Flax — great new writing from the North West

Welcome.

Flax is the publishing imprint of Lancaster Litfest. We publish short stories and poetry from some of the best writers living and working in the North West of England. You can access any of our titles from the column on the right.

We produce both digital and print publications: our digital arm marries traditional book design with online publishing to produce beautiful anthologies, available for free downloads from this site; our print is committed to high quality layout and visual design for the work. You can order copies of some of our titles through the site, or drop by the Litfest Bookcase in The Storey.

We also commission new writing for a variety of publications, ranging from spoken word albums, film and blog-lit.

The writers we publish range from prize-winning novelists to debut poets, all with the skill to entertain. You can read more about each of them on the profile pages on this website. We have also teamed up across country with thisisull, so you can download some of our poems to your iphone.

Our latest anthology is Mostly Truthful - our first creative nonfiction collection.

So, sit back, click around and enjoy …