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Lancaster Literature Festival - Litfest 2022 at The Storey Creative Industries Centre, Lancaster, 17–26 March 2023, free entry - Visit now
There’s plenty going on at Litfest 2023, Lancaster’s literature festival running 17 to 26 March – and all tickets are free. Following on from Lancaster’s 44th annual literature festival last March, and a special autumnal edition of Litfest in October, there’s talks, readings, lectures and discussions to take part in either in person or virtually as the programme remains hybrid.
Friday 17 and Saturday 18 March are given over to the children’s festival, featuring family-friendly activities and events, including a reading by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Join the festival’s Reader in Residence Sophie Anderson for three different age-specific drop-in sessions on Saturday morning at the City Library, then again at 4pm, when the Lake District-based writer will present her own book, The Thief Who Sang Storms. There’s also philosophy, history, nature and art, and Litfest rounds off on Sunday 26 March, 6pm, with a storytelling finale from storyteller, musician and singer Nick Hennessey Dreaming The Great Bear.
Following on from Lancaster’s 44th annual literature festival last March, and a special autumnal edition of Litfest in October, there’s talks, readings, lectures and discussions to take part in either in person or virtually as the programme remains hybrid.
On Sunday 19 March, the focus turns to fiction, seeing Luke Williams reading extracts of his Goldsmiths Prize 2022-winning Fitzcarraldo Editions-published novel Diego Garcia, and chatting about it with Lindsey Moore. That’s at 3.30pm and is followed, at 5pm and also at The Round in The Dukes, by Eoghan Walls, teacher of Creative Writing at Lancaster University, in conversation with his colleague Zoe Lambert about his debut novel The Gospel Of Orla – described by Colm Tóibín as ‘utterly convincing and fresh and original’.
Saturday 25 March is poetry day, with two double bills on offer in The Auditorium at The Storey: Katie Hale and Zaffar Kunial at 1pm, followed by Sean O’Brien and Stephanie Sy-Quia at 2.30pm. Both events will be presented Paul Farley, whose latest book, The Mizzy, is published by Picador.
All events are free, but you need to book a ticket online. Please check the Litfest website for details of dates, times, venues and online arrangements.
Lancaster Literature Festival - Litfest 2022 at The Storey Creative Industries Centre, Lancaster