LEEDS LIT FEST 2021: GOING DIGITAL! 2 – 7 MARCH
Leeds Lit Fest is back and we are proud partners! Returning for its third year in the face of significant challenges and uncertainty, the city’s festival of words and thought could not be more...
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Applications for The Northern Short Story Festival Academy 2020 are now open!
The Northern Short Story Festival Academy is delighted to announce that applications to its Academy are now open! Over the last 2 years, the Academy has supported and developed 12 short story writers living...
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Leeds Lit Fest Wins Best Literary Festival in the National Saboteur Awards
Leeds Lit Fest is delighted to announce that it has won Best Literary Festival in the Saboteur Awards 2020. Leeds Lit Fest took place on Wednesday 4 March – Sunday 8 March with over...
We’re celebrating International Women’s Day 2021 with Bluemoose Writers!
We’re delighted to be working in partnership with Bluemoose Books and this stellar lineup of writers. In 2020, indie publisher Bluemoose Books decided to publish novels only from female authors. Those writers were Anna...
LEEDS LIT FEST 2021: GOING DIGITAL! 2 – 7 MARCH
Leeds Lit Fest is back and we are proud partners! Returning for its third year in the face of significant challenges and uncertainty, the city’s festival of words and thought could not be more...
Applications for The Northern Short Story Festival Academy 2020 are now open!
The Northern Short Story Festival Academy is delighted to announce that applications to its Academy are now open! Over the last 2 years, the Academy has supported and developed 12 short story writers living...
Leeds Lit Fest Wins Best Literary Festival in the National Saboteur Awards
Leeds Lit Fest is delighted to announce that it has won Best Literary Festival in the Saboteur Awards 2020. Leeds Lit Fest took place on Wednesday 4 March – Sunday 8 March with over...
Northern Short Story Festival Celebrates its 5th Birthday with a Virtual MiniFestival!
Northern Short Story Festival is delighted to announce the programme for its 5th birthday! For the first time ever, no matter where you are in the world, you will be able to join in. That’s...
Leeds Lit Fest 2020 Coming To A Venue Near You! 4th-8th March.
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...
Leeds Lit Fest 2020 Launch Party With Peepal Tree Press
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 2020 Event Submissions Window Open!
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...
Horror Out Loud with Lucie McKnight Hardy
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...
The Power of the Personal by Northern Short Story Festival Workshop Leader Barney Bardsley
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 –...
