WagTongues pop-up bookshop comes to Dumfries High Street on Saturday and Monday as part of The Stove’s three-day festival of light and literature.
Coinciding with the switching-on of the town’s Christmas lights, shoppers will have the chance to browse and buy books by local writers and meet the talent behind them.
Authors Miller Caldwell, Thelma Hancock, Julie Bowmaker, Lynn Otty, Angus Macmillan. Derek Ross, Claire Cogbill, Donald Adamson and Chik Duncan will be giving interviews and readings from their latest works from 10am.
A “genre bending” workshop will invite aspiring writers to try their hands at poetry and prose and visitors can also have a moment of their own lives immortalised in verse by the resident poets of the Poet is In.
Run by the Dumfries Writers’ Collective, WagTongues is a bookshop which pops up without warning across Dumfries and Galloway and over the border.
Its remit is to sell precious things: local books by local writers, including poetry, fiction, memoir and history from Sally Hinchclife, Donald Adamson, Hugh Bryden, Mary Smith, D D Hall, Gwen Kirkwood, Margaret Elphinstone, Claire Cogbill, JoAnne McKay, Sara Bain, Kriss Nichol and Janet Walkinshaw.
Member Mary Smith, said: “WagTongues runs a programme of events whilst we’re open, so there’s the opportunity to meet authors, listen to readings, hear interviews and attend mini-workshops as well as browse through and buy wonderful books.
“We take books from any writer or publisher in the region and anyone who would like to join us should send an email [email protected]”
WagTongues takes no commission with the full price of sales going directly to the authors and the events will raise funds for Arthritis Care Scotland.
Further information from http://wagtongues.wordpress.com
The Stove is at 100 High Street, Dumfries, and the event closes on Saturday at 4pm.
WAGTONGUES POP UP SHOP COMES TO DUMFRIES HIGH STREET
