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CHILDRENS STORYBOOK FAVOURITES IN A ‘BIG LIT’ FESTIVAL LITERARY QUEST

  Peter Pan, Harry Potter, the Hungry Caterpillar and an Alice with Attitude all make appearances in the Stewartry’s own book festival Children, and the young...

FROM POETIC CABARET TO KICANNIBAL RATS – GATEHOUSE IS SET FOR THE BIG LIT

  Rally and Broad cabaret to round off four days of literature, music, song and performance at the Stewartry’s own book festival Poetry, performance and songs...

THREAVE CASTLE / THE DGWGO S.R.CROCKETT MONTHLY/APRIL 2015

What’s going On Dumfries and Galloway - S.R.Crockett slot April 2015. A year ago this month the 100th anniversary of Crockett’s death was marked by...

BIG LIT WELCOMES KAREN CAMPBELL – STEWARTRY LITERARY STAR ON THE RISE

    Stewartry author Karen Campbell will be speaking on home ground for the first time about her new novel Rise at this month’s Big Lit...

SCOTTISH AUTHOR WHO IS ONE OF THE BARDS LAST DESCENDANTS VOWS TO NEVER RELEASE...

CAN'T STANZA PRESSURE   A prolific Scottish author and one of the last direct descendants of Robert Burns dashed the hopes of fans yesterday by vowing...

BACK HILL O’THE BUSH / THE DGWGO S.R.CROCKETT MONTHLY/MARCH 2015

Back Hill o’ the Bush, S.R.Crockett and Bothy culture. By Cally Phillips. Are bothies a thing of the past in Galloway? They very well might be...

DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY WRITER COLLABORATES IN BOOK OF DARK TAILS

Launch of Dark Short Story Collection - Little Penny Dreadfuls – 99 Stories of 99 Words Mike Staples is a writer and musician from Dumfries...

DGWGO SR CROCKETT MONTHLY /FEBRUARY 2015

  (top picture © A.Lumsden) If it’s February it must be… Snow.By Cally Phillips I had promised to write about Bothies this month – but then the...

WHO LIVES IN A HOUSE LIKE THIS? THE DGWGO S.R. CROCKETT MONTHLY

Who lives in a house like this? Glenhead of Trool and the cultural conservation of Galloway’s rural history. by Cally Phillips I’m currently writing the first in...

A CAMERONIAN CHRISTMAS IN DUMFRIERS AND GALLOWAY

It won’t have escaped anyone’s notice that Christmas has now been and gone . It’s impossible to avoid these days (believe me, I try)....