Damon Lord

Writer, Associate Lecturer, PhD student

Photo by T.M.M. Lord 2024

Damon Lord (pronouns: he/him) is an academic and 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), and serves as an Associate Lecturer in English Language with the University of Worcester. He is also completing the disseration-equivalent research module of Post-Grad Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PGCE LTHE), investigating better understanding of learner agency and learners' needs for Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the classroom.

He was the winner of the Brother's Cup in 2023 and 2024, and he 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.

Photo by Damon Lord 2025

The Reader, the Wig, and the Windowsill

21 September 2025. The latest edition of my newsletter is now up, in which a confiscated book taught me to treasure reading, understand societal class, and defy censorship.

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.