Welcoming our new Festival Director
We are delighted to announce that Adrian Turpin OBE, currently creative and strategic director of the Wigtown Book Festival in south-west Scotland, will be taking on the role of Director of BridLit Festival on 1 January 2026.
Adrian leaves Wigtown after nearly twenty years having established it as one of the most successful literary festivals in the UK. He is a passionate advocate for the role that festivals play in the social and economic regeneration of communities and was awarded an OBE for services to literature and the economy in 2017. The recruitment process for Festival Director attracted many outstanding local and national candidates.
Bridlit 2025 in photos
It’s been another vintage year for Bridport Literary Festival, with crowds flocking to seven days of events.
There were huge, sell-out audiences for the 21st annual festival, with a variety of talks on subjects of all kinds.
Pictures by Eddy Pearce and Dot Forrester.
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