The Wee Gaitherin 2026 programme

What a fabulous line-up of free workshops and poetry performances we have lined up for you! As ever, everything is free to attend and we look forward to welcoming poets and poetry lovers to Stonehaven for our signature friendly, chilled sharing of words, with some music in the mix too. It all kicks off on the afternoon of Thursday 3rd of September with a scrievin in Scots workshop with David Bleiman, with the evening seeing our first Scots Showcase hosted by Dundee's ain Taylor Dyson. Watch this space, and our Facebook page, for more details over the coming days. Workshop bookings will be via Eventbrite.

We’re immensely grateful to all this year's funders: Hands Up For Trad, Granite Heart, Kincardineshire Development Partnership, Aberdeenshire Council, Hugh Fraser Foundation and William Syson Foundation, who have generously supported us to cover essential costs of staging the festival, pre-festival activities and subsidised the poets’ expenses.