Did you miss out on #LitLeics25 this year?☹️ . Don't despair, you can now catch up with a wide range of Festival events via our SoundCloud recordings!. 🎧 Check out @CarolineLucas, @KitdeWaal , @AdamCSharp, and much, much more!.

It was brilliant to welcome @SophieHaydock to @uniofleicester this Wednesday as part of @literaryleicester and hear more about her process for writing the women in Matisse's life back into the story - and their 'voices into the pigment' 🎨 🖼 📖. #LitLeics25 #LiteraryLeicester

RT @uniofleicester: #LiteraryLeicester Event | Madame Matisse. How do you turn real women into compelling fiction? Author @SophieHaydock an….

RT @uniofleicester: #LiteraryLeicester Event | Eimear McBride. Join multi-award-winning author Eimear McBride as she reflects on place, pro….

RT @cwaleicester: You can listen to the podcast of the recent @uniofleicester CREATIVE WRITING STUDENT SHOWCASE @litleics here: https://t.c….

RT @corinne_fowler: My interview with @CarolineLucas at @litleics 2025.

RT @cwaleicester: Featured today on Creative Writing at Leicester: the brilliant @SophieHaydock and her new novel "Madame Matisse." Read an….

This year's ANNUAL CREATIVE WRITING lecture ft. multi-award winning Irish novelist EIMEAR McBRIDE on 'Other Ways In - Writing the City Changes its Face'. Join us for this FREE event, hosted by LL, @NewWritingLeics & @LeicesterAlumni . 📅6 May, 6-7.15pm.🎟️

#LitLeics25 may be over for another year, but there's still lots to look forward to!. Book now for👇.🎨'Madame Matisse: The Women Who Made the Artist' with @SophieHaydock, Weds 30 April, 5.30 pm @AttenboroughAC .🎟️ As always our events are FREE to attend!

PLUS, look out for #LiteraryLeicester events through the year 👇 📅30 April, Sophie Haydock joins us to discuss 'Madame Matisse: The Women Who Made the Artist'. 📅6 May, award-winning novelist Eimear McBride will deliver the Annual Creative Writing Lecture.

That's a wrap! HUGE THANKS to everyone who joined us for #LitLeics25, to @AttenboroughAC for hosting our daytime programme, & to our amazing speakers for 4 thought-provoking & fun-packed days @uniofleicester . Save the dates for #LitLeics26: 18-21 March 🎉

RT @dr_hlfoster: Thanks to everyone who came along to my workshop last Friday to play with words & engage their beginner's mind. I really e….

RT @crystalclearjt: Thank you to everyone who came to the "Bullying, School and Power" event the other day @litleics and who helped make it….

RT @NCanagarajah: Thank you for supporting @litleics. It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening.

RT @dcsandbrook: We had great fun taking @TheRestHistory to Leicester last night in a free event for our listeners in the Midlands. Lovely….

Coming up today 👇.

Amazing to welcome @TheRestHistory to @uniofleicester for a live #podcast recording as part of #LitLeics25!. From the founding of the city to the persecution of witches, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take us through a wonderful and sometimes weird #history of #Leicester

It's a full house for @LeicsIAS Ten Days that Changed the World! Ten @uniofleicester lecturers from different subject areas will pitch for the day they think changed the world. The audience will decide the winner!. #LitLeics25

Lydia Towsey and Calvin Jephcote open 'The Air We Breathe' with a spoken word performance animating visualisations of air pollution in Leicester, followed by a talk by @DrGaryFuller . #LitLeics25

A fantastic end to Day 2! Wordsmith @AdamCSharp took us around the world with his lists of idioms, before poet Paul Muldoon read poems from 'Joy in Service on Rue Tagore' and 'Howdie-Skelp' and answered questions from the audience. Spell-binding stuff!. #LitLeics25