Price
- £6.00
Length
- 60
Presented By
- LITFEST
VENUE: The Auditorium, The Storey
The Lancaster University Creative Writing Student Showcase
With Oliver K. Langmead
Join us for 90 minutes of inspired new writing, as a selection of Creative Writing students from Lancaster University perform excerpts from their works in progress. The session features an exciting, eclectic mixture of forms and styles – from short stories and extracts from novels, to poetry both on the page and for performance, and more unusual forms like scripts, graphic novels and even games.
Past Lancaster University Creative Writing students include: Andrew McMillan, winner of The Guardian First Book Award 2015; Daisy Johnson, youngest ever author shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2018; Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize in Fiction, 2018; Camille Ralphs, poetry editor of The TLS; Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, author of The Mountains Sing; and Andrew Miller whose The Land in Winter was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize.
This event is a brilliant opportunity to get a glimpse of a new generation of writers.
Author:
Oliver K. Langmead is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Lancaster. He writes speculative fiction. His novels include Glitterati (shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award in 2023), Birds of Paradise, the verse novel, Calypso and, with Aliya Whiteley, City of All Seasons.
AGE GUIDANCE: 16+
Photo credits: Photo of the Student Showcase at Litfest 2025 by Ginny Koppenhol Photography
