“I’ve seen the crucial role it plays – attracting visitors, showcasing Wigtown as Scotland’s national book town and in highlighting the literature, culture and history of the region,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s so much more than just a book festival \u2013 and it’s about so much more than books.<\/p>\n
“The whole community works together to welcome visitors and to show them all that Wigtown and Galloway have to offer.”<\/p>\n
Festival programmer Lee Randall said the area was home to many superb contemporary writers of its own. <\/p>\n
“The festival programme shines a light on all this as well as the region’s wider creativity, culture and environment,” she added.<\/p>\n
“We are very much looking forward to welcoming visitors for 10 days of literature, film, music, theatre, guided walks and discovery.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I’ve seen the crucial role it plays – attracting visitors, showcasing Wigtown as Scotland’s national book town and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-782336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}