Dumfries and Galloway has a heritage of great Scottish literature and has been home to a host of prolific writers including Robert Burns, Hugh MacDiarmid and Thomas Carlyle.

To maintain and enrich this heritage DGAA:

• Hosts literature events throughout the year offering support to writers groups and individual writers within the region across the full range of written form.


• Supports literature festivals across Dumfries and Galloway through partnerships with national and local organisations such as Wigtown Book Town and National Poetry Day.


• Promotes resources available to groups including Writer's Boxes, which contain many useful publications for writers.


• Maintains a Writers Directory, a register of writers and resources within the region as part of the DGAA online database accessed via resources


• Publishes, in partnership, regional writers' works

These aims are supported and developed by the following members of DGAA:

Rab Wilson, Robert Burns Writer in Residence - Rab is a well-kent poet in his own right, and a tireless supporter of Scots writing. Contact r.wilson475@btinternet.com

Carolyn Yates, Literature Development Officer - works in partnership with the Wigtown Book Town Company and the Dumfries and Galloway Library Service to develop and support literary activity throughout Dumfries and Galloway.
The Literature Development Officer's role includes:
• E-mail information service and Working Words Newsletter
• Support and assistance to the Dumfries and Galloway Writers’ Network, and the writing groups that constitute it.
• Professional Development Advice to Writers.
• Skills Days and Workshops
• Readers events such as Poetry Doubles and Meet the Author
• The Wigtown Poetry Competition.
• Collaborative projects, such as Windmill Stories, the Wigtown Passport, and Poetry in the Woods
• Partnerships with organisations, such as the Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Poetry Library, to bring opportunities for writers and readers into the region.
• Working with GU Crichton Campus on the Mlitt in Writing
Contact carolyn@dgaa.net 

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