Author Archives: Ian Richards

Lincoln Book Festival has launched its 2026 Flash Fiction Competition, inviting writers of all ages to craft a story in exactly 50 words on the theme ‘Hobbies’.

Literature in the Lounge 2025 – Guest Blog

Winners of the Lincoln Book Festival 2025 Flash Fiction Competition have been announced. Read all the winning, shortlisted and longlisted stories.

Poetry, podcasts, fiction, and family fun all feature in the newly released programme for Lincoln Book Festival 2025, which runs from 2–5 October at venues across the historic city of Lincoln.

We’re busy behind the scenes preparing for the return of Lincoln Book Festival this October.

Lincoln Book Festival’s popular flash fiction competition makes a stirring comeback for 2025 with a new theme: heroes and villains.

The first rule of Book Club Club? You don’t talk about Book Club Club! Join…

We’re delighted to announce the winners of the Lincoln Book Festival 2024 Flash Fiction Competition.

It’s official! The Lincoln Book Festival 2024 programme has been published. The book festival will take place from 26-29 September.

Lincoln Book Festival has been awarded funding from Arts Council England to connect a more diverse variety of audiences than ever before with literature-inspired events and activities.

Lincoln Book Festival is seeking to appoint an evaluator to help us assess this year’s…

Every word matters when Lincoln Book Festival relaunches its popular flash fiction competition – inviting budding authors to craft a compelling short story in precisely 50 words.

Lincoln Book Festival will be back with a varied series of events and activities for book lovers from 26-29 September 2024.

Most avid readers know that feeling of wandering into a bookshop to browse, not sure…

Wartime spies, historical heroines, spectral children and vampire sheep – these are just a selection…

We’re excited to be working with Lincoln Arts Centre at the University of Lincoln to appoint a freelance festival director to help us develop Lincoln Book Festival in 2024 and beyond.

Lincoln Book Festival will return in October 2023.

Winners of Lincoln Book Festival’s latest Flash Fiction Competition were announced at this year’s festival.…

University of Lincoln students Liberty Price, Alice Garrett, Holly Pamment and  Elizabeth Burman review Lincoln Book Festival’s Music and…

We’re delighted to announce tickets are on sale now for this October’s Lincoln Book Festival.…

Lincoln Book Festival has revealed details of its upcoming programme of guest author talks, featuring…

Writers of all ages are invited to pen their own intriguing mystery stories in the…

Lincoln’s annual book festival will make a comeback later this year with plans for a…

Lincoln Book Festival 2020 – Online Author Talk – William Sitwell in conversation with Dr…

Lincoln Book Festival 2020 – Online Author Talk – David Carpenter David Carpenter Henry III…

Lincoln Book Festival 2020 – Online Author Talk – Sophie Cleverly A Case of Grave…

Lincoln Book Festival 2020 – Online Author Talk – Hanna Jameson The Last (Viking –…

Lincoln Book Festival 2020 – Online Author Talk – Alison Weir Katheryn Howard, The Tainted…

Lincoln Book Festival 2020 – Online Author Talk – Toby Wilkinson A World Beneath the…

Lincoln Book Festival 2020 – Online Author Talk – Saul David Crucible of Hell: Okinawa:…

Lincoln Book Festival 2020 – Online Author Talk – Christopher Tugendhat A History of Britain…

Winners of Lincoln Book Festival’s latest flash fiction competition have been revealed – claiming prizes…

Lincoln Book Festival is extending the entry deadline for this year’s Flash Fiction Competition to…

Lincoln Imp Inspires Latest Lincoln Book Festival Flash Fiction Competition Lincoln Book Festival’s Flash Fiction…

Lincoln Book Festival will be back this year with a broader range of genres and…

Ahead of this year’s Lincoln Book Festival, we’ll be featuring book reviews of some of…

Lincoln Book Festival has published its full programme for this September’s week-long literary celebration, with…

Award-winning young adult fiction author Melvin Burgess will open proceedings at this year’s Lincoln Book…

In the latest blog in our Victorian Voices blog series, Lincoln Book Festival Trust Chair,…

Writers of all ages are again being invited to craft their own ultra-short stories of…

Lincoln Book Festival 2019 will celebrate the life and legacy of Queen Victoria and the…

It may be six months until Lincoln Book Festival 2019 begins but planning is in…

If there’s one thing that most Lincoln Book Festival fans have in common, it’s a…

This year’s Lincoln Book Festival will celebrate the life and legacy of Queen Victoria and…

We produced this short video of highlights from Lincoln Book Festival in 2018 with the…

We had so many moments our audiences won’t soon forget at Lincoln Book Festival 2018.…

The winners of the Lincoln Book Festival 2018 Flash Fiction Competition have been announced. There…

This year will be the 15th edition of Lincoln Book Festival and, like any successful…

Lincoln Book Festival opens its latest chapter next week (24th September 2018) with a celebration…

Celebrated historian Tracy Borman will give her first talk about her debut novel in her…

The full programme for Lincoln Book Festival 2018 has been published, revealing a line-up of…

Lincoln Book Festival is inviting budding writers to “join the revolution” by submitting their own…

Lincoln Book Festival returns in September 2018 promising revolutionary thinking from some of Britain’s best-known…