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Dromore Book Festival will run from 5 – 10 May 2025
Fresh from being named named Independent Bookshop of the Year on the island of Ireland in the British Book Awards 2025, Bridge Books is launching the first major literary festival in Dromore from 5 – 10 May this year.
Owned and run by Lesley Price, Bridge Books will welcome guests such as Donal Ryan, crime and thriller authors Brian McGilloway and Stuart Neville, and a crime panel featuring Liz Nugent, Sharon Dempsey and Hannah King.
Journalist and writer Stuart Bailie will talk music with Terri Hooley, and the BBC’s Tara Mills will be in conversation with Claire Mitchell, author of The Ghost Limb, and Linda Ervine, Irish language activist.
Brian Rowan, Claire Allan, Emma Heatherington, Sarah Gilmartin, Caoilinn Hughes and Garrett Carr are among this exciting line-up of literary talent, which includes award-winning author Bernie McGill who will be running a creative writing workshop. There will also be children’s events on Saturday 10 May.
‘I came up with the idea as a celebration of my 30th year in business,’ said Leslie Price, ‘but I couldn’t have imagined how much support I’d get from so many fantastic writers, and the venues in the town which will be hosting the events. I have so many people to thank I couldn’t do it in just a few sentences. But I hope, thanks to everybody’s efforts, that we’ll put Dromore on the literary map and attract lots of new business to the town for the week of the festival.’
