Emma Crighton

@cgpbooks / @Litfest 📚

She/her

🦋 @emmacrighton

[Lancaster Litfest @Litfest]

Welcome to Litfest 2025!

Today, we’re delighted to launch the full programme for our 46th Lancaster Literature Festival —‘The World Into Words’. https://t.co/uqJ9TvsqyR

This year there are over 50 ways to get involved inc. activities, co-creation opportunities and workshops!

[Lancaster Litfest @Litfest]

The @Literacy_Trust found that only 35% of 8 to 18-yr-olds read for pleasure.

We want to change that.

Pledge to our Crowdfunder today & help us to bring a free children’s festival to Lancaster!

We're 60% of the way there, can you help us to get closer? https://t.co/rGmsvmGWoU

[Emma Crighton @emma_me]

Please consider pitching in and helping @Litfest out!

On a day full of depressing politics and grey skies I am *so* hoping we'll be able to bring a bit of extra magic to Lancaster next year✨📚

[Lancaster Litfest @Litfest]

🎉 Support a weekend of FREE fun for Children at Litfest 2025! 🎉

Help us to fund a full weekend of outstanding fun events and activities to delight and inspire children across the region!

Please donate to our Crowdfunder and help spread the word! 👉https://t.co/rGmsvmGozm

[Emma Crighton @emma_me]

Genuinely: go and see this if you can. It's so smart/funny/sad/joyful, and such a shame that it's closing early (I can only assume for financial reasons, because the quality is ⬆️⬆️⬆️)

[Why Am I So Single? @sosinglemusical]

Our big fancy musical is coming to a close, with our final performance on January 19th 2025 ♥️

Thank you to our cast, crew and creatives who brought this beautiful show to the stage. It is a story of love, of which there has been an abundance.

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[Lisa-Marie @YungHigue]

Go to Settings → Privacy and Safety → Data Sharing → Grok to turn it off.

[Lancaster Litfest @Litfest]

1 WEEK TO GO until our Autumn weekend! Have you booked your tickets?

Attend in-person £5, watch online £3 (prices differ for Joe Boyd's event).
Book now: https://t.co/Mr2wNAP30C

Ft @Storywheel, @followtheyellow, @pollyrowena, @CamilleRalphs_ @Shadow2train @InesGLabarta & more!

[Arts Lancashire @ArtsLancashire]

POETRY OPPORTUNITY | @Litfest, in collaboration with Wayleave Press, invite poets from the north-west to submit their pamphlet collections for publication.

Learn more here: https://t.co/oI5d44NT3a

Deadline for pamphlet submissions is 28 September 2024.

[Emma Crighton @emma_me]

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[Lancaster Litfest @Litfest]

Litfest’s Autumn weekend is back this October, time to browse the programme, book your tickets, enter our poetry pamphlet competition and join in the fun!

https://t.co/cCejXFLTXr

[BookBrunch @BookBrunch]

Lancaster @Litfest has announced the programme for its autumn festival, with Katherine Woodfine, Jonathan Healey and Joe Boyd among stars

https://t.co/dUKXa610z6 (Free to view)

[Lancaster Black History Group @LancasterBlack]

‘In Lancaster, the people have been lovely’: A UK city resists race riots. Far-right sympathisers planned to disrupt a sense of peace in the northern city, but were outnumbered by counterprotesters. https://t.co/KPrGthT15V

[Lancaster Litfest @Litfest]

🚨WE'RE HIRING!🚨

Come and work with #Litfest! We're looking for a new office manager.

📕7 hours per week (preferably worked across 2 days)
📕£11.44 per hour
📕Some remote working possible.

Applications close Wednesday 17th July.

Learn more: https://t.co/oA7YmMqZs3

[Emma Crighton @emma_me]

I don't know how closely Facebook are reading or evaluating objections - I'm pretty sure they've just included it to make the process more difficult and put people off.

But this is useful if you're struggling to know what to put!

[Not here to fuck spiders @stavvers]

Heads up to anyone using facebook or insta: you'll receive a notification about your data being used to train AIs. The opt out process is deliberately convoluted and you have to fill out a form to object. This is my successful objection, feel free to copy it.

[Lancaster Litfest @Litfest]

Why, given our love of nature, have we 'become one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world'?

You can now read the full text of @CarolineLucas' Lecture on our website! https://t.co/wEegO7XH49

The Lancaster Environment Lecture is organised by Litfest & @LancasterUni.

[Emma Crighton @emma_me]

@NTLive 24, and working on many more through #NTatHome

[Emma Crighton @emma_me]

If you'd like to see me read a poem on a stage: https://t.co/8JCRjneNBo (starts 20 minutes in).

If, on the other hand, you'd like to watch some much more talented and excellent authors and speakers: https://t.co/RrSaJcv3lZ✨ enjoy!

[Lancaster Litfest @Litfest]

Litfest 2024 isn't over yet! You can watch most of our events on Litfest's 30 day catch up for free!

Whether you missed an event you'd planned to attend, want to try out something new or rewatch an event you enjoyed, hop over to our YouTube channel now!

https://t.co/1InnCsjADX

[Emma Crighton @emma_me]

@buliejell @Litfest Hope you feel better soon Julie!

[Emma Crighton @emma_me]

⬇️⬇️⬇️ Feast your eyes on some top-notch literature, coming your way in March #Lancaster

[Lancaster Litfest @Litfest]

🧵Litfest 2024 kicks off in March, so, time for a mega-thread of our first weekend of events!

Fiction, poetry, children's events, environment & more!

Free/Pay What You Can. In-person & online (watch live or on 30 day catch up)

Explore it all here! https://t.co/36c8q5iZHE
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[Emma Crighton @emma_me]

@_MBay @Litfest @sarahhymas I would love to watch this, but can't make the time/date - do you make recordings available afterwards?

[Bill Swainson💙 @SwainsonBill]

Only 24 hours to go to the deadline for applications. Please share widely!