Renita Boyle

Wigtown Festival Company is welcoming the return of Isla Rosser-Owen as its new CEO – overseeing its much-loved annual book festival and the rest of its year-round programme. Read the full press release via the link below 👇 wigtownbookfestival.com/.../return-isla...

Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in July 2025. Best of luck & pls share! thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog/w…

@JulieMcNeill1 Look forward to making you welcome in Wigtown!

Coming soon @LuathPress poetry of love, travel, loss and discovery Launching in Glasgow, Edinburgh and @WigtownBookFest details coming soon

@jabberworks Vern!

Vern the sheep, getting on his beatification ✍️

@mossmontmomery Congrats Ross. I recently witnessed a young friend in Wigtown curled up in the corner of his parent’s market stall on a sunny day engrossed in I Am rebel!

Woohoo!! thebookseller.com/news/ross-mont…

@jabberworks @Glasgow_Subway Yup. Modernised. Enjoy Glasgow and your folks! Waves from Wigtown x

My parents on the Clockwork Orange 🧡 (which looks far more modern and less clockwork than I remember it) @Glasgow_Subway

@jabberworks I so enjoy your posts! Love witnessing you live your best life!

Dartmouth Castle does not suffer from a shortage of windows 👍

@littledoorbooks Max! I love Max!

Fantastic. Max looks fab, happy to be a Blockbuster Dog 🐕 @AlanDapre #alexayliffe

@ljlittleson MAX! I love Max! Awwww @AlanDapre

Look at these gorgeous new children’s books, written by my lovely friends! My Dog Max by Alan Dapre and I Don’t Do Mountains by Barbara Henderson are both out now. #kidlitscotland

@jabberworks Me too. Big hugs.

Missing my family quite a lot during the holidays, I wish I could teleport and meet them for dinner or a walk or something. The down side to emigration.

@JulieMcNeill1 Merry Christmas Julie.

Merry Christmas 🎄

@jabberworks A very blessed Christmas to you and yours!

Ringing carols on handbells at our local family service from 3:30 today if anyone wants to come along 🙂

1700 pupils in 38 schools across #dumfriesandgalloway Last week @chaestrathie @RossAuthor @TaleTwisters and @alastair_ch joined us for the Big DoG Schools Tour to share their love of stories with children across our region.

@alastair_ch @WigtownBookFest @chaestrathie @RossAuthor . . . And the -pumpkin pie! ;)

It was fab being part of the @WigtownBookFest #BigDoG tour last week with @chaestrathie, @RossAuthor and @TaleTwisters. Here we are mid-tour, before the drugs and alcohol kicked in… dgwgo.com/featured-autho…

@jabberworks And to you dear Sarah

Happy Thanksgiving, fellow Americans out there xx 🦃🍁

@joanhaigbooks #HappyThanksGiving2024 to you too!

Utterly enchanting evening @bentpathlibrary #sisfstoryripple24 @WigtownBookFest Bear Tales and Tunes, teddies, hot chocolate, snuggle blankets, giftwrapped books and hugs

47% of surveys are spurious but we’ll take the win for Wigtown: Two Scottish towns revealed as best destinations for a writers' retreat - The Scotsman apple.news/ArLvyJtMKQOeks…

@DarrellWakelam Thank you!

It looks like a great weekend for staying in! 😄 So, if you need some ideas to keep the kids busy, there's loads on my website (FREE) and on my YouTube channel (darrellwakelam). If you scroll back you'll find some Christmas ideas too. 🎄

@StJamesPSR @BookWeekScot @AttainRen I have so many fond memories of launching your library, training young storytellers and all the reading, storytelling, writing events we all enjoyed there during my time as your Patron of Reading.