Crime writer Ruby Gupta, based in Dehradun, India, accepted the Festival’s invitation to take up an International Writer’s Residency during last year’s Festival which ran 10-17 September 2022. She joined UK-based crime writer Vaseem Khan on stage at the Festival for a lively conversation, attended most if not all the week’s talks, film and theatrical performances and helped judge our Young Writers Competition of that year.

To help promote both the festival and this beautiful English Riviera town, we created a people's dance over the summer of 2023 using local people to dance (and swim) along the Agatha Christie Mile.

We are excited to announce that we have now released the programme for this year’s Agatha Christie Festival in September.

The Agatha Christie Festival is inviting aspiring young writers, 8-18 years of age, who live or go to school or college in Devon to enter our exciting mystery-story writing competition. Superb prizes to be won! It’s free and easy to enter.