Remembrance by AJ Kirby
This week AJ Kirby shares with us his inspiration for his new novel, Perfect World and how it came to be written. I don’t make a habit of reading reviews of my own novels. I’m […]
This week AJ Kirby shares with us his inspiration for his new novel, Perfect World and how it came to be written. I don’t make a habit of reading reviews of my own novels. I’m […]
With a new year nearly upon us, like the Roman god Janus, we look back at 2013 and forward to the Big Bookend 2014. For the Big Bookend team, 2013 has flown by in a
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
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
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
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
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
Hi Big Bookenders! I’m Steph, and I volunteered for this year’s Big Bookend festival. Having just finished my English Literature degree at Sheffield University, I really wanted to get involved with a Yorkshire-based literary festival