We’re excited to have award winning writer, Emily Devane, share her writing tips. Try them and see if they make a difference to your writing. If you fancy learning more and brushing up your...
Featuring all eight shortlistees of the 2022 prize, crime writer and judge Karline Smith and a special appearance from 2021 winner Isha Karki. On the 25th of May 2022 join Comma Press and The...
Thank you to everyone who voted for Leeds Lit Fest as Best Literary Festival in this year’s Saboteur Awards. We can’t tell you how pleased we are to have won. Or maybe we can!...
We’re excited to have award winning writer, Emily Devane, share her writing tips. Try them and see if they make a difference to your writing. If you fancy learning more and brushing up your...
Featuring all eight shortlistees of the 2022 prize, crime writer and judge Karline Smith and a special appearance from 2021 winner Isha Karki. On the 25th of May 2022 join Comma Press and The...
Thank you to everyone who voted for Leeds Lit Fest as Best Literary Festival in this year’s Saboteur Awards. We can’t tell you how pleased we are to have won. Or maybe we can!...
Leeds Lit Fest has been shortlisted for Best Literature Festival in the Saboteur Awards 2022. We won it in 2020 and have been shortlisted three times. Thank you to everyone who voted us onto...
Dan Coxon is an author and editor. His anthology This Dreaming Isle was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award and a British Fantasy Award, and he won a Saboteur Award for Best Anthology in...
Back for a 4th year, Leeds Lit Fest celebrates Leeds’ thriving literature community, taking place from Saturday 26th Feb to Sunday 6th March, with local writers, performers and artists showcasing their talents across Leeds in...
The Northern Short Story Festival Academy is delighted to announce that a further 6 promising Yorkshire writers are to join its now well-established Academy programme in 2022. Since its inception in 2018 the Academy...
We’re excited to announce that the submission window for our Academy 2022 will be reopening on Monday 23rd August until Thursday 30th September. Over the last 3 years we’ve helped 18 Yorkshire writers develop...
We’re excited to be supporting The Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction. There will be readings by the winner and runner-up of this year’s prize, plus 2021 judge and author Courttia Newland, hosted by...
Leeds literature has made the shortlist in 2 categories of the Saboteur Awards 21! The Big Bookend is a partner in Leeds Lit Fest and we would love to win the Best Literary Festival...
