Bridport Literary Festival a resounding success
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 Gets Underway
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 3- 9 November
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 [...]
Celebrating our lovely venues
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! [...]
The Book Shop, Bridport
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 [...]
Cider With Jessie
Profound and eloquent, epic and haunting, wild, dramatic and occasionally unhinged – that’s Ciderhouse Rebellion who kick off Bridport Literary Festival on Sunday 3 November at Sladers Yard, West Bay, at [...]
Thank you, Kitson & Trotman for your continued support
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, [...]
Some timely talks at BridLit 2024
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 [...]
Top events for you to see at BridLit in November
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 [...]