{"id":14,"date":"2017-01-19T09:12:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T09:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-words\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2017-06-14T16:02:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T16:02:27","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-words\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lancaster Words is a three-day celebration of the written and spoken word that is being run by the Department of English Literature &amp;\u00a0Creative Writing at Lancaster University.<\/p>\n<p>It features appearances by writers and artists such as PJ Harvey, Paul Muldoon, Zen Cho, Carol Birch, Jenn Ashworth, Jo Baker and many others. The event launches on 6<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>July 2017 and runs through to July 8th.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the three days, there will be a series of free and priced readings,\u00a0interviews, talks,\u00a0panel discussions, performances and workshops at different venues across the city and on campus. Click on the tabs to see what\u2019s on, when and where.<\/p>\n<p>Lancaster Words is led by a committee chaired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/english-and-creative-writing\/about-us\/staff\/john-schad\">John Schad<\/a>, and including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/english-and-creative-writing\/about-us\/staff\/tajinder-hayer\">Tajinder Hayer<\/a> as Director, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/english-and-creative-writing\/about-us\/staff\/george-green\">George Green<\/a> as Assistant Director, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/english-and-creative-writing\/about-us\/staff\/yvonne-battle-felton\">Yvonne Battle-Felton<\/a>, Creative Producer, supported by FASS placement scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Lancaster Words is generously supported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/giving\/friends-grant\/\">University\u2019s Friends Programme<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artscouncil.org.uk\">Arts Council of England<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artscouncil.org.uk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-385 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-words\/files\/2017\/01\/Arts-Council-of-England-logo-250px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"79\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Lancaster Words is a three-day celebration of the written and spoken word that is being run by the Department of English Literature &amp;\u00a0Creative Writing at Lancaster University. It features appearances by writers and artists such as PJ Harvey, Paul Muldoon, Zen Cho, Carol Birch, Jenn Ashworth, Jo Baker and many others. The event launches on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-right-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8n9DG-e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/lancaster-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}