@litfest.bsky.social
Lancaster's literature festival and development agency. Established 1978.
A screenshot of the Litfest Bookshop Poetry Sale
An event, a book sale and an announcement!
It may be #primeday this week, but here's your chance to shop local and grab some bargains too!
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Against a blue background, the book cover for THE CHILDREN OF THE ANTHROPOCENE by Bella Lack next to white text - "*Now at a new venue - Faraday Lecture Theatre, Lancaster University.". Below, white text "The Lancaster Environment Lecture 2025." next to the Litfest logo.
On Thursday night, join us in person and online for the Lancaster Environment Lecture 2025 delivered by Bella Lack! There's still time to book your free tickets: geni.us/LF25LE
*Please note that there has been a change to the in-person venue which will now take place at Faraday Lecture Theatre.
On the left at the top, the book cover for THE CHILDREN OF THE ANTHROPOCENE by Bella Lack, next to an author photo of Bella on the right. At the bottom, black text on a white background "The Lancaster Environment Lecture 2025: Bella Lack". The Lancaster University logo is below this next to the Litfest logo.
FREE EVENT - attend in-person & watch online (live or on catch up)!
In just under 1 month we're delighted to be hosting the Lancaster Environment Lecture 2025, delivered by leading environmental campaigner & author Bella Lack, in collaboration with Lancaster University.
Book now: geni.us/LF25LE
🚨IMPORTANT UPDATE!🚨
if you would like to attend this event but can't get there in person, you can now watch on line via the livestream or on catch-up for 30 days (tickets £8.00) by registering at: crowdcast.io/c/6i3yf2oltuvy
Thank you Eleanor Levin for providing us with a fantastic insight this morning into #Historical #Women of #Lancaster in partnership @litfest.bsky.social . We learnt about a #footballer #suffragist #prisoner #sculptor and more .
22.03.2025 14:29 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Pamphlet launch today! Not too late to get in person or online tickets for that or a range of other events @litfest.bsky.social Copy of the pamphlet available from Wayleave, Litfest or me…
15.03.2025 09:56 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
The Director of the Exeter CVS, Simon Rennie @simonrennie.bsky.social and Ruth-Anne Walbank @ruthannereads.bsky.social will discuss the Lancashire Cotton Famine at the Lancaster Literature Festival @litfest.bsky.social on Sunday March 16th at 2pm - tickets here: dukeslancaster.org/whats-on/the...
14.03.2025 10:41 — 👍 9 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0Had the best evening on Sunday at Lancaster Litfest @litfest.bsky.social introducing wonderful authors @rainewilson.bsky.social & @whyiwrite.bsky.social. But the best bit was getting my copy of We Are All Ghosts in the Forest stamped with Orlando the ghost cat!
11.03.2025 21:42 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to listening to some wonderful #stories from Lancaster - Unmoored Tales with Mike Ford and fellow storytellers #LancashireLore @litfest.bsky.social . How many are true ? How many are myths ?
11.03.2025 19:12 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Pic of Lancaster castle main gate from inside the courtyard. Sun shining behind the tower and it's all looking very big and castley and impressive
Black and white photo of a small side door with fancy pants arched windows around it, and a slice of castle walls, looking old and broody in angled sunlight
Black and white photo looking up a steep flight of stone stairs on the outside of the castle, leading to another small wooden door beneath some pretty arched windows. They're just good doors brent
A photo from the main courtyard of the castle looking at ... hrmm I can't remember what they are.... A wee clock tower and some more big impressive towers one of which almost certainly held the main woman's prison.
I once again forgot to take photos at my @litfest.bsky.social event on Sunday, so have a castle instead! But it was a wonderful, thoughtful conversation with @whyiwrite.bsky.social & @catherinespooner.bsky.social & you all need to read Curdle Creek now so I can talk/flail with you about it!
11.03.2025 09:46 — 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
I’m looking forward to this… though be prepared for a tragic tale of greed and exploitation, resulting in the extinction of an extraordinary #bird.
@btobirds.bsky.social
@litfest.bsky.social
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A fabulous first full day of @litfest.bsky.social 46thFestival featuring #workshops #crafting #author #illustrators #poets #walks & celebrating #IWD2025 with a fabulous lecture on #LancasterWomen in #history - and the best thing is we have so much more to come 🥰
08.03.2025 22:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Lovely to have three poems on the @litfest.bsky.social Poetry Map! 🌍 You can find them in Galway and Cobh, Ireland, and Vienna, Austria 😊 worldintowords.humap.site/map/browse
08.03.2025 20:46 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Great evening thanks to @litfest.bsky.social - always so grateful to have a brilliant festival so close. And after watching the Elizabeth Burns Memorial Prize event - the kids really are alright!
08.03.2025 09:24 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Image of the cover of Amy-Jane Beer's The Flow
Lovely evening @litfest.bsky.social listening to @amyjanebeer.bsky.social talk about #TheFlow, rivers, the marvellous mysteryof dowsing and how we're all wild. 💚 The Flow is one of the best pieces of nature writing I've read, so informative and written with so much absolute joy.
