We’re bringing the party to Leeds in just 10 days time! More than 100 amazing events in 35 venues across the city from Wednesday 4 March to Sunday 8 March. LLF20’s ambitious programme has...
We’re really excited to launch LLF 20 and can’t wait to tell you more. Come along to the glorious Leeds Minster, find out what the Festival is all about and enjoy readings from some...
Leeds Lit Fest is back – and it needs you! Following its inaugural event in March – the first citywide literature festival Leeds has ever had – Leeds Lit Fest 2020 will return on...
We’re bringing the party to Leeds in just 10 days time! More than 100 amazing events in 35 venues across the city from Wednesday 4 March to Sunday 8 March. LLF20’s ambitious programme has...
We’re really excited to launch LLF 20 and can’t wait to tell you more. Come along to the glorious Leeds Minster, find out what the Festival is all about and enjoy readings from some...
Leeds Lit Fest is back – and it needs you! Following its inaugural event in March – the first citywide literature festival Leeds has ever had – Leeds Lit Fest 2020 will return on...
In advance of our FrightFest@TheLeedsLibrary Horror Out Loud event on Saturday 26th October, we asked Lucie McKnight Hardy, whose stories also appear in Best of British Short Fiction and have also been published by...
MEMOIR – or creative non-fiction – is enjoying a gathering popularity among contemporary readers. Why should that be? Because everyone loves a personal story, powerfully told. Despite the old-fashioned tinge of the word itself –...
After only its first year, Leeds Lit Fest has been shortlisted as Best Lit Fest in the Saboteur Awards 2019. Leeds writers are nominated in two other categories – Joe Williams for Best...
The Leeds Big Bookend is delighted to announce that our driving force, Fiona Gell, has been shortlisted for the Project Volunteer Award of the Year, organised by Yorkshire Women Volunteer Awards. She continues to...
A sense of place anchors a short story. Expertly created, a sense of location places our feet in the world of the short story, and makes the reader feel that they have really ‘been...
We are thrilled with this year’s Northern Short Story Festival programme and tickets are going fast. Taking place on Friday 31st May – Sunday 2nd June, the fourth Northern Short Story Festival will be at...
Launching the first ever Leeds Lit Fest this Monday (18th) will be the internationally acclaimed Yorkshire-born writer David Peace. Named by Granta magazine in 2003 as one of twenty ‘Best of Young British Novelists’, he is the author of the...
