We hope you are as excited as we are! The Northern Short Story Festival 2018 is nearly here, over the weekend of 2-3 June at the Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds!! There’s just so much going on....
Carl Hutton, Chief Executive of the Leeds Library, reviews Common Ground in advance of Rob Cowen’s appearance as part of the WildLines programme which starts on Thursday. Common Ground was voted the nation’s third most favourite...
We announced our longlist for the Walter Swan Short Story Prize 2017-18 last month. We are delighted today to announce our shortlist and details of the prize giving event and Anthology launch which will take...
WildLines @ The Leeds Library is a three-day programme of talks, readings and Q&As curated by writer Richard Smyth and in partnership with the Leeds Library, the Leeds Big Bookend and Leeds Inspired. It will bring some of...
Thank you to everybody who entered The Walter Swan Short Story Prize 2017-18. The competition closed in October with over 300 entries from all over the UK and internationally. The standard was extremely high. Our...
The Leeds Library which celebrates its 250th birthday this year will be hosting the launch night of #foundfiction – a guerrilla publishing experiment that connects readers and writers across the world. The event will run...
Thank you to everybody who entered The Walter Swan Short Story Prize 2017-18. The competition closed in October with over 300 entries from all over the UK and internationally. The standard has been extremely high....
There’s less than 3 weeks left to enter The Walter Swan Short Story Prize 2017-18 which was launched at the Northern Short Story Festival in June. There’s publication for 20 writers in the competition’s anthology...
A Bad Winter, Samantha Priestley’s second novel for Armley Press, is a supernatural tale set among the wintry hills of Derbyshire, where a crime of passion sends reverberations down through the ages. The story flits...
Love Arts Festival 2017 will take place from 4-18 October at venues across Leeds. There’s a packed programme, too many events to name but you can check out the list here. Our pick is...
