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Wigtown Book Festival

Web: https://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/

Each autumn, the Wigtown Book Festival welcomes a whole host of visitors over the course of its 10 day book festival. Since the first Wigtown Book Festival in 1999, we have expanded to become an energetic arts organisation working through the year to deliver a programme of literature development activities in the Dumfries & Galloway region of south-west Scotland.

Where:


Wigtown, Scotland
UK

When:

    The festival takes place from
    September 26 to October 05, 2025


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