{"id":266649,"date":"2025-07-16T12:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266649\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T12:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:56:11","slug":"new-wigtown-book-festival-chief-has-ambitious-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266649\/","title":{"rendered":"New Wigtown Book Festival chief has &#8216;ambitious plans&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Rosser-Owen &#8211; who began her career as an editor in the publishing industry specialising in Middle East studies &#8211; said she was relishing the challenge of taking the festival forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It has an offbeat brilliance and charm that audiences can lose themselves in,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For me, returning to Wigtown feels like stepping back into a creative adventure and I&#8217;m absolutely thrilled to be back in this wonderfully unique place tucked away in south-west Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m so looking forward to the organisation embracing its huge potential over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have some ambitious plans ahead and I can&#8217;t wait to get stuck in and help shape what comes next.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The full festival programme for this year will be unveiled next month after she takes over from interim chief executive Andrew McConnell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the same time Anne Barclay, the current operations director, will take on new role aiming to maximise support for the people and economy in and around Wigtown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Rosser-Owen &#8211; who began her career as an editor in the publishing industry specialising in Middle East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-266649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114863026189402712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}