Chris Nickson celebrates the Victorian Leeds women who led the way for female suffrage. The Vote Before The Vote is a new exhibition opening on 3 May at the Central Library, Leeds. Next month, at Room...
Leeds Town Hall. You probably walk past it almost every day. Chris Nickson tells us more about one of our most iconic buildings. You know it. Almost anyone who’s visited Leeds or seen a...
Back for a 3rd year, we are delighted to announce the programme for The Northern Short Story Festival 2018. Bigger and better, it’s the only festival of its kind in the North, celebrating Northern...
Chris Nickson celebrates the Victorian Leeds women who led the way for female suffrage. The Vote Before The Vote is a new exhibition opening on 3 May at the Central Library, Leeds. Next month, at Room...
Leeds Town Hall. You probably walk past it almost every day. Chris Nickson tells us more about one of our most iconic buildings. You know it. Almost anyone who’s visited Leeds or seen a...
Back for a 3rd year, we are delighted to announce the programme for The Northern Short Story Festival 2018. Bigger and better, it’s the only festival of its kind in the North, celebrating Northern...
Carl Hutton, Chief Executive of the Leeds Library, reviews Common Ground in advance of Rob Cowen’s appearance as part of the WildLines programme which starts on Thursday. Common Ground was voted the nation’s third most favourite...
Our guest writer on this International Women’s Day is Professor Susan Watkins from Leeds Beckett University. She is an expert in contemporary women’s fiction and feminist theory. In a recent interview in The Guardian,...
We caught up with Alex Preston, author of the acclaimed As Kingfishers Catch Fire, ahead of his event at WildLines @ The Leeds Library later this month. If you want to find out more...
Today marks the 100th anniversary of legislation which came into force and gave (some) women the right to vote. It starts a year of exhibitions, talks and performances throughout the UK. Chris Nickson celebrates...
We announced our longlist for the Walter Swan Short Story Prize 2017-18 last month. We are delighted today to announce our shortlist and details of the prize giving event and Anthology launch which will take...
WildLines @ The Leeds Library is a three-day programme of talks, readings and Q&As curated by writer Richard Smyth and in partnership with the Leeds Library, the Leeds Big Bookend and Leeds Inspired. It will bring some of...
Thank you to everybody who entered The Walter Swan Short Story Prize 2017-18. The competition closed in October with over 300 entries from all over the UK and internationally. The standard was extremely high. Our...