Cover Stories: Wigtown Book Festival; Jim Morrison's last notebook

* The Galloway town of Wigtown, where Dolly Parton launched her literacy initiative and where salmon fishing and malt whisky distilleries are only a stroll away, will host the tenth Wigtown Book Festival from 26 September until 5 October. To celebrate, there will be a (very) short story competition, for stories of 100 words or fewer, and an even more impressive line up of authors. AL Kennedy, Fay Weldon, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Michael Morpurgo, James Kelman, Louis de Bernieres and Richard Holloway will be among them and the lobster fishers and campfire singers are ready. Details from www.wigtownbookfestival.com.

* Old hippies and music lovers with a poetic bent found their way to Shoreditch's trendy Idea Generation Gallery last night, where the last notebook of The Doors's Jim Morrison – the one he gave away in Paris just weeks before he died – was auctioned by The Fame Bureau. Anyone looking for clues to his state of mind in his final days can find them in these pages. One poem reads, bafflingly: "Now you are in danger/ Old sheep/ Now you are in danger/ When the true king's murderers are allowed to run free/ & 1,000 musicians arise in the night..." The guide price for the notebook was £80,000 to £100,000.

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