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, working towards full fellowship.

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.

Newport, Usk riverbank, the Wave sculpture, trees, and Newport Market

Photo by Damon Lord 2012

To be continued! Join in my serial novel adventure in 2026

10 December 2025. Your feedback isn’t just welcome, it could become part of the story.

For my practice-based PhD at the University of Gloucestershire, I will write a serialised novel and I will publish it on Substack as it goes along. It’ll be still a few months yet before the official launch, but the first chapters are already taking shape. I want you to be part of it. Not just as a reader, but a collaborator, with comments and reactions on each part as it’s released. I’ve got a small cast of characters already that I’d love you all to meet, and your feedback will help shape their narrative journey.

Subscribe. Comment. Change the plot.

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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!