Rebecca Leeming, an English Literature graduate and Leeds Big Bookend volunteer, shares her passion for Roald Dahl’s life and work in this week’s post. ‘And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around […]
You may or may not have stumbled across a page on our blog called Yorkshire Literary Festivals & Book Fairs… Why not kick off the new year with a literary event or two? We have
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
What better day to close our Napkin story blog series than with one last spook on Friday the 13th! As we come to our final flash fiction piece, ‘Resurrection’, Richard Smyth leaves us with a
Our next napkin story winner is Jenny Beech, and her flash fiction piece ‘Something Out of Science Fiction’. The News has been strange these past days. Flickering images of peculiar shadows, the sounds of screams
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 –
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 blog,
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
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
