For Mothering Sunday, a gift – Eucharist by Becky Cherriman taken from her new poetry pamphlet, Echolocation. Eucharist Every morning the same, her asking, Have you had your breakfast, got your lunch? But breakfast wasn’t […]
For Valentine’s Day, the beautiful, previously unpublished poem, Ultrasonics by Becky Cherriman taken from her new poetry pamphlet, Echolocation. Ultrasonics Every so often a cloud manifests above Mount Fuji in the perfect shape of a
We are delighted to announce The Remember Oluwale Writing Prize, in partnership with the Leeds BigBookend Festival , Fictions of Every Kind and Remember Oluwale. We invite you to submit new short stories and poems which creatively respond
In July, we launched our children’s WW1 writing competition in partnership with Nidderdale AONB. From 135 entries from all over the UK, our judge in the 7-11 year category, Daniel Ingram-Brown chose the following three entries as
Congratulations to the brilliant winning writers from our WW1 children’s writing competition. From left to right: Elisei Ulrich-Oltean, Theo Burkhill-Howarth, Daniel Ingram-Brown (judge), Benjamin Searle, Susan Burnett (judge), Evie May Richards, Emma Madden, Sacha
There’s only one week to go until our WW1 Children’s Writing Competition closes. Here are some more top writing tips, this time from judge, Susan Burnett in what she’s looking for in the winning stories. To
One of the Big Bookend’s aims has always been to celebrate Leeds’ great literary heritage and bring to the fore some of the literary names that you may or may not have heard of. Paul
In February this year, Jon Silkin’s Complete Poems was published by Carcanet, following several years’ work by co-editors Jon Glover and Kathryn Jenner. Despite being well known during his lifetime as a poet, editor and
You may remember an article Chris Nickson wrote for us awhile ago, Leeds, Motorway City of the Seventies. The poet, Ian Duhig, wrote Róisín Bán about the Irish workers that the M1 brought up and the singer
