Damon Lord

Writer, Associate Lecturer, PhD student

Photo by T.M.M. Lord 2024

Damon Lord (pronouns: he/him) is a writer of fiction and poetry, originally from Wales. He is currently studying a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire, exploring audience interaction with serial form narrative. He is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA). He was the winner of the Brother's Cup in 2023 and 2024, and serves as an Associate Lecturer in English Language with the University of Worcester, and was also Worcestershire Poet Laureate (2023/24).

You can buy his books, read his articles and latest news, enjoy some examples of his work, find out where he'll be speaking next, and also discover more about Damon.

Damon Lord also has a regular newsletter, Words, Words, Words: Damon Lord Writer, hosted at Substack. You can subscribe by clicking here.

Portrait of Charles Dickens by Jeremiah Gurney, Public Domain.

Portrait of Charles Dickens by Jeremiah Gurney, c. 1867 - 1868. Public Domain.

Great Recitations - Dickens Festival 2025

Saturday 8th February 2024, 6:30 p.m.

Script Haven, 104 High Street, Worcester, WR1 2HW.

Damon is proud to be presenting a talk for Worcester's Great Recitations Dickens Festival, giving a lecture on:

Dickens: father of the serial.

For more information, click here.

Damon Lord's ID card, with a rainbow lanyard draped across it, obscuring much of the card. Affixed to the lanyard are pin badges depicting the rainbow flag, trans flag, pansexual flag, and the bisexual flag.

Photo by Damon Lord 2025

My website and newsletter is woke and LGBTQ+ friendly.

5 February 2025. My latest newsletter is available, outlining why, this LGBTQ+ history month in the U.K., I'll be supporting everybody under the rainbow. Click here to read it!

Damon Lord, dressed in his graduation robes, walking across the stage at the University of Hull graduation ceremony, shaking hands with the Chancellor, Alan Johnson.

Photo by University of Hull 2024

Graduation ceremony: M.A. Creative Writing with Merit!

16 July 2024. I'm not normally one to blow my own trumpet, but indulge me just this once. Today I graduated from the University of Hull with an M.A. in Creative Writing (Merit). I walked across the stage, shook hands with the Chancellor Alan Johnson, and with that I went from graduand to graduate.

However, it's not the end of the journey. I've received an unconditional offer, and accepted it, to do a PhD in English and Creative Writing, starting this autumn at the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham. In the meantime I'm working on a novel over the summer.

My thanks go to the lecturers Megan, Kate, Barbara, and Chris, all my classmates, and of course to my wife and son who were there for me.

Photo by Damon Lord 2024

Damon Lord selected as winner of best poem (public vote)

1 July 2024. Local independent bookshop Script Haven announced today that Damon Lord's poem Pause was selected as the best poem in a public vote. The poem was xhosen by visitors to the "Breatheless - Breathe More" art and poetry exhibition, which was on display in Script Haven throught the second half of June 2024. Script Haven stated they look forward to collaborating again soon with all creatives involved.

Damon Lord (left) with David Rushworth (right), holding their respective trophies

Photo by Worcestershire Freemasons 2024

Winner of the Brother's Cup 2024!

11 May 2024. Damon Lord has won the Brother's Cup for the second year in a row, in this year's Provincial Lecture Competition, organised by the Worcestershire Freemasons Provincial Learning and Development Officer. His lecture title was: Masonry and the Moon.