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Bridport Literary Festival ended on a high at the weekend, with actor Simon Russell Beale charming the audience at the Electric Palace. The 20th festival was a resounding success, with a record [...]

Bridport Literary Festival kicked off to packed houses at the Electric Palace on Sunday. Audiences were entertained by a varied programme of politics, military history, nature writing and Shakespeare. At Sladers [...]

Bridport Literary Festival kicks off this Sunday, with four events at the Electric Palace, an afternoon of poetry and music at Sladers Yard, West Bay, and a performance by young people [...]

Our lovely venues - and, of course, our brilliant speakers - reach the parts other literary festivals cannot reach. Bridport is blessed with some fantastic locations that make our events SING! [...]

It’s lovely to welcome aboard Sarah Meadham from The Book Shop, Bridport, on to the BridLit train. Bridport is a pretty bookish little town - and we love our independent book shop [...]

A West Dorset law firm has been thanked for its continued support of the annual Bridport Literary Festival. Kitson & Trotman, which has offices in Bridport, Beaminster, Lyme Regis and Weymouth, [...]

With Britain’s failing prison system hitting the headlines again and again, Ian Acheson’s talk at Bridport Literary Festival in November couldn’t be more timely. He’s a former UK prison governor and [...]

Tickets are selling fast for Bridport Literary Festival, with some events already sold out – but there is still a stellar line-up of writers from all genres well worth seeing. ‘There is [...]