The Leeds Big Bookend’s Twelve Books of Christmas
By Steph Bryant As we open the final Advent calendar window, accomplish the final gift shopping mission, and carol sing our Santa hats off, Christmas Eve is upon us. But among the best parts of […]
Napkin Story: ‘The Writer’s Curse’ by Christopher White
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 into
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 V
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 just
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 themselves
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 third
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 in
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 a