Wigtown Book Festival
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The Wigtown Book Festival is a ten-day literary festival held each autumn in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. The festival was first held in 1999[1][2] and has grown to be the second biggest book festival in Scotland.[3]
In 2007 the Wigtown Festival Company became a registered charity.[4]
In 2013, there were 7500 visitors to the festival, more than half of which were from outside Dumfries and Galloway.[5] A report commissioned by the Wigtown Festival Company in 2013 estimated that the festival contributed £2 million to the regional economy each year. This was three times higher than that estimated by a similar study in 2008.[1]