2026 Event Venue Changes
Up to date information regarding 2026 festival venues
* All YA (Young Adult) events programmed in Number 12 have been relocated to 24 Lochancroft Lane. The YA events programmed in The Hub will remain in The Hub.
FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER
4.30pm Peter Irvine Crossing the Sound Now in the Nature Room, County Buildings
SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER
10am Annaliese Avery Building Worlds (YA) - Now in The Hub, County Buildings
10.30am Shaun Bythell Return of the Bookseller Diarist - Now in the Main Hall, County Buildings
10.30am Paul Burrell The Royal Insider - Now in the Festival Marquee
10.30am Jenni Fagan The Delusions - CANCELLED
10.30am Gaelic and Scots Signwriting Workshop (YA) - New event in YA Central
4.30pm Polly Pullar In the Company of Sheep - Now in the Main Hall, County Buildings
4.30pm Joshua Blackburn The Language-Lover’s Lexipedia - Now in Sacred Heart Church
7.30pm Logan Parker Salma: Songs of Strength and Survival - CANCELLED
SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER
10.30am Brian Taylor’s Sunday Papers - Now in the Festival Marquee
10.30am Emma Hepburn The Anti-Burnour Book - Now in The Merse
10.30am Jessica Fox & Dr Ed Hoffman Moon Snacks Podcast - Now in The Hut at ReadingLasses
12noon Elinor Cleghorn & Lara Feigel Hidden Histories of Motherhood - Now in the Main Hall, County Buildings
1.30pm Ross MacKay Our World: Scotland (Big Wig) - CANCELLED
1.30pm Alan Windram Robots and Oranges (Big Wig) - New event at Wigtown Primary School
MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
12noon Jessica Fox & Dr Ed Hoffman Moon Snacks Podcast - Now in The Hut at ReadingLasses
TUESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER
10.30am Graeme Cavers Archaeology in the Machars - Now in the Festival Marquee
10.30am Felicity Spector Bread and War - Now in the Main Hall, County Buildings
12noon Catherine Simpson Sandwiched: Caring Up and Caring Down - Now in The Merse
1:30pm Jessica Fox & Dr Ed Hoffman Moon Snacks Podcast - Now in The Hut at ReadingLasses
3pm Clark McGinn Burns and Black Lives - Now in the Main Hall, County Buildings
3pm Samantha Ellis Chopping Onions on My Heart - Now in The Merse
3pm Rachel Wood Annie Knows Everything - Now in the Nature Room, County Buildings
3pm Robert Twigger The Book Coach: Process - Now in The Hub, County Buildings
4.30pm Nick Baker My Life and Work - Now in the Main Hall, County Buildings
4.30pm Simon Wroe Ghost Month - Now in the Nature Room, County Buildings
6pm Verity Babbs Art History’s Funniest Bits - Now in the Main Hall, County Buildings
6pm Maia Hruska Kafkaesque - Now in the Nature Room, County Buildings
WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
12noon Chris Chibnall The Parkwood Murders - CANCELLED
1.30pm Rachel Morris The Year of the Wizard - CANCELLED
3pm Jo Marchant In Search of the Now - Now in the Main Hall, County Buildings
3pm Elizabeth McCracken The Long Game - Now in the Nature
THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER
4.30pm Matthew Sweet The Great Dictator - Now in The Merse
4.30pm Lucy Waverley Noble Beasts - Now in the Nature Room, County Buildings
FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER
10.30am Cameron Gillies Repopulating Rural Scotland - Brochure time incorrect. Event 10.30am.
10.30am Margie Mitchell The Matter of my Sister - Brochure time incorrect. Event 10.30am.
and now in Nature Room, County Buildings
10.30am Lorna Elcock The Windhover - Brochure time incorrect. Event 10.30am.
10.30am Anne-Marie Te Whiu Weaving Poetic Diamonds - Brochure time incorrect. Event 10.30am and now in The Hub, County Buildings
1.30pm Leah Hazard & Lucy Inglis The Story of Birth - Now in the Nature Room, County Buildings
3pm Ceitidh Campbell Dàn Nam Ban - Now in the Nature Room, County Buildings
6pm Mairi Kidd Newes of Witches - Now in The Merse
6pm Richard D Oram The Lordship of Galloway - Now in the Main Hall, County Buildings
7.30pm Elizabeth May & LR Lam CYMERA at Wigtown - Now in the Nature Room, County Buildings
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER
None.
SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER
10.30am Alex Howard The Ship’s Cat - Now in the Nature Room, County Buildings
12noon Jeanette R Davidson Black Lives in Scotland - Now in the Nature Room, County Buildings
1.30pm Melanie Ramshardan Bold Please Look After this Bear - Now in the Nature Room, County Buildings
1.30pm Steven Veerapen Witches - Now in the Main Hall, County Buildings