Spring Haunts 2025

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Come join us in a haunted city for a weekend of horror, gothic and ghost story writing!

York Explore Library and Archive

Join us in a haunted city for two days of horror, gothic and ghost story writing! Spring Haunts returns to York for a second year in 2025, serving up a weekend of Gothic Fiction and ghost stories in one of the UK’s spookiest cities! We’ll be presenting two days of unmissable and immersive workshops with a range of guest authors, led and hosted by acclaimed writing tutor and Writing Magazine regular contributor Alex Davis. We’ll also have booksales throughout the event, and a special author event with Andrew Michael Hurley for Saturday night. The event will be held at the York Explore and facilitated by lecturer, workshopper and Writing Magazine regular contributor Alex Davis. Plus, join one of this generation’s most acclaimed folk horror authors for an evening interview, Q+A and booksales in the haunted city of York!Andrew Michael Hurley burst onto the scene with his first novel The Loney in 2014, which won The Costa First Novel Award as well as the British Book Industry award for best debut. Since then he has written Devil’s Day and Starve Acre, recently adapted into a film starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark. His latest book, Barrowbeck, is a collection of short stories.

SATURDAY 29TH MARCH

Arrival/informal chat	

Alex Davis workshop 1

Break

Simon Clark workshop

Lunch break (food not provided)	

Alex Davis workshop 2

Break	

Amanda Mason workshop	

Closing/informal chat

SUNDAY 30TH MARCH

Alex Davis workshop 3	

Yvonne Battle-Felton workshop	

Lunch Break (food not provided)	

Alison Littlewood Interview		

Closing/informal chat	

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