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Kirkcudbright Book Week

Kirkcudbright is “The Artists town” in the beautiful south west of Scotland, the region known as Dumfries and Galloway. Every year late February and early March the town plays host to a book week in conjunction with World Book Day. As well as many famous Artists residing in Kirkcudbright there is now a number of published writers living in and around Kirkcudbright. Book week features our local residential talent alongside some international writers who come to talk about their work and joy of writing. Our podcast will bring you the best of book week as it happens.

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It's mid October 2022 and plans are already underway for Kirkcudbright's second book week in February 2023 - hear Chris Walker chat to founder John Dean and committee member and author Gerry Hassan about what lies ahead for next year

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