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Amy H Ritchie(20) already has three published novels under her belt, and her fourth novel has just gone live on Amazon. A former pupil...

Meet Gracie! The cow whose story captured the imagination of millions...Gracie’s life follows the peaceful rhythms of the dairy farm until one day she...

The Wrecking of the Orion 170th AnniversaryFamilies boarding the paddle steamer The Orion at Liverpool in June 1850 had every reason to believe they...

BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show and Chris Evans’ 500 Words competition reveals that 'coronavirus' is the 2020 Oxford Children’s Word Of The Year.The...

Wigtown Book Festival has commissioned a new book celebrating the salt marshes that have shaped the history of Scotland’s National Book Town.The Saltmarsh Library, a work of creative nonfiction to...

The next Wigtown Book Festival will take place online, organisers announced today.Maintaining its pre-announced dates (25 Sept - 4 Oct), the 2020 festival will...

A consultation is being launched on whether a bid should be made to take the building used as the Wigtown Festival Company HQ into...

The Wigtown Book Festival has launched #WigtownWednesdays as part of a series of online initiatives to allow the public to enjoy excellent writing and meet...

Nick Barley, Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival made a staement today announcing that the 2020 event will not go ahead due to...

With weeks of lockdown stretching ahead it’s the ideal time for young people to exercise their imaginations by entering Dumfries and Galloway’s own children’s...