏

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@WigtownBookFest

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Wigtown Book Town is 25 today 🎉🙌 Wigtown rapidly filled with bookshops; dedicated booksellers taking the risk alongside the community to revive Wigtown through books. Learn about Wigtown's bookshops at

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@WigtownBookFest

4 years

The start of Wigtown Book Festival is less than 24 hours away. Have you booked your tickets?

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@WigtownBookFest

2 years

Exciting news that Scotland's National Book Town in Wigtown is about to get yet another bookshop. Best of luck on the start of a New Chapter.

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7 years

The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell review – service with a scowl | Books | The Guardian

The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell review – service with a scowl

The owner of Scotland’s largest secondhand bookshop has an entertainingly low opinion of customers

www.theguardian.com

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@WigtownBookFest

2 years

Sun is popping out and we’re ready to go for the first full day of @WigtownBookFest 2022. . #Wigtown

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@WigtownBookFest

7 months

As those who live here can tell you - there's something magical about Wigtown. It's been a pleasure to let a whole new crowd of visitors and authors in on the secret. To everyone who came, we can't thank you enough. Bring on the next twenty five years!

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4 years

We've launched our 2020 festival programme. This year's event is online and free. Instead of selling tickets, we're running a fundraiser to support our activities. Find out more at .

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4 years

Not just any cows.

James Rebanks

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I don’t know if cows will help but worth a try...

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The @edbookfest may sadly be coming to an end, but at least there's something to look forward to this autumn. Not only but also @BloodyScotland .

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@WigtownBookFest

7 years

Proud to be launching this homegrown gem on Friday. @WigtownBookShop @ProfileBooks @DGWGO @agentjenny @swfreepress @DandGLife @booksaremybag

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@WigtownBookFest

5 years

The 21st Wigtown Book Festival is written on the very landscape.

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5 years

Good morning from #Wigtown

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1 year

Word gets round. @BBCNews @randallwrites

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5 years

Less than two weeks to go to the start of @WigtownBookFest . Have you got your tickets yet? .

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@WigtownBookFest

2 years

Is there an app for removing people’s Wordle scores from your timeline?

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5 years

A snowy wave from the Book Town...

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@WigtownBookFest

7 years

19 years ago today Wigtown became Scotland's book town - and it's still going from strength to strength.

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4 years

14 days to go. This year we're online and free. Have you booked your tickets yet?

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@WigtownBookFest

7 months

Full house for @HamzaYassin3 , pipers piping, fireworks and poetry to bring the house down from @shugmcmillan . Perfect start to our 25th festival. #Wigtown

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@WigtownBookFest

6 years

Terrifying quizmaster Stuart Kelly promised he would walk barefoot down the streets of Wigtown if someone could come up with an alternative answer to his question. They did. And he walked the walk of shame.

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@WigtownBookFest

6 years

This may be the most charming use of twitter ever.

Shirley Hughes

@ShirleyHughes_

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Almost 2 years ago Shirley decided to have a go on twitter with this account. Her following has grown through word of mouth & generous sharing & retweeting to over 10,000 followers. She reads all of the comments & replies, and to start the week here’s a special note from Shirley.

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5 years

Heads up. We're just about to wave goodbye as it goes to the printers. WBF19 heading your way very soon.

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@WigtownBookFest

2 years

The Wigtown Book Festival 2022 programme is imminent…

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@WigtownBookFest

7 months

“You’re not allowed any questions!”: the brilliant Helen Rebanks ( @theshepherdswi1 ) puts @herdyshepherd1 in his place in a packed event @WigtownBookFest #Wigtown

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@WigtownBookFest

3 years

And the Outstanding Tourism Business Award at tonight’s Dumfries & Galloway Business Awards goes to...

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@WigtownBookFest

3 years

Thank you everyone - authors, audiences, volunteers - who has helped make it such a memorable first weekend. We literally waited a million minutes for this. It may not be like any other year. But it certainly feels like the @WigtownBookFest we know and love.

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@WigtownBookFest

5 years

It's here. @WigtownBookFest starts TODAY. In fact in just under 10 and a half hours. Gulp.

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5 years

Scotland's National Centre for Children's Literature and Storytelling is open for business @PPMBT in Dumfries. Joanna Lumley does the honours alongside Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop and Dame Barbara Kelly.

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@WigtownBookFest

3 years

Sixteen-year-old astrophotographer Helena Cochrane has grown up in Wigtown and developed her interest in #astronomy at Wigtown Book Festival and Big Bang. This is the first exhibition of her awe-inspiring images.

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@WigtownBookFest

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“If you’re being timed for your toilet breaks, you’re probably not middle class” ~ Orwell Prize-winner @lokiscottishrap is talking class with @TeddyJamieson . #Wigtown

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@WigtownBookFest

5 years

All set and ready to go for tonight's Edinburgh fundraiser. A little bit of Galloway in the capital.

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@WigtownBookFest

7 years

Here's @DouglasKMurray with James Cusick at #Wigtown

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5 years

So, guess this is really going to happen. Roll on Friday for the start of @WigtownBookFest .

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@WigtownBookFest

2 years

Our 2022 programme is live online. Thanks to everyone who has supported and helped us get to this point this year, friends, sponsors and funders. We’re particularly delighted to be part of Year of Stories 2022. A short 🧵 on how it works this year.

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@WigtownBookFest

6 years

Here’s First Minister @NicolaSturgeon with @Damian_Barr at #Wigtown20

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@WigtownBookFest

4 years

This is calming. @frenchbloke ’s audio portrait of Scotland’s National Book Town allows you to experience the sounds of daily life in Wigtown wherever you are.

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On 16th May 1998, Wigtown became Scotland's National Book Town. After a period of deterioration, Wigtown's residents bid to regenerate their town through books. Watch the original book town bid to see how Wigtown has changed: #wigtown #booktown