Litfest, Lancaster
Lancaster's literature festival and development agency. Established 1978.
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Litfest 2025 participants
Here are all the fabulous people, organisations and venues taking part in Litfest 2025!
@almostasif.bsky.social
Teacher and Poet. Poems rehomed by Shooter, the North, Finished Creatures and Poetry Review among others. First pamphlet out now with Wayleave/Litfest. https://www.iambapoet.com/wave/7-clare-proctor
@joncbirder.bsky.social
Punk rock and roll birder. Here for a lark, and learning… from North Lancs, currently living in Norfolk.
@katiescribbles.bsky.social
❄️ THE EDGE OF SOLITUDE ❄️ / WHITE GHOSTS (2023) / MY NAME IS MONSTER (2019) / Northern Writers' Award 21 & 22 / Aesthetica Prize 23
@simonrennie.bsky.social
Victorianist Prof @exeter.ac.uk. Cotton Famine Poetry. C19th working-class and provincial newspaper poetry. Director of @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social. Also delusional multi-instrumentalist, veg grower, U12 football coach.
@amyjanebeer.bsky.social
Biologist, naturalist, writer, campaigner at Right to Roam; Country Diarist at The Guardian; Wainwright Prize winning author of The Flow WIP: Old Nows Agent: Jane Turnbull jane.turnbull@btinternet.com
@ianseedauthor.bsky.social
Author: Night Window, The Underground Cabaret, Operations of Water, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Identity Papers, Makers of Empty Dreams, Anonymous Intruder. Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Gëzim Hajdari, Ivano Fermini. www.ianseed.co.uk
@jonathanhealey.bsky.social
Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/) Works at Oxford University. Next book, The Blood in Winter, out 2025. ‘This isn’t the Eighties, Pat!’
@oliverklangmead.bsky.social
CALYPSO out now from Titan Books // Lecturer at Lancaster
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford. Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
@aptshadow.bsky.social
Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
@tooshorttoread.bsky.social
Digital Marketer @solarisbooks.bsky.social, Writer, Artist, SFF Nerd, Genealogist, Lancaster Litfest @litfest.bsky.social Board of Directors, HSD, She/Her, all views my own. Poetry debut FLEET SALVAGE out now!
@pollyrowena.bsky.social
Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller. FRSL hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs she/her rep @PortyLiterary Basic Nest Architecture Much with Body Recovering Dorothy Some Of Us Just Fall The Company of Owls https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin