The University's Reading & Writing Festival has drawn to a close today with a finale of conversations.

Performing Arts staff were in conversation - on a wide range of 'chategories' - with 24 selected Leeds Met colleagues over eight hours in the Information Gateway, Civic Quarter.

The event, which was streamed live on the web, was held from 8am to 4pm, with staff from across all areas of the University coming together in dialogue with the Performing Arts team.

Topics scheduled for discussion included 'Professing' with Professor Noel Witts, 'Well Read' with Gillian Dyson and 'On Forgetting What We've Read And Remembering What We've Written' with Kate Craddock.

Another chapter of the Reading & Writing Festival was celebrated on Thursday with a visit from a Yorkshire author.

Skipton-born Blake Morrison, the author of bestselling memoirs, 'And When Did You Last See Your Father?' and 'Things My Mother Never Told Me', critic, journalist, librettist and poet, read from his work as well as answering questions from the floor at the University's Studio Theatre.

Following the session, there was a screening of the full-length feature film version of Blake's 'And When Did You Last See Your Father', starring Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent and Gina McKee.