The Loughborough University Literary Festival takes off on the 15th of May!
Every year the University’s English MA students are handed a purse, given a crash-course in festival management, and told to have at it. This year marks the festival’s fifth anniversary, and this time it’s all about hope—bestselling and prize-winning authors will be giving talks and running writing workshops focused on the positive power of literature in times of crisis.
Everyone is welcome, so check out our events below,
Or find all our links and book your place for free here: http://lulitfest.carrd.co
Bookmark-Making: Festival Launch
Brockington B008, 15th May, 4–6pm
Get hands-on with our first event! This is a great chance to mess around with arts and crafts, take home some killer bookmarks, and break the ice with people you may see at other festival events.
A Panel on Hope: The Sun Rises Tomorrow
Design School LDS017, 18th May, 1–3pm
Talk hope in the arts with a star-studded panel of 3-time British Fantasy Award winner Laura Mauro; bestselling children’s author Clémentine Beauvais; singer, songwriter, choreopoet and more Carol Leeming MBE; and prize-shortlisted feminist author Wendy Sacks Jones.
Find us in the Design School on the 18th of May from 1pm to 3pm. The last 30 minutes of the session will be an audience Q&A with the panellists, and there will be time to socialise afterwards.
Interviewing Juliet Jacques: Variations on a Theme
James France D002, 20th May, 11am–12 noon
Juliet Jacques has a wealth of literary and media experience as a short story and memoir author, filmmaker, journalist, radio show host and academic. Drop into James France on the 20th of May to hear her discuss how football and trans womanhood play parts in her work. Though her stance on hope might be different than what you’d expect…
A Writing Workshop with Juliet Jacques: The Hopeful Pen
James France D002, 20th May, 1–2:30pm
After an hour’s break where we will lay on some free food, Juliet’s back to deliver a writing workshop. In particular, we’ll be thinking about and working with the piece of creative art which makes you most hopeful or motivates you to keep writing.
Open Mic: Say Your Piece
Martin Hall Stanley Evernden Studio (aka MHL014), 21st May, 6–8:30pm
Meet us in Martin Hall’s Stanley Evernden Studio for an open mic event to close out the festival. We’ll have readings from our own Creative Writing Master’s students, shortlisted entrants to our creative writing competition and, in the remaining time, those who are happy to speak on the day.
Whether you have work to read or want to spend an evening listening to Loughborough’s diverse artistic voices, we’ll be ending the festival on a high note.
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Or check out any of our other links: http://lulitfest.carrd.co
