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The big picture: Pheasant feather art with Clare Brownlow

You don’t have to be an art lover to recognise the work of Clare Brownlow.  Since 2010 she has been making a name for herself...
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Cumnock Tryst: Music programme returns for October

Cumnock's annual music festival is set to return next month. Sir James MacMillan CBE founded The Cumnock Tryst, a four-day music festival each October, nearly...

Martin Compston’s Scottish fling up for top TV award

Martin Compston and Phil MacHugh have been shortlisted for a TV award for their BBC travel series. Scottish Fling has been nominated for 'Best Factual...
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New BBC ALBA documentary to explore the Scottish wolf

For 12,000 years wolves and humans shared Scotland’s landscape. But as hunter- gatherers became farmers, wolves became their enemy and were hunted to extinction.  Now...
FREE PICTURE:  Anne Brown Prize Winner at Wigtown Book Festival, Mon 25/09/2023: 
 Author Rodge Glass (correct, centre) has been named the winner of the 2023 Anne Brown Essay Prize for Scotland.
 The £1,500 prize, established in 2021 by the family of the late BBC Scotland journalist and Wigtown Festival Company chair Anne Brown, celebrates the best literary essay by a Scottish writer. 
 Best-known for his biography of Alasdair Gray, Glass’s essay On the Covenant explores his relationship with his Jewish family and the idea of what belonging and ties of blood mean. 
 The Essay Prize, which was this year run in association with The Herald, was awarded yesterday [Sunday, 24 September 2023] at a special event at Wigtown Book Festival.
Pictured with Rodge Glass (centre) is Adrian Turpin (left), Creative Director at Wigtown Book Festival and broadcaster and author Gavin Esler (right, chair of the judging panel).
More information in accompanying Press Release and from: Matthew Shelley, PR Consultant for Wigtown Book Festival - Matthew@ScottishfestivalsPR.org - 07786 704 299. 
 Photography for Wigtown Book Festival / Wigtown Festival Company from: Colin Hattersley Photography - www.colinhattersley.com - cphattersley@gmail.com - 07974 957 388.

Winner of the Anne Brown Essay Prize for Scotland announced

The 2023 Anne Brown Essay Prize for Scotland has been awarded to author Rodge Glass. The £1,500 prize, established in 2021 by the family of...
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Hamza Yassin, Judy Murray and Henry Dimbleby at Wigtown Book Festival

The first weekend of the 25th Wigtown Book Festival saw Scotland’s National Book Town welcome a host of celebrities and special guests. Among those taking...


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