You Voted and We Won!
Thank you to everyone who voted for Leeds Lit Fest as Best Literary Festival in this year’s Saboteur Awards. We can’t tell you how pleased we are to have won. Or maybe we can!...
Thank you to everyone who voted for Leeds Lit Fest as Best Literary Festival in this year’s Saboteur Awards. We can’t tell you how pleased we are to have won. Or maybe we can!...
Leeds Lit Fest has been shortlisted for Best Literature Festival in the Saboteur Awards 2022. We won it in 2020 and have been shortlisted three times. Thank you to everyone who voted us onto...
Back for a 4th year, Leeds Lit Fest celebrates Leeds’ thriving literature community, taking place from Saturday 26th Feb to Sunday 6th March, with local writers, performers and artists showcasing their talents across Leeds in...
The Northern Short Story Festival Academy is delighted to announce that a further 6 promising Yorkshire writers are to join its now well-established Academy programme in 2022. Since its inception in 2018 the Academy...
We’re excited to announce that the submission window for our Academy 2022 will be reopening on Monday 23rd August until Thursday 30th September. Over the last 3 years we’ve helped 18 Yorkshire writers develop...
We’re excited to be supporting The Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction. There will be readings by the winner and runner-up of this year’s prize, plus 2021 judge and author Courttia Newland, hosted by...
Leeds literature has made the shortlist in 2 categories of the Saboteur Awards 21! The Big Bookend is a partner in Leeds Lit Fest and we would love to win the Best Literary Festival...
We’re delighted to be working in partnership with Bluemoose Books and this stellar lineup of writers. In 2020, indie publisher Bluemoose Books decided to publish novels only from female authors. Those writers were Anna...
Leeds Lit Fest is back and we are proud partners! Returning for its third year in the face of significant challenges and uncertainty, the city’s festival of words and thought could not be more...
The Northern Short Story Festival Academy is delighted to announce that applications to its Academy are now open! Over the last 2 years, the Academy has supported and developed 12 short story writers living...