The next in our blog series of Napkin Halloween-themed stories is Christopher White’s ‘The Writer’s Curse’. . . The Writer’s Curse Damned Hallowe’en mused the writer. He was stuck in a rundown café staring...
Up next in the Napkin blog series is Terry Buchan and his flash fiction work ‘Hallowmas’. . . Hallowmas This is your Hallowmas call. Are you some kind of cult? Putting you through now...
Steve Toase is our next Napkin winner, with his eerie Halloween story ‘Around the Door.’ Around The Door Taking another nail from between his teeth, Daniel hammered it into the bare wood of the...
Colin Stathers is our next Napkin winner, with his spooky Halloween-themed story ‘Trick Or Treat’. Trick Or Treat Help. The word never left his lips. Only the muffled sound of rummaging, somewhere close by,...
The Leeds Big Bookend’s own Vicky Pointing was a Napkin Story winner with her flash fiction piece, ‘Neighbourhood Witch’. Neighbourhood Witch I’m all for integration, but really, this has gone too far. The zombies...
Following on from last Friday’s post, here is another winner from the Napkin Story Project by McBookishness. The competition asked Leeds writers for short but scary flash fiction. The stories would be published in napkin format...
As part of the Napkin Story Project by McBookishness, The Leeds Big Bookend Blog is showcasing some of the fantastic flash fiction works that are now published in napkin format. The competition asked Leeds...
Chair of The Leeds Big Bookend, Daniel Ingram-Brown, explores the effects of Tony Harrison’s poem V in today’s world and what it really means. This post was originally published on the Leeds Church Institute...
Leeds author, Anthony Clavane examines Eddie Waring, Rugby League, Yorkshireness, revenge, revolution, betrayal and why trilby hats went out of fashion in his latest play, Playing the Joker, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, 19th-23rd...
Jenny Beech writes the second in her ‘V’ series of blog posts inspired by Tony Harrison’s poem, this time comparing the North and South of England. When I first began to stew over the latest...
