Lenni Sanders is a writer and performer who lives in Manchester and who studied at Lancaster University, winning the undergraduate Programme Prize for Poetry in 2014. Lenni's poetry has appeared in The Tangerine, Butcher's Dog, Adjacent Pineapple, The Emma Press Anthology of Love and elsewhere. Lenni's first pamphlet, Poacher, was published in 2019 by The Emma Press. She returned to Lancaster to read her work at Lancaster Words 2019.
Cat Woodward is a feminist modern lyric poet and read at Lancaster Words 2019. Cat studied at The University of East Anglia; her PhD is in robot and lyric voice, her doctoral research was funded through a CHASE studentship. Her first collection, Sphinx, was published by Salò, press in 2017, her second collection Blood. Flower. Joy! Was published by Knives, Forks and Spoons in late 2019. In 2018 she won the Ivan Juritz Prize for creative experiment.
Zaffar Kunial read at Lancaster Words 2019. His debut collection, Us, was published by Faber & Faber in 2018; it was shortlisted for a number of awards including the T S Eliot Prize and the Costa Poetry Award. He is poet in residence at the Bronte Parsonage and was at The Oval, as part of the Places of Poetry. In September 2019, Faber & Faber published a new pamphlet of poems by Zaffar on the subject of cricket and time, called Six.
'The Good Immigrant' contributor Coco Khan joined us in 2017
PJ Harvey at the 2017 festival
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The 2017 Festival team as illustrated by Ines Gregori Labarta
PJ Harvey at the festival in 2017
PJ Harvey and Paul Muldoon at the 2017 festival
Writer Ian Martin in conversation at the 2017 festival
Festival organiser Tay Hayer with students from the 'with Muldoon' session, 2017
Talk by Professor Catherine Spooner at the 2017 festival
Festival organiser Yvonne Battle-Felton with writer Coco Khan, 2017
Event Poster from 2017
Event Poster from 2017
Event poster from 2017