27 Jun – 6 Jul 2025
Bradford Literature Festival 2025
Relive the 2025 edition of Bradford Literature Festival, one of the largest literature festivals in the UK.
Bradford Literature Festival is an annual festival and year-round cultural engagement programme encompassing the best of literature, music, theatre, discussions, lectures and family events.
One the UK’s largest literature festivals and Europe’s most eclectic and diverse literature festival, Bradford Literature Festival is unique in the UK for its diverse and imaginative approach to high-quality arts and cultural programming.
For the 2025 festival, the programme encompassed important literary and historical anniversaries, celebrated through the lens of newly commissioned works that offered a fresh perspective. Annually recurring strands including The Brontë’s, Poetry, World Affairs & Politics, Hockney, Global Futures, Film and Comedy. Events across this broad range of themes take the form of in-conversations, panel discussions, workshops and salons.
Bradford Literature Festival has played a significant role in the revitalisation of the local culture sector and in creating a profile for Bradford regionally, nationally and internationally.
Bradford 2025 were proud to support the Festival in 2025 through the Big Tasty Read campaign, in partnership with The Reading Agency, and across the programme.
Look back on the 2025 programme below.
Events
Explore the 2025 programme.
6 Jul 2025
Bradford Literature Festival: A Culinary Journey through al-Andalus
Fiona Dunlop & Daniel L. Newman
This event gave you an insight into the medieval food culture across al-Andalus and North Africa.
6 Jul 2025
Bradford Literature Festival: Preserving Culture and Memory with Food
Samantha Ellis & Bee Wilson
A dialogue between Samantha Ellis and Bee Wilson.
6 Jul 2025
Bradford Literature Festival: Recipe for Fiction – The Language of Food with Annabel Abbs
Annabel Abbs
We had a thought-provoking celebration of words and nourishment.
5 Jul 2025
Bradford Literature Festival: The Food Our Grandmothers Knew
Radhika Howarth
We look at how food and culture gets passed down through generations.
5 Jul 2025
Bradford Literature Festival: Breaking Bread with Kitty and Al Tait
Kitty & Al Tait
We discovered the life-changing power of baking and bread.
5 Jul 2025
Bradford Literature Festival: Bradford, Food & Writing – A Taste from Home
Habiba Desai & Shahnaz Ahsan
We discussed how food writing can connect culture and cuisine.
29 Jun 2025