07.03.2025 21:43 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Delighted to be at @litfest.bsky.social first event of the festival listening to the #naturalist and #writer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social who is reading from her superb and highly acclaimed book The Flow . #Litfest46
07.03.2025 19:10 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Against a background with elements of the Litfesst cover design, a flatlaid copy of the Litfest 2025 programme.
TONIGHT, Litfest comes back to Lancaster with over 50 ways to get involved (in person or online). It's not too late to book your tickets, we'd love for you to join us: geni.us/Litfest2025
07.03.2025 11:16 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
At the top, black text "Free Children's Festival" with the red Litfest logo against a background of the Litfest 2025 cover design. A blue fabric background with a skyline made up of notable Lancastrian buildings created from words. Below, in a table, the Children's programme.
#HAPPYWORLDBOOKDAY! We want to foster a love of reading in all children in the North West, so, thanks to the success of our Crowdfunder, we're bringing a 3 day FREE Children's Festival to Lancaster from 7th-9th March! Attend online or in person at venues throughout Lancaster. geni.us/LF25CHF
06.03.2025 11:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Still can’t quite believe that Lilith is an actual real life pamphlet. On sale now from Wayleave, @litfest.bsky.social or me! Cover art by Zoë Kingston
05.03.2025 15:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Simon and Ruth-Anne with the Litfest logo. The logo is an outline of Lancaster's skyline with the tag-line 'The World into Words".
I'll be at @litfest.bsky.social in just two weeks, talking all things Cotton Famine with @simonrennie.bsky.social from @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social and Jack Southern from @uclan.ac.uk.
📅 Sunday 16th March, 2pm
🗺️ Lancaster Central Library
Registration links are below, see you there!
The book cover for THE FLOW: RIVERS, WATER AND WILDNESS by Amy-Jane Beer next to an photo of the author. Below, is the cover for Lancaster Litfest 2025: THE WORLD INTO WORDS, running along the bottom is a skyline made up of notable Lancastrian buildings created from words. The Litfest logo is in the bottom right corner. Black text reads "The World into Words".
Litfest kicks off this Friday 7/3 at 7pm. We'll launching (online & in person) with our naturalist in residence for 2025, the fabulous @amyjanebeer.bsky.social, Winner of the James Cropper 2023 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing!
‘A tour de force’ @guyshrubsole.bsky.social
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Immensely looking forward to discussing ghost cats, haunted forests, sequestered communities and sinister rituals with @rainewilson.bsky.social and @whyiwrite.bsky.social for @litfest.bsky.social on Sunday!
05.03.2025 09:04 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
A photo of Malika Booker, our poet in residence, taken by Josimar Senior Black Writers' Guild. On the left at the top is the information for the competition deadline - midnight 5th March 2025. The Litfest cover art is at the bottom.
The deadline to submit to The World Into Words Poetry Map is fast approaching!
Submit your poems by midnight on 5th March to be in with a chance to perform at our gala reading with Malika Booker!
Submit here and book your tickets: geni.us/LF25MB
Hello! The map is still open until midnight GMT on March 5th 2025!
02.03.2025 14:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
The book cover for THE EAGLE AND THE HART: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV by Helen Castor next to a photo of the author. Below, the programme art for Litfest 2025.
The @womensprize.bsky.social for Non Fiction has unveiled it's longlist and we are delighted to see that Helen Castor's THE EAGLE AND THE HART on there!
Helen will be giving our Lancaster History Lecture on Wednesday 12th March at 6:30pm. Join us for free, in person or online: geni.us/LHF25LHT
Meet our philosopher in residence - best-selling author Julian Baggini!
Julian will be running two events at Litfest 2025: our Philosophy Café to discuss ‘how to think like a philosopher' and 'How the World Eats', exploring a global philosophy of food.
Book your tickets here: geni.us/LF25JB
The Litfest 2025 banner in the centre of Lancaster
A gloriously blue Litfest banner against a gloriously blue Lancaster sky!
There’s just under a fortnight to go until Litfest 2025 - don’t forget to book your tickets!
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The book cover for BARROWBECK by Andrew Michael Hurley next to a photo of the author. Below, the programme cover art for Litfest 2025.
On 9/3 7pm at The Dukes, Lancaster, Andrew Michael Hurley, the Costa and British Book Award winning 'Master of Menace' returns to Litfest to celebrate the release of his latest novel: BARROWBECK.
Join us in person (£5) or online (£3): https://geni.us/LF25AMH
On the left, an author photo of Rajah. On the right, the book cover for PALESTINIAN WALKS. Below, the cover art for the Litfest 2025 programme.
On Wednesday 2nd April, we will be honoured to welcome leading Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh, acclaimed author of PALESTINIAN WALKS alongside co-author Penny Johnson in collaboration with Lancaster Arts!
Tickets £12-£18 (in person only): https://geni.us/LF25RS
White text against a tiled background of book covers with a transparent blue overlay "The Litfest Bookshop is Now Open!"
The Litfest bookshop is now open! Grab all of our festival titles, our new Litfest/Wayleave Poetry Pamphlets AND a wide selection of books in our February half price sale!
https://litfest.org/shop/
