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Lancashire Stories
Lancashire Library Service Lancashire Stories
Lancashire Stories is an ambitious new panLancashire project, which will see Lancashire Library Service commission a selection of professional writers to share new and original short stories, written about Lancashire and published in one beautiful anthology.
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Working together, the library services in Lancashire, Blackpool, and Blackburn with Darwen, will bring an exciting programme of events and activities to libraries across the region during 2022 and 2023.
Funding from Arts Council England’s Project Grants has enabled this project, which will be brought to reality by UCLan Publishing. Around 12,000 physical copies of the anthology, plus an e-book available through the BorrowBox app featuring five bonus stories, will be published and distributed in November 2022, launching around Lancashire Day. The book will be available free of charge for residents across Lancashire.
There will be plenty of ways to get involved, with opportunities for people to share their Lancashire Stories over the course of the programme.
Don’t forget to keep an eye on #LancashireStories on Twitter for all the latest news, check out the website (bit.ly/LancsStories) and hear from the brilliant authors involved in the project on the Reading Ramble Podcast, available wherever you listen to podcasts.
The authors who have written these fantastic stories are Antonia Charlesworth Stack, David Hartley, Ines Labarta, Iqbal Hussain, Libby Ashworth, Michael Davies, Naomi Kruger, Nathan Parker, Neil White, Peter Kalu, Sarah Schofield, Yvonne Battle-Felton, Sarah-Clare Conlon, Beverley Adams, Eve Ainsworth, Susan Evans and Robert Bullock.
