The Vocabularium

24/05/2016

ATALANTA BEN HAGGARTY 7.30pm, Brigsteer Village Hall, LA8 8AL A fierce tale of a remarkable virgin hunter and devotee of Artemis..

03/04/2016

Coming to Lancaster on May 7th

This class has sold out in Bath, Belfast, Brighton, Cork, London and Melbourne. That Killer First Page You’ll find out what competition judges and journal editors look for in a short story and how to avoid the rejection pile. You’ll write a short piece and get feedback on that crucial story openin…

24/03/2016

This weekend at The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal.
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19/03/2016

On The Writing Life this week

‘Creative Writing can certainly be learnt… we learn by doing it.’ Maggie How is a Lake District born author. She studied Interior Design and, by the end of her degree, her profess…

19/03/2016

Fascinating, entertaining & thoughtful readings and discussion at last night with George Green, JS Collyer, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Saskia Goldschmidt, Eddie Robson, and Justina Robson.

19/03/2016

New from Woolly Hat Poems

17/03/2016

Lancaster Litfest starts tonight. Twitter hashtag

15/03/2016

Coming up at Litfest

5.30pm – 6.30pm - Poets from the Emma Press Emma Press poets (and Lancaster University alumni) Camille Ralphs and James Trevelyan read from their new pamphlets. Camille Ralphs will read from Malkin, her collection of poems about the Pendle witch trials of 1612, and James Trevelyan will read from DIS…

14/03/2016

2pm – 3pm – My Dear Watson, The Very Elements in Poetry By Beautiful Dragons Collaborations. Until recently there were 118 elements in the periodic table. Last year, each of them fizzed up its very own poem. From its very own poet. Recent events in the world of science have demanded a few more are a…

14/03/2016

8.30pm - 9.30pm – Good Science – with Saskia Goldschmidt, Justina Robson, Adrian Tchaikovsky Dutch writer Saskia Goldschmidt worked as both a youth theatre producer and drama teacher before she wrote an autobiographical account of growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust. The Hormone Factory, which…

13/03/2016

An inspiring post about how Hear Me Roar Lancaster's Feminist Festival came about and how it worked.

And so we made a feminist festival. Again. As the final show was packed away, leaving Project O stranded in Lancaster for another night as the last train left before the get out was quite done, com…

08/03/2016

Local author Zoe Lambert featured on International Women's Day

The War Tour by Zoe Lambert ‘You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.’ – Leon Trotsky From Kandahar to Sarajevo, the forests of Lithuania to the boot camps of the DRC, Zoe Lambert’s stories weave a dark and disturbing web, interlacing documentary accounts with imagined testim…