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:

Jules Horne, Virtual Writer in Residence - Jules is a fiction writer and playwright originally from the Borders, with a background in BBC radio and journalism. En route to becoming a full-time writer, she studied German at Oxford and spent some time working as a translator to Helmut Kohl. She's widely published as a shory story writer, and has written plays for the Traverse Theatre and BBC Radio. She's also spent time in France on a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, and is active in the writers' campaigning organisation, Scottish PEN. Contact jules_horne@yahoo.co.uk

Literature Development Officer, Andrew Forster - 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.
Andrew’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 andrew@dgaa.net 

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