The V Series: North V South
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...
The Big Bookend
Gemma
Inspired by Charles Perrault’s fairytale, ‘Diamonds and Toads’, Vicky Pointing shares her flash fiction story ‘Gemma’ as part of her 35-day writing challenge. The stories never mention that the gift was hereditary. It wasn’t...
A flash in the pan.
Leeds based writer Vicky Pointing talks about her experience of taking on a 35 day flash fiction challenge. Flash fiction, for anyone who isn’t familiar with it, is generally defined as a short story...
What’s “creative” about creative writing?
Cristina Archetti wrote the short story ‘Distances’ in the LS13 anthology. Here, she controversially argues that there is nothing creative about creative writing. Many dream about writing but never get round to realising their potential. Others force...
Confused by too many writing tips? You will be.
Frances Brody lives in Leeds where she was born and grew up. She is the author of five Kate Shackleton mysteries. Frances has also written many stories and plays for BBC radio, scripts for television...
The V Series; What are the Vs of Yorkshire today?
Libraries; Public V Private, by Jenny Beech Jenny Beech is one of the LS13 anthology top 20 writers, and she begins her Tony Harrison-inspired V series with the subject of libraries. Hypothetically speaking, if an objective...
Tinkering with history
Richard Smyth won the first prize in the LS13 anthology competition with his short story ‘Deep’. Here, he explains the relationship between history and his writing. “Nothing but a pack of lies” – Damon Runyon on...
What does it mean to be a writer?
Aissa Gallie, one of LS13′s twenty contributors, shares the influences and inspirations that led her to writing. What does it mean to be a writer? This question I have mulled over for many years...
The Numbers Game
LS13 writer, AJ Kirby, considers Leeds’s ever-growing situation in the literary world. London-based Tottenham Hotspur Football Club always used to talk about it being their fate to win a trophy in a year ending in...
There’s money in this writing malarkey
A few weeks ago, literature lovers across England celebrated the Bank of England’s announcement that Jane Austen will become the new face of the £10 note in 2017. The announcement followed the recent public...