Lancaster Words festival: Turning the page

A selection of artwork from the Telling in Full exhibition which will run as part of the first Lancaster Words festival. This July sees the first-ever Lancaster Words festival, an exciting three-day exploration of all things literary though a vibrant mix of readings, interviews, lectures, discussions, workshops, art exhibition, book-making and even film-making. The festival, which runs from Thursday July 6 to Saturday July 8, is being organised by Lancaster University's Department of English Literature and Creative Writing and will take in everything from poetry, prose, and drama through to new media, graphic novel and screen-writing not to mention rock-lyrics, history, and theology. The programme will take place in a range of city-centre venues, including the Castle, Priory, the Storey, the Library and Waterstones, as well as one or two venues at the University. With the exception of the headline events everything else will be free. This headline event will see Mercury Prize-winning singer-songwriter P.J. Harvey in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner poet Paul Muldoon. They will take to the stage of the University's Nuffield Theatre on the evening of July 6 to read from their poetry and to explore, through conversation, its relationship to song lyrics.