He graduated from the University of Tasmania and subsequently worked as a journalist with the Tasmanian News, The Mercury, The Australian Star, and The Age (including as chief parliamentary reporter.
Many of Bridges' works were cheap, quickly written paperbacks published by the NSW Bookstall Company.
[2] His more "mature" works have been classed within the Tasmanian Gothic genre.
According to his biographer Anne-Marie Condé, he is "remembered mainly by enthusiasts interested in the literary culture of Tasmania".
[2] He was a close friend of Phillip Schuler, a fellow journalist who was killed in World War I.