MEMOIR – or creative non-fiction – is enjoying a gathering popularity among contemporary readers. Why should that be? Because everyone loves a personal story, powerfully told. Despite the old-fashioned tinge of the word itself –...
A sense of place anchors a short story. Expertly created, a sense of location places our feet in the world of the short story, and makes the reader feel that they have really ‘been...
We are thrilled with this year’s Northern Short Story Festival programme and tickets are going fast. Taking place on Friday 31st May – Sunday 2nd June, the fourth Northern Short Story Festival will be at...
Launching the first ever Leeds Lit Fest this Monday (18th) will be the internationally acclaimed Yorkshire-born writer David Peace. Named by Granta magazine in 2003 as one of twenty ‘Best of Young British Novelists’, he is the author of the...
Two Leeds authors, June Taylor and Ali Harper, reveal why they’ve chosen our city as a setting for their novels. June Taylor – Author of Keep Your Friends Close published by Harper Collins (Jan 2019). “I was...
The Northern Short Story Festival Academy is delighted to announce that it will be supporting 12 short story writers from Yorkshire in 2019. The announcement came at a reception on Monday evening at the...
Save the dates! We are excited to announce that the first ever Leeds Lit Fest will take place from Wednesday 6 –Sunday 10 March 2019, at venues across the city. The Festival programme will...
Crime fiction writer Nick Quantrill examines the Yorkshire crime writing scene and asks if we can lay claim to a school of crime writing. We often hear about some areas having a specific crime...
Frances Brody’s tenth Kate Shackleton mystery, A Snapshot of Murder, set in Brontë country, is published next Thursday. She tells us more about it here. You can join her for the Leeds launch at...
In our interview with June Taylor earlier this week, we promised you an extract from her new psychological thriller, set in Leeds. Well here it is! KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE has been described as...
