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Leeds Lit Fest is back – and it needs you! Following its inaugural event in March – the first citywide literature festival Leeds has ever had – Leeds Lit Fest 2020 will return on March […]
Leeds Lit Fest is back – and it needs you! Following its inaugural event in March – the first citywide literature festival Leeds has ever had – Leeds Lit Fest 2020 will return on March […]
In advance of our FrightFest@TheLeedsLibrary Horror Out Loud event on Saturday 26th October, we asked Lucie McKnight Hardy, whose stories also appear in Best of British Short Fiction and have also been published by Nightjar
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 – ‘memoir’
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 there.’
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 Carriageworks
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 Red
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 born
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 Leeds
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 celebrate